Knowledge Interoperability in ICT Collaborative Networks in Hungary

IVSZ Innovation Program was launched in September 2006 with the purpose to bring together and support those Hungarian innovative ICT companies that see the key of their competitiveness in continuously developing products and services.

The main objectives of  IVSZ Innovation Cluster in COIN project are :

• Innovation capability building: supporting ICT organizations to extend their capabilities to develop innovative and competitive products and services (cooperation, information sharing, education).
• Developing an innovation friendly market environment, market development:  practically improving market environment conditions, such as mapping resources (human, capital), market building, improve legal environment.
  

The need for business-like services and collaboration in the field of joint research and development also appeared among the members of the Innovation group. This initiated a process that gradually lead to the formation of a legally separate entity, a cluster in the near future.