Research and Innovation
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Information on projects funded in this area can be found on the Find a Project page, where you can browse projects using the 'Activity Areas' search option.
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 Main objectives:
| Improving Europe's innovation performance by stimulating a better integration between research and innovation and by working towards a more innovation-friendly policy and regulatory environment. Enhancing the propensity to turn research into useful and commercially valuable innovations. |
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Types of actions:::Networking the players and encouraging interaction
- encourage and validate initiatives to promote creation of innovative businesses
- exchange of good practices with regard to communication, train-ing, transfer of knowledge
::Encouraging transregional cooperation
- promote exchange of information, facilitate transfer of good practice and put in place regional innovation strategies
- Experimenting with new tools and approaches
::Putting services in place and consolidating them
- CORDIS
- Innovation Relay Centres
- Information and support services in the field of intellectual and industrial property rights and access to innovation funding
::Stepping up economic and technological intelligence
- Innovation promotion in SMEs
- Gathering, analysis and dissemination of information on S&T; developments, applications and markets
- identification and dissemination of best practice
:: Analysing and evaluating innovation in Community research projects Budget: The indicative budget allocated to the Structuring activity Research and innovation for the duration of FP6 is EUR 319 million. Links to previous activities:
Work undertaken on FP5 related to this area can be found under the Horizontal Programme Promotion of innovation and encouragement of SME participation at
/innovation-smes/
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