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Keep up to date on innovation matters with the INSME Association!
INSMEnews is the free monthly newsletter edited by the INSME Secretariat to stay updated about the activities of the International Network for SMEs, its Members and Partners worldwide. Main issues related to SME innovation and competitiveness at international level are tackled as well.
Sponsors and Promoters to translate this newsletter into other languages are welcome among INSME Members, Partners and Third Parties.
Find out in this issue about our next Congress in Brazil in 2010!
Enjoy this month's edition and send us comments and suggestions that can enrich and improve our ongoing work to support innovation intermediaries to the final benefit of small and medium sized companies (SMEs) and their competitiveness.
Ms. Simona Marzetti
INSME Association Secretary General
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Life of the Network |
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VI INSME Annual Meeting 2010 in Brazil |
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10-13 May, 2010 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Venue: Hotel Sofitel, Copacabana
The next INSME Annual Meeting will be held in May 2010 from 10 to 13 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event will be co-organised by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service SEBRAE, INSME Member.
Watch the video on the location of the 2010 INSME Annual Meeting.
Download the information flyer.
More detailed information will be available in the next months. Participation for INSME Members is for free.
For expressions of interest and details, please contact the INSME Secretariat at: insmerio2010@insme.it
Learn more about former INSME Annual Meetings.
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Participation at the BSEC WG on SMEs (Thessaloniki, 20-22 May) |
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The INSME Secretary General participated as guest speaker at the latest Meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Working Group on SMEs, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 20-22 May 2009, focused on High Technology, Innovation and SMEs, Technology Parks and Incubators, co-organized in collaboration with the Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Handicraft (EOMMEX), coordinator of the WG.
INSME has enjoyed the sectoral dialogue partnership status within BSEC since 2006.
Learn about the BSEC Innovation data bank managed by EOMMEX to foster among BSEC countries the dissemination of information concerning organizations, universities, technology parks, incubators, research institutions: http://www.eommex.gr/Article.aspx?id=11758
Download the May Issue of the newsletter "Black Sea News", edited by the BSEC PERMIS.
Find out about the BSEC Project Development Fund.
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Meeting with EUPIC delegation from P.R.China (Rome, 22 June) |
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The INSME Secretariat organised an open meeting with the EU Project Incubation Centre - EUPIC (Chengdu) on 22 June, 2009, at its premises in Rome. The meeting tackled ways of future collaboration activities with EUPIC, also with the view of promoting the participation of EU companies in the upcoming EU-China Business & Technology Cooperation Fair IV to be held on October 17-18 2009, in Chengdu (P.R. China).
Learn more about the Technology Cooperation Fair: Flyer Event registration form Hotel Reservation Form
Download the EUPIC presentation.
INSME and EUPIC have signed a MoU for collaboration and partnership in February 2009.
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News from the INSME Members |
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INSME's Picks in the News |
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Focus on...INSME Members |
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Tenders & Calls |
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ISBE RAKE Fund Workshop |
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Call for bids
Issuer: Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE).
Subject and eligibility: This call, funded by Barclays Bank and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Department of Business Enterprise Regulation and Reform (BERR), aims to encourage new research activities from within the academic community, support/advice/third sector organisations, consultants and practitioners. Applications are invited from individuals or teams, third sector organisations, academic researchers, consultants. Themes of interest for this call for proposals focus, in particular, upon the evaluations of public policy for fostering high-tech/high-growth firms; the serial entrepreneurship in high-tech industries; the survival and growth strategies of innovation and technology based firms and the role of incubation in the development of high-tech firms.
Budget: four separate grants of around �8-10,000 each with projects not exceeding 18 months duration.
Deadline: July 31st 2009.
Full details on the RAKE Initiative can be found at: http://www.isbe.org.uk/pagebuild.php?texttype=RAKEFund
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CIP-EIP-ECO-INNOVATION-2009 |
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Call for proposals
Title: CIP Eco-innovation first application and market replication projects
Issuer: Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI)
Aim: The call aims to promote the adoption of new and integrated approaches to eco-innovation, encouraging the uptake of environmental solutions and to increase innovation capacities of SMEs.
Budget: The indicative total amount available for this Call is EUR 30 million.
Deadline: 10 September 2009.
To learn more about CIP Eco-innovation 2009, please click here.
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ERA-NET EraSME 6th call |
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Call for Trans-National Projects
The 6th call for trans-national projects of the ERA-NET EraSME initiative will be open until October 30, 2009 with 14 participating funding programs from the following regions/countries: Austria, Flanders (Belgium), Wallonia (Belgium), Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Tuscany (Italy), Norway, Slovenia, Madrid (Spain), Sweden and The Netherlands. The call aims to strengthen the competitive capacity of SMEs by enhancing cooperation proposals in all fields of technology.
The on-line Project Building section provides additional tools in order to facilitate SMEs and RTOs in finding potential cooperation partners for participation in this call.
