[260 million euro fund = 8.4% COMPETE]
| Specific goals | Instruments | Types of project |
| Favour and accelerate change in the economy's profile of specialisation and develop strategies to create new growth centres; [1] |
Collective action support system (SIAC) |
Promote and disseminate the international image of sectors, regions and activities of importance to the Portuguese economy; |
| Information, observation and prospective monitoring and strategy, including tools for diagnosing and assessing companies; |
| Step up the range of services to companies, reinforce and empower infrastructures and orient their activities to SMEs' needs; |
Create and nurture support networks for companies and entrepreneurs; |
| Raise awareness of factors critical to competitiveness and the entrepreneurial spirit; |
| Foster innovative action based on the new approaches in public policy to stimulate corporate innovation. |
Studies of new markets, technologies and opportunities for innovation; |
| Encouragement, coordination and management of partnerships in collective efficiency strategies. |
| Centres of technology and competitiveness; |
| Other clusters. |
| Target population: Public bodies, the local business sector and private non-profit organisations (business associations and bodies in the science and technology system). |
| [1] Policy associated with collective efficiency strategy is implemented via available NSRF, PROMar and PRODER instruments. COMPETE uses the instruments set out in the other strategic areas. |