SMART FRAME

 
Smart Framework for SME´s focused on Modern Industrial Technologies
1 May 2011– 30 Apr 2014
Cost
1 600 000 EUR
 

The core aim of the project „SMART FRAME“ is to sustainably improve the regional innovative framework in CENTRAL EUROPE by elaborating and distributing know-how in the fields of intermediary support, R&D co-operations, settlement and spin-offs. The challenge is bringing together the two worlds of innovation and technology institutes and creates a fruitful environment for entrepreneurship to be monitored by hard output facts.
Existing know-how, which is only transnationally available, will be brought together and distributed, new know-how elaborated based on several pilot actions and their evaluation. Results will be distributed to the broad public and a sustainable Network of the project partner will be set up. The project will focus on the most promising modern industrial technologies:
(1) materials
(2) surfaces
(3) technology orientated processes
(4) sensor-actors and
(5) integration of these technologies into products and production.

Within the project we will strengthen the existing technology-focused SME and increase the number of technology-focused SMEs by providing them a strong and attractive framework of technology structures and innovation networks for RTD activities and cooperations in highpotential fields of modern industrial technologies. Companies benefit from a better understanding of technology applications and a guided quick access to “technology infrastructure” (R&D providers, labs).

Participants

The Business Agency of Lower Austria Ltd. (ecoplus)
PROFACTOR GmbH
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Lower Silesian Innovation and Science Park S.A. (DPIN)
Institute of Electron Technology (ITE)
South Moravian Innovation Centre (JIC)