Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) are drivers of innovation and set an important impetus for an intelligent and sustainable economic growth in Europe in order to ensure the future viability of our society. However, there are major differences in access for SMEs to KETs within Europe. These are particularly evident in many Central European countries where a suitable infrastructure for KETs is still insufficiently available.

SEZ is a non-profit body and part of the Steinbeis Foundation for Economic Promotion. The core activities of SEZ for the last 25 years are to assist SMEs and R&D organisations to participate in EU R&D projects, to promote transnational innovation & technology transfer and to support the internationalisation of SMEs. SEZ is a member of the regional EEN consortium and is a Contact Point for SMEs and RTOs in Baden-Württemberg for EU funding oportunities. 

Veneto Innovazione is the in-house Regional Agency for research, innovation and technology transfer with the aim of promoting applied research and innovation in the Veneto Region. The Agency moreover provides support to the Regional Authority in the policy making process and develop and manages regional, as well as national and European, projects on research, innovation and local development related topics. 

The National Cluster Association (NCA) brings together a range of organisations and individuals to coordinate sustainable development of cluster initiatives and to support the evolution of cluster policy in the Czech Republic by concentrating knowledge, experience and expertise – all with the ultimate goal of strengthening the competitiveness of the Czech Republic as a whole.

GAPR operates Regional Centre of Innovation and Technology Transfer assisting SMEs among others in strategy development, productivity techniques implementation, innovation management, technological partnerships creation. GAPR offers technology brokerage services aiming to improve efficiency and effectiveness of technology transfer and research results commercialization.

TERA Tehnopolis is a joint-venture of the Josip J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, the City of Osijek and the Osijek-Baranja County. The activities of the Centre especially focus on the development of knowledge-based economy implementing significantly improved technologies (products, services and processing), including the commercialization of publicly funded research conducted by the university and the protection of intellectual property.

One of the largest non-university research Institutions in Austria, JR employs about 450 researchers dedicated to the fields of MATERIALS, HEALTH, DIGITAL, POLICIES, ROBOTICS and LIFE. Cooperates on an international scale to generate innovations and the consequent know-how transfer into the economy. The research unit MATERIALS is the first port of call in the areas Hybrid Electronics and Patterning, Optical Technologies, Laser and Plasma Processing, Sensors and others.

Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research is Hungary’s largest public applied research institute. BZN supports companies in obtaining sustainable competitive advantage; provides innovation management services, technology transfer services and R&D infrastructure for its industrial partners in biotechnology, engineering and smart technologies. The Institute also offers state-of-the-art development services.

Jožef Stefan Institute is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering a broad spectrum of basic and applied research. The staff of more than 960 specializes in natural sciences, life sciences and engineering. Subjects concern production and control technologies, communication and computer technologies, knowledge technologies, biotechnologies, new materials, environmental technologies, nanotechnologies, and nuclear engineering.