A clear example of EEN -Kam services client journey and success story is Food sourcing specialist published in our een.cat webpage
http://een.cat/casos-exit/food-sourcing-specialists/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)Main impacts thanks to being awarded as SMEI beneficiaries and KAM service provision are:
-FOLLOWHEALTH has received several prestigious awards: 2.5M€ from the EIC funding , the recognition as one of the eXponential Innovator Leaders in Catalonia and a local talent award from the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce
-ABILITY PHARMACEUTICALS that has raised 4.6M€ : 3M€ from a Chinese pharmaceutical company and 1.6M€ grant from the FDA.
Feedback from one of our beneficiaries of KAM service follows:
“Our experience with SME coaching has been positive. Our coaches have given us the information we needed in order to progress with our business. specifically our KAM is always in touch with us uploading or inviting us to events that can directly impact to VEnvirotech. On the other side, the coach has exchanged with us his own business experience.” Patricia Aymà, CTO of Venvirotech.
Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity for innovating SMEs: even though the COVID pandemic has brought new challenges both for ACCIÓ and the SMEs, such as the new online format, the eagerness to overcome this adverse situation, in the end resulted very successful and highly satisfactory for all its participants: 81 companies finally completed the EIMC cases and 42% SMEs carried out the type of projects suggested and applied to one of the calls for an innovation voucher (2020 or 2021), NON (New Business Opportunities) or Disruption grants to implement one or more of the recommended actions with a very positive impact. A client testimonial: “Thanks to EEN, we foster the innovation in our company and connect with strategic partners that have made grow our commercial network around Europe" Josep Maria Quintana, General Manager, ESINSAs.
The types of innovations identified were mainly incremental innovations related to product, process, structure and business model.
Some impacts achieved by companies that received these services and recommendations are:
-Enhance the profitability of the company in a sustainable way (mostly through an income increase or cost reduction).
-Consolidate or create an innovation culture and mindset
-Improve the innovation management capacity
-Define a prioritization process for constructing the adequate innovation project portfolio (combining exploitation and exploration)
-Increase their capacity to adapt or, even, reinvent to external change.
