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Sharing Start-Up Know-How |
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Innovative start-up companies in Finland quickly come up against a problem - the small size of their home market. With only 5 million inhabitants, Finland is a good place to test new products - but to achieve sustained growth companies must enter larger markets abroad. |
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Charting the Innovation Landscape |
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In June the Commission will publish for the first time an overview of the measures being taken by Member States to encourage innovation. The report produced under the 'Trend Chart on Innovation in Europe' highlights major trends and provides a benchmark for future analysis. |
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Taking a Risk for Start-Up Capital |
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Improving access to finance is vital to promote the creation of innovative companies, but capital can still be hard to come by in the early days. To increase the availability of early-stage funding the Commission has established ETF Startup to invest in high-risk venture capital funds. |
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The Right Degree of Heat |
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An Italian-led CRAFT project has developed a sophisticated software-controlled device which achieves the water temperature needed for good bread dough in a tenth of the time of conventional doser-mixers. But the economics of the baking industry make marketing difficult. |
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Brisk Business in the Technology Marketplace |
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The Technology Marketplace web service was launched by CORDIS last year to help industry exploit technological advances generated by European Union research. Though still in its infancy, the service is already attracting huge interest. |
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Nothing Succeeds Like Success |
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Cohesive and dynamic pan-European innovation is as important for the future prosperity of the EU as the single market and the single currency. But is Europe doing enough to build an innovation system capable of counterbalancing the technological dominance of the US? The evidence is not encouraging. |
March 2000
