The action “Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME's in the Enterprise Europe Network" represents an important breakthrough in delivering the EEN services. Until now the EEN consortia partners’ role was mainly catalyzing the SMEs innovation needs with the innovative product, services and processes provided by other companies or research centres, with the aim of fostering their internationalization. Strengthening the target of internationalization, the EEN consortia partners will improve their action providing on site support to SMEs, and becoming a part of the companies for assessing their capacity in the innovation management issues. The ELSE – SIM (Enterprise Lazio and Sardegna for Europe- SMEs Innovation Management) consortium as a whole is able to provide the expected services: Key Account Management • Assess SME gaps and needs, • Facilitate the identification and the initial coach-SME interaction to prepare coaching plan, • Support companies in the project management and administration Enhancing SME innovation management capacity , • Asses innovation management capacity based on performance, • Action plan implementation.

EEN consortia partners will improve their action providing on site support to SMEs, and becoming a part of the companies for assessing their capacity in the innovation management issues. The ELSE – SIM 2019 (Enterprise Lazio and Sardegna for Europe- SMEs Innovation Management) consortium as a whole is able to provide the expected services: Key Account Management • Assess SME gaps and needs, • Facilitate the identification and the initial coach-SME interaction to prepare coaching plan, • Support companies in the project management and administration Enhancing SME innovation management capacity , • Asses innovation management capacity based on performance, • Action plan implementation

The action “Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME's in the Enterprise Europe Network" represents an important breakthrough in delivering the EEN services. Until now the EEN consortia partners’ role was mainly catalyzing the SMEs innovation needs with the innovative product, services and processes provided by other companies or research centres, with the aim of fostering their internationalization. Strengthening the target of internationalization, the EEN consortia partners will improve their action providing on site support to SMEs, and becoming a part of the companies for assessing their capacity in the innovation management issues. The ELSE – SIM (Enterprise Lazio and Sardegna for Europe- SMEs Innovation Management) consortium as a whole is able to provide the expected services: Key Account Management • Assess SME gaps and needs, • Facilitate the identification and the initial coach-SME interaction to prepare coaching plan, • Support companies in the project management and administration Enhancing SME innovation management capacity , • Asses innovation management capacity based on performance, • Action plan implementation.

2020- 2021 will be the period of the “perfect integration” between COSME and H2020 services, aiming at accompanying the Client in a process of co-creation of a structured process for a company’s tailored service design commensurable with their strategy and vision. The process will take in account that the SMEs’ market success is strictly related to their compliance with: innovation process, based on the following steps: conception (technology concept formulated, experimental proof of concept), protecting idea, designing the product, process or service, validating and demonstrating technology in laboratory and in relevant environment, demonstrating system prototype in operational environment, bringing the innovation to investment readiness and maturity for market take-up, launching it on large scale production. innovation management, based on assessment, improvement, planning, access2finance process and management, based on the SME’s capacity in successfully interfacing with investors (public and private) to attract grants and investment an correctly manage them, and on the Financial Readiness Level, assessed by specific tools and professionals. EEN consortia partners will improve their action providing on site support to SMEs, and becoming a part of the companies for assessing their capacity in the innovation management issues. The ELSE – SIM 2020-21 (Enterprise Lazio and Sardegna for Europe- SMEs Innovation Management) consortium as a whole is able to provide the expected services: Key Account Management • Assess SME gaps and needs, • Facilitate the identification and the initial coach-SME interaction to prepare coaching plan, • Support companies in the project management and administration Enhancing SME innovation management capacity , • Asses innovation management capacity based on performance, • Action plan implementation