Initially supported by the European Programme Leonardo da Vinci, MAC-SSIIM offers a real pan European network of resources focused on I-IPR, Informal Intellectual Property Rights, and on Intellectual Capital/Knowledge Protection.

MAC stands for Multi Actors Cooperation and includes as well: SMEs, bigger companies, Individuals, Universities, Training centers, Research centers, Professional bodies, Public and social development representatives, trade-unions, Relay centers, ....

SSIIM stands for Sustainable SMEs through Informal IPR Management training.

MAC-SSIIM has been set up by wider Networks such as MAC-Team . Both networks are built on a model of Networks of Networks.

MAC-SSIIM Mission

The overall aim of the MAC-SSIIM project is to make a contribution to the development of knowledge-based economy in Europe by assessing SME managers and other decision-makers in building a fertile environment for knowledge-based entrepreneurship and new business formation:

•  To raise awareness of the significance of IP management,

•  To develop a proactive IP management training tool for SME and network development,

•  To enable learning through case examples of good practices in IP management,

•  To disseminate good practices in the management of Intellectual Property.

MAC-SSIIM is originally built on a project supported by the European Commission. The Leonardo da Vinci Programme has selected a core team out of the MAC-Team network supported as well by other key networks  to set up a pilot project made of  European Enterprises, Universities , Professional bodies, National Organizations & end-users dealing with (Informal) Intellectual Property management.

All MAC-SSIIM partners contact details are given in the Members section.

About 10 major outputs and results are directly expected from this project. These outputs and results include important training packages flexible and adaptable to various types and groups of end-users.

Thanks to the MAC-SSIIM training programme to be implemented and tested in this project, we propose to offer SMEs a systemic innovation, in the new knowledge-intensive economy: a fundamental understanding of the necessity to venture beyond technological innovation approaches to encompass the plurality of business strategies and functional characteristic across the industrial landscape.

Short presentation on key steps and schedule is available in the MAC-SSIIM schedule section.

Call for Tenders: (more calls for tenders are directly managed by project partners)

Calls open:

Translation of new KT 3 training module on Innovation Management into French

Following our 5^th International conference "Towards Knowledge Growth" (feedbacks from participants and from people contact via the emailing campaign) request have been made for a French version of the training materials into French, and especially starting from the Innovation Management module with the Product Innovation and Portfolio Management approaches.

Therefore ACTIF-Europe, the French/Belgian MAC-SSIIM partner, is publishing that call for tenders.

•  Call for tender (published on the present website on the 2^nd December 2005) in English pdf 123kb.

•  Call for tender as published on TED on the 3^rd December 2005 (publication ref 2005-059550) in French/English pdf 723kb.

•  Call for tender as re-published on TED on the 5^th December 2005 to be only in on language (publication ref 2005-059581) in English pdf 722kb. For our concerns, offers received referring to any of these both tenders will be valid as the work described in both versions of the tender is similarly described. Dates are also the same in both versions of the tender.

•  direct link to the tender or link to the TED server and search on "MAC-SSIIM" in the "full text" box option at the bottom of the list and selecting the "archive" box (should be accessible from the 5^th on).

•  More info : info@mac-ssiim.com

Calls closed:

External evaluation of MAC-SSIIM Training solution

MAC-SSIIM project wants to ensure high quality training and services to SMEs and their accompanying actors.

MAC-SSIIM consortium published a call for tender to external evaluation services providers:

•  Call for tender was open on 16^th May 2005 and offers were asked to be delivered by 12^th June 2005.

•  Call for Tender in English (pdf 220kb) and Template grid for part of the reply (zip Excel 6kb)

•  Confirmation of publication of the call for tender on TED/SIMAP: (pdf 724 kb)

•  direct link to the tender or link to the TED server and search on "MAC-SSIIM" in the "full text" box option at the bottom of the list and selecting the "archive" box.

•  Tender has been won by ISPIM - The International Society for Professional Innovation Management.

•  Due to improvement process, MAC-SSIIM outputs have been made available for full evaluation on end of November 2005.

•  Extended evaluation by ISPIM is taking place in December 2005. Report will be made available in January 2006.

Call for tender for slides and content development on innovation module based on DVD developments and contents

AESBUC has been developing training module content on Key Theme Innovation focused on its area of expertise on Agro-food sector. Reviewing the complete set of Key themes training modules jointly with the review of the 2 DVDs, it has been assessed that the fine specialisation/focus of the AESBUC Innovation module on agro-food sector would need a complementary set of slides and content development to be fully in line with the DVD modules related to global innovation management approach of SMEs and not only in connection with agro-food sector.

The supplier should provide a training manual plus a set of slides able to cover the global approach of innovation management especially at SME level which fits the content of the DVD materials linked to KT 3 and to valorise it.

•  Call for tender was open on 30^th September 2005 and offers were asked to be delivered by 14^th October 2005.

•  Call for Tender in English (pdf 78kb)

•  Tender has been won by ETL - Enterprizer Technologies Ltd.

•  Draft Delivery of the modules was made as planned for the presentation to our 5^th International conference "Towards Knowledge Growth"  in Brussels. Due to improvement process and validation by AESBUC and SC Research, final version has been delivered by ETL on the 29^th November 2005.