Today's Portrait Highlights

InnoBaltica - Building the Pomeranian Centre of Innovation

InnoBaltica focus on innovation in the Baltic Sea Region. The main goals are (1) To create strong links and effective cooperation between academic and business entities toward implementation of innovative products; (2) To increase the competence level of the regional innovative processes’ managers and the cooperation networks’ leaders; (3) To attract investors for the Pomeranian innovation offer. The core activities focus on inspiring and stimulating the development processes as well as the implementation of key projects. InnoBaltica is administrator and coordinator of two major Pomeranian clusters BioEkoChem & KlimaPomerania.

Latvia Health Care, Green Tech and Life Science sectors

The Latvian healthcare sector has large healthcare centers to provide comprehensive health services. There are many opportunities due to its high growth rate and relatively low expenditure compared to the European Union average. Latvia is a leading European country in terms of specialization in renewable energy sources. Hydropower accounts for the largest source while biomass and biofuel are increasingly used in co-generating electricity and heat. The life sciences sector has experienced high growth in value added both in pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The R&D on red biotechnologies, white biotechnologies and green biotechnologies pharmaceuticals has a high growth potential.

Metis Baltic R & D and Innovation Management

Metis Baltic is a Research and Technological Development management company with extensive experience in research project proposal preparation; consultation regarding RTD funding sources; intellectual property management; commercialisation of research results. Metis Baltic offers wide spectrum assistance for researchers from universities, research centres and private organisations in preparation of European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme proposals, and well as proposals for Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, EUREKA, EUROSTARS, and Structural funds in all research areas.