ABSTRACT
The European Commission has recently launched a variety of regional innovation programmes and schemes. The Regional Technology Transfer Strategies and Infrastructures (RITTS), an initiative of the Innovation Programme (DG XIII), has many similarities with the Regional Technology Plans described in this book. It follows the same structure: an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the region, a definition of priority actions and the development of a demand-led, consensus-based, regional strategy for innovation. This chapter discusses the case of a German region where such a RITTS project was conducted. In 1994 the Technologie und Innovations-Agentur Brandenburg (the Technology and Innovation Agency Brandenburg or TINA) successfully applied for a RITTS project for South Brandenburg. The project started at the end of 1994 and finished in the summer of 1996.
