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INSME focusses on innovation through technology transfer, It aims to facilitate knowledge-sharing process by building a virtual Community for exchanging methodologies and best-practices, proactively strengthen the ties and partnerships between intermediaries and service providers, such as the technical centres, scientific and technological parks, innovation agencies, universities, innovation relay centres, one-stop-shops, etc.
INSME is based on the idea that globalisation offers opportunities as well as risks for enterprises. SMEs cannot bridge the innovation and technology gap, widened by the globalisation process, if they are not initially supported by public sector policies. Value added for enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs in the knowledge-based economy could be created by fostering the modernisation, the networking and the integration of existing intermediary bodies, as well as the extension of their networks at international and regional level, who currently provide information and services for SMEs to access innovation and technology.
INSME believes that it can contribute to the following :
strengthen the co-ordination and links among the business support networks for SMEs and the intermediary bodies supporting SMEs to: improve and better qualify their services in innovation, technology transfer and make information and services more accessible to those geographical areas that are less familiar with SME issues and the use of the ICT;
extend and maximise the use of the existing innovation and technology transfer service networks operating on a geographical, sectoral and functional basis by creating a permanent forum for exchanging methodologies, approaches and best-practices in order to identify and spread common standards, success models and develop economies of scale.
provide technical assistance to Governments and Organisations which intend to develop and promote policy measures and instruments to foster the diffusion of innovation and the transfer of technology in order to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs by enhancing and better organising the supply of intermediary's services;
promote the internationalisation, delocalisation and digitisation of intermediaries and their possible integration and aggregation, by taking advantage of the advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT);
promote the development of new service networks for SMEs and for their intermediaries, the creation of new web-sites and internet portals, with a multiplier effect, especially in those geographical regions and sectors which are suffering more from the digital divide. |
