The European Commission has published a consultation on the new Europe INNOVA initiative - a pan-European innovation platform for start-ups in knowledge-intensive services.
The initiative is intended to create more efficient links between universities, entrepreneurship and finance through an incubation platform.
Questions within the consultation include:
- Which actors are best suited to collect information about research-based service inventions? How can this type of information be best presented in the form of a database?
- Who should be the main target audience for dissemination actions?
- How many incubators are specialised in the support of start-ups in the field of services?
- How can the links between incubation and risk financing be improved?
- Are there market failures or information asymmetries that prevent innovative service companies from growing faster?
- How can specialised venture capitalists and seed financiers in service innovations be brought together?
For further information, please visit: http://www.europe-innova.org/index.jsp?type=page&cid=6299&lg=en
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