Chamber of Commerce of Milano (CCIAA MI) is an independent local public body which counts on more than 330.000 companies and that performs tasks of general interest for enterprises fostering their development within local and global economies – with a focus on innovation and new technologies.
The Chamber hosts the Special Agency for Innovation, innovhub, which aim is to promote innovation – managerial, organisational and technological one - and the competitiveness of the entrepreneurial system. In particular, the Chamber and its innovhub cooperate in the local promotion of initiatives (matchmaking events, funding opportunities, conferences, transnational projects, etc.), answer SMEs questions and report the local demand for services. Especially in the last 10 years of activity, the Chamber of Commerce has proved to be sensitive to innovative and technological issues concerning SMEs so as to combine traditional tasks with openness to innovation.
Long standing cooperation agreements with the most important Universities (Università degli Studi di Milano, Università Bocconi, Università Cattolica, Milan Polytechnic) provide a substantial base for the analysis, study and understanding of the most relevant social, economical and technological developments that both identify strategic issues and support operational decision making.
Concerning networking activities, Milan Chamber of Commerce is also member of the Enterprise Europe Network, providing information on EU issues, business cooperation, technical assistance services, supporting transnational technology transfer. In the last 10 years of activity, Milan Chamber of Commerce’s efforts have focussed on innovative and technological issues concerning SMEs.

Mikrosystemtechnik Baden-Württemberg e.V. – MST BW – was founded 2005 in cooperation with the ministry of economic affairs of Baden-Württemberg. MST BW represents the interests of industry, research establishments, universities and institutions in Baden-Württemberg in the area of miniaturisation – especially in the field of micro technologies and related areas. The organisation is responsible for the management of the cluster MicroTEC Südwest, as well as, for forcing and disseminating micro systems technology in industrial implementation, in research, teaching and in education. MST BW cares for the communication of the productivity of Baden-Württemberg in the area of micro systems technology – on the national and international level. Currently, MST BW has 64 members.

The NMI provides a practical mechanism for commercial and technological development of the microelectronics industry in the UK and Ireland. NMI’s mission is to build and support a strong semiconductor community and act as the catalyst and facilitator for sector development. NMI is a ‘not-for-profit’ organisation funded by our members that include fabless semiconductor companies, intellectual property providers, contract design services, integrated device manufacturers, merchant foundries, vendors, service providers, research, academic institutions – in fact, any organisation that has a stakeholder interest wanting to get connected. The association’s main work streams are: Encouraging innovation, communication and business collaboration through networking, brokering and signposting activities, representation to government, policy makers and regulators, skills development, education and training, operational efficiencies through benchmarking and best practice and information provision

The European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUspen) is a representative body for many leading large and small high tech organizations across Europe and world-wide in the field of precision engineering, micro engineering and nanotechnology. EUspen supports and promotes innovation and international competitiveness of EU industry by linking it effectively with the Science/R & D base in the EU and where appropriate the rest of the world. It represents leading industrial companies and research institutes covering 19 EU and 14 further countries worldwide. Since its inception in 1999 it has brought together more than 3000 leading industrial and academic experts in the field through its international meetings, workshops, industrial seminars and training events held across Europe and published approximately 2000 technical papers in the field. With a typical 50:50 ratio of commercial companies to research institutes at EUspen events, it facilitates communication, exploitation and development of innovative products, services and applications. It provides a leading forum for companies in the field to represent their latest product, service and technology developments including a large number of high tech SMEs in the field. It also has a track record in the successful management of leading European programs in the field. Both through its membership, its broader network of associated technical/industrial authorities, young scientists, publishers and through its links/cooperative arrangements to other it provides contacts to over 3000 leading members of the field of precision, micro and nano engineering. EUspen is also on the secretariat to the European Technology Platform for Micro and Nano Manufacturing (MINAM)

ACI-ecotec develops and manufactures special purpose machinery for customer specific projects. ACI-ecotec’s experienced design engineers and technicians satisfy a wide range of customer requests from complex assembly technology, automation of electronics manufacture to measuring and testing automation. Understanding customer’s products with ACI-ecotec’s automation know how is important in realising automation project. Therefore, ACI ecotec is integrating the customer at the earliest stage.

Set-up in Zaragoza in 1992, employing three people in a 100-m² facility, Kepar has seen an enormous growth: today Kepar employs more than 100 people, with facilities of 3000 m² in Zaragoza (Spain) and 5000 m² in China. Kepar is a company dedicated to technological innovation and development by means of electronic solutions. Its main focus lies on electronic, software and mechanic design, as well as, on assembly and test services. (SMT & THD devices, AOI test, special packaging) Kepar’s customers are electrical equipment and electronic consumer goods manufacturers who are looking for an improvement in their products.

