a longer qualifying period before receiving support and nine were still in the initial stage of
the project.
The reasons for these differences are varied. However, one contributing factor was that not
all applications could be dealt with at the same time. In actual fact, by late 2001 a not
inconsiderable backlog of applications had built up, although this has been dealt with since
then: by the end of March 2002 just under 260 applications had been promised a total of €68
mn in support5 (Table 2). This represents nearly a third of the €231 mn in support funds
allocated to the InnoRegio network.
Among these projects which already granted there are several projects in the area of
(advanced) vocational training. An objective of these projects for example is to establish new
courses of studies, exploit new vocational fields, to improve the vocation of specialized
personnel (Soete, Wurzel, Drewello 2002). Although the InnoRegio-projects mainly focus on
R&D, these vocational projects are anything but inconsiderable. To find appropriate
personnel could be seen as an essential problem by the firms involved and it could be an
impediment regarding to innovation. This not only apply to enterprises involved in InnoRegio,
its rather a problem concerning to the enterprises places in the new federal states (Brenke,
Eickelpasch, Vesper 2002).
|
Table 2 | ||||
|
Appropriated proposals, appropriated and reserved amounts | ||||
|
InnoRegio-Network |
already |
already granted amount |
reserved | |
|
Count |
Mill. Euro |
In % of totally |
Mill. Euro | |
|
Berlin-Buch-AG |
1 |
475 |
5?1 | |
|
Firm |
1 |
03 |
59 |
5?1 |
|
BioHyTec |
18 |
51 |
62^4 |
8~2 |
|
■Rio |
8 |
i~1 |
271 |
4~1 |
|
DISCO |
2 |
04 |
35 |
102 |
|
Maritime Allianz |
39 |
81 |
54J |
15,9 |
|
NUKLEUS |
4 |
10 |
~ |
113 |
|
Kunststoffzentrum |
6 |
32 |
286 |
~ |
|
NinA |
8 |
37 |
358 |
10,2 |
|
Rephyna |
11 |
19 |
17,2 |
~ |
|
INNO PLANTA |
21 |
99 |
4875 |
20,5 |
|
INNOMED |
0 |
O |
00 |
5T1 |
|
MAHREG |
21 |
4^8 |
468 |
10,2 |
|
Micro innovates Macro |
0 |
00 |
00 |
3?1 |
|
Barrierefreie Modellregion |
2 |
06 |
91 |
7,2 |
|
INPROSYS |
2 |
05 |
104 |
5?1 |
|
Musicon-Valley |
14 |
2~2 |
24,3 |
9,2 |
|
Textilregion Mittelsachsen |
20 |
51 |
32J |
15,9 |
|
InnoSachs |
43 |
ŋ |
39^5 |
≡Γ779 |
5 Information on the approval of projects can be found on the joint support catalogue for the BMBF and
the BMWi. See http://www.bmbf.de.
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