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The Small Business Vouchers (SBV) programme small businesses focused on clean energy with access to national lab. The programme has simple contracting processes, transparent lab practices and practical access to lab facilities. The objectives are to give U.S. clean energy small businesses a...

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate Silicon Valley Innovation programme (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SVIP expands DHS S&T’s reach to find new technologies that...

The U.S. Department of Energy launched the National Incubator Initiative for Clean Energy (NIICE) initiative to increase coordination and collaboration among the incubators across the country and develop best practices to raise incubator performance standards. This effort enabled incubators to...

The MEP National Network is a public-private partnership delivering solutions to U.S. manufacturers on advancing U.S. manufacturing. The MEP National Network comprises the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and 51 MEP centers comprising 1,300...

The platform of industrial and hightech sectors Industry4Ukraine was created to develop modern industry as the basis of the Ukrainian economy. In 2020, three committees of the platform started their work: - the Cluster Committee; - Committee for Smart specialisation of Regions; - Committee for...

The TTGV Xnovate programme offers tools for the discussion and implementation of new ideas and methods for communities to learn together with innovators. The programme consists of five sub-brands: 1. Xnovate Circle is a community of applications about technology and innovation; 2. Xnovate Fellows is...

The European Turkish Business Development Center (ABİGEM) project has started in 2002. ABİGEM was initially established in three cities, Gaziantep, Kocaeli, İzmir to provide professional management consultancy and training services in order to help the SMEs develop their potential and increase their...

The Empowering SMEs for Networking and Inter-Regional Cooperation project supports SMEs to increase their competitiveness on international markets, diversifiy their products and services, improve innovation and labour capacity. The Cluster Info Centres were established in selected five pilot cities...

The SME agency, Ministry of Economic Affairs, coordinating with other ministries and bureaus are responsible of developing The Strategic Project of Facilitating Digital Transformation of The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Its aims are: to provide intelligence; provide free online courses of IT...

The main objective of Vinnova, Swedish innovation agency, is to help building Sweden’s innovation capacity, contributing to sustainable growth. The organisation works together with a number of actors, including cluster organisations, to create opportunities and incentives to work together and to...

The Swedish Mining innovation (SMI) is part of a joint investment in strategic innovation areas by Vinnova, Formas and the Swedish Energy Agency. The main objective of SMI is to strengthen the competitiveness of the Swedish mining and metal extraction industry. SMI promotes and supports leading...

Skelleftea Digital Alliance is a non-profit association working to support business development and innovation; creating publicity for the industry; developing existing resources in the industry. Its concrete activities are: to create increased interest in the industry among young people; to boost...