The project Knowledge transfer to Improve Marine Economy in Regions from the Atlantic Area (KIMERAA) aims to develop excellence economic niches through the creation of bridges between the scientific knowledge and firms related with the sea.
To this goal is necessary to articulate channels for knowledge transfer in the Atlantic area regions, linking the different institutional actors that can intervene in the Marine Economy. It is strongly related with the objectives of European territorial cooperation programmes by focusing the Innovation theme. It is interested in creating and consolidating scientific and technological networks that contribute to the enhancement of innovation capabilities in the economic sectors, specifically the Atlantic area programme by understanding the centrality of marine resources to the cohesive, sustainable and balanced territorial development of its regions like stated in 2007-13 programme goals.
The acronym of the project Knowledge transfer to Improve Marine Economy in Regions from the Atlantic Area (KIMERAA) refers to a mythological being, built of parts that were all scattered resulting in a great power - Chimera. The main objective of the KIMERAA project is to build strong linkages between firms and science organisations, focusing the marine sciences and activities and contributing for the progress of Atlantic regional economies.
