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Subido el 16 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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The mission of the IRCs is to support innovation and transnational technological co-operation in Europe with a range of specialised business support services. IRC services are primarily targeted at technology-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but are also available to large companies, research institutes, universities, technology centres and innovation agencies.

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We're facing increasing globalisation, increasing merging of the market, the market facing small 00:00:00
companies is more and more a single market throughout the world. 00:00:11
There are 71 IRCs in 33 countries. 00:00:15
The Commission has set up the IRC network so that we can transfer technology between 00:00:21
those who have it and those who need it and get the best we can out of the knowledge of 00:00:27
our small business. 00:00:31
In 1995, the European Commission Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry supported 00:00:35
the establishment of a network of innovation relay centres throughout Europe. 00:00:40
Today, the 71 IRCs, including the office in Santiago, Chile, constitute a unique network 00:00:45
which allows small and medium-sized enterprises to innovate, ensuring growth and jobs. 00:00:52
The IRCs are doing three things. 00:00:59
They're helping companies appreciate what their own capacity is in terms of technology, 00:01:01
in terms of know-how, and also what their needs for new capacity might be. 00:01:07
And then they're assisting them either in sharing what they have with companies in other 00:01:13
parts of the European Union or in finding partners who could share their knowledge and 00:01:19
so complete the knowledge base of the original company. 00:01:25
To better illustrate the extent and strength of this network, we're going to tell three 00:01:30
success stories. 00:01:34
The first begins in Malta. 00:01:35
On the island of Gozo in Malta, George Camilleri owns a small company which makes stained 00:01:40
glass windows. 00:01:45
For 20 years, George made his windows entirely by hand, until the day he found himself overwhelmed 00:01:47
by customer orders which he couldn't supply. 00:01:53
Well, the first thing I had in mind, it was to have a machine that helps me doing at least 00:02:01
the cutting of the glass. 00:02:10
I couldn't do it by myself. 00:02:12
It was very difficult. 00:02:14
So George decided to call in Joseph Gregg, who works for the IRC office in Malta. 00:02:17
Hello, Mr. Camilleri. 00:02:23
Hello. 00:02:24
Nice to meet you. 00:02:25
So, we spoke on the phone on a technology you are requesting. 00:02:26
Yes. 00:02:30
The first stage was to build up a technology request profile. 00:02:31
And after setting up this profile, we inserted it in the IRC network BBS. 00:02:35
The BBS database is one of the IRC network's strong points. 00:02:42
IRC offices around the world can consult it, and it contains all the requests for and offers 00:02:46
of technology collected by the different partners. 00:02:51
A Maltese micro-enterprise is seeking a cost-effective system to automate its stained glass panels... 00:02:54
Let's leave Joseph compiling his request for technology and go to Germany, where the second 00:03:00
of our success stories starts. 00:03:05
It was here in Kaiserslautern a few years ago that Markus Weiss invented a method for 00:03:10
avoiding sunburn. 00:03:14
Markus Weiss designed a filter which allows people to identify places where the skin is 00:03:34
beginning to burn even before it's visible to the naked eye. 00:03:38
Meanwhile, in Glasgow, Scotland, Lorna Maclean discovers the request for technology posted 00:04:08
by Joseph Greke on the IRC network's BBS for a machine capable of cutting out windows. 00:04:35
She immediately thinks of one of the partners, Mitchell Design Engineers. 00:04:41
Alec Mitchell. 00:04:49
Hi, Alec. 00:04:50
Hi, it's Lorna Maclean from IRC Scotland. 00:04:51
Alec Mitchell is a design engineer and teacher at Glasgow School of Art. 00:04:55
His task was to develop the most efficient working method for George Camilleri. 00:05:00
During this investigation, I found there was a company in Glasgow who used the machine 00:05:05
to cut cardboard for picture framing. 00:05:10
And when I went to see them, I found that the name on the machine was TrueCut. 00:05:14
It was a company in Manchester. 00:05:18
The IRC office in Manchester, where Elizabeth Bain works. 00:05:20
The first I heard of this technology request was when I was contacted by IRC Scotland and 00:05:31
asked if I could look into and visit TrueCut technology with a view to them carrying out 00:05:38
a technology request on behalf of Malta. 00:05:46
IRC Scotland asked me if I would visit the company and carry out a technology audit to 00:05:50
make sure that the company did have the capacity to actually build the piece of equipment required 00:05:55
by the Maltese company. 00:06:01
Hello, Bob. 00:06:02
Hi, Elizabeth. 00:06:03
We spoke on the phone earlier. 00:06:04
I'm from IRC Manchester. 00:06:05
TrueCut is an SME which makes machines to cut cardboard for Passpartout. 00:06:08
Although for some time now, they've been producing machines capable of cutting out 00:06:13
simple shapes in glass, producing a machine to cut pieces for stained glass windows remains 00:06:17
a real challenge. 00:06:23
This was a little different because of the intricate nature of the shapes. 00:06:27
So taking a standard machine, obviously with that capability, but then combining it with 00:06:31
the appropriate software to get the shapes into the machine in order for it to be able 00:06:37
to cut them. 00:06:42
