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Hard Issues - No Soft Option |
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An exclusive focus on technical issues risks ignoring wider barriers to innovation. Effective collaboration between many players is the key. Addressing organisational and societal obstacles releases innovative potential - as over 400 Innovation project participants with widely differing profiles are currently showing. |
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Learning the Language of Knowledge |
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Technology transfer - the transnational articulation of new knowledge - is more often impeded by divergence in the cultures of the parties involved than by purely technical issues. Now, a workbook offers practical assistance which will help international teams avoid many common problems. |
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Sowing the Seeds of Enterprise |
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The three member cities of the Pyrenean-Alpine Network of Entrepreneurial Liaisons (PANEL) are cultivating a breeding ground for new entrepreneurs. Good communications and increasing awareness lie behind a transnational approach to help find them financial backing. |
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Innovation - Just the Job? |
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A current Enterprise DG study has found that in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) innovation of any kind boosts employment, while the impact on skill levels may be smaller than previously believed. |
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Log-Cutting Logic |
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In a traditional sawmill, even the most experienced operator wastes some wood. A new intelligent system for small sawmills optimises the cutting to get the maximum value from each log. It will improve the profitability and competitiveness of hundreds of European SMEs. |
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Marriage for Life |
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A network of expert organisations in 27 countries is bringing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the life sciences together with suitable partners for European research projects. Establishing the necessary national and transnational co-ordination mechanisms is a major goal. |
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March 2001
