RAPPORT project has three aims: (a) To develop a reference guide of good practices including benchmarks for strengthening the knowledge exchange and transfer between research and SMEs; (b) To develop a blueprint paper on new emerging forms of SMEs support for research with the involvement of large corporations in a context where open innovation and public-private partnerships have increasingly gained importance; (c) To engage policy-makers and other stakeholders into a dialogue and ensure the ‘translation’ of the reference guide and the blueprint paper into a roadmap for embedding the more suitable practices and policies.
The ultimate question that the GPrix project will try to address is: “Which support measures can help local economic communities, with a strong basis of traditional industries, to prosper in the rapidly changing, increasingly open global economy?”
In order to answer such question, the project will assess current measures and its impact at local level close to SMEs, perform a European benchmark of R&D&I measures and recommend a set of new measures targeted to traditional sectors, which will be validated at European scale.
