Project description
SME innovation capacity in the Free State of Saxony
The Free State of Saxony in Germany is an emerging regional growth engine in the European Union. The EU-funded EEN SACHSEN project will contribute to the smart growth of the region by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation and connecting SMEs along the innovation chain. The project will deliver 6 key account management packages to beneficiaries of Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument, Fast Track to Innovation, and Future and Emerging Technologies – Open programmes, supporting them to identify gaps in innovation management. The project will also offer 11 enhancing innovation management capacity services to SMEs with significant innovation activities and potential for internationalisation that lack access to consulting services for innovation management.
Objective
The aim of the present proposal is to contribute to the smart growth in the Free State Saxony as an emerging region in the
European Union by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation and
by contributing to a better and more efficient connection of actors along the innovation chain.
To achieve the above mentioned objectives the proposed project will:
a) Identify bottlenecks to the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from grants from the European Innovation Council regarding Horizon2020's SME instrument and address these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches. This service to beneficiaries of the SME instrument, Fast Track to Innovation and Future Emerging Technologies open, respectively, in the context of a given project is called “Key account management”' (KAM).
b) 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. This service, which will be provided
independently from a specific innovation project and focussing on a company's innovation management system, is called
“Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs” (EIMC).
The project targets at the delivery of in total 17 service packages, 6 KAM and 11 EIMC services, in the
geographical area of the Free State Saxony (Germany).
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018
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04109 Leipzig
Germany
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