INNOVATION ALLIANCES IN A KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY CASE STUDY: ROMANIAN ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATION IN GREEN ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS

The study is destined to improve the competitiveness of industrial sectors, taking into account the measures provided in the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - Horizon 2020, by contributing to the transition from the competitiveness based on cost to the competitiveness based on innovation, improving the communication between consumers, producers (especially SMEs), universities, research centres and public authorities, supporting the developing innovative SMEs through specific consulting services, as a single and coherent "voice" influencing policy for Romania, as a better place for innovative SMEs and improving the capacity of transferring into real economy the research and innovation results. As a result of the study, it will be established a number of Territorial Innovation Alliances, determining the training needs of innovative SMEs in technological transfer with HEIs, the courses to be developed being made freely available across multiple platforms and languages to SMEs and HEIs in the EU.