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Ms.
Simona Marzetti on the objectives of the INSME Annual Meeting 2006
 The
International Network for SMEs - INSME is pleased to announce its second
Annual Meeting convened in Montevideo (Uruguay) on April 24-26,
2006.
This is the second formal gathering of all INSME Members since the
official establishment of the INSME Association in mid February 2004,
the first Annual Meeting being held in Barcelona
on April 13-15, 2005.
The INSME Annual Meeting will be an occasion for all INSME Members to take stock of what has been implemented so far by the Association and to move forward in stimulating transnational cooperation and public and private partnership in the field of innovation and technology transfer to SMEs.
Day 2 of the meeting will be open also to INSME non-Members
interested in participating in the INSME International Conference on
"Boosting Innovation by Bridging the Knowledge Gap:
a Developer-User Approach".
As a matter of fact, innovation is strongly linked to the concept of knowledge: broadly speaking, it is a creative outcome that implies the use of knowledge. At user level (i.e. enterprise) innovation is a means to stay competitive on the global markets; at developer level (i.e. intermediary organisations), innovation reflects a network-oriented perspective that involves different players (public bodies, research centres, educational organisations, etc.).
The two approaches are interdependent and the inadequacy of knowledge flows between the two levels may give rise to discrepancies.
During the INSME International Conference, outstanding speakers will shed lights on these discrepancies and will debate with participants on how to overcome them, in order to boost innovation by way of favouring the diffusion of knowledge among culturally and geographically distant players.
Ms. Simona Marzetti
INSME Secretary General
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