IMProvement of Innovation Management Performance with Sustainable IMPact

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IMProvement of Innovation Management Performance
with Sustainable IMPact

• A Europe INNOVA Project

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Content

• IMP3rove A Europe INNOVA project
• The objectives of IMP3rove Enhancing
  Innovation Management performance in Europe
• The results of IMP3rove Powerful tools for SMEs
  and intermediaries
• The scope of IMP3roveSMEs in focus
• The approach of IMP3rove Developing best
  practices
• The benefits of IMP3rove Integrating all
  stakeholders of Innovation Management enhancement
• Contact details

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IMP3rove A Europe INNOVA project
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The Europe INNOVA Initiative of the European
Commission
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IMP3rove is the flagship project of the Europe
INNOVA initiative
IMP3rove A Europe INNOVA project
Europe INNOVA
Sectoralinnovationwatch
Clusternetworks
Innovationpanels
Financingnetworks
Clustermapping
Standardsnetworks

• Funded by the European Commission
• Driven by a consortium from more than 10 countries

Innovation management
IMP³rove

• Providing innovation facilitators with new and
  better tools to consult enterprises on Innovation
  Management issues
• Improvement of Innovation Management of Small and
  Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Europe

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The project IMP3rove has been initiated by the
European Commission in December 2005
IMP3rove A Europe INNOVA project
Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry
Consortium driving the project Expert Panel
advising the consortium
Reaching out to
Intermediaries for Innovation Management
SMEs includinghigh-tech start-ups
Financial community funding SMEs
Policymaking
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A European consortium under the leadership of
A.T. Kearney is driving the project
IMP3rove A Europe INNOVA project
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The objectives of IMP3rove
Enhancing Innovation Management performance in
Europe
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The overall objective is to foster innovation
efficiency in Europe
The objectives of IMP3rove Enhancing Innovation
Management performance in Europe

• Development of new and better Innovation
  Management tools for SMEs and innovation
  facilitators
• Strong and early involvement of intermediaries
  and SMEs
• Provision of tangible means for financial
  institutions for evaluation of SME and their
  financial risks
• Better insights for policy makers in the needs of
  innovative SMEs, targeted innovation policy
  measures in the future
• Integration with other Europe INNOVA initiatives

IMP3rove
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The IMP³rove project challenges and issues
IM Innovation Management IMC Innovation
Management Consultancy SME Small and medium
sized enterprise SAT self assessment tool on
innovation management
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The results of IMP3rove
Powerful tools for SMEs and intermediaries
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IMP3rove will deliver tangible results
The results of IMP3rove Powerful tools for SMEs
and intermediaries
European approach to Innovation Management
consulting including a toolkit for innovation
facilitators to enhance the SMEs Innovation
Management capabilities
Tangible Results
Overview of existing best practice in Innovation
Management approaches
Foundations for European Innovation Management
certificate
An online Self-Assessment Tool that allows SMEs
to benchmark their Innovation Management against
Best Practice
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The scope of IMP3rove
SMEs in focus
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IMP3rove pursues a holistic approach to
Innovation Management
The scope of IMP3rove SMEs in focus

• A.T. Kearney's 'House of Innovation'

• Impact of Innovation Management Tools and
  Innovation Management performance linked to
  business success
• Database for comparisons to Innovation Management
  mechanisms in a wide spectrum of companies in
  terms of industry sectors and size of companies
• Access to a media network across Europe from the
  Best Innovator contest, which will be leveraged
  to increase the awareness of improved Innovation
  Management services and techniques.

