It is important for municipality to maintain contact with local entrepreneurs on a regular basis by meeting them personally or during events or reach them with the help of cooperation partners. Since the beginning of April Estonian partner of “GoSmart BSR” project Valga Municipality Government have visited several local companies to introduce them to “GoSmart […]

GoSmart BSR will now also be part of one of the newly approved platform projects in the Baltic Sea Region: https://www.interreg-baltic.eu/news-detail/news/twelve-projects-approved-to-capitalise-on-project-results.html. The Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) brought GoSmart BSR into the „BSR S3 Ecosystem“ platform application which was selected for funding by the Interreg BSR [...]

The representatives from project GoSmart BSR took part in The Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme Conference in Lubeck on April 9-10, 2019. The conference gathered people responsible for allocating EU funds as well those who are using them by implementing projects in the region, making it more innovative, better accessible and more sustainable. The theme of the […]

Partners of GoSmart BSR project gathered for a meeting to assess the current progress of the project and set the next steps of action in developing well-functioning and sustainable Transnational Innovation Brokerage System (TIBS). This was also the first time when Innovation Brokers of all member states joined the team and gave valuable input in […]

A survey conducted by Bialystok University of Technology as part of GoSmart BSR project shows that entrepreneurs, when asked about development barriers, point to the lack of capital in the first place. It is known that lack of knowledge is often an unconscious barrier to expand beyond the domestic market. However, ‘know-how’ can also be […]

To strengthen smart specialisation by fostering interregional cooperation is one of the main goals of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region (BSR) project “GoSmart BSR”. In order to discuss how S3 strategies could be put on a macro-regional level, the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) organized a Policy Dialogue in Brussels in cooperation with the […]

On February 20th, 2019, the Hamburg Institute of International Economics in cooperation with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg organizes a Policy Dialogue on the Transnational Dimension of Smart Specialization Strategies at the Hanse-Office in Brussels (Belgium). The dialogue will be held within the Interreg project “GoSmart BSR” and gather stakeholders from politics, industry […]

To help entrepreneurs in Latvia, Vidzeme region, find answers to a range of questions regards foreign market issues, an innovation support specialist – broker – starts its consultations. Ilona Platonova, the first broker in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR), will start work in February within the BSR project “GoSmart BSR”. The broker will be a […]

The aim of the “GoSmart BSR” project is to develop Smart Specialization Strategies in an interregional system, primarily through the internationalisation of business. Currently within project work on identifying companies that want to use services of transnational innovation brokerage system (TIBS) is carried out. The question arises: what economic benefits can enterprises achieve from [...]

Along with work on defining the design and methodology of transnational innovation brokerage system (TIBS), currently within “GoSmart BSR” work on identifying companies that want to use services of TIBS is carried out. The main task is to collect the basic information about those companies or other Trans-S3 actors who are ready for various internationalisation […]