Useful links for TTT
- Cordis
http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html
Cordis is an information space for European Research and Development (R&D) and exploitation of European R&D results
- Entreprise Europe Network
http://www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/public/calendar/home.cfm?type=future
The Enterprise Europe Network offers support and advice to businesses across Europe and helps them make the most of the opportunities in the European Union (e.g. information on EU legislation; finding a business partner; to benefit from innovation networks in region; information on funding opportunities, etc.).
The services are specifically designed for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) but are also available to all businesses, research centres and Universities across Europe. The Enterprise Europe Network is made up of close to 600 partner organisations in more than 40 countries, promoting competitiveness and innovation at the local level in Europe and beyond.
- EPIPAGRI
EPIPAGRI is a European Commission supported project aiming to encourage Public Research Organizations (PROs) to collaborate in the management and promotion of their Intellectual Property (IP) assets in the field of agricultural science.
EPIPAGRI helps the public research community to transfer its innovations more successfully both to industry and for public-good purposes so as to contribute to the enhancement of public welfare on the global scale.
EPIPAGRI is designed for technology transfer professionals to cooperate in the identification and transfer of technology and IP. EPIPAGRI provides access to a network of public IP holders and a web-based database with analytical tools to assist the identification of complementary IP/technology packages. Any PRO may register with EPIPAGRI and enter its IP/ technology for display in the EPIPAGRI database. Parties (whether public or private sector) seeking IP/ technology are able to view the EPIPAGRI database and easily make contact with the person responsible for managing said IP/ technology on behalf of the IP owner.
If you are interested in finding out more information about objectives & activities of EPIPAGRI, or becoming involved with this European network, please contact Mr Bernard Teyssendier, coordinator of EPIPAGRI.
bernard.teyssendier@supagro.inra.fr
- FITT
http://www.fitt-for-innovation.eu/
FITT (Fostering Interregional Exchange in ICT Technology Transfer) is a European project, co-funded by the European Commission, for bridging the gap between research and business. Within the project, successful technology transfer offices dedicated to ICT are joining forces and knowledge. The partners from Luxembourg, Germany, France, Belgium and Great Britain will develop new tools to convert innovative ideas into marketable products and services. For practical guidance, the toolbox will also be translated into a transnational training program for technology transfer officers.
- ILO-NOVA
Network dedicated to the transfer of knowledge and the industrial valorisation of the research (Italian website).
- IRE
http://www.innovating-regions.org/network/presentation/index.cfm
Companies and other innovation actors principally work and interact at local level. Regions are therefore at the front line in the delivery of innovation support to enterprises. The Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE) network aims at facilitating exchange of experience and good practice among European regions that are enhancing their capacity to support innovation and competitiveness among regional firms through the development and implementation of regional innovation strategies and schemes.
- INSME
The International Network for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (INSME) is a non profit association open to international membership. Its mission is to stimulate transnational cooperation and public and private partnership in the field of innovation and technology transfer to SMEs. The role of INSME is to create a link between SMEs and policy makers and intermediaries so as to enhance the level of support provided.
- OSEO
OSEO was born in 2005, by bringing together ANVAR (French innovation agency) and BDPME (SME development bank), around a mission of general interest supporting the regional and national policies. Its mission is to provide assistance and financial support to French SMEs and VSEs in the most decisive phases of their life cycle: start up, innovation, development, business transfer / buy out. By sharing the risk, it facilitates the access of SMEs to financing by banking partners and equity capital investors. OSEO covers three areas of activity: 1)Innovation support and funding (for technology transfer and innovative technology-based projects with real marketing prospects) ; 2)Funding investments and operating cycle alongside the banks ; 3)Guaranteeing funding granted by banks and equity capital investors.
OSEO head structure is a holding with public status. It reports to both the Ministry for Economy, Finance and Industry, and Ministry for Higher Education and Research. OSEO's partners are: banks, financial institutions and equity capital investors; research laboratories, universities, engineering schools, major companies; chambers of commerce and industry, tradesmen's guilds; business start-up assistance and support networks; government agencies and private organisations working to promote the use of information technology by SMEs; European structural funds and Community research programmes... OSEO covers all areas of France, through its regional network. It works with local communities and in particular with the French regions. It makes its skills and networks available to them, acts on their behalf and in accordance with their economic development priorities.
OSEO is in charge of the management of the back-office of the French initiative “Bourse de Technologie”, a web portal gathering technology offers from the French public research.
http://www.technologie.oseo.fr/
- Patiris
http://www.patiris.unibo.it/index.asp
Patiris is a repository of patents which aims to set up a permanent observatory on Italian academic patenting. The service was established within the project IRIS by researchers of the Departement of Management at the University of Bologna in collaboration with the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (UIBM), Italian Ministry of Economic Development.
- Réseau CURIE
The C.U.R.I.E. network is a French non-profit association founded in 1991 in order to promote exchanges between professionals of technology transfer, as well as encourage the transfer of public technologies into the socio-economic world. The C.U.R.I.E. network has 3 main missions: 1) Bring together Technology Transfer Actors (+100 active members: universities, engineering schools, public research organisations, etc) ; 2) Make Technology Transfer professionnal ; 3) Encourage technology and know-how transfer.
The C.U.R.I.E. network also promotes the connection between industrial needs and innovative skills from the public research, through the promotion of technology offers from the French public research towards private companies: set-up and administration of the website France Technology Transfer (www.f2t.fr) gathering technology offers from the French public research.
- TII
Technology Innovation International is an European association of technology transfer and innovation support professionals. Its members are promoting or providing high quality innovation support and technology transfer services to firms, with the ultimate aim to develop the knowledge economy and boost the wealth creation process.
