Project LEKTOR
LEgal Knowledge Transfer acceleratOR
for SME clusters and digital business ecosystems

FP6

References

• Project Coordinator: Yolanda Ursa - Inmark - e-mail yusinmark.es
• Project Website

Abstract

LEKTOR is a 24 months SSA intended to raise awareness of potential legal obstacles in the context of eBusiness and to provide solutions by creating a platform for autonomous legal knowledge exchange among the target groups, i.e. SMEs. LEKTOR is geared at SMEs, SME clusters and digital business ecosystems for SMEs and all multipliers involved.

LEKTOR will not investigate on its own into legal matters but will identify, compile and assess those existing (from other European, national and regional projects and initiatives), making the results available on the LEKTOR platform. Furthermore, it will identify legal eBusiness issues
from the user side.

Final goal is to create a mechanism, the LEKTOR P2P (peer-to-peer) platform for legal knowledge exchange that will be based on OSS and functioning P2P models such as Wikipedia or flickr.com. It will be usable for all involved in eBusiness to showcase legal achievements and solutions in a global business environment and to foster the exchange of legal knowledge between those directly affected: SMEs. The increased knowledge will dissolve doubts or insecurities and accelerate the take-up of ICT in various business processes, thus, enhance the competitiveness of European SMEs in the global digital business environment (as postulated in the i2010 programme, amongst others).

To achieve these objectives, the LEKTOR Consortium partners will take advantages of their respective experience and networks that link SMEs in Europe (EU-25) and outside, through the international partners in India, USA and Chile (for Latin America).

The 6-step methodological approach is reflected in the work plan, split into 6 WPs:

• Identification of legal issues affecting eBusiness through existing projects,
• definition of user needs and solutions with reference to regulatory issues;
• analysis and draft of an eCatalogue; technical implementation of P2P platform;
• test phase of the legal knowledge exchange platform;
• dissemination strategy and implementation activities in 9 EU countries and 3 outside Europe;
• project management.

Project findings and results will be distilled into a "regulatory roadmap for SMEs networking" geared at European decision-makers and presented, together with the P2P platform, at a final conference, envisaged to organise within or in parallel with the eChallenges of IST conference.