VIP4SME Project - Enhancing Intellectual Property Support Services for SMEs

The VIP4SME project, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program, aims to raise awareness among Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) about the value of intellectual capital and enhance Intellectual Property (IP) support services. With a consortium of partners across Europe, the project focuses on providing practical tools, training, and assistance to help SMEs protect, manage, and exploit their IP assets for commercial success.

• SMEs
• Intellectual Property
• Horizon 2020
• Innovation
• Europe

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1. Project VIP4SME General information The VIP4SME project has received funding from the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N 641012. Helping your business access the world of innovation www.innovaccess.eu 1

2. Project in a nutshell Project title: Value Intellectual property for SMEs Call identifier: H2020-INNOSUP-2014-3 Total cost: EUR 2 998 892,25 Duration: 12/2015 12/2019 (48 months) 2

3. Project coordinator and consortium 1 Project coordinator Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany) 18 Partners Business Upper Austria (Austria) German Patent and Trade Mark Office (Germany) Danish Patent and Trademark Office (Denmark) Estonian Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Centre (Estonia) French Industrial Property Office (France) French Competitiveness Clusters Alliance Association (France) Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (Greece) Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece) State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia (Croatia) Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (Hungary) Chamber of Commerce of Venice Rovigo- Delta Lagunare (Italy) Lithuanian Innovation Centre (Lithuania) Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (Portugal) Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia (Serbia) Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (Slovakia) Turkish Patent Institute (Turkey) The Patent Office (UK IPO) (United Kingdom) 34 Third parties involved in the action 30 Countries represented from EU Asia and Africa 3

4. Main objectives To make Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) aware of the value of the intellectual capital they create and own. To enhance Intellectual Property (IP) support services to SMEs to turn their Intellectual capital into commercial values and competitiveness. Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run - Felix Dennis 4

5. VIP4SMEs main outputs IP ToolBox a set of practical new and improved tools for better IP management and IPR exploitation by SMEs 1800 SMEs informed on how to protect, manage and exploit IP Report on SMEs needs on IP issues 600 SMEs fully trained to manage and exploit their IP portfolio using the IP ToolBox IP ToolBox 1660 SMEs assisted through 1:1 high value IP services 300 intermediaries trained 300 Intermediaries (Business support organisation, clusters, associations and chambers of commerce informed and trained on the new and improved IP ToolBox s service) 4000 SMEs trained and assisted 5

6. Contact VIP4SME coordination team Fraunhofer IAO Nobelstr. 12 70569 Stuttgart Germany email: vip4sme@iao.fraunhofer.de www.innovaccess.eu 6