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Services to enhance innovation management capacities of SMEs in England, Northern Ireland and Wales

Project description

Big boost for SMEs in the UK

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is at the forefront of the initiative aimed at helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in England, Northern Ireland and Wales (ENIW) to innovate. Boosting SMEs' innovation management capacity is key to success. This is why the EU-funded ENIW project will work to ensure UK businesses remain competitive. It will help businesses to form strategic collaborations and partnerships. The aim is to assist SMEs to access the finance, knowledge, skills, networks and customers they need in order to grow and progress more rapidly in terms of commercialisation and scaling their business.

Objective

A national service in support of recipients of the H2020 SME Instrument and for the improvement of innovation management in SMEs, with the purpose of more companies with growth potential achieving global scaling.

Innovation is a vital ingredient of growth and an important element of the future success of the UK. With some 95% of R&D and innovation conducted outside of the UK and many major and lead-market shaping companies being of non-UK origin, access to knowledge, markets, skills and partners is increasingly taking place on a global basis. To ensure UK business stays competitive it is important that it is able to effectively access and exploit the growing trend towards global investment in research and innovation.

Through our fully integrated EEN ENIW activities we will help businesses build collaborations and partnerships and access the finance, knowledge, skills, networks and customers to more rapidly move a concept through to commercialisation and to scale their business.

Coordinator

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
Net EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
POLARIS HOUSE NORTH STAR AVENUE
SN2 1FL Swindon
United Kingdom

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Region
South West (England) Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Swindon
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Research Organisations
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