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SMEs questionnaire

FOODLAB

European FoodBusiness Transfer Laboratory for stimulating entrepreneurial skills, for fostering innovation and for business creation in the Food Sector 

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NOTE:

All information provided by any individual/organization will be confidential and no-one other than those responsible for carrying out the survey will have access to the information provided by individual respondents.

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I-DESIGNATION

Size

Sector

Country, region

Does your company have its own research and development department?

Does your company have staff dedicated to innovation?

Within your company, research and development is handled

Does your company handle technological vigilance?

II-EXPERIENCE

Have you ever supervised students in the development of an innovative food product?

During the last 10 years, how many innovative projects have you supervised?

How many projects have been successful or rewarded?

How many projects have succeeded to a transfer? (Creation of a business or product commercialization)

Do you have any partnership(s) with high education institutes?

If you have supervised any food innovation project, have you benefited from some financial support?

III-SKILLS

If you had an experience in supervising innovative projects, assess your skills in the following sectors

1=low, 5=high

If you did not have all the required skills, specify where you did find them

During your experience of project management, assess your involvement level in the following sectors

1=not involved, 5=highly involved

Do you think that further training would be useful for you in the following sectors

1=not useful, 5=very useful

Assess the students’ skills in the following sectors

1=no skill, 5=highly skilled

IV-OPEN QUESTION

Whatever your experience of monitoring project, do you have any suggestions regarding the required skills for innovation transfer from the academic world to the industrial world?