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■ .'* ' „.andmore * PUBLISHED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION INNOVATION PROGRAMME · JANUARY 1999 CONTENTS Closer Partnership with SMEs Networking medical technology companies, In November, accompanied by the Chairman of the page 14 Research Council Dr Caspar Einem, Austrian Minister for Science and Transport, I met a hundred company leaders at the First European Forum for Innovative Companies in Vienna. Policy News 3 -12 They came from the most diverse sectors, but all were com•The First Forum for Innovative Companies,Vienna mitted to the adventure of innovation. November 1998 Some of the companies represented there have experi• The experience of leading entrepreneurs: enced exemplary growth in recent years. They now play a • Gemplus SMART cards major role in international markets. The others are looking • Oxford Instruments for the means and the methods to exploit their potential, in • SEZ Semiconductor order in their turn to experience the expansion which is • EC Directive on the patentability their aim." />