The Role of Knowledge and Innovation Communities in the EU Research and Innovation Landscape
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12-06-2012
Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) are highly integrated excellence driven partnerships consisting of business, academic and public sector partners. The KICs are an independent but operational part of the EIT with the aim to deliver economic growth through innovation. The combination of substantial autonomy and high quality partners provide KICs with good potential to become world class centres of excellence.
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Executive summary
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Kimmo Halme, Tarmo Lemola, Kimmo Viljamaa and Katri Haila
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Policy area
Keyword
- economic structure
- ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU research policy
- executive power and public service
- higher education
- innovation
- intellectual property
- knowledge economy
- POLITICS
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- public-private partnership
- research and intellectual property
- research programme
- research staff
- scientific progress
- teaching