Enhance innovation management capacities in Andalusian SMEs. CESEAND InnoAses 2020/2021.

Project Information

CESEAND InnoAses5

Grant agreement ID: 879804

DOI

10.3030/879804

Project closed

EC signature date 17 February 2020

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2021

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Total cost

€ 225 597,50

EU contribution

€ 225 597,00

Coordinated by

AGENCIA DE INNOVACION Y DESARROLLO DE ANDALUCIA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CESEAND InnoAses5 (Enhance innovation management capacities in Andalusian SMEs. CESEAND InnoAses 2020/2021.)

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

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The improvement of the Innovation Management Capacities of the European SMEs is essential reinforce the cooperation potential of European SMEs to become more and more competitive into the single market. The provision of individual support on Access to finance to these types of companies is critical and requires the provision of some other advanced and tailored support services: Innovation Property Rights, Technology watch, cooperation and internationalisation, such as the main path along which innovative SMEs will improve their competitiveness in the single market or internationally.
We have achieved the main two objectives to ensure: (1) firstly, that key SME beneficiaries of H2020 are helped efficiently in order to achieve their innovation potential and, (2) secondly, that the innovation management capacity of the SME clients is increased, by the provision of support services or information and advisory services, such as mentoring, coaching and partner search activities for the SMEs that are trying to enhance the innovation management capacities and wishing to develop innovation projects with a strong European or international potential.

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

We have achieved the 100% of the initially estimated KAM services for the period 2020/2021, and above the 70% of EIMC services due the COVID situation such as urgent actions for prevention of occupational hazards, labour issues, business model pivoting and access to financial instrument targeting working capital as sales dropped in many sector during and after the confinement.
In this timeframe, the consortium has continued delivering services in a similar way as in 2019, making use of the already known methodologies and tools such as IMPROVE, IHC and CoachCom tools, but also implementing the Digital Innovation Quotient (DIQ), the Key Account Management (KAM) and the Enhancing Innovation Management Capacities (EIMC) services. A novelty during 2021 has been the provision of an additional type of service on sustainability via IMPROVE Academy Customer Sustainability Navigator (CSN).

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)

Some of the following capacities and know-how have been transferred to the advised SMEs:
• Provision of tools to gain an understanding of their organisation's context, especially the innovation ecosystem in order to turn it into a business ally.
• Raise awareness to establish the leadership and the commitment of the SME's management in innovation process and techniques to implement successfully an innovation plan.
• Enable SMEs to identify and encourage internal and external factors that support innovation as an enhancement of the business and develop the innovation management process.
• Set up a balanced scorecard that allows innovation management to be piloted and enhanced.
• Implementation of an exhaustive analysis, including recommendations and improvement proposals, for its possible successful participation in SME Instrument.
• A tailored made proposal of services managed by Enterprise Europe Network, which contributes to enhance SME’S business plan's development.
SMEs have been provided with the tools and the knowledge to accelerate their transition towards more sustainable and digital models.

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