Objective
Project MIRTA implements some significant EU economic development policies in three of the southern members states assisted by the transfer of expertise, tools and instruments, and SME-level partnering and/or mentoring. It will build, in Roma, Thessoloniki and Seville, an innovation and finance pilot constituency, consisting of biotechnology and software design academics, SMEs, financiers and supportive public agencies. MIRTA integrates with other EU programmes, to migrate technological expertise from the north to the south of Europe addressing the 'innovation deficit.' The project aims to overcome some of the barriers to the commercialisation of knowledge generated in universities. MIRTA will contribute towards creating a risk-capital entrepreneurial culture in these three locations. The project lays the foundations for the growth of innovative SMEs, the creation of self-sustaining economic clusters enhancing employment opportunities and wealth.
Employing (and socialising) TechMaPP's constituency building tools the project collects and analyses information from each of its four locations precisely defining the problems of building innovation and finance constituencies in the three southern locations. Using case studies; mapping; a study visit to successful SMEs, researchers and financiers in Scotland to identify best practices to support innovative SMEs in the biotechnology and software design sectors. A collection of best practice instruments used in Scottish venture capital provision to innovative SMEs will be customised to suit conditions in the southern locations, and translated into a handbook. Networking arrangements between SMEs, researchers and financiers in Scotland are translated into the southern contexts, and an appropriate structure and governance established.
MIRTA will use the socio-technical constituencies approach developed by TechMaPP at the University of Edinburgh. Training in the use of these tools occur at the kick-off meeting. The approach envisages the successful innovation (diffusion or transfer) of technology as requiring the effective alignment of organisational and technological factors making-up a socio-technical constituency. Amongst the tools developed with proven success using Molina's approach, are the following, which will be deployed in Project MIRTA. TechMaPP will provide partners with training, featuring case studies in the use of each of these tools.
The project begins by using a trend-mapping tool. This is the systematic and structured analysis of the technical, legal, market, business and cultural trends in the four location environments, particularly focusing upon factors enabling or constraining the financing of the innovation of emergent technologies by SMEs.
The diamond of alignment will be used to analyse case studies of best practices in Scotland and the institutional framework in each of the four locations. Using this tool the project will identify the target partners and resources for the successful building of innovation and finance constituencies in each of the southern regions.
The evolving business planning tool views processes of business planning as those of aligning organisational and technological elements of the business each of which are of equal importance to success as financial strategy and structure. This tool is especially useful in complex technology innovations which transgress institutional barriers, interact with collaborative networking technologies, and in which the success of innovation is often the result of knowledge networking.
Cluster creation and realignment tool is based upon the diamond of alignment. It searches deeply into each aspect of cluster creation and realignment identifying areas of strategic concern and opportunity. This tool will guide the policy interfaces between innovation constituencies and local development agencies.
MIRTA has clear perspectives on technology transfer methodology, and its modalities. Methodologically MIRTA will seek adaptation during information, skill and knowledge transfers, reconfiguring the target technological system to suit local conditions.
Specific result expected at the end of the project lifetime: After four months best practice will have been identified, and plans for its transfer in place. By twelve months new innovation constituencies will be operating in Roma, Seville and Thessaloniki, giving birth by month fourteen to a finance pilot in each area. By month seventeen two investments will be made in two innovative SMEs in each southern location. By the end of the project in month eighteen sustainable arrangements to support innovative SMEs will be in place, providing practical examples of emergent technologies flourishing in these three southern regions of Europe.
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