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OaSIS at the RSA Central and Eastern Europe Conference

By September 24, 2019 No Comments

On 11.09.19 the OaSIS project scientific paper was presented by Jakub Kruszelnicki during the 2019 RSA Central and Eastern Europe Conference, Lublin, Poland. The conference was a great opportunity to engage Regional Studies Association academic community and disseminate the results of our project, as the aim of this conference was to provide advances of the state of the art in regional studies fields from academic angle.

The main theme of this edition was Metropolises and Peripheries of CEE Countries: New Challenges for EU, National and Regional Policies which includes strong presence of Regional Development Agencies scope of work. OaSIS had the chance to take part of the parallel paper session on Development and Innovations chaired by Györgyi Nyikos from National University of Public Service in Hungary. OaSIS presentation topic was “Segmentation of Small and Medium Size Regional Companies by the Regional Development Agencies as the Optimisation Measure for its Innovation Funding”.

The project coordinator Jakub Kruszelnicki (Cracow University of Technology) showcased how the tool developed by the OaSIS Project can help regional policy makers enhance the services they provide to the SMEs in their region and also showed preliminary outcomes of the innovative research showing the Aragon use cases as the example.