InnoSuTra - Innovation Processes in Surface Transport |
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The main idea behind INNOSUTRA is to advance innovation integration in transport and logistics chains by focusing on improved market understanding, knowledge management and network organisation. To this end, the project aims at: • Identifying the key players for innovation ("pioneer investors"). • Assessing how innovation gets adopted and spreads in the market. • Determining how innovation could be stimulated, among others through policy, in networks. • Viewing key determinants of successful innovative concepts • Formulating clear policy conclusions on how governments can and should best impact on the above issues The main objective of the INNOSUTRA project is ‘to assess the conditions, including policy support, under which innovative concepts have a high chance of getting adopted and being successful’. Clear policy recommendations, best practices, barriers to implementation and transferability of innovative concepts and processes are the ultimate goal. |
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Added value for SMEs In general, the added value for SMEs is expected to be the gaining of the necessary market and business insight to enable new solutions, systems and tools to be formulated and adopted by SMEs. In particular: • The achievement of efficient logistics services that can only be delivered through the development of new networks and competences. • The consolidation of strategic decision-making performed by logistics and transportation service providers as a result of the network organisation of internationally competing industries and of the fragmentation and relocation of economic activity in the global economy. • The consideration of the use of current and emerging economic and regulatory instruments in innovation, as well as their potential to work alone or in packages to increase the successful adoption of innovations. • The gaining of insight into the key factors that have to be changed in order to achieve superior chain-competitiveness through innovation. • Production of clear policy recommendations, identification of best practices, barriers to implementation and transferability of innovative concepts and processes. The INNOSUTRA project is open to all types of instruments. The transferability and wider applicability of instruments and best practices is an important factor in identifying the potential to achieve transport and other social objectives on a strategic scale. It is of restricted value to identify a successful case study of instruments without the knowledge of whether and how it is possible for the instruments to be applied elsewhere. |
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Download the project description in PDF. |
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More information: www.innosutra.eu |
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