During the Eureka stakeholder conference in Amsterdam about 400 participants from
all over the world discuss the future of the Eureka innovation instruments.
We organized this Eureka stakeholder conference because we are on the outset
of developing a new Eurostar's program and to deliver a future-proof vision for
the Eureka clusters and today we want to listen to our companies our institutes
and universities and take their feedback into account when we develop the new strategy.
Eureka delivers us access to international
market European and national development of new products new patents and
improvement the importance and the visibility of the company.
Eureka helps us to initiate speed up and intensify R&D.
Eureka is all about innovation
cooperation it's the largest network in the world on innovation and it consists
of 45 countries and the European Commission and since Eureka was created
in 1985 over 7,000 projects have been funded with a total value of 42 billion euro.
For us the advantage of Eureka is providing flexibility and focus.
For me the most important is the support to SME but also that they are
both an employer they are employer close to market
and also the close border cooperation.