To promote instruments for cooperation between companies, universities and public organisations for research

It is important to foster, encourage and finance cooperation instruments and programmes between companies, universities and public research institutions more actively through tools already attested by means of best practices in benchmark regions and countries. It is necessary to redesign, optimise and increase the budget of existing programmes for funding joint research and innovation projects between public organisations and private companies. In a similar vein, it is vital to promote the European innovation hubs jointly funded by the European Commission, with antennas throughout Catalonia to encourage the uptake of leading-edge technology by SMEs across the region.