Project description
Building on Finland’s successful SME innovation
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can generate vast amounts of innovation and increase competitiveness, contributing to the European development strategies aligned with Industry 4.0. Improved regional economies based on traditional industries like manufacturing require digital innovation to increase production and eventually reduce costs. However, there is a considerable divergence between countries. The reasons are likely linked to the level of innovation activity undertaken by the SMEs, as well as inadequate policies, limited engagement, and lack of knowledge and expertise in the business environment. The EU-funded DIGIT-ME project will support digital innovation within manufacturing SMEs based on the paradigm of the successful Finnish approach.
Objective
SMEs play a significant role in achieving the objectives of European development strategies both by impact on the overall
economic growth and by creating new and maintaining existing worksites. Their approach to different types of innovations
affects overall outputs of the economy and influence its competitiveness. At present it seems that digital innovations
specified by Inudstry 4.0 have overwhelming impact on EU position on the global markets.
Improving regional economies based on traditional industries (including manufacturing) demands effective drivers to go for
digital innovativeness effecting in increased capability which eventually leads to lower overall costs.
Data shows that there is a huge gap in general innovation performance between the actors of highly developed countries like
Finland and countries from Central Europe like Czechia and Poliand. Most probably it is caused not only by low innovation
activity of SMEs but also by unsuited policies and also insufficient engagement, lack of knowledge and skills among
business environment institutions with innovation agencies on the first place.
Thus implementation of common project by the Partners from Czechia, Finland and Poland will lead to dissemination of
successful Finnish approach which will be enriched by experiences of countries from Central Europe.
Last but not least to be considered in the context of widely defined digital innovativeness is the impact on environment since
it is said that Industry 4.0 has the potential to enhance global manufacturing output to meet rising human needs without
hurting the environment. In other words it can make the world more sustainable.
Considering all mentioned above the project goal is to foster support digital innovations whithin SMEs manufacturing sector
by delivering new apporaches for policy makers and business environment institutions in order to strenghten European
economy and sustainable development.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
MAIN PROGRAMME
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H2020-EU.2.3.2.2. - Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs
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Funding Scheme
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2020
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87 100 Torun
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