This is the summary of the EEN Northern Netherlands consortium activities related to the project 770766 - H2020.
These activities are divided in two work packages.
In WP1 - Key account management for the beneficiaries of the SMEs Instrument, only awareness raising activities have been done. The reason for this is that not a single company in the region has been awarded an SME Instrument. After discussions with national and international colleagues, we feel that part of the reason for that is that opposed to the practice in some other countries, in the Netherlands there are quite a few possibilities for funding innovations in other ways. Entrepreneurs rather choose to spend their scarce time on those opportunities, than on the SME Instrument, which has the reputation of having very low success rates.
The second work package (WP2) is Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity for Innovating SME’s (EIMC). During this reporting period one of the team members of CUBE050 was trained. This meant that that for this work package two of the partners in the consortium were actively involved. For this work package a total number of 21 organizations have been serviced. Although BDF have found most of their clients as a result of their network, CUBE050 is still developing its network for finding the right clients for the IHC.
We have built upon our strong interregional network to find candidates for the EIMC service. Since there were no SME Instrument beneficiaries in this period for the Northern Netherlands region, we have spend the majority of time at the EIMC serivce. We have used the IHC method which has a pragmatic touch and is well appreciated by clients. We have stuck to our IS and worked according plan.
