05.03.2021

The Smart Growth Initiative

The project focuses on creating a cross-industry network that showcases the expertise of each participating company. Through the resulting competence mapping platform, BridgeUp, interested parties can easily and effectively find potential partners by searching for specific competencies.

IMG Innovation-Management-Group GmbH

Effective networking is paramount in the business world. This is a view shared by the Economic Affairs Department of the State of Lower Austria. With the goal of creating a supra-regional network of innovation-driven companies, ecoplus, in collaboration with IMG, launched the Smart Growth initiative back in 2011.

• To create a networking tool connecting networks from different industries and regions

• To enable a simple and free search for companies' expertise

• To optimally present companies and their expertise and link it to references

To create a user-friendly search engine for expertise from a wide range of industries

To establish a marketing platform for expertise providers

To provide a collaboration and project initiation tool for entrepreneurs and network managers Numerous companies are already using the steadily growing digital expertise mapping platform BridgeUp. With its simple search function, the network offers an overview of the expertise, skills, and resources of over 100 collaboration-oriented companies. The platform is freely accessible to everyone and thus supports the initiation and development of cross-industry expertise and business development projects. Make more of your skills and become part of the supra-regional, smart innovation network.