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EXIS: An Exploratory Approach to Innovation Scoreboards

DocChamp — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:13:16 +0000

The European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), now in its fourth year, focuses on
technical innovation and on economy-wide indicators. The main purpose of the EIS is
to benchmark the innovative capabilities of member states and to provide indicators
that complement on-going policy developments within the European Commission. To
date, the EIS has produced a single composite index that summarizes indicators across
the four main thematic groups (human resources, creation of new knowledge,
transmission and application of knowledge, and innovation finance, output and
markets)

Merit North West - Ask The Expert: "Linux as an option for the SME"

meritnorthwest — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:45:02 +0000

Gary Duffield, Merit's residant IT expert offers his advice on another ICT related issue.

Merit North West

meritnorthwest — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:21:00 +0000

MERIT is the UK’s foremost information and communication technology group. Our primary aim is to represent the needs of our membership which consists of organisations (private and public sector) looking to fully exploit the technology available to them so that they can work more efficiently and profitably.

MERIT'scurrent service offering includes:-

Events -Providing members with an opportunity to hear about and discuss ICT solutions and developments that are relevant to them.

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Harnessing Digital Technologies

meritnorthwest — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:07:47 +0000

Merit and Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to deliver a new and innovative project to assist entrepreneurs on Merseyside harness digital technologies more effectively to help develop and grow their businesses.

SMEs will be able to receive grants towards the cost of their ICT project where it can be demonstrated that the project, and specifically the training element of it, will benefit the business by enabling it to become more efficient and productive enhancing its potential to grow.

How ‘Intelligent’ is your Business?

meritnorthwest — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:23:49 +0000

Rapid improvements in technology and the phenomenal rise of the internet have underpinned hundreds of new approaches to doing business.

This free event takes a comprehensive look at the growing opportunities on offer to small and medium sized businesses. Learn how other companies have enhanced and overturned traditional business methods with more ‘intelligent’ solutions, providing sizeable benefits, which include:

• improving sales by 5% in one month
• reducing admin overheads by over 10%
• using simple tools like email to drive new business

Interactive Meeting Room Technologies

meritnorthwest — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:50:07 +0000

As businesses grow and have operations across their domestic markets as well as international operations, there are new barriers to communication for the traditional meeting.

At our next Merit event, Colin Birchall of Rapid Technologies, will explore how the Rapid Green Room embraces video conferencing and meeting room technologies to enable organisations to conduct meetings with clients in real time without the time or financial costs of office disruption.

Following this FREE session you will come away with: