Main activities of the Agency:
- Creating a regional innovation network between companies and university knowledge centres providing innovation services on the one hand, and businesses interested in innovation on the other hand; the systematic arrangement of entities facilitating innovation; coordinating the innovation processes.
- Working out and managing experimental pilot projects.
- Operating research and development information systems (accessing Hungarian and international databases), providing information and other innovation services, establishing a university monitoring system with the aim of reviewing student theses and diploma works submitted at institutes of higher education in the region with an eye to innovation; collecting innovative ideas. Closely linked with the monitoring system is “The Most Innovative Student of the Region” award, which is given out annually.
- Cooperation with professional and non-governmental organisations, organisation of innovation-related exhibitions, conferences, foundation of innovation awards.
- Collecting the R&D results of the region, coordinating the economic utilisation of the same, organising the financing schemes (involving venture capital).
- Provision of information and consultancy on grant application, research and development cooperation and intellectual property opportunities.
- Organising innovation-related training programmes, creating the frameworks for innovation-related training programmes.
- Elaborating those professional elements of the innovation strategy of the government that motivate regional innovation, coordinating the implementation of the measures aimed at regional innovation.
- Preparing surveys, analyses on the innovation activities of the region, monitoring the innovation activities of the region.
- Operating decentralised systems of innovation-related grants in the Észak-Alföld Region (“Innocsekk” and Gábor Baross Programmes).