Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Magic SWF SMEs (Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of South West France SMEs)
Período documentado: 2014-07-01 hasta 2014-12-31
The project also contributes to develop more efficient and more effective innovation processes as well as higher quality innovation management capacity assessment and support services.
In the 4 regions, the support services are distributed across two groups of SMEs targeted:
• beneficiaries of the SME Instrument (7 service packages planned)
• SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalization (17 services packages planned).
As the 5 partners don’t have an established tool to assess innovation management in compliance with the CEN/TS 16555-1, IMP3rove is the assessment tool experimented during the period of this project.
The main reasons are:
• no SME from the area covered by the project was funded under the SME Instrument, consequently no tailored package could be provided in the work package 1 “Key account management”
• the partners met difficulties in the experimentation of IMP3rove. None of the partners had used IMP3rove before starting the project. The 2-day training was not sufficient to enable a quick implementation of the tool
• the selection of the project took more time than expected and the partners preferred to wait for EASME decision before starting working on the project (about 3 months delay).