"Work performed in the two years was in the first instance a preparatory work of information and awareness primarily for EIMC services and partly for those of KAM. The activities were integrated by follow-up and targeted interventions aimed at the individual companies. In the process of service delivery, activities were implemented in accordance to the work program.
In terms of results obtained are noteworthy some cases that after the phase 1 applied with success in phase 2 obtaining a grant or in some case the seals of excellence.
All companies served with KAM and EIMC services have been properly registered to receive services related to COSME activities (drafting of technological offering profiles, involvement in B2B, CM or workshops, scouting, personalized audit, identification of alternative funding sources, etc..).
As far as concerns tools used by the Consortium for the delivery of the EIMC services, according to the characteristics and size of the company, together with the Intake Check used to get a picture of the specific company for the purposes of the assessment tool selection, three instruments were used:
- the IMPROVE tool ""IMP³rove - European Innovation Management Academy"";
- Innovation Health Check - questionnaire and evaluation platform were made available by the Enterprise Ireland EEN partner;
- SmE-MPOWER.
Downstream of the assessment activities were defined the specific action plans for each company and, subsequently, were activated supports for the implementation of the action plans. Finally for each company was elaborated a report describing activities carried out and expected impacts.
P01 (S. I. Impresa) as INCAME_2 project coordinator monitored the activities performances and common methodologies agreed at Consortium level. Declarations for common Methodology for KAM were collected from all partners in 2017.
P01 ensured the networking relations with EASME and other EEN partner involved in H2020 activities in framework of main institutional meetings (National meetings in Naples in May 2017, in Rende in December 2017, in Naples in May 2018, Coordinators’ meeting).
Consortium partners participated to meetings of the national working groups “KAM_EIMC” and “H2020_NCP”, in occasion of EEN national meetings, to discuss main topics, share good practices, increase know-how and competences.
In order to enhance the technical competences for the use of the case tracker and to build up ability to interact with SME Instrument coaches, Consortium staff attended several training sessions.
During 2017 / 2018 in our Consortium regions, 19 companies could benefit of a SME Instrument Grant (9 in 2017 and 10 in 2018) and so 19 new cases were assigned from P01 to KAMs (17 cases phase one / 2 cases phase 29). KAMs focused their activities on these cases and on some other cases of the previous year which were not closed yet.
Consequently, 28 clients in total were served, even though 26 cases were closed in (10 in 2017 and 16 in 2018). Closed cases represented 94,55 % of the two years’ target.
With regard to WP2 Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity for innovating SMEs, 120 SMEs (57 in 2017 / 63 2018) were assisted by the consortium partners, 60 cases were closed representing 73% of the target (which was 82,2), with a different rate for each partner.
In terms of number of clients served, some partners were very performing, first of all P13 (ARCA: 67 clients), followed by P08 (SPIN: 18 clients), P10 (UC PUGLIA: 15 clients), P05 (ENEA: 16 clients).
For completed cases, the most performing partners were (ARCA: 35 cases, representing 152% of the target) followed by P08 (SPIN: 10 clients, representing 94% of the target).
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