Inno-vationstrategy
Innovation organization and culture
Innovation life cycle management
Product/process development
Ideageneration
Launch/contin. improvement
Enabler, e.g. Human Resource Management,
Knowledge Management, Project and Program
Mangement, Controlling and IT
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SMEs from a wide range of industry sectors are
included
The scope of IMP3rove SMEs in focus

• Companies in focus
• 2-20 employees
• 21-100 employees
• 101-250 employees
• gt250 employees
• including high-tech start-ups

• Industry sectors covered
• Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Mechanical engineering, plant constructions
• Road, air, rail and sea transportation
• Services
• Financial and business services
• Textile and textile products
• Food products, beverages and tobacco

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The approach of IMP3rove
Developing best practices
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Within 48 months, the project will deliver new
Innovation Management tools
The approach of IMP3rove Developing best
practices
Disseminate Innovation Management tools
Test Innovation Management tools
Develop Innovation Management tools

• Comprehensive marketing and communication program
  to promote new tools
• Ensure increased sustainability

Strong involvement of inter-mediaries, e.g.
innovation manage-ment consul-tancies, trade
associa-tions, IRCs
At least 1,500 interviews with SMEs in more than
10 countries and various industry sectors,
facilitated by interme-diaries
Review and evaluation of existing consulting
methodologies and online self-assessment tools
(SAT) in Europe
Improved innovation manage-ment consulting
methodo-logies
European Self-Assess-ment Tool (SAT)
01/06
12/06
12/09
11/07
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Challenges and issues addressed by IMP³rove
Challenges
Issues

• Detect best practices on innovation management
  (IM) in SMEs for EU25
• Create a community of IMC and SMES ready to
  share best practices on IM
• Infer an integrated SAT / IMC services to help
  IMC improve on servicing SMEs
• Maintain a perennial SAT tool which will benefit
  from identified areas of improvement
• Speed up innovation management improvement in
  SMEs, because of their large contribution to the
  EU25 economy
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• A lot of SAT tools
• A lot of IMCS
• Innovation is one of the least managed process in
  industry including large groups
• Each sector has its own culture at innovation.
• Changing peoples mind about innovation will take
  time, since each cook has his/her own recipe to
  innovate

IM Innovation Management IMC Innovation
Management Consultancy SME Small and medium
sized enterprise SAT self assessment tool on
innovation management
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The benefits of IMP3rove
Integrating all stakeholders of Innovation
Management enhancement
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IMP3rove will provide significant benefits for a
wide variety of stakeholders
The approach of IMP3rove Integrating all
stakeholders of Innovation Management enhancement

• For Intermediaries

• For SMEs

• Access to full set of Innovation Management
  consulting methodologies
• Possibility to provide input on best practices
• Positioning as "leading intermediary"
• Growth opportunity in leveraging innovation
  network

• Insight into Best Practice in Innovation
  Management
• Benchmarking own Innovation Management
  performance with SAT
• Own performance in Innovation Management
• Actions required to fill the gap to Best Practice

Project's benefits
For Policy Makers
For Financial Institutions

• First hand insight on key success factors for
  Innovation Management
• Knowledge of existing barriers to Innovation
  Management

• Tangible means for evaluating SMEs'/high-tech
  start-ups' performance and risk
• Benchmarks across countries and industry sectors

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A whole set of promotion material is available
for intermediaries
Contact details

• Short html email sent at key project milestones
  (2006-2009)
• Languages English, German, French, Italian,
  Spanish
• Can be re-customized by intermediaries for SMEs

E-newsflash
Information package

• Consultancy methodology questionnaires for use
  with SMEs
• Languages English, German, French, Italian,
  Spanish
• Available 12/2006 (English), 4/2007 (German,
  French, Italian, Spanish)

Train-the-Trainer events

• For intermediaries
• 12/2006 (UK), 2007 (Germany, Italy, Spain, etc.
  tbc)
• Training in Innovation Management Consultancy
  Approaches

CountryLaunches

• Aimed at SMEs
• 2008-2009 (open schedule)
• Organized by intermediaries,supported by IMP3rove

• Encourage use of SAT Innovation Management
  tools
• Showcasing 2-3 success stories

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Contact details
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Contacts
Contact details

• www.europe-innova.org
• Für Deutschland und Österreich
• i.con. innovation GmbH
• 0049 (0) 711 782 608 6
• improve_at_icon-innovation.de

IMP3rove is a project of the European
Commissions Directorate-General for Enterprise
and Industry