SENIIR (South-Eastern Europe Network for Improving Industry Research) project ended in May 2007. Its goal was to provide an overview of conditions in individual economic sectors, in order to increase the transparency and make it easier for various institutions (banks, investors, chambers of commerce, employers’ associations, consultancy firms, etc.), as well as for small and medium-sized enterprises to make decisions on entering individual activities, cooperation, creation of consultancy reports, etc.

Project was founded on the basis of longtime experience from Austria and Slovenia, and methodology used for creation of reports came from Austrian and Slovenian partners. Hosts of this pilot project in Croatia were Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship and (www.poduzetnistvo.org ), and Entrepreneurship Research Institute from Maribor (www.irp.si ) and KMU Forschung from Vienna (www.kmuforschung.ac.at ), Austria. The project was financed by Austrian organization ASO (http://www.aso.zsi.at ).