Objective The objective of the GAP project is to understand the difference between accessing capital in the EU and USA, to reduce the wasted effort that many SME's expend trying to find investment by improving the quality of investment opportunities offered by the VC and business angel investors and to understand the special needs of the eContent market by training a selected specialist set of EU advisors .Global Access to Professional funds addresses the need to rank and assess the SMEs with regards to their strengths and weaknesses and to learn what the standards are in the USA to accessing capital and apply them to the EU market to a small selection of advisors and companies. It will develop the possibilities of having 5 SMEs advised by White & Case (a major USA law firm specialised in IPO launches) and add their input to the case studies. GAP will also present one SME in the USA to 4 VC companies and obtain feedback.The results and the case studies will be available on the Web, to make the training course a GAP recognised standard and to have a dissemination event and distribute the findings to the EU via the Innovation Relay Centres. Programme(s) IS-ECONTENT - Multiannual Community programme to stimulate the development and use of European digital content on the global networks and to promote linguistic diversity in the Information Society 2001-2005 Topic(s) PA200400-1 - Improving access to risk capital for Internet related SMEs and start-ups Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures Coordinator The Wales Innovation Fund Ltd EU contribution No data Address Principality House, The Friary, CF10 4AE Cardiff United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Shannon Free Airport Dev. Co. Ltd Ireland EU contribution No data Address National Technology Park Castletroy Limerick See on map Total cost No data Technopolis Plc Finland EU contribution No data Address Elektroniikkatie 8 90570 Oulu See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data The Welsh Development Agency United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Main Ave. Treforrest Ind. Estate Pontypridd CF37 5YR Pontypridd South Wales See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data White & Case LLP United States EU contribution No data Address 1155 Avenue of the Americas 10036-2787 New-York See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data