Knowledge and Innovation Communities

KICs are partnerships charged with carrying out innovation-oriented, cutting-edge research in areas of central economic and societal interest, as well as with disseminating exemplary procedures, in the innovation sector, that can help improve Europe’s international competitiveness. In general, participants in KICs can be any organizations that operate in the “knowledge triangle” consisting of higher education, research and innovation. In each case, however, a KIC must include three partner organizations established in three different Member States.

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