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Project Title
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KIS4SAT - Building and testing the relevant innovation support platform needded to stimulate the launch and development of high growth (or potentiallly high growth) KIS Ventures in the field of satellite downstream applications.
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Funding institution
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CEC – DG Enterprise and Innovation
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Project duration
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February 2008 – February 2011
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Project Description
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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 of KIS ventures in the field of satellite based applications;
- Fostering technological and non-technological innovations, taking into account the dynamic interconnections between research, entrepreneurship. finance and clusters;
- Building the KIS4SAT innovation platform where SMEs and entrepreneurs can find the business support packages they need to develop critical mass offers and to accelerate their growth processes;
- Test and inporve such a platform with at least 250 high growth KIS ventures and innovation intermediaries;
- Formulating exist strategies through the implementation of innovation vouchers with regional clusters and incubators
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Project Partners
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- EBN
- Aerospace Valley
- Interlace-Invent
- Capital High Tech
- D’Appolonia
- TECHNOFI
- BIC Lazio
- BIC Sviluppo Italia Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Hertfordshire Business Incu-bation Centre
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Role of INI-Novation
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- 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 other intermediaries at penetrating and successfully acting in the market with broader economic view.
- Innovation vouchers - supporting SMEs with high growth potential through coaching services
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Services Provided by INI-Novation
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Market analysis, evaluation of the management skills of the SMEs in the SATNAV sector and technical assistance to develop an entrepreneurship qualification and mentoring voucher system.
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Experts
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Nicolas Elan
Bruno Fernandes
Veneta Ivanova
Wolfgang Kniejski
Hristo Nenov
Tobias Quaiser
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Results
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The project has a database of over 500+ SMEs connected online to the KIS4SAT platform, of which 150* have received direct or indirect support via KIS4SAT services and tools. KIS4SAT issued around 200 vouchers to companies and 100+ received KIS4SAT business support packages. INI-Novation GmbH issued more than 30 vouchers as support for KIS companies from all over Europe, making the company one of the most suvvessfull partners in the project.
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Deliverables
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D10 – Assessment of the managerial skills required by the KIS ventures and recommentdations for training schemes
D18 – Feasible curricula as training packages
30+ Innovation vouchers deployed
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