The Centre for Innovation and Technology (CIT) is a division of the Industrial Research Institute (IRI), it acts as a coordination body between the knowledge supply of research institutions and demands of the local industry. It reinforces Lebanon’s private sector’s competitiveness.
The CIT supports SME’s and starups in their innovation process by finding suitable experts in all sectors thanks to its wide connections with the research community locally and abroad. It gained significant experience in running Innovation vouchers Programmes, serving local researchers and entrepreneurs through local funding support or within international projects.
The development of the CIT is made according to our core values:
For your Inquiries:
Phone : +961 (5) 464867
E-mail: info-cit@iri.org.lb
The Euro Lebanese Center for Industrial Modernisation (ELCIM) is one of the leading Industrial support centres in Lebanon. Created by the European Union and the Lebanese government and initially funded by the EU , ELCIM provides specialized business and technical services to all sectors of the Lebanese Industry since year 2001.. Since 2008, ELCIM has been completely funded and supported by the IRI.
ELCIM provides small and medium enterprises with technical and financial assistance tailored to their business strategy for competitiveness, growth, and export. It offers a unique opportunity to access European and Lebanese expertise. It has significant operational experience in the Lebanese Industrial sector with a focus on increasing the competitiveness of the local Industry through product and process improvement.
Acting as the Knowledge and Management Support Centre for small and medium enterprises. Its business advisory services include technical and financial assistance covering the following expertise:
Strategic Business Assessment, Feasibility Study, Marketing Support, Trainings Seminars and Workshops, Support Export activities, Quality Management and Quality Assurance, production process improvements and introduction of new technologies through local expertise or international one through cross borders EU projects.
Focusing on one of its sectors of interest, the Information, communication and Technology (ICT) ELCIM is operating the Lebanon Softshore Cluster, grouping leading ICT companies in Lebanon, with the aim of supporting them locally and specifically in new external markets thanks to its reliable international network.
For your Inquiries:
Phone : +961 (5) 464867
E-mail: info-elcim@iri.org.lb
The Industrial Research Institute includes the National Cleaner Production Centers (LCPC) that have become a major source of expertise and advice on resource efficiency, cleaner production, green economy and circular solutions in Lebanon and in the Arab Region.
LCPC is a center of excellence providing RECP services and aimas to assist the Lebanese industrial enterprises to export their products within the environmental standards. The core is to offer Lebanese Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) assistance to reach out into the international market place, and upgrade their competiveness and quality products, which depends on their ability to demonstrate their environmental sensitiveness.
LCPC provides a range of services, namely Training and Capacity Building including Awareness sessions in Resource Efficiency and Technical Assistance to SMEs to evaluate their eligibility for RECP Certification.
For your Inquiries:
Phone : +961 (5) 467831 ext 241
E-mail: info-lcpc@iri.org.lb
1- At the level of the enterprise
The SPX allows the industrialists to
Know at any time and with precision the activities and capabilities of the enterprises of his region, through a mere request of information;
Know their capabilities, therefore reduce expenses and increase the profitability of its investments;
Resolve easily and wisely its subcontracting problems.
2- At the national level:
Representing an important industrial potential, the SPX has the possibility to
Facilitate the relations with official and para official institutions concerning economic issues;
Maintain relations that serve the interests of the industrialists and the country
3- At the international level
The Lebanese SPX will be part of an international network that covers about thirty countries and sixty SPX’s in the world.
At the end of 2001, the establishment phase of the SPX was terminated, and started with its functioning phase.
In the framework of the cooperation between Lebanon and the EU, and with the assistance of UNIDO Lebanon, a Subcontracting and Partnership Exchange (SPX) is established in Beirut, at the Industrial Research Institute. The objective of this SPX is to provide the Small and Medium Industries advisory information and services and to promote the subcontracting and the partnership between these industries and the international SMI’s.
An SPX is a center for technical information, promotion and display of capacities, processes and particularities of industrial production or services, in the shape of autonomous structure, having its main objective to create links between demand and supply of subcontracting activities.
The fundamental idea aiming at making the best use of the industrialists’ production means and capacities in a certain region came out from the fact that, in a given sector, the industrialists barely know each other and have no means to get precise information about the technical capabilities of their colleagues that could provide a part of or all their manufacture. Conversely, their own capabilities are not known by other industrialists.
For your Inquiries:
Phone : +961 (5) 467831 ext. 233
E-mail: info-spx@iri.org.lb
