COOPERATE Project Flyer

COOPERATE Flyer with general project information:

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Self-Assessment Tool

Enabling ecosystems to self-assess their levels of maturity.

“Regions and cities will play a key role in strengthening the European Research Area, contributing to recovery and increasing Europe’s resilience” – Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth at the Committee of the Regions’ meeting back in February 2021. Echoing this statement, the COOPERATE project also works towards the development of knowledge and knowledge strategies within Europe, engaging with stakeholders and key players of the quadruply helix. Thus, willing to foster place-based innovation ecosystems, COOPERATE bridges advanced ecosystems with emerging ones, while co-defining the concept of ERA-Hubs through co-creation sessions with EuroTech Alliance members and experts. One preliminary output of COOPERATE is the Self-Assessment tool. Developed by project partner STAM, the Self-Assessment prototype is based on STAM’s Open Innovation Digital Tool, and allows ecosystems to measure their levels of maturity, both in terms of the ecosystem as well as the maturity of each of the seven lines of action identified within the COOPERATE project. Each ecosystems is tested along the following lines of action: 1) Research, 2) Talents, 3) Knowledge transfer, 4) Funding, 5) Collaboration, 6) Governance, and 7) Innovation.

The matrix behind the prototype turns into mathematic calculation the rationale of the ERA-Hub concept so far developed, thus including the Ecosystem Readiness Level (ERL) scale, and the tools within the Toolbox, as per the first release.

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European Policy Brief

The COOPERATE project collaborated with its sister project, ERA_FABRIC, to develop and present the joint Policy Brief: ‘Giving substance to the concept of ERA Hub’.

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