Small and Medium
Enterprise (SME) Cluster
on Ecological and Technological Development
Supported by the European
Union's FP7 Project CADIC
"Cross-enterprise assessment and development of
intellectual Capital
A number
of Small and Medium sized companies located in Samos are
collaborating in a Cluster on Ecological and Technological
Development with a particular focus on development in the
context of the Amfilissos Flow Grid, supported by CADIC,
and following th CADIC cluster development philosophy. The
cluster benfits from a close liaison with the
Amfilissos Network an the
Amfilissos Society.
CADIC's
Aims
Cross-Organisational Assessment and Development of
Intellectual Capital (CADIC) is a project within the
European Union’s FP7 programme that addresses the aim of
the European Charter for Small Enterprises to
foster the
involvement of small enterprises in inter-firm cooperation
at local, national, European and international
levels.
Focus
CADIC focuses on providing an infrastructure for
growing and multiplying open and extensible clusters
of enterprises, in a
business-to-business
environment,
where Intellectual Capital
(IC) can flow to the mutual benefit of all
concerned.
Major benefits for SME's
in a CADIC-supported cluster
Clusters in CADIC are founded in connections based on flows
of Intellectual Capital (IC Flows), in a way that:
ENABLES
the SME cluster to be
collaboratively managed
by the participating SMEs themselves
in specially designed group
spaces supported by collaboration tools available as both
CADIC offline and online services.
ENGAGES
creative processes for
innovative development involving the participating SMEs and
their collaborative networks in a variety of
industrial,commercial and service sectors.
SUPPORTS
local development and
contributes to the improvement of all the individual
enterprises in the cluster, through the synergy gained
by initiating CADIC’s online
and offline services
FACILITATES
the efforts of the
participating SMEs to engage in and strengthen
their own cluster, to
their mutual
benefit.
CADIC’s Catalyst
SMEs have
a key
role in this
process.
CADIC tools and services
The CADIC framework provides methods and
tools to support Intellectual Capital based collaboration
between SMEs in the CADIC clusters.
- An IC Benchmarking System enables SMEs to compare their own intangible resource base with other organisations in order to find suitable partners to collaborate and manage value-adding IC flows in SME-clusters.
- A specially designed web 2.0 platform and online services will be developed and implemented, integrating CADIC’s IC Benchmarking database, and “InCapedia”, an evolving resource on Intellectual Capital, its flows and applications.
- Offline services to support the effective and efficient offline IC-Flow between the collaborating partners (e.g. methods to shape collaboration events, special moderation techniques, methods to reactivate cluster activities). In-service training will be available for the key roles in the cluster.
Who is CADIC?
The CADIC consortium is led by Confédération Européenne des Associations de Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (CEA-PME). The consortium comprises:
- SME Associations and Groupings (SME-AGs) and catalyst SMEs from a wide range of sectors located in six core European countries (England, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece).
- RTD partners: Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK), London School of Economics (LSE), Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) and University of Calabria (UC)