Assistant of Knowledge transfer

The technological transfer from research organisations to SME´s is rather problematic and SME´s suffer of lack of capacities and well trained staff. The OP Enterprise and Innovations for Competitiveness prepared the sub programme aimed on funding of Knowledge transfers – the university or research organisation member cooperates directly with the SME. The respective OP provides the possibility to SME, which can apply for financial support for Assistant of Knowledge transfer employment and for the infrastructure provision and also covers the fi-nancing of man days of employees who learn from her/him. The contribution of EU funds is 70% of the eligible costs, the maximum project length is 36 months. There are quality criteria, primarily the clarification of expected output, detailed business plan and identification of knowledge that will be transferred. SME´s have lower resources for investment into research and development and even though SME´s face capacity and financial constraints, SMEs are more effective in using their given capacity and resources in general. As SME´s have lower re-sources that they can invest in research and development, public support directed on SME´s can increase their capacities and can contribute to the increase in efficiency of SME´s performance. The GP is designed to fully utilise the possibility of EU funds and to support technological transfer in defined projects realized within a partnership between SME´s and re-search organizations.