Project description
Supporting SME innovation management in South West France
Increasing the innovation capacity and competitiveness of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is essential for the EU economy. SMEs are concretely helped through specific instruments to innovate and expand their activities to new international markets. The EU-funded MAGIC SWF SMEs 20-21 project will support SMEs from South West France by delivering support through service packages to two different groups of SMEs. The first group includes beneficiaries of the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument phase 2. The support service consists of identifying weaknesses in the innovation capacities, proposing adequate training and conducting SMEs through their European project. The second group includes SMEs with a high potential of international expansion and the receiving support will help them increase their innovation management capacities.
Objective
Raising the competitiveness of SMEs from South West France by offering services linked to innovation management.
The project involves 3 partners of the Enterprise Europe Network South West France consortium which covers the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Midi-Pyrénées territory. The general objective is to contribute to raise the competitiveness of SMEs from this area by offering support services in the area of innovation management. The project will also contribute to develop more efficient and more effective innovation processes and higher quality innovation management capacity assessment and support services.
The support will be delivered as service packages to 2 groups of SMEs:
a) Beneficiaries of the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument phase 2, Fast Track to Innovation and Future Emerging Technologies Open: to enhance the probability of a successful exploitation of the innovation project results and lead to the sustainable growth of the beneficiary beyond the participation in Horizon 2020. The support service will pinpoint weaknesses in the innovation capacities of the beneficiary, select suitable coaches to address the identified weaknesses and monitor the coach-client relationship and to accompany the beneficiary through their European project.
b) SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation: to enhance their innovation management capacities to be able to gain new international markets and leaderships. The support service will consist in an in-depth innovation assessment in order to develop and implement a tailored action plan to improve the SMEs capacity to manage innovation processes. The partners will use dedicated assessment tools: IMP3rove, Check’Innov, Innovation Way and CCI MAP.
The project will last 24 months and will provide 109 support service packages.
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
31701 BLAGNAC
France