  EU needs an effective exit strategy from the crisis, with a special attention
to SMEs that represent the 99% of the enterprises active in the European
production system. To this end, innovation appears to be a key factor to
relaunch the EU industrial system. The BIVEE project proceeded for almost 4
years to develop a rich framework, i.e., a methodology and a cloud-based
software environment, that includes business principles, models, and best
practices, plus a number of advanced software services, to support and promote
production improvement and business innovation in virtual enterprise
environments (essentially, enterprise networks.)
