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• Grouping SMEs regionally
• Other networking structures
• Development of SME-relevant hardware
• ISDN switching for SMEs
• Loosening the TO grip on switching out of and into public networks.
2.5.8. Recommendations
As the rate of change in telematics continues unabated, inevitably there is a continuing
need to encourage the spread of innovative new methods into the widest possible
business context: these six projects show very clearly how this has been achieved today
and how it may be achieved in the future. They also demonstrate clearly that the
acceleration of SME uptake of new methods of working requires both ongoing action in
facilitating and monitoring SME networks in the use of existing and well understood
tools and techniques, whilst at the same time innovative new uses for recently developed
tools and techniques need to be developed and piloted.
The first of these activities falls naturally into the realms of economic development
agencies in Member States, and also of the EC Structural Funds. The second activity
indicates a need for continuing action by Directorate XIII in maintaining a rolling
programme of innovation and evaluation in the continually changing area of SMErelevant
telematics development.
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