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Long term relationships - a ground for active SMEs participation
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The Research Needs and Barriers to Innovation facing small traditional food SMEs
TRADEIT Inspire Baking Innovation in Potsdam
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The first year of the TRADEIT project
 
Key Business and Technology needs identified in a survey of 320 food producers

The first year of the TRADEIT project has been a period of intense activity. The 9 Hubs have been established and the associated sub-networks activated at a regional level creating awareness of the supports and offerings available to traditional food producers and researchers. Once of the first activities rolled out at each of the Hubs was a need and barriers analysis in which the Hub Advisors engaged with food producers, developed a company profile and discussed in detail their business and technology needs. Over 320 companies participated ...
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Long term relationships - a ground for active SMEs participation
 
In Finland, TRADEIT project partner Savonia’s TRADEIT advisors are actively supporting a traditional food producer SME network, located predominantly in Kuopio city area of Finland. Savonia UAS has built close relationships with these regional enterprises utilizing the Open Innovation Space learning OIS-model for SME support.

Localising the training modules for the Finnish SME Network
The TRADEIT project is designed to facilitate knowledge transfer in response to the specific needs of SMEs at ...
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Recent Events
The Research Needs and Barriers to Innovation facing small traditional food SMEs
by Brian McKenna
 
Following a series of consultation workshops in which the research needs and barriers to innovation of traditional food SMEs, it was very apparent that, unless an SME was encountering a very specific technological problem, little thought was given to research needs. Indeed, while most wished to expand their businesses and engage in product innovation, the barriers could be listed as ...
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TRADEIT Inspire Baking Innovation in Potsdam
 
On November 6th and 7th over one hundred bakers, suppliers, researchers and experts from across Europe gathered in Potsdam for the TRADEIT Bakery Technology Brokerage event. The turnout was especially heartening as participants had to overcome travel problems caused by a strike on the main railway system.

The aim of the event, hosted by ILU (Institut für Lebensmittel- und Umweltforschung e.V), was to provide SME Bakers with an opportunity to ...
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