Innovation Camp

Innovation camps are events hosting a condensed process in which economic, social, technological, cultural and environmental challenges can be addressed at policy, strategy and/or operational levels, informing how they can be tackled and ‘solved’ innovatively by key quadruple helix stakeholders and experts. This approach has been successfully launched by the Joint Research Centre of the EU to foster local processes of uptake of smart specialisation strategies, and will be proposed in SMARTDEST involving business entities and innovation networks, but also policymakers, researchers and community on the way of rescaling the project insights and solutions towards implementation at the end of the project life-cycle. SMARTDEST is going to refer to the relevant office at the JRC and to the Innovation Camp Methodology Handbook (ICMH), the Science for Policy report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the EC’s Science and Knowledge Service. The PP in charge of organising these events is SER, backed up by UP for the relationship with the tourism industry, 4.0 tech providers and DMOs; the site of the events will be Venice where SER runs an incubator facility which is a fit working environment for these objectives.