The Consortium AURASME2 has high level of experts to provide KAM and EIMC service support. However, the consortium is in a continuous process of improvement in order to deliver the best quality services. Therefore, In order to improve its performance, the Consortium AURASME 2 organized training sessions, participated in meetings at regional, national and European level and shared knowledge and experience within the consortium and with other network partners.
The Consortium organized an EIMC Training at national level with Improve Academy in the topic “Innovation Strategy Development”. Almost all EIMC experts of our Consortium participated to this training. Thanks to case studies and interactive methodologies, EIMC experts could implement directly and capitalize on this training to provide support on innovation strategy development to clients. Moreover, exchange between all French staff members was fruitfull and permited to share good practices.
Moreover, 4 KAM Experts of the consortium participated to the annual meetings of KAM organized by EASME each year. Information was shared in the consortium between all KAMS and a strong cooperation is noted between them at Consortium level but also at French and international level specially to identify coaches.
It is difficult to measure yet a direct impact of the services, however most of the companies involved have shown great interest in the action and are very committed and satisfied with the support provided.
The direct impact on clients of the KAM services:
- The first impact is directly linked to the coaching. The needs analysis performed by the KAM allows the SME to highlight their main strengths and weaknesses for the project implementation. The coaching offers a possibility to work on the main weaknesses with an expert. The project is structured and will allow considerable expansion by capacity increase.
- KAM can promote Phase 3 services to the relevant companies. For example : Thanks to the KAM’s information : FPC Ingénierie could participate into the ABB and Airbus Innovation days and Noraker and Enyo Pharma participated to the EIC Innovators Summit in Berlin. ).
- Improvement of market knowledge and positioning
- For the other points, the KAM is able to propose other solutions to help them improve the weaknesses and maximize their chance to succeed. This enables the SME to gain time. The KAM plays the role of a connector to the regional, national or European innovation network.
- Improvement of market knowledge and positioning.
The Direct impact on clients of EIMC services :
- Most of the companies which received the EIMC services are showing an improvement of the management of their innovation processes.
- The impact is also to allow the SME to reflect on their strategy and identify actions to become more innovative and competitive.
