Business Consultancy paid with Sme funds

Many opportunities for professionals in the folds of the EMS Instrument, one of the most important changes in the new European programming 2014-2020, dedicated exclusively to SMEs.

The European financial support for all research activities and capabilities of SMEs during the different stages of the innovation cycle and is characterized by increasingly open calls, organized in three phases.

Under the first is expected the provision of a grant amounting to 50 thousand euro for the realization of a feasibility study - technological and economic - an innovative idea for the industrial sector in which is presented the project (new products , processes, design, services and technologies or new applications of existing technology market). The contribution may, therefore, cover the costs of external consultancy needed to implement all the activities planned for Phase 1: feasibility studies, business plans and other necessary advice for the project application. Especially when there are not within the company, as is usually the case, professionals with appropriate expertise to achieve them.

More specifically the eligible activities include risk assessment and market studies, management of intellectual property, the development of the innovation strategy, the description of possible partners, the feasibility of the "concept" to establish a solid innovation project high potential aligned to business strategy and with a European dimension.

If the activity was seen in the right way would be a way to raise more than an economic sector.