One Stop Liaison Office - Innovation Support Mechanism RCM

One Stop Liaison Office is the brand name of the Mechanism that supports the innovation ecosystem in the region of Central Macedonia Greece. Part of the Independent Directorate for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support of the Region of Central Macedonia, provides support both to the region in the form of S3 strategy planning, monitoring and evaluation and to the whole ecosystem in the form of mentoring, mapping, co-designing policies and projects.

The mission of One Stop Liaison Office is to provide a set of services that will develop and contribute substantially to the implementation of the Smart Specialization Strategy in the Region of Central Macedonia. These services can be summarized as follows:

• Operating a Regional Intelligence Information System with continuous data feeds and data retrieval and analysis
• Monitoring the innovation indicators that are evolving towards the objectives of the RIS3 strategy, through the Regional Intelligence Information System and the preparation of Monitoring Reports
• Monitoring of the RIS3 Strategy and preparation of Evaluation Reports
• Support the Directorate of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Regional Authority in the specification and coordination of actions to update the RIS3 Strategy through: 
  • Research to evaluate the effectiveness of innovation ecosystem actions and interventions to collect data from ecosystem stakeholders
  • Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP) 
• Informing stakeholders of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem through the Digital information platform
• Interconnecting ecosystem stakeholders
• Implementation of promotional actions of the project implemented in the context of the Smart Specialization Strategy through informative workshops, press releases etc.
• Monitoring international trends and developments at regional level in the RIS3 areas and providing information to the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem through an interactive web platform.