The project aim is to bring together the activities of various bodies in order to develop a virtual economy and innovation intelligence centre, based on the creation of a website designed to gather and disseminate information and technological services for innovation in the Atlantic Area. Small and medium businesses, who are both targets and recipients of project results, are classed into three groups: - A key group of six clusters of SMEs in the regions concerned by the project (Northern Portugal, Galicia, the Canaries, the Midlands, Brittany and Aquitaine), in which technological audits based on “InnovationQuest” methodology will be made, which will make it possible to benchmark New TIC development. This good practice will be disseminated to the two groups below, at a later date. - A groups of 200 SMEs from all the regions and countries involved, whose innovation management practices will be examined using data communication tools. - A larger group of 500 SMEs from all regions and countries involved, in which good practices from other networks and projects concerning CIEI project partners will be disseminated.