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.