[1.220 billion euro fund = 39.3% COMPETE]
| Specific goals | Instruments | Types of project |
| Step up Portuguese companies' orientation towards international markets and reposition them in more competitive, differentiated segments; |
Incentive scheme for qualification and internationalisation of SMEs (SI Qualific. de PME) |
> Individual projects;
> Joint projects;
> Cooperation projects;
> Simplified innovation projects (innovation voucher)
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| Promote productivity through SMEs' qualifications by stepping up use of dynamic competitiveness factors; |
| Encourage qualified entrepreneurship, especially among women; |
Innovation incentive scheme (SI Innovation) |
> Projects to produce new goods and services or significantly improve current production by transferring and using knowledge; |
Promote innovation in the business world by increasing transnational production and services that support its progression in the value chain;
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> Projects to adopt new or significantly improved manufacturing, logistics and distribution processes or methods, and organisation and marketing methods; |
| > Projects to expand production capacity in activities with a high technological content or with dynamic international demand; |
| > Creation of companies and activities in the first years of development that have qualified resources or operate in high-growth sectors, including those resulting from female or young people's entrepreneurship. |
> Creation of units or production lines with a relevant impact in terms of product, exports, employment;
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| > Introduction of technological improvements with a relevant impact in terms of productivity, product, exports, employment, industrial safety or energy and environmental efficiency. |
| Target population: Companies, institutions in higher education and the science and technology system, state and associated laboratories, interface organisations and corporate technological assistance. |