Periodic Reporting for period 1 - INNOVACTIS 2019 (INNOVACTIS 2019)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2019-01-01 al 2019-12-31
• SMEs that have been selected as beneficiaries of the SME Instrument, phase 1 or phase 2, FTI and FET-Open projects. For these companies, the consortium members will offer Key Account Management (KAM) services, which are accompanying services for the SMEs to identify weaknesses in their innovation capacities and suitable external coaches for their project implementation.
• SMEs that have high potential for growth and internationalisation but that need to Enhance their Innovation Management Capacities (EIMC). These companies will receive direct assessment services from the consortium members in order to detect barriers and develop and implement an action plan in order to enhance such capacities and overcome the detected barriers.
The distribution of services in the consortium regions is not homogeneous. While some regions had an important number of EU funded projects that received KAM services, other regions performed a higher number of EIMC services in order to reach the project targets.
The EIMC services' impact cannot be quantified so easily. The improvement of the innovation management capacities of the SMEs is an action that will have an impact in the mid- long-term. The companies report improvements in the innovation culture, allocation of resources to innovation activities, development of innovation strategies, improvement in the innovative ideas management, implementation of management tools, integration of the innovation in the business concept, etc.