Europe INNOVA - Partnerships for better innovation support

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The ACHIEVE MORE Partnership was an ICT sectoral initiative to help 400 European SMEs to access the best tools and funding they need to accelerate their growth. The Partnership was managed by nine delivery partners from five European countries and extended out to 50 business and technology incubators, 15 ICT clusters and up to 5 early stage finance providers.

The Partnership particularly seeked to overcome the barriers and challenges to the development of Knowledge Intensive Services ventures in the ICT sector by assembling a powerful toolkit of business support tools and methodologies, and disseminating it through an innovative business support mechanism - The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Exchange. This exchange met physically several times to showcase the state of the art of incubation and clustering, but it was also a continuous platform for the exchange of what works in innovation in KIS, linking business support practitioners and entrepreneurs to enable high levels of success in innovation exploitation.

The Partnership also established a new type of early stage funding paradigm by testing the potential to develop seed funds, linked to the leading edge business and technology incubators.

For further information please contact:
David Moir, St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge
Tel:+44 (0)7970 973395

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