The Enterprise Europe Network is a beacon of support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including start-ups, with international ambitions. As one of the world's largest business support networks, it brings together experts from over 500 leading organisations around the globe to help...

The stories featured in this brochure illuminate how the four fundamental freedoms of the Single Market-free movement of goods, persons, services, and capital-have simplified daily business operations, fuelling growth and prosperity across the European Union. These success stories, totalling 70...

The present fact sheet focuses on joint ventures (JV) and will put forward some practical and legal issues, mainly from the perspective of the ownership and exploitation of intellectual property (IP). Organisations need to anticipate and properly manage legal aspects, in order to be able to...

Spin-off also known as "spin-out" are entities intended as a separate legal entity created by a parent organisation (PO) to exploit its IP assets. They are valuable tools to transform technology into a marketable product or service, as well as to license out technology. A joint venture (JV) is a...

The Horizon IP Scan has been launched as a new pilot service initiated by the European Commission, the European Innovation Council (EIC), and the SME Executive Agency (EISMEA). The pilot will run until November 2023. The service design took into account existing IP pre-diagnosis services and...

Acknowledging that there is a need: - to join collective efforts to support, develop and grow breakthrough innovations originating in Europe, - to strengthen the investor base, and cooperation between investors, to enable increased funding to accelerate the development of breakthrough...

Unites forward-thinking investors to co-invest in Europe's most disruptive deep tech start-ups alongside the EIC Fund. Shared vision to grow deep tech companies in Europe. Accelerating the growth of cutting-edge companies. Driving Europe's global competitiveness.