Within the framework of the European OSIRIS project (Interreg Baltic Sea), the study aims to enhance silver economy growth opportunities in the Baltic Sea Region by improving the capacity of innovation actors to apply smart specialization approaches for tackling the challenge of the region’s ageing society. It seeks to boost market uptake and scaling of user-driven technology innovations that accommodate age-specific needs and preferences, and demonstrate a significant impact on the quality of life of the ageing population, including age-friendly living environment, health, safety, and leisure. The project consortium consists of 13 direct partners and 8 associated partners from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia, representing the business, government and academic actors of the Triple Helix model for economic growth and regional development. Among the direct partners, six public universities represent the academia helix actors, two private companies and three business support organizations correspond to the business helix actors and one local authority and one public innovation agency are the government helix actors.

Knowledge maps are useful tools for locating sources of knowledge, its characteristics, its classification and its usage. Regions’ capacity to detect their knowledge assets influences their ability to innovate and enhance growth opportunities. Knowledge maps are powerful tools to make an inventory of a system critical knowledge and pinpoint areas that may be at risk. In many cases, the simple act of creating a knowledge map reveals weak links and bottlenecks in the flow of knowledge. By articulating exactly how knowledge moves through the systems, innovation actors can identify improvement opportunities and make targeted adjustments to ensure that the right knowledge reaches the right people at the right point in the process.

The project partners are designing and piloting a Smart Silver Framework as an innovative cooperation model for building an innovation ecosystem able to screen and accelerate the uptake of innovative products and services in the silver economy market. By deploying Smart Silver Lab as a governance structure, this framework connects research organizations and business into a unique process for joint co-creation of innovative products and services and facilitates the full engagement and participation of all target groups. The virtual collaborative platform – Digital Silver Hub – integrates six regional Smart Silver Labs to support transnational networking as well as learning process and knowledge diffusion between innovation actors and regions.

After knowledge panel meetings end, expert teams will develop knowledge maps for each project region/country. Knowledge mapping process will be documented and 6 reports of the knowledge panel meeting (from 6 regions) will be elaborated. Knowledge maps are an important output that will be used for feeding up the design of knowledge management model – component of the Smart Silver Framework – which is a pilot transnational cooperation model.

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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.