Innovation Circle (Interreg 3B)

The IC Interreg project was running from 1 Feb 2005 until 31 Oct 2007. It included 14 partners in 7 countries. Read more about the project activities and result at www.oldinnovationcircle.net

Innovation Circle was an EU funded project which helped to stimulate innovations and long term development in rural districts and smaller and medium sized towns in the Baltic Sea Region.

IC was an exciting project. It began soon after the Baltic States and Poland joined the EU, so it was a new beginning, not only for the IC Partners but for the EU itself. It grappled with the future of small towns in rural regions in Europe’s periphe...

When I first learnt about the Innovation Circle project my understanding of innovation was shaped by sterile academic debates in economics, public administration, and political science. I had read about innovation but I had never seen how innovations...