Report
Teaser, summary, work performed and final results
Periodic Reporting for period 1 - INNOV-EM (INNOVATION MANAGEMENT SERVICE SUPPORT OF EAST MARMARA NETWORK)
Teaser
INNOV-EM Consortium composed of six partners with different type of structures like public, semi-public and private institutions and their different internal procedure struggled to achieve its targets by performing activities as projected in work plan.KOSGEB Bursa , ABÄ°GEM...
Summary
INNOV-EM Consortium composed of six partners with different type of structures like public, semi-public and private institutions and their different internal procedure struggled to achieve its targets by performing activities as projected in work plan.KOSGEB Bursa , ABÄ°GEM DM, ULUTEK and KOU Techno park are main partners while BCCI and ECI are only supporting partners of the project proposed.
The project aimed to offer integrated SME services of enhancing capacity of managing innovation processes and \'key account management\' of successful SME Instrument applicants .Under this project mentoring and coaching services offered to SME‟s. Horizon2020 (H2020) programmes and the project aims to assist the SMEs to cope with challenges of competitiveness,
Related to the Key Account Management for beneficiaries of the SME Instrument (KAM) services only two partners proposed targets which are KOU Tecknopark and ULUTEK and since there is no suitable SME Instrument beneficiary could be determined in the region, the consortium could not provide any KAM servies for the project.
For the Services to enhance the innovation management capacities of SMEs (EIMC) services the consortium partners remained below of the targets because of the lack of information for using IMP³rove tool. Onestaff from the consortium participatedin IMP³rove Training Session in the middle of 2017 and give training about diagnostic tool to other partners in 2018.
Work performed
Since there is no suitable SME Instrument beneficiary could be determined in the region, the consortium could not provide any KAM servies for the project.
For the EIMC services the experts of consortium partners visited the companies in the region and assessed their suitableness for the innovation management service support by using the consortium’s diagnostic tool.An introductory mail and presentation was prepared for the companies visited and determined the SMEs which need services for developing their innovation capacity. in the first year of the project .The consortium agreed that one expert from the consortium partners would participate to the IMP³rove Training Sessions and then this expert would train the other consortium partners on using the IMP³rove diagnostic tool.So, one staff from KOU Technopark pariticipated in Improve training in 2017 and a training programme was organized by KOU Teknopark and informed other partners\' staff about IMP³rove diagnostic tool in the begining of 2018.
Final results
Consortium focused on raising the number of companies that will be able to apply for the SME Instrument in the region via services enhancing innovation management capacities of SMEs as projected in 2018.In the second period of the project, the SMEs which are defined as suitable for innovation management service support diagnosed with the IMP³rove. The SMEs’ gaps, weak points and bottleneck identified with the IMP³rove diagnostic tool and jointly agreed action plan will be prepared for the innovative SMEs developing their innovation management capacity.
Consortium partners determined that conducting face-to-face meetings would be more productive than on-line communication tools since the companies are in need for being supported for the detection of 4-year financial and innovative datas of their products.It is expected that the number of servicies that will be provided by using the IMP³rove diagnostic tool would be raised in 2018 and further years
Website & more info
More info: http://www.een-emn.org/.