Innovation management for interdisciplinary nanotechnology research must prepare a fruitful infrastructure as the basis for new findings. In order to be faster it needs to perform innovation tasks together, to provide open-minded experts with transdisciplinary knowledge, to define time scale, costs and risk in an early stadium and to think about the following commercialisation steps. This coupling of competence for the generation of nanotechnological applications should be organised horizontally (different branches and different disciplines) and vertically (along the productivity chain: education - research - development - production - commercialisation). Besides the scientific parts and the role of European and national funding agencies the innovation process needs also an early implementation of industrial innovation departments, venture capital representatives and regional decision makers. The innovation management includes therefore an intensive communication of the network partners, periodical interdisciplinary discussions and lectures, the commutative use of resources (computation centres, data bases, expensive machines), and the solution of detailed tasks in the network community. This enables a network to be a virtual centre of competence and to generate innovations with a high market potential. It can help to secure or to generate High Tech jobs in Europe.