Objective The project will address the need for SMEs to have access to market and economic intelligence relevant to their own business and sector priorities in order to identify new opportunities for innovation and technological development, leading to increased SME and regional competitiveness. Actions will include the establishment of new Economic and Technological Intelligence supply networks in five regions, drawing upon key sources of knowledge and expertise to assist target SMEs in South East UK; Catalan Region of Spain; Umbria region of Italy, Iceland and including a focus on Hungary as an Associated State. Partners will collaborate to provide a new comprehensive shared ETI Knowledge bank, made widely accessible through a specially developed central portal and reflecting both cross-regional and specific sector priorities in the partner regions, including: sustainable business; tourism; chemicals; construction and advanced materials and a shared ICT knowledge base. A new auditing tool will be developed to assess the information needs of individual SMEs relevant to their sector priorities, the results used to further develop the knowledge bases. A programme of ETI seminars and workshops will be organised both sector-specific and focusing on providing specialist support with knowledge management tools and with a the use of SMART technologies, available for wider transfer throughout Europe Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy Programme(s) FP5-INNOVATION-SME - Research, technological development and demonstration programme which aims to promote innovation and encourage the participation of small and medium sized enterprises, 1998-2002 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures Coordinator Technology Enterprise Kent EU contribution No data Address Research and Development Building University of Kent CT2 7PD Canterbury United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTROS TECNOLOGICOS DE NAVARRA SA Spain EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data FUNDACIO CATALANA PER A LA RECERCA Spain EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data INNOSTART/NATIONAL BUSINESS AND INNOVATION CENTRE Hungary EU contribution No data Address Fehervari, 130 See on map Total cost No data KENT TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CENTRE United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data SVILUPPUMBRIA SPA Italy EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data The Technological Institute of Iceland Iceland EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data
