EEN Scotland EIMC

Informazioni relative al progetto

EEN Scotland EIMC

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 879448

DOI

10.3030/879448

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 10 Dicembre 2019

Data di avvio 1 Gennaio 2020

Data di completamento 31 Dicembre 2021

Finanziato da

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Costo totale

€ 228 100,00

Contributo UE

€ 228 100,00

Coordinato da

SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE
United Kingdom

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EEN Scotland EIMC (EEN Scotland EIMC)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2020-01-01 al 2021-12-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

The project’s underlying objective is to encourage smart inclusive and sustainable growth in the EU by increasing effective investment in innovation linked to profitable exploitation in international markets. The project’s specific objective is to ensure that Scottish SMEs with international innovation and growth ambitions are empowered by unlocking their full growth potential through better innovation management capability and tailored mentoring and coaching. The aim is to support SME’s international competitiveness through the exploitation of new or enhanced products, process or service through improved innovation efficiency. Specific objectives include:
• Identifying of bottlenecks to the creation of economic impact in SMEs benefiting from the H2020 European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot and addressing these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches. Ensuring that SME beneficiaries of the EIC Pilot receive the most appropriate support services to enhance successful exploitation of their innovation projects, during and beyond their participation in H2020. Linking these SMEs to the Business Acceleration Services (e.g. Phase 3 of the EIC Accelerator) as well to other regional and national support services and programmes to support the sustainable growth of the company.
• Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation in SMEs 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 support.
• Ensure EEN Scotland staff have the competencies to engage professionally with high-end target companies.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

2020 and 2022 have been a very taxing years for Scottish companies, faced with the twin challenges of the pandemic and of the uncertainty around Brexit: the perfect storm. Our challenge was to help our clients not just to survive, but to innovate and identify/harness new emerging opportunities, (where necessary to pivot) and to grow: to provide a rounded support offer linking innovation management/ roadmap support to their innovation developments and finance roadmaps to reboot their innovation aspirations.

EEN Scotland and our clients both responded strongly to the challenge, working together to reach very positive outcomes. 65 full cases were completed over the 2 years, with good forecast impacts for the SMEs from the support provided.

The supported SMEs, with services closely integrated with COSME support, achieved highly credible results. There are strong expected impacts by end 2023 from our support: additional revenues from their innovation efforts £48.4 million, planned increase in R&D of £1.6 million and efficiency savings of £0.5 million. In addition, the 65 SMEs we worked with accessed £9.4 million innovation and R&D funding and finance over the two years to implement their innovation development and demonstration projects. In most of our cases we provide significant discrete packages of support to our SMEs over a number of years and it is heartening to see these clients growing strongly over time, even under very challenging circumstances.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

Enterprise Europe Network Scotland works closely with the other Business and Innovation support providers in Scotland: hand-in hand of course with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (SE’s sister organisation in the Highlands and Islands region), South of Scotland Enterprise Agency, Scottish Development International as well as with the Business Gateways (Business Gateways are managed through the Local Authorities and deal with the broader business base), the Scottish Funding Council (Higher Education and Research Institutions), Innovation Centres, Industrial Leadership Groups (sector driven), Visit Scotland and Skills Development Scotland.

Through the Team Scotland approach, and given the lead partner’s pivotal role in delivering economic development to Scotland, Enterprise Europe Network Scotland has privileged access to the entire business base and is in pole position to deliver Network services across Scotland. This collaborative approach has ensured that Scottish companies have access to a wide and necessary range of expertise in internationalisation, innovation, IPR, start-up and scale up, sustainability and access to finance; key in meeting the demands of companies through this challenging year.

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