SATEL S.A. is a public limited company founded by its stockholders in 1990. The company"s principal place of business is Warsaw, where its, Sales Office is located. The Manufacturing, R & D and Management Departments are located in Marki near Warsaw. Client satisfaction is Satel"s main driver and they are flexible to adapt to customer"s requests, whether it"s an issue with cost, delivery, production capacity and packaging. Since its very beginning SATEL S.A. has been active on the cable and satellite TV market, with a portfolio of reliable state-of-the-art and high-quality products. Nowadays, Satel is moving more and more into the field of microwave frequencies and variable microwave technology and has developed strong expertise in the field of microwave bands 2.4 Ghz and 5.5 GHz.

Industrial Microwave Systems LTD are manufacturers of microwave equipment and accessories such as Microwave Power Supplies, Ovens, Conveyor Systems and Special Devices i.e. for specific for Research activities. We have worked in conjunction with Universities and Research Organizations, developing novel equipment to provide solutions for new technologies as well as environmental issues. Industrial Microwave Systems can as well supply various wave guide components and applicators with rectangular or circular sections. We have a wealth of experience of over 30 years in the industry. Our Supplies and Services include as well the Replacement Service for High Powered Industrial Applications and the Servicing of Industrial Equipment from Other Suppliers. We have also expanded out standard servicing facilities, to include the supply of high powered magnetrons, where customers can benefit from our discounted OEM prices. Further to our service extension we have also provided corrective solutions to improve reliability and performance of equipment from other suppliers.

Ribler GmbH is the worldwide leading supplier of environmental friendly adhesives and adhesive binders. When Ribler was founded in 1957 the main business was trading paper processing machines. In 1996 the Ribler company expanded the business beyond trading and started to produce customized machines in the field of paper, carton and adhesives. Since then Ribler has been successfully developing and producing high quality adhesive binders as well as complete systems to apply adhesives for the processing industry.

The Microsystems Engineering Centre (MISEC) in the School of Engineering and Physical Science (EPS) has a strong research track record in the areas of microwave engineering and Microsystems with 30 years and 15 years of research in these fields, respectively. The financial support for these activities provides a total amount of funding of about £1.5MEuros per annum. The Centre is specialised in RF-MEMS, high-level design of MEMS, LIGA process and packaging of Microsystems; all these activities will be of primary importance for the success of this project. Recently, HWU has been an active member of the Network of Excellence, Patent-DfMM (Design for Manufacture of Microsystems). The Centre has over 6 academic members of staff and 30 Ph.D. and Research Associates, making it the 4th largest research group in MEMS in the UK. The recent high profile Research project, “3D-Mintegration” for which HWU is the Principal Investigator is worth 12 mill Euros and includes 6 other Universities and 23 companies. The project aims to design, manufacture, package and test, 3D miniaturised products (www.3d-mintegration.com). UoG is a partner of this project.

Eesti Innovatsiooni Instituut (EII), based in Tallinn, is part of a, not for profit, pan-European network of 15 research institutes and knowledge transfer centres. Each has a specific field of expertise and each is focused on a specific national or regional industry community. With access to over 500 scientists, researchers and engineers, EII"s multi-disciplinary teams deliver R&D to industry in Estonia and the wider Baltic region in the technological fields of information and communication technologies, automated systems, electronics, mechatronics, and process engineering. Their engineers, scientists and software code developers, have successfully delivered and managed more than 250 national and European collaborative R&D projects over the last decade.

The Computational Mechanics and Reliability Group, based within the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, contains a multi-disciplinary team of sixteen researchers from backgrounds in Microsystems Engineering, Applied Maths, Materials and Computer Science. The group has a focus on developing and using design and simulation software tools. It is a co-developer of the multi-physics modelling environment PHYSICA, as well as other in-house software tools such as optimisation and risk analysis ROMARA. It also a suite of other commercial modelling tools for micro-nano systems and access to a high performance parallel computing system and visualisation tools. Particular application of the group’s efforts has been on the development of numerical models and software for design, analysis, uncertainty qualification, reliability and optimisation of Micro and Nano-scale devices and systems.

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft is one of Europe"s leading organisations in the field of applied research, development and consulting. With 58 research institutes and a staff of more than 12000, it cooperates closely with industry in order to achieve a rapid and effective transfer of research results into industrial practice and products. The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is focused on solving organizational and technological problems faced by industrial companies active in the manufacturing field. FhG - IPA achieves this objective by developing, testing and piloting methods, components and equipment, through to the implementation of complete manufacturing systems and plant. With its know-how, the experience it has gained over many years, its qualified personnel and its technical/technological equipment, FhG - IPA is ready to deal with micro assembly manufacturing problem, through its trans-sectoral and multidisciplinary problem-orientated approach. As an interdisciplinary development specialist within the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Fraunhofer Technology Development Group (TEG) is accelerating the consistent integration of scientific knowledge of all fellow institutes within its own developmental expertise into products, processes and production equipment. FhG - TEG covers the whole spectrum of the product developing process, production equipment, plants, production systems and quality assurance systems complete the problem solving competence of FhG - TEG. FhG - TEG"s departments are organised according to its areas of expertise (management, product development and product engineering). Due to this structure TEG can offer a broad spectrum of services throughout the entire product developing process.