Services sector enterprises are in most cases SME (very often small and very small composed enterprises) with a great potential to act flexibly and innovatively and to be the backbone of the regional innovation process. In many cases this potential remains unused in terms of transformation into sustainable development and economic growth, creation of new products, new employment and internationalisation possibilities. The major key-words addressing and intending to overcome this regional and structural problem are information and co-operation.

The project addresses the shortfall in the collaboration potential of services sector SME by aiming at the elaboration of guidelines for regional and interregional innovation as well as for the support of these innovation processes by the meaningful adoption and application of a set of specific methodologies. The goal is to support the establishment of transnational, organisational and technological linkages between industries, SME, the regional innovation system, stakeholders and regional / national administrative bodies.