But let's leave the TrueCut team to its cogitation and come back to the anti-sunburn filter. 00:06:43
A few months ago, Carrie Wemmond posted a request for technology from a cosmetics company 00:06:53
based in Aberdeen, Albine. 00:06:58
Albine very quickly identified that the IRC network was an appropriate way to identify 00:07:01
and source new products and technologies for them. 00:07:08
So we came back to the office and we put together a technology request for the company. 00:07:12
And a few weeks later, the connection between Kaiserslautern and Dundee was made. 00:07:18
Carrie Wemmond speaking, IRC Scotland. 00:07:24
Hello, Carrie. 00:07:27
I have seen your technology request and I think that we have something very interesting for you. 00:07:28
A few days later, Carrie Wemmond visits Albine. 00:07:38
Hi, Donald. 00:07:41
Carrie, good to see you. 00:07:42
I believe you've got some new ideas for us. 00:07:43
Yeah, one in particular, a device called SkinCheck that's come from a German inventor called Marcus. 00:07:45
It's a filter that shows the skin burning in natural light. 00:07:51
Fantastic. 00:07:55
While Carrie Wemmond explains the German invention to Albine, 00:07:56
another project sees the light of day in Paris. 00:07:59
The Paris office of the IRC network is managed by Laurence Feijenbaum. 00:08:02
She's identified a Parisian company whose potential is particularly promising. 00:08:12
Created by a French SME, this easily customized giant touch panel, several square meters, is well suited for providing… 00:08:16
The intelligent vibrations company has developed a sensor system which, 00:08:25
when placed at the four corners of a window, can determine the precise place in which it's been struck. 00:08:29
The system is interesting, but applications and commercial partners still have to be found, 00:08:45
and it's here that the IRC network comes in. 00:08:49
But the most concrete answer was that of the CRI Midlands in Coventry. 00:08:59
Steve Shorthouse works for the IRC office in Coventry. 00:09:11
He's found the technology offer posted by Laurence Feijenbaum on the network. 00:09:15
He immediately thinks of China Display, a company for whom he performs a technology watch. 00:09:19
Hello. 00:09:28
Good morning, Tony. I found a technology that may be interesting to you. 00:09:29
My colleagues are in Paris, France. 00:09:32
Excellent. 00:09:35
China Display markets a flexible screen whose texture allows an image projected in full daylight to be seen. 00:09:36
The marriage of this technology and the technology of intelligent vibrations 00:09:42
has allowed China Display to develop new products such as interactive shop windows. 00:09:46
The images are projected onto the screen fixed to the window. 00:09:50
You simply need to tap on an area of the window to launch an application. 00:09:53
We would have been struggling to find a partner like that with our resources. 00:09:57
It was very good that we were able to be tapped straight into the Midlands Innovation Relay Centre. 00:10:01
In Scotland, the anti-sunburn filter project has also come to fruition. 00:10:10
Donald Smith was persuaded of the benefits of Marcus Weiss's invention by Carrie Wemond. 00:10:14
The product was developed and marketed by Albine under the brand name Sunsure. 00:10:19
This is a Sunsure product that IRC helped us develop. 00:10:23
The great advantage of IRC is that they take so much of the work off your desk. 00:10:26
They do a lot of the initial selection. 00:10:32
They find out the good things and bad things about ideas. 00:10:36
They meet some of the people. 00:10:41
So by the time they've come to you with an idea, it's much more advanced than it would be otherwise. 00:10:43
And, of course, it doesn't cost you money. 00:10:50
In Malta, too, there's a happy end to the story. 00:10:57
An engineer from Trucut has installed George Camilleri's new machine. 00:11:00
I design the pieces here. 00:11:05
These are all pieces of glass that needs to be cut. 00:11:09
I reposition all the pieces that I need to cut on the sheet of glass. 00:11:14
And then I go straight to the machine. 00:11:18
The IRC did a lot of work in it. 00:11:22
The IRC helped me, A, to find the proper engineers and the proper company to develop this machine for me. 00:11:26
B, helped me even to make a specific contract between me and Trucut, 00:11:36
especially when it comes to perfection of glass cutting. 00:11:42
I mean, today I'm very, very satisfied with the result. 00:11:48
OK, so this is the difference between manual cutting and automatic cutting. 00:11:52
They are perfectly the same size. 00:11:58
If I have to go back today, it will be very difficult, 00:12:02
because I don't know, me, myself, I don't know how I did it before. 00:12:07
George Camilleri can now fulfill all his orders. 00:12:11
And he's even trying to find a foreign partner using, once again, the IRC network. 00:12:15
The IRCs can help bridge the cultural gap, the gap of national practice and experience, 00:12:21
and, of course, the language gap, which is a major problem for many smaller companies. 00:12:26
Particularly in this time of globalization, we have to find ways and means to help, 00:12:30
particularly the weakest, that means the most vulnerable small companies, 00:12:36
the small or very small companies, to become international, 00:12:41
to be able to compete on international or global markets. 00:12:44
It's about reinforcing and exploiting the knowledge capacity, the know-how, 00:12:48
the special skills of individual companies by sharing with others. 00:12:53
The success of the network is that the IRCs helped 40,000 companies, organizations, 00:12:57
that they did 12,000 technology negotiations, 00:13:05
that there were 300 technology brokerage events, 00:13:10
which led to approximately 2,000 transnational technology transfers. 00:13:14
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