Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EENinnoSMES2 (EEN Anatolia supports to increase the innovation management capacities of SMEs) Reporting period: 2017-01-01 to 2018-12-31 Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project The main objectives of the proposed project are;• Supporting ambitious, skilled and innovative SMEs to exploit their innovative ideas profitably in the international markets and supporting specifically SMEs with high international growth potential and innovation • Maintain and continuously improve the professionalism of the services provided by the Network; and strive to achieve excellence in the services provided to SMEs and in all related Network activities. • Seeking to exploit new opportunities in the Single Market and also in third countries. • Raising awareness of SMEs about European Union policy issues and act as a communication channel for the European Commission with European SMEs • Promote and inform SMEs about the services offered by the Network • Providing easy to access integrated services in close proximity to SMEs • Managing innovation process efficiently and enhancing innovation management capacity of SMEs • Providing an innovation management system which not only includes the innovation process mapping from idea to result, but also leadership, management and co-operation strategies. • Providing specialized and one to one services like creating an action plan and business model. • Providing SMEs with in depth analysis of their innovation management, investigating possible gaps between innovation capabilities and innovation goals. Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far For WP1, since the KAM services is dependent to success ratio of SME Instrument Phase 1 and 2 in our region, the team was able to handle 9 KAM services during 2017-2018 period. The consortium increased its capacity nearly doubled when compared with the 2015-206 period.For WP2, the EEN Anatolia organized a decentralized training in Ankara July 2017, to complete the improve licences of the staff.EENinnoSMES2 project had planned to propose 14 KAM services in WP1 and 84 service packages in WP2, but as a result the consortium has offered 28 Enhancing SMEs Innovation Management Capacities services and 9 Key Account Management Service. The consortium could not achieve the proposed number of services especially in WP 2 during the project because of the staff changes and Partner 06 TTGV’s organizational problems Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far) The expected impact before the analysis is defined as increasing the company’s innovation management success and its overall business performance and taking the Innovation capacities into a structure and adapts the life cycle management of products in the Marketing department before the start of the each assessment. Since the EIMC services applied to clients mostly in 2018, the short term impact is changing in their business perspective and commercialization strategies to compete with their competitors. However, we will be tracking their status and impact of the assessment in coming years to observe the increase in their employee numbers, trade amounts, cooperation amounts and profit ratios.
