Establishing services enhancing innovation management capacity of SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network: Hessen

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Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH (HTAI), representing the EEN Hessen consortium busyhessen, will implement the action „Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network“ calculating with a minimum number of thirteen seven-day-packages with the objective to support innovative SMEs with a high potential for growth and internationalisation. Thus, interested beneficiaries of the SME Instrument will be supported with key account management (KAM). Other enterprises, assessed as suitable by EEN Hessen, will be supported in the separate process of Enhancing Innnovation Management Capacity (EIMC). HTAI will use the „Innovation Health Check“ by Enterprise Ireland as a CEN/TS 16555-1 tool to assess the innovation management capacity of Hessian clients for both services offered. Five EEN Hessen innovation experts, all senior EEN staff experienced in innovation management, are foreseen for this action.