The Successful and Sustainable Path to New Partners, Markets and Innovative Products
GERMANY | North Rhine-Westphalia The successful and sustainable path to new partners, markets and innovative products www.nrweuropa.de 2 Best Practice Cases NRW.Europa 2020 Editorial For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the pressure to innovate is enormous. Since 2008, we have helped them to address this task by initiating over 750 international partnerships for technology, research and business, creating 1,800 cooperation profiles and organising 12,500 B2B meetings. We have welcomed around 22,000 participants to our events and answered about 1,000 questions on EU topics each year. Both innovative and internationally oriented small and especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, medium-sized enterprises as well as research-performing which are responsible for 88 per cent of EU exports, stakeholders currently face many challenges. As the NRW.Europa’s broad portfolio of consulting and support NRW.Europa team, we look forward to helping you with services is particularly important – because only those your questions about innovation strategies, funding, with the right answers can react to the additional and business, research or cooperation partners and with pressure by opening up new markets or adopting topics such as innovative technologies, digitalisation, innovative business models. new supply chains or market entry in new countries. How do new ideas, products, technologies or services evolve? The Network How can you further develop them in an efficient way and then market them internationally? On the following NRW.Europa is part of the Enterprise Europe Network pages, you will find some answers from practice. All and offers assistance for small and medium-sized examples have one thing in common: They show that enterprises in North Rhine-Westphalia with questions Europe is not an empty shell but instead a marketplace concerning international market access and innovation full of opportunities.
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