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Innovation catalyst for Mühlviertel – South Bohemia Region

MSB INNOCAT
Project acronym:  MSB – Innocat
Project duration:  1/2012 – 11/2014
Name of the programme:  European Teritorial Cooperation Austria-Czech Republic 2007-2013

Project partners:

  • TDZ Technologie- und Dienstleistungszentrum Donau-Böhmerwald Bezirk Rohrbach GmbH,
  • tech cEnter Linz-Winterhafen, Errichtungs- und Betriebsg.m.b.H.
  • Technologiezentrum Freistadt-Mühlviertel Errichtungs- und BetriebsgesmbH
  • South Bohemian Science and Technology Park, corp.
  • The South Bohemian Agency for Support to Innovative Enterprising

Project goals:
General objective of the project is to find a wider way of understanding innovation and innovation processes in small and medium-sized enterprises in both cross-border regions.

Specific goals:

  • Promotion of the project region as technologically advanced location
  • Exploitation and improvement of the existing networks and platforms for cross-border transfer of R&D results
  • Realisation of the concept of „catalyst“ for comparing R&D supply and demand for innovation
  • Transfer of know-how from so called impulse centres in Upper Austria (especially from Mühlviertel region) when building and developing the innovation infrastructures in South Bohemia
  • Enlargement of cross-border network of the innovation support institutions and enterprises and deepening their cooperation

In frame of this project, there were elaborated offers for entrepreneurs that together with providers of research and development (R&D) facilitated creation of the innovation projects in South Bohemia as well as in larger backgrounds of the project region. Through the exchange of know-how were also improved experience of the service providers involved in the project. The expected impact of the project realisation rests also in the increasing number of R&D projects between entrepreneurs and research organisations, in raising awareness of existing R&D offers on both sides of the border, and in supporting creation of new jobs. The project was focused on enterprises, namely small and medium-sized, and on research institutions

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Video z expertního dne AV ČR 19. 9. 2013 v Českých Budějovicích