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Innovation Relay Centre (IRC) Gateway | ||
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PSL guides to partnering | ||
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Developing e-competencies of SMEs by e-learning | ||
| Establish aims for collaboration | |||
| Formulate strategic intent | |||
| Assess capability for innovation | |
Exploit
your ideas (from the UK Business Link) |
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| Assess capability for technology transfer | |||
| Build strategic alliances & partnering arrangements | |||
| Understand market needs | |||
| Assess needs and outward / inward technology opportunities | |||
| Develop business proposition | |||
| Gain market knowledge | |
Sales and marketing (from BusinessEurope.com) | |
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Marketing Your Products/Services and Promoting Your Organisation | ||
| Identify alternative approaches | |||
| Understand the value chain | |
The value chain | |
| Acquire technology and design expertise | |||
| Outsource manufacture and R&D | |||
| Adopt new business models using web, etc | |||
| Become a niche player | |||
| Develop working relationships | |||
| Select partners | |
Look for patners | |
| Assess capabilities (strengths and weaknesses) | |
SWOT analysis | |
| Consider cultural issues | |||
| Build and maintain good relationships |  |
Managing a successful partnering relationship | |
| Develop the proposition | |||
| Assemble bids | |||
| Manage projects | |||
| Apply benchmarks | |
European Benchmarking Code of Conduct: | |
| Apply creativity in finding innovative solutions | |
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| Adopt cost effective innovation processes | |
The
stage / gate process (available end Oct 2004) |
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GameChanger case study | ||
| Co-innovation | |
Collaborative innovation | |
| Manage risk | |
Risk management | |
| Consider legal aspects | |||
| Set up technology agreements | |||
| Protect your trademark | |||
| Sell and deliver added value soft skills | |||
| Become a good learning community citizen | |
Etienne Wenger homepage on communities of practice | |
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Inter-organisational communities of practice (academic paper) | ||
| Manage stress |
| Work related stress | |
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| Stress Busters | ||
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| Stress at work (Help for SMEs) | ||
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| Research on stress at work | ||
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| The UK national work-stress network | ||
| Country specific | |||
 Estonia |
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Tartu Biotechnology Park | |
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Chamber of Commerce and Industry | ||
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Development and entrepreneurship promotion agencies | ||
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Federation of Estonian Engineering Industry | ||
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Estonian Trade Council | ||
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Enterprise Estonia | ||
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Estonian Employers' Confederation | ||
 Finland |
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Foundation for Inventions in Finland | |
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Finpro | ||
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Tekes National Technology Agency in Finland | ||
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Innovation Relay Centre Finland | ||
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European Commission Representation in Finland | ||
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The Central Chamber of Commerce | ||
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Employment and Economic Development Centre | ||
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Federation of Finnish Enterprises | ||
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Lahti Regional Development Company Ltd | ||
 Hungary |
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National Office of Research and Technology (NKTH) | |
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Agency for Research Fund Management and Research Explitation | ||
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Ministrty of Education | ||
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Ministry of Economy and Transport | ||
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Hungarian Academy of Sciences | ||
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Hungarian Scientific Research Fund | ||
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Bay Zoltan Foundation for Applied Research | ||
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Hungarian Patent Office | ||
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Hungarian Competition Office | ||
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Association of Hungarian Innovation | ||
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Association of Hungarian Investors | ||
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Association of Hungarian Industrial Parks | ||
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Federation of Technical and Scientific Societies | ||
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Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation | ||
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INNOSTART National Business Innovation Centre | ||
 Italy |
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Italian Relay Centre North East | |
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Chamber of Commerce | ||
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Italian Institute for Foreign Trade | ||
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Central Bank of Italy | ||
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Italian Competition Authority | ||
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National Statistical Institute | ||
| The Italian Financial Institution for the development and promotion of Italian business abroad. | |
SIMEST | |
| The regional door for companies' internationalization | |
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 Norway |
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Euro Info Centres in Norway | |
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The European Commission's delegation to Norway and Iceland | ||
| Promotes nationwide industrial development profitable to both the business economy and Norways national economy, and helps release the potential of different districts and regions by contributing towards innovation, internationalisation and promotion. | |
Innovation Norway | |
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The Research Council of Norway | ||
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Innovation Relay Center of Norway | ||
| National Centre for Innovation and Business Development in Health | |
InnoMed | |
| An 'umbrella' programme covering several smaller programmes. The main aims are to encourage training, innovation and value adding in companies with little experience of R&D via co-operation with R&D groups and other relevant public- and private-sector development agencies. The programme will be of an experimental nature and stress will be laid on the stimulation of regional innovation processes. | |
MOBI programme | |
| The European Free Trade Association - EFTA - is an international organisation promoting free trade and economic integration. The Association maintains the management of (1) the EFTA free trade area, (2) the EFTA participation in the European Economic Area (EEA) and (3) EFTA's network of free trade agreements. | |
EFTA secretariate | |
| Oslo Innovation Centre is committed
to commercialize ideas and results from research environments. Oslo Innovation Centre now contains more than 100 companies as a result of their incubator which means that around 1000 people work in the Park |
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Oslo Innovation Center | |
| The High-Technology Centre Ltd. is a science park and innovation centre in close proximity to the University of Bergen, established as a result of private and public enterprise. The primary goal is to bridge the gap between academic research and business development, and to promote entrepreneurial culture to the region of Western Norway | |
The High-Technology Centre Ltd | |
| SINTEF is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia. 1700 employees work to find smart and profitable solutions for our customers in Norway and abroad. Our fields of research are technology, natural science, medicine and social science. | |
SINTEF | |
 United
Kingdom |
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The Department of Trade and Industry | |
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The office of government commerce | ||
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Business Europe | ||