Recycling and Resource Efficiency driving innovation in European Manufacturing SMEs
The REMake partnership addresses innovation support for the lead market area of recycling and resource efficiency (RRE). At the core of its activities is the design and testing of policy instruments and practical tools to support eco-innovation in the manufacturing industry. REMake helps SMEs tap into the enormous potential that recycling and resource efficiency offer to reduce material costs, which account for over 40% of their total expenditure. Its members are six national and regional agencies, three industrial associations and seven technical centres. To address its objectives, REMake has developed a dedicated two-stage voucher scheme for manufacturing SMEs that are producing or applying RRE technologies. Together with consultants and SMEs, a self-assessment tool on RRE innovation performance as well as training and consultancy modules on RRE-oriented eco-design, life-cycle assessment, and eco-innovation management are being tested.
Project objectives
REMake targets SMEs with ambitions to grow along the future greening processes in the manufacturing of engineered products focussing, in particular, on innovations concerning the lead market for RRE in most relevant sub-sectors of the manufacturing industry such as fabricated metal products, plastic products, surface finishing, mechanical engineering, electric and electronic equipment.
In this target area, the project sets out to address a number of sector-related innovation barriers, notably those related to:
- Access to technical and non-technical innovation knowledge;
- Improvement of technical and non-technical innovation skills;
- Better cooperation inside of supply chains through promotion of innovation services;
- Promotion of the use of innovation-enabling standards.
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