The Vanguard Initiative: New Growth through Smart Specialisation

The Vanguard Initiative: New Growth through Smart Specialisation originated at a high-level conference of European regions in the European Parliament in November 2013. The participating industrial regions have committed themselves to smart specialisation not only as the ex-ante conditionality for European cohesion policy, but as a guiding principle for their innovation and industrial policies to spur competitiveness and new growth. Upper Austria is engaged in this initiative.

For further information about the Vanguard Initiative please refer to the following links:

http://www.s3vanguardinitiative.eu/

http://www.s3vanguardinitiative.eu/partners/oberosterreich