For detailed information and relevant documents see section "Help Desk" at: http://www.era-sme.net/public/
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GEM: Business creation in the Latin American context |
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Call for Papers
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) has recently launched a call for papers Business creation in the Latin American context: from a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor perspective for inviting researchers to submit papers on Latin America and the Caribbean business system to be published in a special issue of the ACADEMIA - Revista Latinoamericana de Administración in the 2nd half of 2010. The journal accepts contributions in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The paper has to be based on the GEM database for Latin America and the Caribbean and addressed among other topics, the following: - The figure of the entrepreneur in creating new businesses (attitudes, activities and aspirations); - Comparison of entrepreneurship conditions among countries or regions: contrasting Latin America with other regions or countries.
Deadline for papers: March 1st 2010.
For further information, please, visit the GEM website at: http://www.gemconsortium.org/article.aspx?id=84
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Interesting Initiatives |
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Publications |
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Recommended Websites |
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Recommended Newsletter |
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Technology Innovation International - TII Newsletter |
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This monthly newsletter, issued by the Technology Innovation International association, (TII) provides updated information on services, events, publications, funding programmes and proposals related to Technology Transfer (TT) and innovation issues and pays a particular attention to TII association and members initiatives.
Non-members who wish to receive this newsletter may sign up on the site below: http://www.tii.org/eNewsletter
For more information about Technology Innovation International, please, click here.
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SME Update |
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SME Update is the four monthly SME Techweb newsletter edited by the European Commission and conceived in an interactive format including news, results, policies and points of view in all areas of European research for SMEs.
To receive any printed SME publication, contact Martina Daly.
Read more about the latest issue at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/sme-techweb/newsletter/issue5/index_en.html
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Events |
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Highlighted Events |
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Future meetings, workshops, seminars selected by INSME |
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2 July 2009 BiD Networking Latin America Organised by BiD Network Amsterdam, Netherlands
2 July 2009 INNO-DEAL Final Conference: 'How to Provide Solutions for Innovative and Creative Start-ups in Uncertain Times' Organised by INNO-DEAL project Ljubljana, Slovenia
6-7 July 2009 6th Asialics International Conference "Linkages in Innovation System: Global and Local Perspectives" Organised by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong, China
6-17 July 2009 The III Barcelona Clusters Summer School Organized by IESE Business School - University of Navarra Barcelona, Spain
9-11 July 2009 11th Session of the Advanced International Summer School (AISS 2009) Organised by the e-Business Management Section of the Scuola Superiore ISUFI Ostuni, Italy
10-13 July 2009 The 2nd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2009 Organized by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS) Orlando, Florida, United States
13-14 July 2009 12th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation (ICTPI) Organized by the University of Porto and INESC Porto with the support of UTEN Portugal (University Technology Enterprise Network) and in cooperation with the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin Porto, Portugal
1-2 September 2009 3rd TCI Rural Cluster Conference - Cluster-based economic development in remote areas Organised by the TCI Network Bornholm, Denmark
4-8 September 2009 10th International CINet Conference on Enhancing the Innovation Environment Organised by the Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) Brisbane, Australia
7-8 September 2009 Research and entrepreneurship in the knowledge-based economy Organised by Cespri - Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalization, Bocconi University Milan, Italy
7-8 September 2009 European Conference on IP Management in European Research Co-operations" Organised by the European Academy for Taxes, Economics and Law Berlin, Germany 9-11 September.2009 The 9th European Congress of CEEC RDAs and 1st Balkan Forum on Regional Development Organised by EURADA, Enterprise Europe Network - EEN and the Business Support Center for SMEs Ruse, Bulgaria
10-11 September 2009 4th European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Organized by Academic Conferences International (ACI) Antwerp, Belgium
15-17 September 2009 European Innovation Conference - Innovation in Mind Organised by the Lund University in cooperation with Region Sk�ne Lund, Sweden
16-18 September 2009 25th Anniversary Conference "Science Park's contribution to innovation systems: people, places, partnerships" Organized by The United Kingdom Science Park Association (UKSPA) in partnership with International Association of Science Park (IASP) Manchester, United Kingdom
23-25 September 2009 EuroBiO 2009 "The partnering and Tech Transfer event for the Bioindustry" Co-organised by Package Organisation and Eurasanté - Entreprendre et Réussir Lille, France 23-25 September 2009 IASP Latin American Division Conference 2009 Organised by IASP - International Association of Science Parks Monterrey, Mexico 24-26 September 2009 XIX International RESER Conference "Public and Private Services in the New Global Economy" Organised by the Kopint-T�rki Institute of Economic Research Ltd. Budapest, Hungary 24-25 September 2009 6th Annual Conference of the Technopolicy Network "Shaping Science Based Clusters" Organised by the Technopolicy Network Wageningen, The Netherlands 28-30 September 2009 Promoting Innovation-based Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the UNECE Region Organised by the United Nation Economic Commission for Europe - UNECE Geneve, Switzerland 30 September - 3 October 2009 XIV Baltic Dynamics Conference "The Dynamics of Innovation Spaces: Bringing Innovation to Society" Co-organised by Baltic Association of Science/Technology Parks and Innovation Centres - BASTIC, KTU Regional Science Park, Kaunas Regional Innovation Centre and Kaunas University of Technology Vilnius, Lithuania
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