EEN H2020 project has delivered EIMC services to 16 research-driven companies and R&D organizations which benefited from European innovation services, involving European tools, methods and resources having the potential of models and good practice.
The beneficiaries of the EIMC package services received important assistance, consulting services and practical information in order to notably improve their innovation management systems, and thus their vision, methods and resources for turning an idea to innovation result and commercialize it, improve their leadership, management skills, ability to valorise employees’ creativity and innovation, ability to cooperate with third partners and R&D partners, clients, suppliers and to communicate innovation.
From personal interviews with EIMC clients by the end of the project it can be concluded that provided services were positively perceived by selected SMEs. The long-term impact of the project on the beneficiary companies in terms of economic results can be tracked through further monitoring of their performance indicators.