Project Objectives
HiGroSME has two categories of objectives: strategic objectives and operational objectives . Strategic objectives relate to the positive structural and economic effects as an outcome of the HiGro project. Operational objectives are those which can be immediately achieved by the HiGro project's activities. For achieving the objectives the project will follow a bottom-up approach screening and assessing existing SME addressed programmes at European and Member State level.
The Strategic Objectives
The strategic objectives of the HiGro SME project are:
- to achieve a substantial, sustained increase in the number of European SMEs with high growth potential which successfully exploit that potential to become world-class companies;
- to improve thereby economic structures in the EU, strengthening the most promising economic actors: high-growth-potential SMEs;
- to optimise SME technology funding in Europe by designing and implementing an innovative model bringing together efforts at EU and member-state level, and
- to open national programmes for European co-operation and render both national and European efforts more effective and efficient.
The Operational Objectives
HiGroSME has three operational objectives:
- to create a durable operational network of national and regional innovation and technology agencies in Europe to support the technological and business development and internationalisation of European HiGro's
- to optimise existing national and European support programmes in order to better meet the development and internationalisation requirements of HiGro's, and
- to prepare, seek and obtain political commitment to a new European support scheme for HiGro's, designed to complement existing national and European programmes by covering support needs which those programmes are unable to cater for.
NOTE: These are historical data about HiGroSME, a project funded within the specific research and technological development programme "Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area" of the 6th European Framework Programme