The European Network of Innovation Agencies (TAFTIE) is a network of national public organisations from 20 different European countries, which works on establishing collaborations in the field of business led innovation and enterprise led R&D programmes in each country. Through TAFTIE, the national organizations can learn best practice

Best practice

A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark...

s from an analysis of each others affairs. In addition, the organization enables the national organizations to collaborate at European and international levels.

Members

• Agência de Inovação
  Agência de Inovação
  The Agência de Inovação is a Portuguese government agency funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education and the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation. The agency tries to promote innovation and technological development and to facilitate cooperation between research and...
  
   (Portugal
  Portugal
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
  
  )
• Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology
  Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology
  The Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology is a public organization for technology development in the Kingdom of Spain. In the Spanish language, the Centre is known as the Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnologico Industrial. It was part of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism,...
  
   (Spain)
• CTI KTI (Switzerland)
• ENEA (Italy)
  ENEA (Italy)
  The L'Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile is an Italian Government sponsored research and development agency...
  
  
• Enterprise Estonia (Estonia)
• Enterprise Ireland
  Enterprise Ireland
  Enterprise Ireland is the Irish leading state economic development agency focused on helping Irish-owned business deliver new export sales. The core mission of Enterprise Ireland is to accelerate the development of Irish enterprises capable of achieving strong positions in global markets resulting...
  
   (Ireland)
• FFG (Austria
  Austria
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
  
  )
• Institute for the promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology
  Institute for the promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology
  The Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology is a public institution in Flanders to provide R&D and innovation support. The institute was established by the Flemish government in 1991...
  
   (Belgium)
• KPI (Hungary)
• OSEO (France)
• Pera (United Kingdom)
• Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (Poland)
• RANNIS (Iceland)
• The Research Council of Norway
  The Research Council of Norway
  The Research Council of Norway is a Norwegian government agency responsible for awarding grands for research as well as promoting research and science. It also advises the Government in matters related to research, and is subordinate the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research...
  
   (Norway)
• SenterNovem) (Netherlands)
• Technology Strategy Board
  Technology Strategy Board
  The Technology Strategy Board is a UK public body operating at arm's length from the Government reporting to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills .- History :...
  
   (United Kingdom)
• Tekes (Finland)
• TIA (Slovenia)
• TTGV (Turkey)
• VDI VDE-IT (Germany)
• VINNOVA (Sweden)

See also

• Lisbon Strategy
  Lisbon Strategy
  The Lisbon Strategy, also known as the Lisbon Agenda or Lisbon Process, was an action and development plan devised in 2000, for the economy of the European Union between 2000 and 2010....
  
  
• Bologna Process
  Bologna process
  The purpose of the Bologna Process is the creation of the European Higher Education Area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe, in particular under the Lisbon Recognition Convention...
  
  
• European Research Area
  European Research Area
  The European Research Area is a system of scientific research programmes integrating the scientific resources of the European Union . Since its inception in 2000, the structure has been concentrated on multi-national co-operation in the fields of medical, environmental, industrial and...
  
  
• Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development
  Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development
  The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 through FP8, are funding programmes created by the European Union in order to support and encourage research in the European Research Area...