EUREKA beyond Europe: Going global, smartly!
As the centre of gravity of the global economy shifts away from Europe, it affects the innovation landscape, and makes international collaboration a necessity. EUREKA accompanies this change by helping companies to internationalise their activities. With its increasing presence across the globe, EUREKA is growing more and more into a role as a key international player in innovation, a process marked by the introduction of the Associated Country status in 2009.
Background
EUREKA is an intergovernmental organization supporting close to market research, development and innovation (R&D&I) projects. Its strength lies in its well-established international network and project coordinators representing more than 40 countries (41 full members and three associated
countries: South Korea (2009), Canada (2012) and South Africa (2014) and the European Commission.
For the past 30 years, EUREKA has supported more than 5900 projects worth of 37 billion Euros.