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TURBO SBRA Istanbul workshop on "Business Academia Partnership"

The workshop was jointly organised by Turkish Research and Business Organisations (TUR&BO) and the Slovenian Business and Research Association (SBRA). It took place in Istanbul at the Cevahir Convention Center on April 30th 2008.

It aimed at preparing the ground for the European Regional Economic Forum 2008 conference which is planned to take place in Nova Gorica, Slovenia on the 5th and 6th of June 2008. The main goal of the EREF Forum is to draw the attention of EU, national and regional authorities as well as of all RTD stakeholders to take the necessary actions regarding future developments and challenges for the role of public-private partnership in reaching the ambitious targets set by the Lisbon strategy.

The workshop focused on the role of business-academia partnership in boosting growth and innovation. Following a discussion which brought together representatives of the different stakeholders (see attached participant list), the following conclusions were adopted.

Knowledge society cannot develop without fundamental changes in business academia relations which imply a difficult attitude and approach on both sides. When the two accept global competitiveness as their key objective, they will find it much easier to develop a common platform of shared interest and mutual appreciation. For the moment this is still a challenge as the two spheres retain conventional prejudice and maintain their mutual relations on a very modest scale, thereby wasting tremendous potential for generation, sharing, transfer and dissemination of knowledge skills and competences.

The new quality of relations to develop into proper partnership carries the prospect of great benefits for all involved, but can realistically develop only with support of adequate regulatory-fiscal environment to be created primarily by national and regional authorities not excluding the greater role that the Commission should play in this domain. By intensify the completion of the European single market companies in Europe will be encouraged to increase their capabilities to absorb research capacities. Further efforts could be made to adapt the implementation of state aid policies to the requirements of building knowledge economy in Europe. At the same time through newly developed partnership, business and academia will accelerate their own transformations and needed mindset shifts required by the Lisbon and Bologna process.