As
part of the on-going Baltic TRAM (Transnational
Research Access in the Macro-region) project activities an
extensive review on regional analytical research facilities, related
intermediaries and current operational networks and resources and their further
development in the context of the transnational science-business collaboration
in the Baltic Sea Region was drafted. The first results of this work are
published in this report which brings
together knowledge of the current number, status and nature of the regional
analytical resources, the state of their intermediate and supporting
administrative organisations and the research, development and innovation
networks of the project-partner regions. Inevitably, this mapping exercise reflects different
national and regional approaches to regional innovation systems. For example,
it is noteworthy mentioning that in some cases the optimal region has been
defined (by the project-partner) to cover the whole country and in others the
administrative regional limits shape also the regional innovation system
selected for further analysis. The second part of the
country specific sections presented in this paper includes descriptions of the
strong and emerging clusters and their connections to the smart specialisation
strategies. This part of the analysis is also focusing on interactions between
the RIS3, clusters and research infrastructures and innovation development from
national level towards the regional and finally the local level.