{"id":6155,"date":"2021-09-20T15:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joconsulting.eu\/the-new-european-innovation-ecosystems\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:03:20","slug":"the-new-european-innovation-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joconsulting.eu\/en\/the-new-european-innovation-ecosystems\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NEW EUROPEAN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSmall and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the European economy. They account for 99.8% of all businesses and two-thirds of the workforce. Innovative SMEs will play an increasingly important role in the future, provided they can tackle main obstacles to their growth: lack of skills, difficult access to finance, administrative burden. European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) is the EU programme – for which the first two years of funding have already been outlined – that will address these critical issues.\r\n\r\nThe European manufacturing sector, characterised by high internal differences in terms of digital and green transformation, is now called upon to find its role in an increasingly globalised and competitive market. Connection, inclusiveness and sustainability have therefore become keywords for the SMEs of the old continent that want to compete internationally.\r\n\r\nIn this landscape the European Commission has launched the EIE program with a fund of 520 million euros. The institutions of the European Union have identified the creation of ecosystems of innovation as the main solution to support the scalability of companies, an essential factor to increase efficiency and inclusiveness in the challenge for social and economic recovery.\r\n\r\nThe first calls already launched include, for 2021 alone, funding of almost \u20ac57 million aimed at implementing three main actions:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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