One-stop counter for entrepreneurial innovation

Nowadays, there are a lot of European cooperation networks who promote innovation and SME competitiveness increase. One of those is the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) formed by business support organizations with services of technology transfer, access to finance, advice on EU law and standards, Intellectual Property Rights, research funding, dissemination newsletters and workshops promotion. Likewise, there are private entities who promote support for European funding programmes which works with a high cost and a high success rate for SME. Consequently, SME with absence of resources see unfeasible to growth from European funds, and need the existence of technical and scientific European offices with management experience who support SME in projects preparation, drafting, execution and results exploitation. Therefore, there is a niche in which universities play an important role as they count with technical and scientific capacities, as well as European projects management and coordination, offering the knowledge and experience to SME interested in innovate and growth transnationally. We search for cooperation between technological centers, chambers of commerce, universities, local and regional agents, even enterprise, for a multidisciplinary consortium that allows experience unity and the knowledge transfer among partners. Another project’s objective is to develop an innovation plan in the RIS3 areas to mobilize enough resources and obtain funds to execute and manage those projects.