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ERA - ERA Coordination Initiative

Venue : Bruxelles Country : Belgium
Begin : Apr 15, 2008 End : Apr 15, 2008

Pierfranco Ferronato has been invited as an Expert to the ERA Coordination Initiative in the field of Networked Enterprise Workshop about "Setting up a regional ERA coordination initiative in the area of Digital Business Ecosystems" in Bruxelles on April 15th, 2008.
The interest in the area of Digital Business Ecosystems goes beyond its research and technical aspects. DBE is currently viewed as a methodology and approach (supported by IT) for making emerge the self-organising endogenous economic processes among networks / clusters of small economic actors, mainly SMEs, which operate at regional and local level. Consequently, the DBE area is more and more considered as a distinctive key policy instrument focused on supporting the regional and local economic development (both for regions and countries) rather than a mere
ICT research area.
Therefore, there is a need to bring together the relevant regional authorities in the EU Member States in order to reach a consensus on the evolution of the DBE concept and the new challenges and opportunities that provides for regional innovation and economic development. Deficiencies in Europe's regional research and innovation policies can only be addressed positively if co-ordination at regional and local level is established through notably an ERA co-ordination action.

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