The work performed should originally start in July 2014. As the contract was only signed in October, the work started later than expected and has to be finished by the end of the year 2014. Nevertheless 10 innovative SMEs have been reached and the EIM services have been provided to them. The majority of companies receiving the services are either IT companies or renewable energies related companies but there are also electrical engineering, metallurgy and construction companies receiving the service. As the period for providing services for these companies was just two month compared to planed six month, just a part of the originally planned the results have been achieved. Within the 10 EIM services the IMP3rove methodology has been used. In all 10 companies the assessment has been carried out, in 9 of them the action plan has been developed as well. That is why the services will be continued in all 10 companies in the year 2015.
The most actions elaborated are concerning the business model development. The emphasis is put on new marketing models, reaching new clients including large multinational corporations, achieving foreign markets, etc. Further actions have been aimed at product standardisation, manufacturing of products with higher added value, rationalisation and standardisation of research and development processes, etc. Finally actions proposed have followed the entire strategy – to achieve the improvement of innovation results as this seems to be a weak point even in high innovative companies.
Due to the significant time shortage in none of the 10 companies the implementation plane has been elaborated. This will be done during the year 2015.
As the action duration was significantly shortened compared to the original time planning, less than 60% of the planned resources have been spent.
