"KOSGEB Kahramanmaras Service Center as Coordinator and located in Kahramanmaras province was responsible for Kahramanmaraş(TR632), Hatay(TR631) provinces. Cukurova Teknopark located in Adana was responsible for Adana(TR621), Mersin(TR622) and Osmaniye (TR633) provinces. Staff aimed to deliver the two types of services in line with the responsibility area.
The other EEN Consortium partners Adana Chamber of Commerce, Kahramanmaras Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Mersin Chamber of Commerce and Industry supported process with information activities, advisory services and events detailed in EEN projects.
Consortium couldn’t achieved the supposed objectives mentioned in Previous part. Projects consist of the following two WPs:
a. Key account management for SME Instrument beneficiaries
b. Enhancing SMEs’ innovation management capacity
KOSGEB aimed to serve 7 SMEs and the target for Cukurova was 12 in scope of the project.
As a result of the there is no any succesfull SME instrument project, consortia couldn’t serve to SMEs in context of the KAM services.
The services within the "" Enhancing SMEs’ innovation management capacity"" package were not presented for various reasons.
These are detailed as following:
• Personnel competence:
Suggested staff was working for also EEN activities and have a base for the innovation related services. It has been seen that innovation management practices require specific expertise and there were no sufficient resource and practices to train the experts for the subject. For this reason, the staff has focused on some alternative channels in order to gain the necessary competence in this process. As an example, Mr. Taskesen prepared an expertise thesis for the innovation management practices. Lack of expertise level and the difficulty of finding and hiring a new staff in the region has led to failures in the implementation of the activities.
• Quitting job:
Another problem that can not be overtaken is resignation of the staff who has experience and expertise for the services. Mr. Gozek, and Mr. Dogan quitted working in the period because of the some reasons. Therefore, services were delayed.
• Late sign of the project:
Due to the late completion and late start of the project evaluation and signing process, necessary measures have not been taken for the problems that arised in the period.
• Coup attempt
The sad coup attempt in 2016 caused the planned activities to be postponed.
In addition, due to problems in the process of getting out of the country and some internal problems, staff could not attend to the improve training.
As result of the problem arised during the period, consortia could not served to the SME in context of the WPs. And there is not any mentored SMEs.
Therefore no grant requested for the period of 2015-2016 period."
