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INNOVATIVE FUTURE

KIS4SAT



KIS4SAT

Project Title

Developing a voucher system to stimulate innovative behaviour of knowledge intensive service firms in the downstream navigation applications markets

 

 

 

 

Funding institution

CEC - DG Enterprise and Innovation

 

 

Project Duration

February 2008 – February 2011

 

 

Project description

This sectoral network intends to build a platform that will enable entrepreneurs and knowledge intensive service ventures of high growth potential to seize market opportunities in the field of satellite downstream applications:

 

• Assessing the research, skills and knowledge needs;

 

• Fostering technological and non-technological innovations;

 

• Building the KIS4SAT innovation platform; and

 

• Formulating exist strategies.

 

 

Project partners

• EBN

 

• Aerospace Valley

 

• Interlace-Invent

 

• Capital High Tech

 

• D’Appolonia

 

• TECHNOFI

 

• BIC Lazio

 

• BIC Sviluppo Italia Friuli Venezia Giulia

 

• Hertfordshire Business Incu-bation Centre

 

 

Role of INI-Novation

• Management skills and training schemes – assess the existing and the required management skills of KIS SMEs and entrepreneurs, as well the currently existing management training and qualification schemes.

 

• Training about the use of Support Packages – design modular qualification and training programmes to select and support potential high-growth KIS SMEs as well as incubators and ohter intermediaries at penetrating and successfully acting in the market with broader economic view

 

 

Services Provided by INI-Novation

Market analysis, evaluation of the management skills of the SMEs in the SATNAV sector and technical assistance to develop an entrepreneurship qualification voucher system

 

 

Experts

Nicolas Elan

 

Bruno Fernandes

 

Veneta Ivanova

 

Wolfgang Kniejski

 

Hristo Nenov

 

Tobias Quaiser

 

 

Results

Ongoing project

 

 

Deliverables

D10 – Assessment of the managerial skills required by the KIS ventures and recommentdations for training schemes

 

D18 – Feasible curricula as training packages