ADVISORY COUNCIL:
Formed by European networks representatives of excellence in the university-enterprise framework. Its competences are: to inform about the project implementation related to the scope of the activities and different components as well as about progress and

BIC:
Business Innovation Centre

COORDINATION COMMITTEE:
The Coordination Committee of RUISNET decides the operative matters connected to the common activity and particularly those which have a relationship with project areas and activities interconnection. It decides about the task distribution among partners.

DISTINCTIVE CRITERIA:
those that allow a more in depth comparison and differentiation to be made between cases and permit further select of detailed cases from the original 48 cases per partner Phase 1 cases. The agreed DISTINCTIVE criteria for this are Innovation, Transferability and Sustainability.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
those criteria that define the Good Practice Case in terms of the RUISNET project main characteristics, viz: University-Industry Cooperation and Regional Impact.

ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT AND KNOWLEDGE BASED ENTERPRISE CREATION:
Category of RUISNET that Emphasizes the entrepreneurial spirit in the university community.
Examples: Awards, Business Incubator, Services for Entrepreneurs, Seed Capital...