Knowledge based Baltic Sea Region

In the middle of summer, the Secretariat of the Commission on Business Cooperation in Kaunas, willing to present trends and activities of the Commission, decided to publish a brochure that could be distributed during the General Conference.

Reacting to the EU's policy of creating a "Knowledge Based Society" and considering the last Business Commission Meeting in Tallinn, as the most suitable topic for all UBC BizCom members (Western and Eastern) was chosen about creation and development of the Science and Technology Parks (STPs) around the Baltic Sea Region.

Therefore, members of the UBC were asked to send to the Business Commission Secretariat a one-page information about one (preferably the biggest or the most successful) STP project going on in their cities, answering to the questions like "what is the name of the STP project?", "some basic facts about the project", "what is the mission of the project? vision? objectives?", "what are the future plans for the project?". The determined deadline was September 5,2005.

Some of the members have fulfilled this request on time, some of them have made it after the deadline, however the Secretariat of the Commission on Business Cooperation thanks all of them for an active participation and a well-meant cooperation, especially Cities of Espoo, Kotka, Turku (Finland), Gdynia, Koszalin (Poland), Kalmar, Växjö (Sweden), Narva, Tallinn, Tartu (Estonia), Kristiansand (Norway), Nastved (Denmark), Rostock (Germany), Panevëzys, Kaunas (Lithuania). Abooklet named "Science and Technology Park Projects around the Baltic Sea Region" will be distributed to all the UBC member cities. We truly hope that all of you will find the subject of interest in this publication and it will be developed further on in the next years.