Ciaotech srl is the Italian branch of PNO Innovation B.V.. PNO is Europe’s largest independent public funding and innovation consultancy firm with 30 years of hands-on expertise and more than 500 funding programmes in most EU countries, annually raising approximately 1 Billion Euro for its clients. Created in 1985, PNO is a high-growth knowledge-intensive company, supporting over 2000 clients throughout Europe, annually developing over 250 European consortia. PNO has presence in 6 + 6 European countries, employing in around 250 people in Western Europe alone. Ciaotech-PNO’s “Innovation Management” services delivers high quality support to large sized companies, SMEs, Universities, Research Institutes, Associations and clusters in the full cycle of the innovation process, including:
- Analysing, defining and planning innovation processes;
- Building innovation networks, partnerships and projects;
- Managing Projects and driving innovation.
Role in the project
Ciaotech will lead all partners within the Dissemination, Communication & Exploitation activities as well as the IPR issues. In addition Ciaotech will be strongly involved in the development and delivery of the Market Analysis & Business plan.