ISOPTT: Increasing the SMEs Own Potential for Transnational Technology Transfer

ISOPTT: Increasing the SMEs Own Potential for Transnational Technology Transfer

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Clustering

Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE): this network was created by the EC in the mid-1990s to facilitate exchange of experience and good practice among European regions that are enhancing their capacity to support innovation and competitiveness among regional firms through the development and implementation of regional innovation strategies and schemes:
www.innovating-regions.org

CluWG: Cluster-Working group of the IRC-network
http://www.ircnet.lu/content_db/cddb.cfm?action=article&publication_id=...

Projects/Document - The Cluster Initiative Greenbook 2003: identification of more than 500 clusters worldwide
www.ivorytower.se/eng/projgrnbk.htm

Globalisation / Internationalisation

Development Gateway Communities
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/glocalization
BBC World Service - Globalisation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/globalisation/
Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/subjectpages/trade.cfm
Global Policy Forum
http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/index.htm
International Forum on Globalization
http://www.ifg.org/
Globalization Studies Network
http://www.gstudynet.com/
Political Economy Research Institute
http://www.peri.umass.edu/Globalization.198.0.html
Eldis Globalisation Resource Guide
http://www.eldis.org/globalisation/
Lingoport – services of internationalisation on software applications
http://www.lingoport.com/public-html/services.html
themanager.org – SMEs and globalisation
http://www.themanager.org/Strategy/global.htm

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/department/02688...html

Intellectual Property Rights issues

European Patent Office
http://www.european-patent-office.org/index.en.php
http://www.european-patent-office.org/onlinelinks/

World Intellectual Property Organisation
http://www.wipo.int/export/portal/index.html.en

Directory of World National/Regional IP Offices
http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp

Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (for Trade Mark & Design Matters)
http://oami.europa.eu/en/default.htm

IPR Helpdesk
http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/index.htm

Licensing Executives Society (International)
www.lesi.org

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (UK but has links to National Patent Offices and worldwide Patent Attorneys worldwide)
http://www.cipa.org.uk/pages/home 
http://www.cipa.org.uk/pages/links?groupid=148BDF3E-6DE0-45AA...
http://www.cipa.org.uk/pages/links?groupid=B66A86CD-BBB0-4F93...

Intellectual Assets Centre (Scotland based but looking to cover further afield – the centre is unique in Europe)
http://www.ia-centre.org.uk/

AIPPI - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property – The World's leading non-government organisation for research into, and formulation of policy for, the law relating to the protection of intellectual property. This may be useful for Bulgaria.
http://www.aippi.org/ 

Private financing – Public funding

- Private financing

The pan-European Business and Innovation Platform
http://www.gate2growth.com

European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
http://www.evca.com

European Business Angel Network
http://www.eban.org

European Investment Fund
www.eif.org

National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
www.nvca.org

British Venture Capital Association (BVCA)
www.bvca.co.uk

European Venture Capital Journal (EVCJ)
www.evcj.com

Tornado Insider
www.tornado-insider.com

Private Equity Online
www.privateequityonline.com

Redherring
www.redherring.com

- Public funding

Community Research & Development Information Service (CORDIS)
http://cordis.europa.eu/

Competitiveness & Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013)
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/enterprise_policy/cip/index_en.htm

DG Enterprise
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/enterprise/index_en.htm

DG Research
http://ec.europa.eu/research/

Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence definition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_intelligence Definition of CI 

Competitive Intelligence sources on the Internet
http://web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/intell.html

Competitive Intelligence resource index
http://ciseek.com


ISOPTT: Increasing the
SMEs Own Potential for
Transnational Technology
Transfer