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Increasing
the competitiveness of Trans-national Technology Transfer and Innovation in
Romania by creating an Innovation Relay Center
IRC
Romania
Innovation
Relay Center Romania
(IRC Romania) will provide
cost-effective services that promote trans-national cooperation, respecting
the real regional needs and that will be in synergy with national and regional support scheme.
The
main objective of this project is to develop and maintain a high level of IRC
Romania services capability in delivering successful transnational technology
transfer (TTT) to the local clients whilst addressing capacity deficits and
encouraging the attainment of economic benefits for clients through successful
agreements. For Romania, the target group will be especially the SMEs sector,
but other organizations will be also targeted (such as universities, research
centers, larger companies, professional and trade association, development
agencies).
The
IRC Romania will act in four main
domains such as information
(including awareness campaign), direct contacts
with clients for partner and technologies offers/requests, assistance for projects preparation and development and monitoring.
The goal is to promote the transnational technology co-operation based on the
flow of information and services provided by the main contractors and also by
the regional partners. The network of main contractors and regional partners
will be linked to the IRC and BBS network as beneficiary of an extremely
powerful flow of information. The strategy is based on the following key
actions:
·
to
create an “optimum” framework for stimulating the partnership between
government, intermediary organisations and private business sector aiming to
develop an innovation strategy
·
to
stimulate the local communities to identify their specific problems and find out
ways to involve key actors to elaborate solutions to those problems
·
to
support and convince SMEs to couple the efforts of the local governments,
research organisations, universities and civil society
for local initiative development through innovation
·
to
collect information and to spread out opportunities for partnership and business
development
IRC
Romania
team will act to support Romania for European Integration. Just for that the TTT
and Innovation process will be focused on the co-operation between Romanian and
European partners. The target group is officials from the government, central
and local public authorities, research organisations, universities, SMEs and
civil society. The main target of the Romanian IRC is to couple efforts coming
from institutions and persons in charge for the local development.
IRC
Romania will provide its services at national level, covering all of Romanian
territory using a network of 7 regional partners (Iasi, Braila, Calarasi,
Craiova, Timisoara, Cluj, Brasov) and Bucuresti. Each partner will provide
information to SMEs, universities and research organizations situated in the
Development Regions defined through the Law 151/1998.
The
main objective
of this project is to develop and maintain a high level of IRC Romania services
capability in delivering successful transnational technology transfer (TTT) to
the local clients whilst addressing capacity deficits and encouraging the
attainment of economic benefits for clients through successful agreements. For
Romania, the target group will be especially the SMEs sector, but other
organizations will be also targeted (such as universities, research centers,
larger companies, professional and trade association, development agencies).
The
specific objectives
of the proposed project are:
1.
Promoting the IRC Romania, its services and IRC Network in Romania, by:
a)
Organizing and participating at events
b)
Elaborating presentation and information materials
c)
Contacting people
2.
Supporting the Romanian SMEs development by implementing innovative/modern
technologies, by:
a)
Identification of technology needs and their promotion through IRC
network
b)
Promotion of technology offers received from the IRC network or from
other sources
c)
Provide assistance for developing TT projects between identified partners
3.
Assisting the national technology providers to promote at European level their
innovative products and technologies, by:
a)
Identification of national technology offers and promotion using the IRC
network
b)
Promotion of technology requests received from the IRC network members
(or from other sources) to local providers matching the external needs with the
local offer
c)
Providing Assistance for developing technology transfer projects between
identified partners
4.
Promoting the trans-national dissemination
and exploitation of the Community research results in order to improve the
economic and social impact of framework programme research activities and to enhance
public awareness of the benefits of innovation, by:
a)
Identification of Community research results, especially those results
identified as suitable for third party exploitation, and including cooperation
especially with EUREKA representatives
b)
Promotion of research results to local industry or to external partners
5.
Stimulating the capacity of firms to adopt new technologies in order to support
SME participation in European research programs and in technology transfer
projects, by:
a)
Assessment of SMEs sector in Romania - defining its strengths, problems
and development trends
b)
Evaluation of SMEs needs and ability to became involved in trans-national
cooperation
6.
Signposting to and coordinating with other regional/national service providers
and actions, including Commission – supported networks, by:
a)
a closer cooperation between already existing Community business support
networks (such as IRCs, EICs, BICs, OPETs, etc) and IRC Romania
b)
coordinating activities with the National Contact Points network to avoid
overlapping, to jointly organize common actions in the favor of local industry
or research organizations and to provide best quality services through
specialized personnel and specialized tools.
c)
providing access for clients through its services to other schemes like
capital schemes, start-up schemes, IPR services, etc
7.
Providing the IRC Network with the quality opportunities for TTT/cooperation in
Romania by offering high quality technology offers and requests
8.
Actively networking with other IRCs with a pertinent IRC objectives, by:
a)
Participating in specialist fora, like Thematic Groups (TGs)
b)
Staff placement to other IRCs
c)
Receiving help from specialized IRCs supporting IRC Romania in
“innovation and TTT promotion”
d)
Organizing Joint IRC events
e)
Organizing Trans-national technology missions with other
IRCs
f)
Exchanging of good practices
9.
Providing the key services which help promotion and/or facilitate innovation and
trans-national technology transfer, by:
a)
Providing
information on the innovation actions of FP6 (targeted calls, emails)
b)
Organizing
specific workshops
Geographical
area to be covered
IRC
Romania will provide its services at
national level, covering all of
Romanian territory using a network of regional partners. Each partner will
provide information to SMEs, universities and research organizations situated in
the development regions defined through the Law 151/1998 and presented below.
These
regional partners are situated in the following important cities: Iasi, Braila
(or Galati), Calarasi, Craiova, Timisoara, Cluj, Brasov and Bucuresti. In Iasi,
Brasov, Cluj and Timisoara these centers are branches of the project coordinator
– ARIES. Centers from Braila (or Galati), Calarasi and Craiova will work under
direct monitoring of the partner – IPA CIFATT.