Partnerships for Regional Innovation Playbook
The Partnerships are launched as a pilot project, in a spirit of co-creation practitioners, stakeholders and experts. This Playbook is the initial support document for a pilot phase engaging Member States, regions and groups of regions who have volunteered to co-develop and test the approach, centred on a selection of practical policy tools.
Partnerships for Regional Innovation Playbook

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Latest news
Europe is rich in diversity. All territories face the same societal challenges, such as climate change, energy crisis, or the interruption of supply chains, but these impact on regions in different ways. Every region has different priorities, different conditions and different assets in face of...
Today, the Commission announced the 63 regions, seven cities and four Member States selected in the pilot project for Partnerships for Regional Innovation, an initiative developed together with the Committee of the Regions. Participants in the pilot action are open to share good practices and to...
Events
Partnerships for Regional innovation as a bridge between smart specialisation and other EU policies to promote innovation-driven territorial transformation
Fifth PRI Plenary meeting - Pilot's stocktaking and co designing PRI’s next steps
Third Plenary Meeting: Defining a monitoring and evaluation system for Partnerships for Regional Innovation (PRI)
Publications
Despite mounting interest in transformative innovation policies, there are only few studies that provide insights with regards to their implementation. The present study asks which policy design features make a policy transformative and what capacities public administration and the broader...
- Janssen, Matthijs; Wanzenböck, Iris; Fünfschilling, Lea; Pontikakis, Dimitrios
Partnerships for Regional Innovation (PRI) aspires to become a strategic framework for innovation-driven territorial transformation, linking EU priorities with national plans and place-based opportunities and challenges. In its current form, the PRI Playbook presents an initial approach to the...
- PONTIKAKIS Dimitrios; GONZALEZ VAZQUEZ Ignacio; BIANCHI Guia; RANGA Liana; MARQUES SANTOS Anabela; REIMERIS Ramojus; MIFSUD Solange; MORGAN Kevin; MADRID GONZALEZ Carmen; STIERNA Klas