Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres
The project “key enabling technologies for clean production” (KET4CP), which is supported by the European Commission, has the aim to connect small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and Technology Centres (TC) for cleaner, greener and more efficient production. Within this context, SMEs and TCs acro...
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| author | Faruk Civelek Romit Kulkarni Karl-Peter Fritz Tanja Meyer Costas Troulos Thomas Guenther André Zimmermann |
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| description | The project “key enabling technologies for clean production” (KET4CP), which is supported by the European Commission, has the aim to connect small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and Technology Centres (TC) for cleaner, greener and more efficient production. Within this context, SMEs and TCs across Europe work together to establish an open-innovation network and to raise awareness in productivity and environmental performance. This article presents how an open European network of TCs opens its innovation process to support SMEs to become cleaner, greener and more efficient. Furthermore, this article shows how the TCs and SMEs become a part of the open-eco-innovation platform in clean production and how successful the open-eco-innovation process of different European countries is. We revealed that a pan-European open innovation process for eco-innovations with TCs for key enabling technologies (KET TCs) and Enterprise Europe Network partners (EEN) is a successful approach for SMEs that want to produce and develop cleaner products. An application example is mentioned, in which TCs from different European countries have contributed to developing a product of a SME for energy harvesting. The SME, together with the TCs, developed a generator that is installed in city-level water supply pipes and so, it is outstanding in its application. This innovative application is also described in this article. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c6b6c63bda364357b66aeba5d2f7295f2023-11-20T16:56:40ZengMDPI AGClean Technologies2571-87972020-10-012442243910.3390/cleantechnol2040026Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology CentresFaruk Civelek0Romit Kulkarni1Karl-Peter Fritz2Tanja Meyer3Costas Troulos4Thomas Guenther5André Zimmermann6Hahn-Schickard, Allmandring 9 b, 70569 Stuttgart, GermanyHahn-Schickard, Allmandring 9 b, 70569 Stuttgart, GermanyHahn-Schickard, Allmandring 9 b, 70569 Stuttgart, GermanyBio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP), Rodenhuizekaai 1, 9042 Desteldonk, BelgiumPraxi Network, Kolokotroni str. 8, GR-10561 Athens, GreeceHahn-Schickard, Allmandring 9 b, 70569 Stuttgart, GermanyHahn-Schickard, Allmandring 9 b, 70569 Stuttgart, GermanyThe project “key enabling technologies for clean production” (KET4CP), which is supported by the European Commission, has the aim to connect small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and Technology Centres (TC) for cleaner, greener and more efficient production. Within this context, SMEs and TCs across Europe work together to establish an open-innovation network and to raise awareness in productivity and environmental performance. This article presents how an open European network of TCs opens its innovation process to support SMEs to become cleaner, greener and more efficient. Furthermore, this article shows how the TCs and SMEs become a part of the open-eco-innovation platform in clean production and how successful the open-eco-innovation process of different European countries is. We revealed that a pan-European open innovation process for eco-innovations with TCs for key enabling technologies (KET TCs) and Enterprise Europe Network partners (EEN) is a successful approach for SMEs that want to produce and develop cleaner products. An application example is mentioned, in which TCs from different European countries have contributed to developing a product of a SME for energy harvesting. The SME, together with the TCs, developed a generator that is installed in city-level water supply pipes and so, it is outstanding in its application. This innovative application is also described in this article.https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8797/2/4/26open-innovationeco-innovationkey enabling technologiestechnology centresCFD-simulationwater turbine |
| spellingShingle | Faruk Civelek Romit Kulkarni Karl-Peter Fritz Tanja Meyer Costas Troulos Thomas Guenther André Zimmermann Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres Clean Technologies open-innovation eco-innovation key enabling technologies technology centres CFD-simulation water turbine |
| title | Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres |
| title_full | Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres |
| title_fullStr | Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres |
| title_short | Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres |
| title_sort | open eco innovation for smes with pan european key enabling technology centres |
| topic | open-innovation eco-innovation key enabling technologies technology centres CFD-simulation water turbine |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8797/2/4/26 |
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