InnoBremen4 - Establishing Services enhancing the innovation management capacities of SMEs in the Federal State of Bremen

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The following proposal addresses the topic “Specific activities in the context of innovation support (Horizon 2020) “, namely the in-depth services enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs. Innovation is a key driver for the success of enterprises, a requirement for their competiveness and thus a precondition for exploiting international opportunities in the Single Market and beyond. Offering growth-oriented business and innovation support services to SMEs is therefore seen as the core task of the Enterprise Europe Network. Although Innovation Management is crucial for SMEs, empiric data has proven that SMEs still show the inability to manage innovation processes efficiently and effectively as the second most important barrier to SME innovation. Enterprise Europe Network Bremen will offer the services to ensure that SME beneficiaries of H2020 European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot are able to exploit their full Innovation potential. Therefore services are designed and offered to enhance the innovation management capacities of SMEs as an integral part of the hub and spokes approach of the Enterprise Europe Networks Services, addressing the innovation needs of SME’s to establish an Innovation Management System (basis: technical specification CEN/TS-16555-1 , published by the European Commission) in the respective enterprises.