BIS initiates and systematically supports regional development projects in order to strengthen existing industries and to extend the maritime competence and range of enterprises to cover innovative fields within the market.

Continuous development of the economic structure that has grown historically is concentrated on the following priority fields:

• Port operations and logistics
• Fish and food industry
• Blue biotechnology, food technology and aquaculture
• Maritime technologies and marine economy
• Renewable energies, especially offshore wind energy
• Platform technologies such as information and communications technology
• Maritime research, focusing on marine and climate research, inter alia
• Urban tourism with a maritime profile