The project realises through five key work packages:

Work Package 1

Project managment and communication

Work Package 2: Mapping of areas of interventions and stakeholders

WP2-LEADER: LITHUANIAN INNOVATION CENTER

Task 1: Selection of innovation areas 
Output 1: Guidance material template on how they have been selected

Task 2: Analysis of regional areas of intervention and governance
Output 2: Template with methodology/instructions how to select and map areas of intervention and institutional capabilities

Task 3: Identification of main stakeholder groups and their interests
Output 3: Template on how these have been identified and guidance of how to proceed

Work Package 3: Innovation System Gap-analysis

WP3-LEADER: UNIVERSITY OF VAASA

Task 1: Selection of stakeholders to be interviewed
Output 1: Database with the relevant stakeholders and justification

Task 2: Interviews with the stakeholders in every partner region with WP-leader guidance
Output 2: Template with process guidance

Task 3: Focus group meetings in every region
Output 3: Report on the process and the findings

Task 4: Comparative analysis
Output 4: Report on findings of the triple-helix gap analysis and focus group meetings

Read the report from WP 3 (PDF)

Work Package 4: Transnational Learning

WP4 LEADER: HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE

Task 1: Testing of findings through learning seminars
Output 1: Proceedings of the seminars

Task 2: Identifying of good practices
Output 2: Report on good practice analysis

Task 3: Transnational factors contributing to failure and success
Output 3: Report on the case studies

Read the report from WP 4: Transnational Learning Seminars (PDF)

Work Package 5: Policy Transfer

WP5-LEADER: MINISTRY OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Task 1: Interaction on policies between senders and recieves
Output 1: Report on interaction explaining the work context and the conclusions, matching of partners

Task 2: Strategies of change
Output 2: Report on essentially a roadmap for change

Task 3:Mapping barriers of change
Output 3: Report on what can go wrong and how to deal with foreseeen issues in implementation of pilots

Read the report from WP 5: Policy Transfer (PDF)

Work Package 6: Pilot Implementation

WP6-LEADER: REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN

Task 1: Pilot defintion
Output 1: Working paper on what is a pilot and why

Task 2: Pilot implementation and stakeholders involvement
Output 2: Working paper of pilot implentation (ex-post compared to 5.2 and 5.3 that is ex-ante)

Task 3: Communication plan and instruments for the findings
Output 3: Report on material and ways to communicate findings

Read the report from WP 6: Pilot Implementation (PDF)

Read the LARS Project Policy Advice (PDF)