The objective of the project was to boost innovation activity and to speed up the growth and development of technological and service enterprises, to increase cooperation between enterprises and universities and to improve interregional cooperation through the establishment of joint R&D units in the cross-border area, and to produce an integral conceptual plan and uniform strategy for the establishment of an appropriate environment - the science park in Maribor and Osijek. An additional objective was to prepare a strategy of disseminating the results of this project to other cross-border areas and encourage the creation of science parks there as well.