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1. improvement of run-down areas whose character is industrial, or industrial and urban to the extent to which the two aspects cannot be dissociated, including: the cleaning-up and preparation of such areas, demolition and redevelopment of disused industrial buildings and conversion of their sites, including the modernization and conversion of premises for SMUs, the creation of green areas and minor works for improving the appearance of localities and, where justified, minor roads giving access to the locations of new activities; 2. preparation of sectoral analyses intended to provide SMUs with information on the potential of national, Community and external markets and on the effects to be anticipated therefrom on the production and organization of these undertakings;

3. aids to investment in SMUs designed to create new undertakings or to assist the adaptation of production to market potential by existing undertakings when justified by the analyses mentioned under point 2 or other satisfactory evidence. Such investment may also concern common services for a number of undertakings; 4. creation or development of consultancy firms or other bodies for management or organization matters; setting up or development of economic promotion agencies. The activities of such firms or bodies may include temporary assistance to undertakings for the implementation of their recommendations. Economic promotion agencies shall be responsible for:

— opening up possibilities, through direct contacts at local level, for economic ventures by giving advice about access to available public aids and services, particularly those provided for under the special programme, and — contributing to the success of these ventures by helping existing or potential undertakings to take advantage of such aids and services; 5. establishment or development of common services for a number of undertakings; 6. promotion of innovation in industry and services:

(a) collection of information relating to product and technological innovation and its dissemination among undertakings operating in the zones covered by the specific measure, which may include experimental work on such innovation;

(b) encouragement of the introduction of product and technological innovation in SMUs; 7. better access for SMUs to risk capital.