Open Innovation Market Places

Science and Technology Parks (STPs) are important intermediaries in the innovation chain. By providing connectivity between science and business, science parks ultimately support the take-up and the diffusion of science-driven innovation into the economy. In this frame, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) have agreed to develop the present Guide as a Toolkit for organising Open Innovation Market Places (OIMP) Events IASP is keen to explore the vast opportunities that Open Innovation may offer to science and technology parks and other areas of innovation, and most of all, to the companies located in them, having had some experience on the mechanisms and nuances of open innovation circuits and operations via the IASP POINT service.