CREATION OF COMPANY NETWORKS

• Drawing up a development strategy for a network of 10 companies in the Lorraine region of E. France specialised in electronics. Programme backed by a PIC-PME program(supporting SME's). Definition of lines of action and a programme. Setting up a sales structure. Training. Preparing communication documents, the budget and the legal structure. • Assistance to a network of electronics companies (about 40 businesses) to draw up a joint sales and product diversification development programme. Creation of a "joint behaviour" to launch new activities. Programme between central government and the regions (Brittany and the River Loire valley). Under way. • Definition of a joint programme between sub-contracting companies in the industrial sampling sector to combine their skills, thinking, promotional procedures and services into a common approach. Creation of a joint-means club for a common sales action (France and Europe, 15 members so far). o Backed by the DRIRE (Regional Industry, Research and Environment Board) and the Savoy regionin SE France. • Drawing up an alliance strategy for a mechanical sub-contractor with other companies in the sector to develop new fast prototyping techniques (with a specialist in light robotics, high speed machining and laser cutting). Implementation of a partnership programme and legal followup. Project EUREKA. • Participation as a French member of the experimental EURONET (DGIII/UE) specialist training programme for the creation of business networks for SMB (Small-Medium Businesses), and networking networks in Europe. Drawing up of specific methodologies between European partners that motivate businesses to bring them together (this programme has since "nurtured" other European programmes). • Creation of a network of three sub-contracting craft firms in the Rhone-Alps region, working in the treatment of wood and wood-thermoplastic combinations. Implementing the corresponding sales strategy. Drawing up of an "Operating Network" dossier and a CROC dossier. Validation of markets. • Assistance in the training of Portuguese company heads (members of the national association of company heads) to create local joint-venture companies designed to work with European industrial sectors. Programme backed by the Leonardo da Vinci/EU procedure. • Initiation, creation and orchestration of a network of companies in the sports and leisure sector to develop research and development actions (market anticipation). • Assistance in the implementation of a competence network in the mechanical and plastics processing sectors. • Finding partners, launching a trials action base, coordination and organisation of a partnership between 3 companies for the validation of a new material to be applied to "sensitive" markets so as to get back some lost market shares by a technological leap.