New technologies expand production and supply, boosting incomes and profits. The social and business players get much better information more quickly and can react much more quickly. The use of modern information technologies is required in order to support better management decision-making, greater quality of reform programmes and long-term sustainability.

Knowledge-Driven Economy
The Europe's distinctive capabilities in the global economy, where nowadays everything is mobile, are knowledge, skills, and creativity. The European market needs high-qualified individuals with the vision to turn new ideas into winning products and processes.

Biotechnology and information technologies are widely recognized to be the next wave of the knowledge-based economy, creating new opportunities for world societies and economies. A revolution is taking place in the knowledge base of life sciences and biotechnology, opening up new applications in healthcare, agriculture and food production, environmental protection as well as new scientific discoveries. The common knowledge base relating to living organisms and ecosystems is producing new scientific disciplines and novel applications. The expansion of knowledge base is accompanied by an unprecedented speed in transformation of frontier scientific inventions into practical use and products and thus also represents a potential new wealth creation: old industries are being regenerated and new enterprises are emerging, offering the kind of skill-based jobs that sustain knowledge-based economies.

JOBeL-Bio steps
The JOBeL-Bio project improves the range and quality of expertise, which small and medium sized businesses can use to help them grow and become more competitive. The project partnership develops increasingly close relationship with the business and academic and scientific community, considering their views and responding to their needs and demands. The JOBeL-Bio partnership works with various supporting organizations from private and public sector to increase local competitiveness in the biotechnological sector by improving the competence of their staff.

Successful businesses depend upon strong teamwork - with suppliers, customers, partners, universities, and between managers and employees. One of the project steps is to transform the way their students learn - learning could be more complex, flexible, tasks-oriented. They need to learn real things for real-life problems toward real and relevant solutions, and to gain the skills they need for a promotion. This strategy is applied also to previous BioINEP project scheme in order to improve the models and methods of training and to introduce it to more complex approach.