EEN Anatolia supports to increase the innovation management capacities of SMEs EENinnoSMEs3.

Project Information

EENinnoSMES3

Grant agreement ID: 831238

DOI

10.3030/831238

Project closed

EC signature date 14 November 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2019

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Total cost

€ 91 121,00

EU contribution

€ 91 121,00

Coordinated by

KOSGEB-KUCUK VE ORTA OLCEKLI ISLETMELERI GELISTIRME VE DESTEKLEME IDARESI BASKANLIGI
Türkiye

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EENinnoSMES3 (EEN Anatolia supports to increase the innovation management capacities of SMEs EENinnoSMEs3.)

Reporting period: 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The main objectives of the proposed project are;
• Supporting ambitious, skilled and innovative SMEs to exploit their innovative ideas profitably in the international markets and supporting specifically SMEs with high international growth potential and innovation
• Maintain and continuously improve the professionalism of the services provided by the Network; and strive to achieve excellence in the services provided to SMEs and in all related Network activities.
• Seeking to exploit new opportunities in the Single Market and also in third countries.
• Raising awareness of SMEs about European Union policy issues and act as a communication channel for the European Commission with European SMEs
• Promote and inform SMEs about the services offered by the Network
• Providing easy to access integrated services in close proximity to SMEs
• Managing innovation process efficiently and enhancing innovation management capacity of SMEs
• Providing an innovation management system which not only includes the innovation process mapping from idea to result, but also leadership, management and co-operation strategies.
• Providing specialized and one to one services like creating an action plan and business model.
• Providing SMEs with in depth analysis of their innovation management, investigating possible gaps between innovation capabilities and innovation goals.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

In 2019 EEN Anatolia Consortium made Amendments in FPA and SGA to the withdrawal of one the partner. All the 2019 targets remain the same and distributed to other partners of the consortium.

For WP1, since the KAM services are dependent on the success ratio of SME Instrument Phase 1 and 2 in our region, the team was able to handle 3 KAM services during the 2019 period. The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot supports top-class innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies and scientists with funding opportunities and acceleration services. From this cut-off onwards Phase 1 will be terminated. The EIC Accelerator Pilot builds on the SME Instrument Phase II and provides grant-only support as well as support in the form of blended finance (combining grant and equity). Due to the change of SME instrument phase 1 program change in 2019 and the start of fast track innovation and FET Open programmes, The companies did not send enough proposals to EC as expected and the consortium could not achieve the proposed number of services especially in WP 1 during the project.

For WP2, all the EEN Anatolia have at least one improve licenced staff.EENinnoSMES3 project had planned to propose 10 KAM services in WP1 and 53 service packages in WP2. P02 ODTÜ Teknokent, one of the consortium partners, was also determined at a consortium meeting that the EICM targets could not be achieved due to the frequent personnel change. Therefore, transfer of EICM targets of P02 ODTÜ Teknokent to P03 Konya Chamber of Industry was taken with the consortium decision. The consortium has offered 43 Enhancing SMEs Innovation Management Capacities services and 3 Key Account Management Service.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The expected impact before the analysis is defined as increasing the company’s innovation management success and its overall business performance and taking the Innovation capacities into a structure and adapts the lifecycle management of products in the Marketing department before the start of each assessment. Since the EIMC services applied to clients mostly in 2019, the short term impact is changing in their business perspective and commercialization strategies to compete with their competitors. However, we will be tracking their status and impact of the assessment in the coming years to observe the increase in their employee numbers, trade amounts, cooperation amounts and profit ratios.

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