The NORIMS project shall strive to enhance the innovation management capacity of Norwegian SMEs in 2019 by reducing barriers to innovation and to ensure that more great ideas will reach the market. The two distinct types of services under this consultation, a) Key Account Management under the SME beneficiaries of the SME Instrument and FTI and FET-Open under H2020 and b) Services to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs will be offered as an integrated part of the general support services of the Enterprise Europe Network Business Cooperation Centre (BCC) in Norway in 2019.

The specific objectives of the NOREIC project is to enhance the innovation management capacity of Norwegian SMEs in 2020 and 2021 by reducing barriers to innovation and to ensure that more great ideas will reach the market. The two distinct types of services under this consultation, a) Key Account Management under the EIC pilot and its successor b) Services to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs will in 2020 and 2021 be offered as an integrated part of the general support services of the Enterprise Europe Network Business Cooperation Centre (BCC) in Norway. The services will not be delivered to the same client(s) in parallel.

Proposal to establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network - Business Cooperation Centre in Norway- INNOWAY Key Account Manager and Innovation Specialists Services - NORIMS The specific objectives for the NORIMS project is to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs by reducing barriers to innovation and to ensure that more great ideas will reach the market. The two distinct types of services; a) Key account management under the SME Instrument in Horizon 2020 and b) Services to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs will be offered as an integrated part of the general support services of the Enterprise Europe Network Business Cooperation Centre (BCC) in Norway in the period of 2015-2016*. The proposal consists of two work packages: • WP1 Implementation of Key Account Management (KAM) services for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument. • WP2 Implementation of Innovation Management Capacity Building services.

The specific objectives for the NORIMS project is to enhance the innovation management capacity of Norwegian SMEs by reducing barriers to innovation and to ensure that more great ideas will reach the market. The two distinct types of services, a) Key account management under the SME Instrument in Horizon 2020 and b) Services to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs will be offered as an integrated part of the general support services of the Enterprise Europe Network Business Cooperation Centre (BCC) in Norway in the period of 2017-2018. The proposal consists of three work packages: • WP1 Implementation of Key Account Management (KAM) services for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument. • WP2 Implementation of Innovation Management Capacity Building services.

The INNOWAY consortium will be delivering services under Horizon 2020 within the action «Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME’s in the Enterprise Europe Network in 2014. This will build the foundation for the actions to be carried out in 2015-2021. The NORIMS project will have three partners with Innovation Norway being the coordinator and IRIS and NORUT as partners. All three institutions will be delivering both services: Innovation Specialist and Key Account Management. There will be seven experts from Innovation Norway (5), IRIS (1) and NORUT (1) delivering the services in 2014. To coordinate the action a “Competence Group Innovation” will be set up, composed of the certified innovation experts plus the INNOWAY-project coordinator and the SME NCP. The group will be chaired by the Activity Leader for the H2020 innovation services, who is to be elected from among the innovation experts. The application consists of four work packages: WP 0: Integration of the actions into the Enterprise Europe Network general services WP 1: Implementation of the Key Account Management services for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument WP 2: Implementation of Innovation Management Capacity Building services WP 3: Project Management and Quality Assurance of the project. Norway will be delivering 15 services packages, estimating 5 KAM for the SMEI beneficiaries and 10 companies will be chosen for the innovation management services. The companies will be recruited by regular INNOWAY staff and selected by the Competence group on Innovation. All companies being part of the action or not will also be linked to the regular innovation and internationalization services under the CIP Enterprise Europe Network work-programme. The NORIMS project has chosen the IMP3rove tool for enhancing innovation management capacity. KAM will use Ostwerwalder business canvas and the FRAM tools.