Project description
Innovation support for SMEs in Germany
The competitiveness of the European economy hinges on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As the backbone of the European economy, it is essential for SMEs to evolve and take their business to the next level. Employment, prosperity and the general quality of life and of the environment are directly dependent on the innovation capacity of regions and enterprises. To this end, the EU-funded Innovation.NRW project's mission is to support SMEs in North Rhine-Westphalia in the area of innovation and to foster the conditions which will allow these innovations to evolve and be successfully managed. To achieve this, the European Commission has promoted the Enterprise Europe Network since 2008 in order to provide local support above all to SMEs in the areas of internationalisation, technology transfer and generally in the realisation of innovations.
Objective
Innovations and thus also the management of innovations are of great significance for the competitiveness of the European Union, its Member States and their regions. Innovative individuals or enterprises do something which cannot be expected from the state of the art. They put innovations into practice – generally in the face of considerable resistance – and take financial, technical as well as social risks. Only in this way, however, can new technologies, processes, products or services assert themselves and future markets evolve. Employment, prosperity and the general quality of life and of the environment are directly dependent on the innovation capacity of regions and enterprises. Due to this interrelationship, the European Commission has promoted the Enterprise Europe Network since 2008 in order to provide local support above all to SMEs in the areas of internationalization, technology transfer and generally in the realization of innovations. One of the Network’s tasks is to raise the effectiveness and efficiency of innovation management in SMEs in order to accelerate the implementation of economically impactful innovations.
Supporting SMEs in the area of innovation is a core task and the mission of ZENIT, coordinator of NRW.Europa the Enterprise Europe Network node in North Rhine-Westphalia in the project Innovation.NRW. Whilst innovations naturally cannot be forecasted, they can, however, evolve under the right conditions and be successfully managed. Our understanding of innovation and innovation management is oriented at business opportunities. As a consequence, ZENIT is pursuing the different objectives in the Innovation.NRW project to maintain and expand the innovation capacity and competitiveness of the participating SMEs.
In addition, ZENIT supports the beneficiaries of the EIC Pilot from NRW in the Innovation.NRW project.
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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
MAIN PROGRAMME
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H2020-EU.2.3.2.2. - Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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CSA - Coordination and support action
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EEN-SGA4-2020-2021
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45470 MULHEIM AN DER RUHR
Germany
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