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What we do and How
We aim to
- improve the technological level of the companies we coach
- facilitate their presence in international collaborative programs
- find European funding opportunities for their initiatives
- encourage international cooperation
- boost awareness of the importance of continuous innovation
Cooperation
Locally
At a local level, we strive to identify and promote synergies between our client companies. The fact they share I+DEX as a common resource, makes possible an insight that often leads to joint solutions that prove to be stronger than the individual technologies, each one on their own.
International
At Grupo DEX we practice collaboration as much as we preach it, therefore we have a large network of quality contacts across Europe: from companies to SME associations, research institutions to universitites, regional development agencies to national institutions or interest groups.
Our networking capability makes for easier identification of international opportunities, potential partners, projects and consortiums, allowing our companies a smooth entry into the international RTD sphere.
Approach
We seek to minimize the difficulties that our SMEs may encounter when participating in international, innovative projects. In order to do so, we offer a comprehensive support: we act as an "adoptive" R&D department, which replaces the infrastructure companies should have - if they had all the necessary resources - to be able to do a serious and reasonable gamble for internationalization and innovation.
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Producing innovation oriented company profiles and technical diagnosis
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Creating and distributing information - web portal, technical dossiers
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Seeking potential partners: technological centres, companies, universities, technological platforms and other relevant R&D&I actors
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Exploring specific participation possibilities: project proposals, technological exchanges
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Looking for funding sources
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Facilitating companies participation in innovation relevant events
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Organizing international technological visits / commercial visits for those companies taking part in the project
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Technically advising in questions related to participation in European projects
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Acting as the companies' communication department in collaborative innovation related issues.
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News
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.
