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TECHNOFI’s role in this project is to provide experience
and assistance in:
- Setting up awareness actions towards public research
laboratories
- identifying business ideas that can potentially successfully
be commercialised
- identifying business ideas with meaningful wealth creation
potential
- benchmarking business ideas against ideas being developed
elsewhere in the world
- identifying proprietary intellectual property in business
ideas
- counselling the consortium on managerial barriers
- compiling the lessons learnt form the whole ProRETT project
TECHNOFI is a company dedicated, since its incorporation
date (1985), to change management in private and public
organisations. Its experience covers single company
projects up to large, multi organisation European Projects,
supported under the EUREKA or the EC Framework Programmes.
The added value brought by TECHNOFI’ s experts, with
the help of its proprietary Symple® tool,
covers the following support actions:
- Introducing initiative raising processes
- Giving management autonomy to multidisciplinary
teams through “learning by doing” approaches
- Helping large project groups to converge
on collective goals
- Implementing innovative process improvement
techniques in manufacturing and service industries
- Reaching stable result production from
breakthrough change projects
The Symple® tool was used with good
success in several EC contracts ( DG Research, DG Enterprise
and DG Regio) devoted to SME support actions where SMEs are
key technology transfer agents
- LOSTESC: helping aerospace SMEs to transfer technology
to other sectors of activity
- VACPROT: helping microelectronic equipment manufacturers
to transfer technology to other sectors of activity
- PRIMATS: supporting innovation management in 800 SMEs
in Europe
TECHNOFI has also been the coordinator of two EC-funded
accompanying measures where SME productivity was at stake:
- EU-AS(SMI)2: an accompanying measure dealing with 6-sigma
techniques and their impacts on productivity growth of European
SMEs
- EUP(EFF)3ITS: an accompanying measure to help European
SMEs increase their productivity growth through quality
oriented tools
TECHNOFI has designed several Management support schemes
for CRAFT type projects (EOLES, ATASDAS, DEMARITS, UPSSIM,
DRIVE SAFE, NAGINELS) where technology transfer was a
key issue.
TECHNOFI, ICON, CAPITALIA and ZABALA have been involved
in the accompanying measure EUROMAPLIVE, where most of the
conclusions regarding technology transfer issues in SMEs will
be implemented in the ProRETT project.
TECHNOFI obtained the French OPQCM quality accreditation
in 2002 and is preparing the ISO certification for the end
of 2005.
In the energy field, TECHNOFI is work package leader of
the Training (WP6) and Dissemination activities (WP7) of the
Integrated Project EU-DEEP, funded since January 1-st 2004
by the EC DG Research ( 15 Million Euros) and 39 partners
led by 8 European utilities (14 Million Euros). EU-DEEP deals
with the integration of Distributed Energy Resources in the
Electric Grid, building fast track options that address 3
business segments (commercial, residential, industrial).
The key persons from TECHNOFI who will be involved in the
ProRETT project are all involved in the EU-DEEP project.
 Serge
Galant
Aeronautical Engineer from ENSMA, Poitiers, France (1971) and
Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, USA (1975), he joined BERTIN (France)
in 1976. He was involved in the development of many innovative
technologies (energy, defence, telecommunication, transportation,
aerospace, agro food, bio technology). From 1992 to 1998, he
was Director for New Business Development of BERTIN and CEO
of ORKIS, a subsidiary of BERTIN in image processing. In 1998,
he joined TECHNOFI as a Vice President for Business Development
in the private sector. Since 2001, he is CEO and main shareholder
of TECHNOFI.
 Athanase
Vafeas
Engineer from the Ecole Centrale of Paris (1989), he joined
TECHNOFI in 1991. He has been in charge of its management tool
development and implementation in several (Eureka, FP4, FP5)
projects. He co-ordinated the EC FP4 funded Euromanagement RTD
1 and RTD2 programme (50 consultants and 700 technology audits
in RTD1 and 50 consultants and 1000 technology audits in RTD2).
He has been deeply involved in the above mentioned projects
LOSTESC, VACPROT, EU-AS(SMI)2, EUP(EFF)3ITS and EUDEEP.
Tiziana Pagano
Economist from the LUISS University of Rome with a master degree
from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). In her professional
activity, she has been involved in the reconstruction of Central
and Eastern European transition economies, mainly in the Balkan
region, under EC funding until 2000. She joined TECHNOFI in
early 2001 as senior consultant. She was in charge of the project
management for accompanying measures under EC and or ESA funding:
the LOSTESC project aimed at enhancing aerospace SMEs competitiveness
by diversifying in new business areas; the EUTIL-VACPROT project
aimed at supporting SMEs from microelectronics equipment manufacturing
industry diversify into the new fields of competence applications;
the EU-AS(SMI)2 project aimed at understanding the future prospects
of process improvement in the aerospace and car industry. She
was also deeply involved in the EC-funded EUROMAPLIVE project.
TECHNOFI
Espace Berlioz
100 rue Albert Caquot
B.P 22
06901 SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS CEDEX
Tel: 04.93.65.34.44
Fax: 04.93.65.27.16
Email: technofi@symple.tm.fr
www.symple.tm.fr
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