Innovation is important driving force of competitiveness on regional, national, even European level. In the years of the financial crisis the companies, especially SMEs are working under severe circumstances. The financial limitations make them unable to accomplish their development plans, to manage their innovations, and commercialize new products, services.The general objective of the project is to implement a cross-border pilot programme where the target clusters and the cluster members’ innovation process are developed as well. Achievements: Innovation is an important driving force of competitiveness at national, regional, and even European level. Thus during the implementation, the project partners focused on the innovation and intellectual property management processes of clusters operating in the agro-food sector in the South Great Plain Region (Hungary) and in Vojvodina (Serbia). The project has had significant results. The partners elaborated a training material, made Intellectual Property (IP) policies for the Kincses Bácska Cluster and the Somborski Salaši Cluster and devised 20 IP policies for the companies that actively participated in the project. Over the course of a year, the two organisations from Hungary and Serbia completed the database of innovative clusters, organised trainings and workshops, created 7 multilingual information documents, and built a network of 28 Hungarian and 31 Serbian organisations. Thanks to the implementation of the project, the project partners and users of their policies and databases were able to improve their skills and carry out more professional and efficient innovation management. The project strengthened the establishment of new business relationships, and indirectly helped new job creation in the region.