Project Summary

The HiGroSME-project targets innovative European SMEs with high growth potential and will help them to achieve success on European and world markets. It will contribute to European competitiveness, innovation, employment and economic change, and help meet the Lisbon and Barcelona objective.

This project by a group of Europe’s national technology and innovation programme agencies will:

• create, and later further expand geographically, a durable European support network to promote the technological and business development and internationalisation of high-growth-potential SMEs (HiGro’s) in Europe

• seek to optimise existing national and European support programmes for HiGro's, 

• and prepare the creation of a new European support programme and structure for HiGro's to close critical gaps in existing programmes.