Periodic Reporting for period 1 - InnoSME-LV-2015-2016 (Raising Innovation Capacity for Innovative Companies from Latvia (2015-2016))
Período documentado: 2015-01-01 hasta 2016-12-31
The successfully fulfilled project differentiate between the case level of the innovation project led by the SME - beneficiary of the SME instrument of the Horizon 2020 and in intervention at the corporate level in the case of high innovation and internationalisation potential SMEs. The nature of barriers and challenges related to each situation are different:
• on the case level - they are related to a search of a viable business models of the new offering or process to be developed in the course of the project;
• on the corporate dimension of the SME - the challenges are in the organizational practices and culture that can slow down future innovation projects or ability to benefit to full extent from their results.
To achieve this, the following objectives were foreseen:
Objective 1: To support SMEs, as the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument to identify bottlenecks to the creation of economic impact in companies benefiting from grants by Horizon2020's SME instrument and address these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches.
Objective 2: To increase the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in small and medium sized enterprises with significant innovation activities that could potentially become beneficiaries of European support to research and innovation, but would not have effective access to consulting services for innovation management.
In total eighteen service packages were delivered to SMEs from various industry sectors.
The project was started from 1 January, 2015 and ended in December, 2016. During the project implementation in total 18 SME support cases were performed. Each case took seven days.
The selection of beneficiaries - SMEs was made by consensus between all senior Enterprise Europe Network innovations experts nominated for these in-depth services.
Work package 1 (WP1), included Phase 1 and Phase 2 of key account management (KAM) functions of SME instrument. WP1 was started from the beginning of the project – month 1 (M1) and was active till the end of the project M24.
Service packages not required to deliver KAM services was expected to use in WP2, to help particularly promising SMEs enhance their innovation management capacities. The purpose of this activity was to carry out a diagnostic audit of selected SMEs that are capable for growth and successful internationalisation. This required developing and implementing a new tailored action plan. WP 2 started from M1 as it was planned, however in M13 the rearrangement of number of service packs was done. At that moment LTC had a more clear vision about number of service packs available for WP2.