EEN Anatolia supports to increase the innovation management capacities of SMEs

Project Information

EENinnoSMES4

Grant agreement ID: 879575

DOI

10.3030/879575

Project closed

EC signature date 5 February 2020

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2021

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Total cost

€ 193 250,00

EU contribution

€ 193 250,00

Coordinated by

KOSGEB-KUCUK VE ORTA OLCEKLI ISLETMELERI GELISTIRME VE DESTEKLEME IDARESI BASKANLIGI
Türkiye

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EENinnoSMES4 (EEN Anatolia supports to increase the innovation management capacities of SMEs)

Reporting period: 2020-01-01 to 2021-12-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The main objectives of the proposed project are;
• Supporting ambitious, skilled and innovative SMEs to exploit their innovative ideas profitably in the international markets and supporting specifically SMEs with high international growth potential and innovation
• Maintain and continuously improve the professionalism of the services provided by the Network, and strive to achieve excellence in the services provided to SMEs and in all related Network activities.
• Seeking to exploit new opportunities in the Single Market and also in third countries.
• Raising awareness of SMEs about European Union policy issues and act as a communication channel for the European Commission with European SMEs
• Promote and inform SMEs about the services offered by the Network
• Providing easy to access integrated services in close proximity to SMEs
• Managing innovation process efficiently and enhancing innovation management capacity of SMEs
• Providing an innovation management system which not only includes the innovation process mapping from idea to result, but also leadership, management and co-operation strategies.
• Providing specialized and one to one services like creating an action plan and business model.
• Providing SMEs with in-depth analysis of their innovation management, investigating possible gaps between innovation capabilities and innovation goals.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

For WP1, since the KAM services are dependent on the success ratio of SME Instrument, Fasttrack innovation, and FET Open programs, in our region, there is no successful project during the 2020-21 period in consortium region.
Even though the targets couldn’t be achieved under this task, EEN Anatolia actively continued to support SMEs in order to address their needs, identify growth potential, and innovation management capacity of them. Efforts were made to close the KAM, which continued from the previous period. There were no new cases of KAM in the relevant period.

For WP2, all the EEN Anatolia have at least one improve licenced staff.EENinnoSMES4 project had planned to propose 126 EIMC services. Partners were always present during the filling out process of the assessments by its clients and attaché significant importance to measuring the innovation management capacity via being in close contact with the companies. Therefore, Partners wanted to follow the same method also in 2020, mainly because the face-to-face method is always more efficient than the virtual one. However, due to the coronavirus, most partners did not carry out any activity throughout the year 2020, having in mind that the conditions to pursue this activity would improve in 2021. When considering where we stand now with the coronavirus, it will be inevitable to carry out its obligations virtually in 2021. Unlike the other partners, P04 Erciyes Teknopark reached its target during 2020-21

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The expected impact before the analysis is defined as increasing the company’s innovation management success and its overall business performance and taking the Innovation capacities into a structure and adapts the lifecycle management of products in the Marketing department before the start of each assessment. The short term impact is changing in their business perspective and commercialization strategies to compete with its competitors. However, we will be tracking their status and impact of the assessment in the coming years to observe the increase in their employee numbers, trade amounts, cooperation amounts and profit ratios.

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