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Rene Tonnisson
Thematic Expert SME competitiveness
Policy Learning Platform
France
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Rene has more than 20 years of experience in innovation management and business development. He has held executive management positions in several public and private sector organisations helping SMEs to increase their competitiveness. Recently he has been acting as an investor and board director of different business acceleration programmes and startup investment funds.
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Open innovation to foster SME growth
In this policy brief, you can find approaches for increasing the innovation capacities of businesses building on the open innovation paradigm.Image
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Digital innovation hubs and demonstrators
Explore this policy brief to learn about digital innovation hubs and how they can foster competitiveness and contribute to a sustainable and digital Europe.Image
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Supporting the agrifood sector
This policy brief explores actions to support the agrifood sector.Image
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Fostering the digital transformation of SMEs
Discover practical examples of how to foster the digital transformation of SMEs from different perspectives.Image
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Public-private startup accelerators in regional business support ecosystems
This policy brief discusses public-private partnership-based accelerator models being set up as a response to the challenge of identifying and supporting innovative startups.Image
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Boosting entrepreneurship in rural areas
Boosting entrepreneurship in rural areas opens new opportunities and markets. Rural SMEs show great potential as a source of economic growth and innovation.Image
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Efficient business support ecosystems
This policy brief explores various models for implementing and managing multiple-stakeholder collaborative practices for better business support delivery.Image
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Facilitating business transfers for sustaining jobs and economic activity
In order to achieve more successful business transfers, the complexities of the process should be taken into account. In this policy brief, you'll discover business transfer challenges and good practices from Interreg Europe partner regions as inspiration.Image
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The social economy and support to social enterprises
The social economy is a crucial part of the EU socioeconomic landscape. To foster the growth of the EU social economy, policy action is needed. This policy brief aims to spotlight Interreg Europe projects that work to improve their local social economy.Image
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Vouchers for the competitiveness of SMEs
This policy brief focuses on the use of vouchers to foster SME competitiveness and aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the good practices and the policy improvements based on voucher schemes in those projects.Image
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Internationalisation of SMEs
This policy brief focuses on the internationalisation of SMEs activities as a factor of competitiveness for businesses and an engine for growth and welfare for the economy and the territories.Image
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Regional branding for SME success
This policy brief focuses on regional branding and covers topics such as regional identity, product quality labels, cooperation between SMEs in a rural area, agritourism, and co-creation for promoting cultural heritage.Image
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Development of Smart Island and Smart Tourism Strategies
Discover how the Policy Learning Platform has helped the island of Korčula with its smart tourism strategies.Image
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Cooperation with Enterprises and Universities for New Innovative Smart City Services
Discover recommendations made by experts from across Europe on digital development and Green Transition goalsImage
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Setting up a SME voucher scheme in Upper Silesia
Discover the recommendations and key learnings of the peer review on SME voucher schemes in Upper Silesia.Image
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The Platform helps Tartu set up a Green Deal accelerator
Discover the policy recommendations from the peer review that took place on 29 and 30 June 2021 in Tartu (Estonia).Image
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The Platform helps Austria to improve AI funding programme
Thanks to a peer review that was conducted in January 2020, Austria Wirtschaftsservice improved their funding programme for trustworthy AI.Topic interests
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