Technopolis Group has been working with regions and cities for more than 30 years. Our work helps them to address complex innovation challenge, which requires a holistic approach and a long-term perspective across the policy cycle. 

• Regional Innovation Policy: we work with local and regional authorities, and local innovation stakeholders to shape the economic fabric and build dynamic innovation ecosystems.  

• Climate Neutral, Resilient & Digital Cities and Regions: we help local ecosystems to build policies and instruments fostering carbon-neutral transition, climate adaptation solutions, and the uptake of digital technologies into the regional economic fabric and the local administration. 

• EU Cohesion Policy: we advice national and regional managing authorities and European institutions to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate the cohesion policy across European regions and in the outermost regions. 

In these sectors, we offer a wide range of services: 

• Policy design and strategic studies  

• Market and research studies on industry sectors and technologies 

• Technical assistance to local and regional authorities, and stakeholders (chambers of commerce, clusters organisations, etc.) 

• Network management and community of practice 

• Programme management and policy support  

• Evaluation  

• Socio-economic impact assessment  

Who we work for and with 

We work with the European Commission (DG REGIO), ESPON, EIB, Governments, State Agencies, National Promotional Banks, Local and Regional Authorities, Chambers of Commerce, Clusters and Business Incubation organisations. 

Technopolis Group is managing the Smart Specialisation Community of Practice (DG REGIO), the Interregional Innovation Investments Platform (EISMEA), and the Intelligent Cities Challenges secretariat (EISMEA), and the PVD+ Green Infrastructure Finance for Small Cities in France (Banque des Territoires). 

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