Project description
Boosting innovation actions for SMEs
Competitiveness, growth and job opportunities can be generated by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but only if they have achieved a high level of innovation management capacity. This is why it is important for SMEs to receive mentoring and coaching services. The EU-funded INNOVACTION 2020-21 project will work to help SMEs in the Spanish Regions of Valencia and Murcia to take advantage of the European market opportunities. Specifically, it will provide a series of services to assist them with technology transfer, access to finance, advice on EU law and standards as well as research funding and information about intellectual property rights.
Objective
Lack of innovation management capacity is recognised as an important barrier to creating economic impact
(competitiveness, growth and jobs) from innovation activities in SMEs.
Horizon 2020’s SME-instrument foresees offering mentoring and coaching services to beneficiaries to address the need of
SMEs of consulting service offers enhancing the innovation management capacity.
Moreover, in a survey undertaken in 2011 for DG Enterprise and Industry, SME´s and SME support organisations
considered the inability to manage innovation processes efficiently and effectively as the second most important barrier to
SME innovation (after 'lack of financial resources').The two partners of the consortium for the present project, IVACE and
INFO MURCIA have both more than 20 years’ experience in providing services of Enhancing innovation capacity to SMEs in
their regions.
More recently as members of EEN-SEIMED Network they have both been leading in their Region the provision of services in
order to help small business to make the most of the European marketplace. Specifically services provided are supporting:
• Technology transfer
• Access to finance
• Advice on EU law and standards
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)
• Research funding
• Going international
The Enterprise Europe Network SEIMED is therefore a suitable structure to introduce services “Enhancing the innovation
management capacity of SMEs” and make available to SMEs higher quality innovation support services where these are
absent or unaffordable on local markets.
Keywords
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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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46018 Valencia
Spain
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