Peer reviews in Baden-Württemberg « ACCESS – ACCelerating regional competitivenESS and sector-based excellence through innovation management tools and techniques

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South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency

The main aims of the STRIA are to improve the innovation capacity of the regional SMEs, to support the technology transfer activities of the knowledge bases and to foster the international knowledge exchange. The main policy of the Agency is to provide real added value compared to the currently operating innovation support system by ensuring quality consultancy services for the regional SMEs. This way STRIA will assure a stable and increasing clientele, and an extensive international network.

South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency
Theodore Puskas Foundation

The Theodore Puskas Foundation is a non-profit, public benefit organization under Hungarian law. Its operational arm, the Institute of International Technology offers a wide assortment of dedicated services. The objectives include from the beginning the dissemination of advanced foreign technologies in Hungary and the introduction of state of the art Hungarian technologies on the international market (two-way know-how and technology transfer, partner mediation).

Theodore Puskas Foundation
CATT Innovation Management

CATT Innovation Management GmbH supports and accompanies Upper Austrian companies and institutions in matters relating to national and international innovation management with a focus on research, mobility and innovation funding, technology transfer and intellectual property rights.

CATT Innovation Management
Clusterland Upper Austria

Since 1998, clusters were gradually developed in important economic branches in Upper Austria: automotive, plastics, eco-energy, furniture & timber construction, food, health technology, mechatronics and environmental technology. In addition, inter-branch networks have been set-up in the fields of human resources, design & media, logistics and energy efficiency. Small & medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are particularly supported in our policy.

Clusterland Upper Austria
European Development Agency

The European Development Agency fulfils the dreams of its clients by combination of unique professional services, lots of them as only one in the CR, and experienced team of experts - we help to think out the profitable project, to gain a new source of financing, to guide the client through the European jungle of administrative regulations.

European Development Agency
AREA Science Park

AREA Science Park is one of the leading multi-sector science and technology parks at the international level. Our mission is to increase the competitiveness and dimensional growth of the territory through support to entrepreneurial and business development, and development and diffusion of innovative products, processes, methodologies and services.

AREA Science Park
CNA Regional Association of Emilia Romagna

The National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises is the VOICE of craft, small and medium sized firms and specialised workers. The function of CNA Emilia Romagna is to provide integration among the Provincial Associations. It defines regional financial policy, promotes industrial relations and drafts industrial agreements.

CNA Regional Association of Emilia Romagna
Regional Development Agency

The programme idea of the Regional Development Agency Joint Stock Company in Bielsko – Biała is focused on initiating, organizing and supporting the development of the southern subregion of Śląskie Voivodeship and its national and foreign promotion.

Regional Development Agency
Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Prešov) is a public institution operating in the territory of Slovakia and developing activities aimed at the support and protection of its member businesses at home and abroad.

Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Pomurje Technology Park

The Pomurje Technology Park has for mission the formation of the business infrastructure and advanced service offer, with aim to co-form establishing of new companies and help a subsistent companies to growth and to work, which will contribute to a better competitive position, a more quality working conditions and to a modernized economic structure in the region.

Pomurje Technology Park
Virtual Dimension Center

The Virtual Dimension Center Fellbach (VDC) is a network for Virtual Engineering technologies, especially for their applications in the areas of automotive, mechanical engineering, plant engineering and construction, architecture, as well as civil engineering. It bundles the knowledge and expertise of leading stakeholders around the topic, establishes communication platforms for mutual exchange, creates synergies, and supports the development of structures for innovation.

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Published on October 24, 2011 | Back to news page

Peer reviews in Baden-Württemberg

From 09th to 14th of October 2011 a delegation of the ACCESS project visited Stuttgart in southern Germany. Visits at Daimler AMG, the MOTEK fair and at the Department of Commerce were part of the journey.

You can find further information in the german press-release below:

Das Geheimnis der Innovationen

Europäische Delegation des Projekts „ACCESS“ besucht Region Stuttgart

Fellbach, 24.10.2011 – Was macht die Unternehmen in der Region Stuttgart so innovativ? Dieser Frage gingen die 6 Teilnehmer der europäischen Delegation des „ACCESS“-Projekts eine Woche lang nach. Die Delegierten aus Österreich, Polen und der Slowakei interviewten dazu verschiedene Experten aus der Region, um bewährte Innovationsverfahren und Methoden zu erforschen.
Ziele der Delegation waren unter anderem die Messe für Montage-, Handhabungstechnik und Automation (Motek), die Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart das Wirtschaftsministerium in Stuttgart und Mercedes-AMG in Affalterbach. Über 15 Experten von der Technikschule Esslingen bis zum Steinbeis Europa Zentrum standen Rede und Antwort zum Thema Innovationsförderung und Innovationsmanagement.

Nach einer Woche voller interessanter Inhalte und Tipps der Experten reisten die einzelnen Projektteilnehmer wieder zurück in ihre Heimatländer. Das nächste Treffen der ACCESS Delegation, an der auch Mitarbeiter des Virtual Dimension Centers Fellbach teilnehmen, findet in Linz, Oberösterreich statt. Am Ende des Projekts wird ein ausführlicher Bericht veröffentlicht der Ideen und Ansätze rund um die Innovationsförderung der Wirtschaft beinhaltet und somit einen Beitrag zur europäischen Wirtschaftsförderung leistet.

Das EU-Projekte ACCESS startete bereits Anfang März 2010. ACCESS steht dabei für „ACCelerating regional competitivenESS and sector-based excellence through innovation management” und hat zum Ziel Dienstleistungen im Bereich Innovationsmanagement und Technologietransfer zu verbessern. Dies soll durch den Austausch von Erfolgsrezepten und der Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen transnationalen Strategie in diesem Bereich umgesetzt werden.

Das Projekt ist auf eine Dauer von rund 3 Jahren angelegt und finden im Rahmen von „INTERREG IV B“, einer Gemeinschaftsinitiative des Europäischen Fonds für regionale Entwicklung zur Förderung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Regionen der EU, statt. Mit beteiligt sind neben dem Virtual Dimension Center auch weitere europäische Organisationen beispielsweise aus Ungarn, Österreich oder Italien.