PRUMO: Projects of mobile units for technological assistance for micro and small businesses (MSBs) of the surface treatment sector

• Grant number: 00/06444-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Partnership for Technological Innovation - PITE
• Start date: May 01, 2001
• End date: January 31, 2004
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Zehbour Panossian
• Grantee: Zehbour Panossian
• Host Institution: Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas S/A (IPT). Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Econômico (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Company: Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas (SEBRAE)
• City: São Paulo

Abstract

PRUMO - the Project of Mobile Units for Technological Assistance - is an original proposal that aims, through an innovative work dynamic, to achieve incremental innovations in micro and small businesses (MSBs), to create the conditions for productive processes to evolve, and, possibly, of diagnosing opportunities for radical innovations, that may bring about changes in the technological level in the sector assisted. Essentially, the project consisted of a program of technological assistance for the micro and small company - MSBs, lasting from one to three days, through mobile laboratory units (MUs), which go to the companies’ premises, carrying out tests, examinations and experiments, diagnosing problems and/or detecting possible faults and presenting solutions. The project also intended to identify technological problems in the sector, not solvable through the MUs, translating them into a set of themes of common interest to a certain number of MSBs, developing work proposals for these companies and identifying possible development agencies for financing these projects. The project was developed by the IPT - Institute of Technological Research of the State of São Paulo S. A., in partnership with SEBRAE/SP and with the support of associations from the sector of the treatment of surfaces. (AU)