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The Cequip Foundation promotes the equipment sector through innovation
27/11/2007
November 27, 2007
Cequip, Foundation for the promotion of the capital goods sector, has led, in the last year Foundation, various projects under the objective of making the main competitive advantage of enterprises in the sector of equipment innovation.
To this end, 12 Catalonian companies in the sector created the Cequip, with the participation of the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and UPM (Union employers metallurgical). Also, was the support and recognition of CIDEM (Centre for innovation and business development of the Generalitat of Catalonia).
The Foundation develops projects aimed at the improvement of the sector, promoting innovation as a main competitive advantage
Cequip offers among its services as a meeting point for companies in the sector in order to exchange experiences and create synergies between businesses. So, the Foundation has created work tables, in which have been in contact those responsible for each Department (purchasing, project management, sales, etc.) and that they had a great success of participation during the 2007.
Since its inception the Foundation has promoted projects of research and development of common interest and has developed the role of detecting possible technological innovations
The Foundation also develops training in support of innovation. The activities of training and promotion of r + d projects are addressed to all the companies in the sector, irrespective of which belong or not to the Cequip. First courses made emerged directly from the needs expressed in the sessions of meeting point.
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