Abbreviations and acronyms

CEIP

Centro Estero Internazionalizzazione Piemonte

DSU

Documento Strategico Unitario

EAFRD

European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development

EOCIC

European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change

ERDF

European Regional Development Fund

ESF

European Social Fund

ESIF

European Structural and Investment Funds

EU

European Union

FDI

Foreign direct investment

FTE

Full time equivalents

FUA

Functional Urban Area

GDP

Gross domestic product

GVA

Gross value added

IBN

Innovative business network

ICT

Information and communication technology

IPP

Innovative public procurement

IRES Piemonte

Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte

ITS

Istituti Tecnici Superiori

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

KTP

Knowledge Transfer Partnership

NEET

Not in employment, education or training

NUTS

Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics

OIP

Open Innovation Platform (Tampere, Finland)

PCT

Patent Cooperation Treaty

PIMAP

The Cluster Partnership for Photonics for Advanced Manufacturing

PPP

Purchasing Power Parity

QoG

Quality of governance

R&D

Research and development

R&I

Research and innovation

RDA

Regional development agency

RIA

Regional innovation agency

RIS

Regional innovation system

RIS3

Regional Smart Specialisation Strategy

S3

Smart specialisation strategy

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal

SME

Small and medium-sized enterprise

SPRI

Sociedad para la Promoción y Reconversión Industrial

TL

Territorial Level

Transfers LR

Transfers Languedoc-Roussillon

VET

Vocational education training