14 January 2009
In this regard, the ‘Innovation Capital Code’ (Cci) developed by i3B is an important starting tool to make a diagnosis of the capacity for innovation of organisations, and to suggest strategies for their improvement through cooperation forged at a regional level.The innovative part of the process is to use a tool that initially starts from a diagnosis of innovation in individual companies, to finally arrive at their analysis as a whole, which allows to set guidelines for improvement in a collective way. In this case, the tool will be applied in a regional context.
This could result in collaboration projects between several companies, between these and technological centres, universities or professional training centres, or even public-private collaborations that might involve the public administration at different levels. This has always been carried out with the aim of improving in the field of innovation through joint projects. The tool, which is at present being applied at an experimental level in the Urola Medio context, could later be applied in other regions.This could open up the way for an in-depth debate on regional agents' role in the promotion of the capacity for innovation of the companies located within their region.This role can be particularly relevant in the case of smaller companies, which find more difficulties when it comes to developing the required competences for innovation.
