Publications
"Benchmarking: the Search for Innovation Relay Centres' Effective Marketing Practices" (1st Edition)
Benchmarking, the act of systematically defining a business' best procedures, systems and practices, has become a useful tool for organisations whishing to continuously improve their products or services. By developing a tailor-made methodology and through the use of real case studies, "Benchmarking the Search for Innovation Relay Centres’ Effective Marketing Practices" shows how the Innovation Relay Centres (IRCs) are using benchmarking to drive performance improvements in the Network.
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"Benchmarking: the Search for Innovation Relay Centres' Effective Marketing Practices" (2nd Edition)
After the success of the first edition, the second edition of “Benchmarking: the Search for Innovation Relay Centres’ Effective Marketing Practices” has been released. The second edition of the book contains new cases (totalling 13 benchmarks), updated information and the illustration of the implementation, aimed at transferring benchmarked practices to eight IRCs.
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Russian Edition of "Benchmarking: the Search for Innovation Relay Centres’ Effective Marketing Practices"© European Communities, 2004
Benchmarking, the act of systematically defining a business' best procedures, systems and practices, has become a useful tool for organisations whishing to continuously improve their products or services. By developing a tailor-made methodology and through the use of real case studies, "Benchmarking the Search for Innovation Relay Centres’ Effective Marketing Practices" shows how the Innovation Relay Centres (IRCs) are using benchmarking to drive performance improvements in the Network.
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Reinventing the IRC Network through Benchmarking
Creating intermediates as sources of innovation is the best way to pool resources, to help create and share externalities, to generate economies of scope and agglomeration effects. To be attractive enough to companies, many intermediates must however learn how to build a quasi-corporate culture. In this spirit, this book attempts to draw the good business practices from successful Innovation Relay Centres (ICRs). Benchmarking IRC organisational effectiveness is a good resource for building strong technology partnerships.
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"Regional RTD & Innovation Policies and Practices"
Moving from industrial to knowledge society entails creating new development models based on innovation and integration of research, education and industry, which represent he edges of the “knowledge triangle”. Particularly, the integration of regional governments, industries and academic or research institutions is increasingly gaining ground, thus favouring the development of innovation processes.
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"Best Practices, a benchmarking exercise to improve the National Contact Point services"
The integration of the scientific communities of the New Member States and Candidate Countries into the European Research Area is real a challenge. One approach has been to analyse how to improve the National Contact Points (NCPs) services provided to the scientific communities in our respective countries through a benchmarking exercise.
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“Transfer East”, Government to BusinessGood Practice Handbook
The handbook is the main outcome of the engineering exercise within the “Transfer East” European funded project on the 9 Government to Business good practices, which have been transferred to 10 public administrations in five different New Member States: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.
