Enterprise & Industry Magazine | Number 13 (2012)

Summary:

The lead feature of this issue presents and overview of the main EU funding opportunities available to SMEs. It also takes a look at how Enterprise Europe Network provides tailor-made support to identify and access these opportunities. It includes an interview with SME Envoy Daniel Calleja Crespo, in which he explains his tasks and talks about the challenges of the future.

This issue also investigates how Europe is performing in the innovation stakes in comparion with its main international competitors. It includes a feature on raw materials and the related European Innovation Partnership. Finally, it discovers how the European Commission is developing ways for a new industrial revolution in Europe.

Table of Contents:

• SMEs and Entrepreneurship
  • Main EU funding opportunities for SMEs
  • A word from the SME Envoy
  • Your gateway to EU funding
  • EU measures for SMEs
• Industrial Policy
  • EU innovation push in raw materials
  • Building a new industria revolution in Europe
• Innovation
  • How to boost the EU's innovation performance
• Competitiveness, energy and environment
  • Projects for sustainable and competitive industry
• News in brief & Upcoming events