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The focus of this Good Practice is on how shared pilot facilities, industrial demonstrators and interregional collaboration can accelerate the industrial adoption of additive manufacturing (AM). While many AM innovations show significant promise in laboratory environments, companies often lack access to the specialised equipment, expertise and production environments required to validate new...

Many small and medium sized enterprises struggle to turn their innovation potential into practical change, whether in their products, services or internal processes. Larger multinational companies routinely partner with artists and creatives to generate new ideas and product lines, yet these approaches are rarely accessible to smaller firms, which typically lack the networks, resources and...

EU-funded interregional projects often struggle to keep their results and commitment alive once the grant period ends. Most continuation plans rely on a single approach, such as applying for future funding, which means that if the next call does not materialise, the networks, partnerships and project pipelines built during the project tend to dissolve.

Projects that bring together businesses and organisations from different regions often struggle to turn broad engagement into concrete results. Without a clear process, activity stays scattered and the gap between finding potential partners and developing investment ready projects is rarely closed within the life of a project.