Transnational Technology Transfer Enterprise Agents Erasmus Project

Project Title

Transnational Technology Transfer Enterprise Agents

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Project Summary

The process of globalization has encouraged Multinational companies to spread their branches and offices all over the world. Globalization has inevitably kindled keen competition in the operations of all business. This competition has generated a need among all the enterprises, and especially SMEs, to adjust their strategies for their survival.
Technology and the transfer of discoveries and knowledge to SMEs is a recognized milestone in building and sustaining a robust and innovative European economy but the professional requirements and the skills needed to work across countries, institutions, regulations and sectors to facilitate this process are as diverse as the cultures they represent.
OBJECTIVES The general objective of Transnational Technology Transfer Entrprise Agent project was to increase and upgrade skills and competences of European SMEs in the field of transnational technology transfer and accelerate public and private stakeholder organizations in increasing their responsiveness to SMEs skills needs. Specifically TTTEA aimed at 1) minding the gap between SMEs and transnational technology innovation processes; 2) establish a permanent, transparent, recognition oriented, evolving & multi-actor training mechanism which will allow to respond to the needs of SME’s 3) increase institutional capacity and awareness of responsible actors of industrial, technological and training policies about the role of transnational technology transfer for SMEs and extend cooperation between SMEs, Research, Service Providers and VET& Training System actors.TARGET GROUPS The target groups of the project include: SMEs: Managers, Technical and administrative staff, consultants; Cluster Organizations: technical staff, consultants; R&D Centres (including Universities and their Technology Transfer Offices): researchers, technical staff; Technology Parks and Business Development Centres: technical staff, consultants; Economic Development Bodies (Regional Development Agencies, Governance levels designing policies): policy officers, management, technical staff; VET and Higher Education: trainers, researchers, technical staff, administrative staff, learners. ACTIVITIES In order to achieve the planned objectives, the project has been structured around 8 Work-packages and 4 Intellectual Outputs which has been implemented by the project partners combining training, technology, outreach to SMEs and policy anchoring capacities: WP1 – Project Management; WP2 – Quality Management; WP3 – Evaluation and Risk Management; WP4 – Dissemination and Exploitation; WP5 – Minding the GAP: SMEs & Transnational Technology Transfer, aimed at creating a knowledge base about current successful practices which combine technology transfer & training methods to support these processes and further strengthen them; WP6 – Mapping skills needs & Develop Competence Profile of the “Ideal TTE Agent” which focuses on mapping the competences of the TTTE Agent; WP7 focused on producing the curriculum and in the development and testing of the TTTEA Training Program; WP8 delivered 2 sets of final guidelines, one for policy levels and the second one for VET system & Innovation system actors and to set up of a Transnational Technology Transfer Training Cooperation Network”. RESULTS The main project result with a long terms perspective consists in creating a winning coperation mechanism between training & educational system and European SMEs, starting from the network of partners and stakeholders, contributing to adopt transnational technology transfer as a means to accelerate growth and development. Shot term project results may be summarized as follows: 1) SMEs increased awareness level about technology transfer processes at transnational level; 2) Training & Service Providers increased knowledge about how to simplify technology transfer processes; 3) available training (including competence profile, training course structure and content); 4) increased capacity of the educational / training / service side to respond to educational / training needs with a more close to market and understandable language; 5) effective participation of the governance level & VET System actors to the information and awareness raising initiatives; 6) increased knowledge about how developed training can be transformed & readapted according to technological trends and SMEs needs (and how formal VET training course can be anchored to more situational learning settings based on SMEs daily operations).
The Transnational Technology Transfer Entrprise Agent is a person specifically trained to manage the processes of technology transfer and could be a key figure in European to make SMEs more competitive on the market.
The ideal Transnational Technology Transfer Entrprise Agent needs to integrate the traditional competences of a technology manager with competences related to the management of transnational processes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 365580 Eur

Project Coordinator

CSMT GESTIONE SCARL & Country: IT

Project Partners

• COPAN ITALIA SPA
• CAMPUS 02 FACHHOCHSCHULE DER WIRTSCHAFT GMBH
• POMURSKI TEHNOLOSKI PARK PODJETJE ZA POSPESEVANJE PODJETNISTVA V POMURJU DOO
• KRAKOWSKI PARK TECHNOLOGICZNY SP ZOO
• PolymerMat e.V. – Kunststoffcluster Thüringen
• EVOLARIS NEXT LEVEL GMBH