Monthly Archive for February, 2010

What Jeremie means to nowEurope & CITT

It’s one thing to dream about changing the world with your revolutionary business idea. It’s quite another thing to convince an investor to put up the money. Your supporters might praise your idea, but they won’t provide you 40 hours of labor each week until you offer them a paycheck.

Money has a way of making things real.

Part of our job, with CITT, has been to share a dream. Centrope designates the border regions of four countries (AT, HU, CZ & SK). The distances are short, but the cultural differences are big. This region has great potential for innovation, but most of this knowledge is locked away in research labs, divided by increasingly abstract national borders.

CITT’s dream is to knock down those borders. Fortunately, we are not the only ones at work on this vision. If CITT and similar projects are successful, the results will be measured in new products, new companies, new jobs and new opportunities.

This is a big dream, and big dreams need money.

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Guide to the successful use & dissemination of research results

I have just found an interesting guide, published by the project “USEandDIFFUSE” that was co-financed by the European Commission DG Research under the 7th Framework Programme. They have produced a guide packed with helpful information advice, quotes and real-life examples from SMEs that participated in 24 Best Practice projects (most of them in the ICT domain, some even in Central Europe). You can download the report here.

I found it interesting because it provides several hints on how you can transfer/uptake technologies!