Full Name
Science Link

Start Date:
2012-01-01

End Date:
2014-03-30

Duration:
27 months

Grant Agreement No. / Project Reference No.
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Project Website
Science Link

Abstract
The purpose of the project Science Link is to support and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea Region, to strengthen the region’s competitiveness in a global context.

The purpose of a special policy for innovation, new ideas, is to promote economic growth and increased knowledge in a country, region or amongst the involved organisations. Some well-known results of innovations, bright ideas, are ball bearings, a zipper that changed fashion, matches or one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, Astra's Losec.

One way of encouraging innovation is by increasing the awareness about the existing research and scientific resources amongst companies. Also one should facilitate access to the valuable resources at hand. By doing so the process of innovation in the region can be accelerated, companies can develop new or improved products that can better compete in the global market. But not all innovation results in a new or improved product. Nonetheless, there is a substantial benefit to gain from cooperation between science and the industry. The benefit of increase knowledge. A benefit that goes two ways.
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DESY Participation
The facility offers a broad research spectrum of international standing focusing on three main areas: accelerator development, construction and operation; photon science; particle and astroparticle physics.

Contact at DESY
Uwe.Sassenberg(at)DESY.de
Tel.: +4940-8998-4891