In order to promote and develop the centres of excellence and to contribute to the development of a polycentric spatial structuring for the Atlantic Area, it is essential to promote the dissemination of the available knowledge. In this connection, the ATLANTECH project is intended to create a network of trans-national co-operation among five regions of the Atlantic Area, aimed at strengthening exchanges of knowledge, technologies, and commercial opportunities within enterprises and between enterprises and centres of Research and Development (R&D). Each partner will have the objective of creating an intra-regional network grouping together several types of organisations (enterprises, universities, centres of R&D, regional administrations), which will make it possible to identify the potential for co-operation. Following on from this, the project will contribute to the establishing of trans-regional and trans-national relations among centres of R&D, micro-enterprises and innovative SMEs, thus accelerating the process of technology transfer.