• create a European network of researchers, policy makers, service providers and entrepreneurs;
• disseminate policy and policy oriented research with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth;
• bridge the gap between research and policy making;
• establish a scientific basis for more efficient policy measures; and
• run major pioneering research projects focusing on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy.
Organisation
IPREG is a network organisation and during 2006, IPREG will be run as a project with the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) acting as a European co-ordinator. A project group has been formed with the President for FSF, a co-ordinator, a research program manager and a project assistant. Participating actors in different European countries are acting as national nodes for IPREG setting up national partnerships for the initiative with representatives from academy, policy and business.
