An innovation broker Ilona Platonova has been working in Vidzeme region (Latvia) for more than a year, consulting entrepreneurs on innovation and international cooperation issues for the development of smart specialisation areas in the region. To provide an insight into the companies’ experience, the Vidzeme Planning Region team has prepared and offers to watch the […]

“Circular economy is inevitable,” emphasized Jana Simanovska, project expert at Ecodesign Competence Centre and a researcher at Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences during the annual Vidzeme Innovation conference in Latvia organized by Vidzeme Planning Region. Watch the video about the opportunities, future trends, challenges implementing the principles of the circular economy. The circular [...]

What is the role of design in achieving the goals of the circular economy? How does design thinking contribute to the efficient use of resources? We propose to watch an inspiring video first time presented during the annual Vidzeme Innovation week in Latvia organized by Vidzeme Planning Region. Aija Freimane, an associate professor of the […]

Gathering more than 100 participants, during the emergency, Vidzeme Planning Region has carried out a series of webinars on digital solutions for businesses, which can promote business development locally and abroad. Entrepreneurs’ experience in implementing digital processes in businesses is different. For some, it is sales and communication with customers, for others – production and [...]

The GoSmart BSR project team has produced an inspiring Newsletter, which brings together various experience and success stories from Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania and Germany, making the reader look at the current business environment from the opportunity and innovation perspective. In the light of recent events, several tips for the company’s growth and many good […]

Recently, an article was made by Anna Bagieńska and Patrycja Rogowska, aiming at presenting practical solutions used in the GoSmart BSR project to identify transnational smart specialization strategies in the light of current research directions. The article uses descriptive analysis of the results and bibliometric analysis using tools available in VOSviewer and SCOPUS database (303 […]

This success story of the corona crisis comes from Tartu, Estonia: example of the street food restaurant Kolm Tilli (Three Dills). As soon as the corona crisis began, Kolm Tilli had to close its doors to customers. As they were used to see hundreds of people eating in their large rooms, they didn’t want to […]

In May and June, within the project GoSmart BSR in cooperation with Vidzeme Entrepreneurship Centre, a series of webinars for entrepreneurs are organised to provide practical knowledge on how to digitize the existing processes of the company to remain competitive when clients can’t be met in person or are abroad. As a result of emergencies, […]

There is no unambiguous definition of internationalization although a lot of theories that has made great contribution to enterprise internationalization have been propounded. The company’s operation on the local market differs from its operation on foreign markets. Examples of many companies indicate that internationalization processes, even if they enable them to gain new markets, [...]

In recent decades, along with the phenomenon of international cooperation growing dynamically and the fast progress in the field of new technologies, there has been a noticeable interpenetration of markets. The result of said changes is the tendency for over-coming or even erasing barriers which leads to the connection of domestic markets into a single, […]