• Environment

Promote the inclusion of ISS

Integration of ISS requires specific policies to fund innovation support functions, but also policies that encourage the development of innovation processes and promote active participation of different actors in innovation paths. These must create the context conditions to enable them to implement innovation support function effectively (e.g., funding for networking/partnership/ interaction, formal rules or regulations smoothing cooperation, precence of social infrastructures, such as networks, meetings, info days, demonstration days, workshops, knowledge platforms, etc., to share knowledge, ideas, problems). These policies must promote not only integration, but also the development of competencies, by providing providing facilities for education and training to strengthen ISS methods and tools. Moreover, they must boost the correct fulfilment of innovation support functions, through mechanisms that foster the participation of ISS providers from the priority setting to the embedding of innovation (e.g. specific strategies financing the scaling of innovations).