Innovation Relay Centres help businesses and research institutions to both trade and transfer technology across Europe and access EU funding for collaborative R&D.
- 240 offices in 33 countries - every EU Member State, plus Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland and Chile.
- More than 1,000 experienced specialists with backgrounds in business, industry, research and technology commercialisation.
- 9,000 technology offers and 2,800 technology requests circulated to IRC client companies.
- Over 7,300 client companies have benefited from the network’s technology profile email alert system.
- More than 16,000 technology transfer negotiations, resulting in 4,000 IRC clients signing ‘deals’ since 1995.