Europe INNOVA - Partnerships for better innovation support

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This year, Europe INNOVA is combining forces with the EPISIS INNO-Net for the Annual Partnering Event which will focus on the theme of "Services innovation as a catalyst for the Europe 2020 strategy". This joint event will take place from 14 to 16 June in Copenhagen, Denmark. 
 
On the first day on the event high-level policy makers from the EPISIS partner organisations will set out their national services innovation strategies and the conference will also debate the role of services innovation in tackling societal challenges. The second day will take a more practical view discussing, in the framework of Europe INNOVA, which new business support services are needed to promote services innovation in support of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
The event will bring together some 200 innovation stakeholders, notably national and regional policy makers, representatives of service industries and innovation support providers.  

The bringing together of actions under PRO INNO Europe® and Europe INNOVA will help make clearer the links between the overall policy level and the implementation levels, identifying synergies and complementarities and, in this way, providing the participants with a coherent overview of all ongoing activities in this area.