Project description
SME boost for Germany’s state of Lower Saxony
Increasing efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Niedersachsen/Lower Saxony is a top goal. The EU-funded N-Supp_INNO-20-21 project aims to enhance the innovation management capacities of SMEs and assist them in their key account management (KAM), which is the process of building long-term relationships with a company's most valuable accounts. The project will also set out to identify the bottlenecks that SMEs encounter as regards the creation of economic impact from grants under the European Innovation Council Instruments or Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument. To address this issue, the project will provide the SMEs with coaches.
Objective
EEN Niedersachsen - Enhancement of Innovation Management Capacities of SMEs and Key Account Management for SMEs.
To achieve the above mentioned objectives the Network partners will:
1. 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 programmes for research and
Innovation, but do not have sufficient access to consulting services for innovation management. This service, provided
independently from a specific innovation project and focusing on a company's innovation management system, is called
Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (EIMC).
Due to staff restriction EEN Niedersachsen Partner Hochschule Osnabrück will not apply for this call.
The two partners Leibniz University Hannover and NBank ill deliver minimum 56 EIMC actions as described in Work package 1 as 7-10-day-packages
2. Identify bottlenecks in the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from grants under European Innovation Council Instruments (accelerator and pathfinder) or Horizons 2020's SME instrument and address these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches. This service to beneficiaries of the EIC/ SME instrument in the context of a given project is called 'Key Account Management'. Partner NBank will provide this service to all companies successful in their proposals in the funding schemes SME Instrument, Fast Track to Innovation and Future and
Emerging Technologies Open as well as EIC accelerator and pathfinder projects.
• Partner NBank plans to deliver 8 Key Account Management actions as described in Work package 2 as 7-day-packages
related to successful proposals for the mentioned funding schemes from the region.
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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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30177 Hannover
Germany
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