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50 REVISTA ROMÂNĂ DE AUTOMATICĂ A big support for small enterprises Since January 2008, it was created and operates in our country a network, Enterprise Europe Network Romania, a member of the European homonymous network, coordinated by DG Enterprise and Industry. Enterprise Europe Network Goal is to help small and medium enterprises to develop their potential for innovation and to raise awareness on the Commission's policies. This new initiative of the European Commission gives entrepreneurs a type unique inquiry office where it may require counseling and benefit from a wide range of easily accessible services to support business. Often, small businesses, particularly when they are at the beginning, do not have the resources to follow up the many types of assistance that can ensure the EU programs or are not always able to fully exploit the potential of innovation and market their products or to take advantage of new business opportunities, especially outside of those already known. Enterprise Europe Network covers this gap. With over 500 contact points and nearly 4 000 employees with experience, it is the most extensive network in Europe that provides expertise and services for businesses. These are available to companies of any size, whether they are engaged in production or provide services, although it is targeted primarily to SMEs , research institutes, universities, technology centers, development and business innovation agencies. The network can help customers when they seek business partners, especially outside their own countries, to prepare individual visits on the premises to assess the needs of companies and provides advice on a broad range of commercial issues. A database check allows different points of contact to keep constantly in touch with each other and to match the offers with the requests for partnership. Although providing money directly to companies is not possible, the network can explain the funding opportunities that exist in the various EU programs, in a one-stop-shop for all services, to encourage knowledge-based economy. The advantage of Enterprise Europe Network is that all services are offered under a single entity, reducing bureaucracy and confusion that occur when nobody knows clearly to which organizations one should address a specific issue. Consequently, the network proposes in particular to encourage the knowledge-based community. Innovative processes not only allow companies to develop goods and services and decrease costs by
REVISTA ROMÂNĂ DE AUTOMATICĂ 51 improving production techniques, but may also contribute to energy efficiency - a priority which arrived quickly at the forefront of the EU agenda. The network provides not only the possibility of stronger synergies, but also of a greater proximity of potential customers. The large number of contact points in each geographic region makes entrepreneurs to benefit from assistance in business even "gate" company. In the 4 macro-regions of development of Romania, we have formed consortia with network partners. IPA is represented by two of its branches : IPA CIFFAT Craiova which is part of the consortium 4 IPA Europe and IPA Galati Branch partner in the consortium ERBSN (2). The main services provided are: - Information about policies, programs and funding opportunities offered by the EU and help to obtain access to them; - Assist companies to identify potential trading partners, particularly in other countries; - Helping SMEs to develop new products, to access to new markets and inform them about activities and opportunities offered by the EU; - Advising SMEs to achieve transnational technology transfer; - Advise small enterprises in relation to some technical issues such as intellectual property rights, standards and legislation; - Act as a two-way road between entrepreneurs and decision makers of the EU, transmitting points of view in both directions. Author Dipl.eng. Florian UDRESCU Useful addresses: Enterprise Europe Network http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise-europe-network Direcţia Generală Întreprinderi și Industrie http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ Agenţia Executivă pentru Competitivitate și Inovare (EACI) http://europa.eu/agencies/executive_agencies/eaci/index_en.htm Portalul IMM-urilor http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sme/ Comitetul Regiunilor http://www.cor.europa.eu Comitetul Economic şi Social European http://eesc.europa.eu IPA CIFFAT Craiova • http://www.ipacv.ro/ro4een/ IPA Sucursala Galati • http://www.ipagl.ro
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