I3SME - Introducing Innovation Inside SMEs

Programme: Central Europe

 

Lifetime: October 2008 – March 2011

 

Keywords: innovation, SMEs, good practices, ICT

 

Objective: I3SME's main objective is to create a prolific environment for innovation in the economic systems of the involved regions, which are mainly characterised by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

The project aims at contributing to the micro and SMEs performances enhancement in the research and innovation fields, offering effective services in order to enable them to face the main difficulties in acceding to knowledge and innovation.

 

Partnership:

Province of Bologna (Emilia-Romagna, IT), National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Sized businesses - CNA (Emilia-Romagna, IT), Autonomous Province of Trento (Provincia Autonoma Trento, IT), Start-up & Service Centre Fürstenfeld (Steiermark, AT), Brandenburg Economic Development Board (Brandenburg, DE), South Transdanubian Regional Development Agency (Del-Dunantul, HU), Pannon Business Network Association (Nyugat-Dunantul, HU), Regional Development Agency (Slaskie, PL), TechnoCenter at University of Maribor d.o.o. (Slovenija, SI)