SME pages
Commission lays out SME measures for next funding period On 1 January 2007, the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research and technological development is due to start, along with the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP), and the next round of the structural and cohesion funds, which will have greater emphasis on growth and jobs. The EC have been explaining how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can claim their share of the available grants. See here for the full story.
Starting an innovative dialogue
Dr Roland Strauss from Brussels-based Platte Strauss Partners talks to cordis about his strategy for innovation in Europe: European Innovation Dialogue (EID). This was launched in Brussels in December 2005, and presented to the European Parliament in January. Full text of the interview can be found here.
Details of the EID can be found on the website: http://www.innovationdialogue.eu/
