Success stories (50)
The Enterprise Europe Network helps a Polish SME shift its focus from IT to beauty and hooks it up with a Spanish niche supplier.
Advised by the Enterprise Europe Network, Greek environmental technology SME Draxis led an EU-funded study into a high-tech irrigation management system that could revolutionise the way farmers worldwide are charged for water.
Founded in 1906, Hijos de Rivera produces a million hectolitres a year using hops from Germany and other parts of Spain.
An Italian SME advised by the Enterprise Europe Network is applying its mechanical expertise to the world of biomedical research.
Scottish company Scotmas set its sights on Turkey as a destination for its water treatment, hygiene and environmental care products.
Keeping the bugs at bay poses a challenge for organic farms that shun pesticides. But help is on the way: a small Turkish plastics maker has developed an environmentally friendly bug trap, under an EU research project it learned about from the Enterprise Europe Network.
A three-person company based in Carinthia, Austria, has developed an ecological process for painting starry skies onto ceilings.
With help from the Enterprise Europe Network, a Spanish maker of hospital beds designed to help prevent pressure ulcers and bedsores in patients finds a French distributor.
One hot summer day, Italian metalworker Fabio Benetti dreamed up the idea of a bottle that can be turned upside down and used as a glass The Enterprise Europe Network helped the entrepreneur turn his lightbulb moment into a marketable innovation.
Since 2006, all new trucks and buses in the EU have had to carry digital tachographs, devices that record speed, distance and driver activity. That same year in Verona, Italy, former software architect and project manager Dr Claudio Carrano founded Infogestweb.