The evoREG research Chair was officially launched January 22, 2013, date of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the signature of the French-German Elysée Treaty by the University of Strasbourg through two of its components: BETA: Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, and the Faculty of Economics and Management (Faculté des sciences économiques et de gestion)

This research Chair is devoted to innovation economics, French-German cooperation and regional, national and European innovation policies.

In its initial stage, the evoREG inititiative was supported by the European Union as a pilot project in the frame of the Upper Rhine INTERREG IV programme and the Région Alsace (2009–2011).

This Chair contributes in particular to co-operations with the following German partners: Fraunhofer-Instituts für System- und Innovationsforschung (Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe), Frankreich-Zentrum der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung Kehl.