Empowering Growth and Competitiveness: Unlocking the growth potential of start-ups, businesses and enterprise.
We know that Start-ups, SMEs and Industries can make a big contribution to society. They fuel economic growth and can help address social and environmental challenges across the globe. Yet to do so, they have to keep pace with rapidly changing business environments.
For over three decades, Technopolis Group has helped decision-makers design policies enabling innovation and growth within start-ups, SMEs, and industries.
Our expertise is particularly on regulations, policies and programmes supporting:
- Innovation Finance and SMEs Finance: Ensuring seamless access to finance for businesses’ scale-up and growth.
- Clusters, Ecosystems and Hubs: Creating enabling environments for entrepreneurs to create, develop and collaborate.
- Entrepreneurship, startups and scaleups: Direct Supporting start-ups, scaleups and existing SMEs including technology uptake, business reorganisation, new business models.
- Internal market & regulations: Regulating doing business, reducing barriers to business and trade with the objective to achieve the EU Single Market.
- Internationalisation and trade: Establishing framework conditions for business trade and internationalisation.
- Industrial competitiveness and sovereignty: Easing the move towards the digital and climate transformation of industries and EU industrial autonomy
In these sectors, we offer a wide range of services:
- Policy design and strategic studies
- Programme management and policy support
- Market and research studies on industry sectors and technologies
- Regulatory analysis
- Feasibility studies of programmes and business incubation services
- Finance advisory services to set-up financial instruments
- Evaluation
We have an in-house team of Policy Consultants and Economists who work with qualitative, quasi-experimental approaches (e.g. econometrics) and data sciences (e.g. generative AI). We have access to on-market company databases and get accreditation from Statistics National Authorities to process national statistics covered by the statistical secret.
Who we work for and with
We work with the EU Institutions, Governments, Enterprise Agencies and National Promotional Banks, Development Finance Institutions and Multilateral Development Banks, Local and Regional Authorities, Chambers of Commerce, Clusters and Business Incubation organisations.
We are managing or partners of several Framework Contracts for the delivery of Evaluation Services or Advisory Services – notably with DG GROW, DG RTD, EIB, EUROFOUND.
