Local stakeholder group meeting at Alto Tâmega Region
The information on the SG meeting that took place in the Multiusos Room, Floor 1, at the Palacete Silva in Vila Pouca de Aguiar on 12th December 2016.
ISSUES DISCUSSED
• Importance of the project for the companies of Vila Pouca de Aguiar and Alto Tâmega Region, as they will have an opportunity to identify the level of their innovation process;
• Opportunity to identify the problems they face and constitute an obstacle to the innovative processes in their systems;
• Importance of the cooperation between the Region’s enterprises;
• Opportunity to contact models and innovation processes implemented by companies, also located in rural areas, of the European partners that integrate the project and that can be replicated or adapted locally in our region.
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM STAKEHOLDERS COLLECTED
• Need to support the local companies in the processes of internationalization and the search for new markets;
• Importance of greater and more effective dissemination to the companies of the programs and incentives/supports, in particular the COMPETE program, since the entrepreneurs do not have the time and the companies (SME) do not have technicians/staff for this purpose;
• Bigger articulation between the different organizations working in the territory, municipalities, cooperatives and companies, for a coordinated vision and performance and greater use of resources;
• During the next meeting there will be examples / testimonies of innovation process in the territory;
• The need to prepare an explanatory document of COMPETE program in order to compile proposals for readjustments to the support measure that allows better use of SMEs in the region;
