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Despite all efforts and improvement seen in the last years, the number of Spanish companies that participate in international R&D programs needs to be improved. There are still difficulties to absorb emerging technologies and the technological level of many companies is still lower than their competitors in the international context. Nevertheless, you find an increasing number of young enterprises with highly interesting proprietary technologies but sadly unknown outside the little market nisch they have managed to create themselves.
SMEs in general, encounter added difficulties when taking part in innovation processes: the high cost and resource allocation, required in many R&D projects, are some of the reasons that explain why SMEs are less represented in international innovative and collaborative programs.
Programs such as 7FP, Eureka, Eurostars, CIP, etc. are key inititatives in European R&D&I funding. Therefore, those programs are valuable instruments that provide SMEs access to innovation processes, increasing their competitiveness.
Enterprise Cooperation for International Innovation was a project promoted by the Business Innovation Centre Asturias (CEEI Asturias) and funded by the Economic Development Agency of the Principality of Asturias (IDEPA), the Directorate General of SME policy and the European Union through the "Innoempresa" program. Grupo DEX was the chosen provider for the technical expertise.
Upon completion of the project and given the achieved results, Grupo DEX decided to focus the I+DEX Department on consolidating the initiative as a new, fully commercial, line of business -cemented in the extensive contact network maintained within both the enterprise and RTD worlds across Europe.
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29/03/2010
eLearning Platform for SME
in the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development" was presented by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. The consortium is composed by members of the smE-MPOWER network, EURESEARCH, the Higher Education School of Western Switzerland, Itycom, Ability Europe, SalsaDev and the Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin. The tender also counts with an advisory group that includes relevant actors, such as the Nokia-Siemens Netwroks and Cegos
A success story
The final results of the 2009 CEEI/BIC Asturias project show an impressive success story:
- Ten companies have entered consortia that have presented a total of 13 project proposals
- One of the proposals was approved and is already underway (Research for the Benefit of SMEs)
- Five more projects were approved for financing and are now in negotiation (four within the Research for the Benefit of SMEs program and one EUROSTARS)
- Three projects exceded the minimum score required for financing
- One project reached the final evaluation in their call, reached by only two candidates
Evaluation process completed
IAM-INNOVIA Project
I+DEX has collaborated with DEX Hungary in the preparation of the proposal "Intellectual Assets Management for Innovative Network oriented Entrepreneurs" -IAM INNOVIA.
The project was presented to the FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010-1 call by a consortium of partners from 11 countries that included the European Economic Interest Grouping DEX New Europe.
