The SMEs possibility to improve their market success is strictly related to compliance with:
• innovation process, based on the following steps: conception, protecting idea, designing of the product or service model, prototyping, large scale production and commercialisation,
• innovation management, based on assessment, improvement, planning.
This holistic approach to innovation is driven both by SMEs capability to achieve new product or service and to enhance their management skills. Innovation process begins by an innovative idea, which has to be protected with the Intellectual Property Right tools, and continues with development of the product or service. The consortium service will support SMEs to approach the market by assessing the company capability to respond to a wider demand, to adapt their organization to innovation, to correctly planning all. their market possibilities spreading actions.
The beneficiaries will be identified among the SMEs proposing to the market products, services and processes embedded in the Horizon 2020 II and III Pillar, with particular reference to the areas included under the Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies – LEITs and the Societal Challenges – SCs:
In order to provide a comprehensive and thorough assessment of all key elements, as also defined in the European standardisation documents (CEN TS 16555-1, and CWA 15899), the partners agreed to make use of The IMP³rove Assessment as core tool for the diagnostic phase in both services proposed. For this purpose the partners selected high qualified personnel who will attend the IMP³rove training courses according to the IMP³rove Academy calendar and will receive certified special training and free of charge licenses to IMP3rove according to the number of service packages of this proposal.
Through this tool, partners will have access to a large innovation management benchmarking database with the aim to create the highest impact for their clients.
