ESCALABLE - Scalling up Excellence

The current socioeconomic context is marked by various determinants which can be summarized in four elements: increasingly global markets, increasing competition based on differentiation in terms of added value, innovation as the main source of such differentiation and the growing importance of the environment as set of assets that contribute to the competitiveness of enterprises.

This context is marked by the intersection of these four elements through a competitive shift in the competitive model (innovation + differentiation) towards a "glocal" (globalization and local / regional environment) approach.

In short, to survive in this competitive environment is essential for companies to offer greater added value and a clear differentiation for competing in international markets using for this the assets that your environment is able to offer.

ESCALABLE seeks to strengthen GAIA’S international projects office and will focus on identifying technology SMEs with sufficient capacity and interest to present R&D+i projects. It precedence skills and competencies, identify opportunities, will predict both technological and market development trends and prepare participants to enable them to cope with the challenge of H2020.