The emergence of new business models based on innovation, cooperation networks, and the enhancement of endogenous resources, are assumed to be a strong contribution to the development of competitive economies and European regions.

Regional Helix 2018 is an event that, according the Smart Entrepreneurial Ecosystems logic, is not based only in a purely academic but also technological and entrepreneurial dimensions, across the most diverse sectors of activity.

The objective of this conference is to make this moment an opportunity to show the set of entrepreneurial and infrastructural capacities at European regional level, as well as to transmit to all participants an overview about potentiating the foundations for the creation of networks of knowledge and entrepreneurial cooperation, involving Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship stakeholders.