IMProvement of Innovation Management Performance with Sustainable IMPact

A Europe INNOVA Project

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Agenda

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 IMP3rove:SMEs 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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• Funded by the European Commission• Driven by a consortium from more than 10 countries

IMP3rove is the flagship project of the Europe INNOVA initiative

• 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

IMP3rove – A Europe INNOVA project

IMP³rove

Europe INNOVASectoralinnovationwatch

Clustermapping

Clusternetworks

Financingnetworks

Standardsnetworks

Innovationpanels

Innovation management

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The project IMP3rove has been initiated by the European Commission in December 2005

Consortium driving the project + Expert Panel advising the consortium

Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry

IMP3rove – A Europe INNOVA project

Intermediaries for Innovation

ManagementSMEs including

high-tech start-upsFinancial

community funding SMEs

Reaching out to

Policymaking

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A European consortium under the leadership of A.T. Kearney is driving the 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

• 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

The objectives of IMP3rove: Enhancing Innovation Management performance in Europe

IMP3rove

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The results of IMP3rove:

Powerful tools for SMEs and intermediaries

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IMP3rove will deliver tangible results

Tangible Results

Overview of existing best practice in Innovation

Management approaches

An online Self-Assessment Tool that allows SMEs to benchmark their Innovation Management against Best Practice

European approach to Innovation Management consulting including a toolkit for innovation

facilitators to enhance the SMEs’ Innovation Management capabilities

Foundations for European Innovation Management certificate

The results of IMP3rove: Powerful tools for SMEs and intermediaries

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The scope of IMP3rove:

SMEs in focus

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IMP3rove pursues a holistic approach to Innovation Management

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.

The scope of IMP3rove: SMEs in focus

Inno-vation

strategy

Innovation organization and culture

Innovation life cycle management

Product/process development

Enabler, e.g. Human Resource Management, Knowledge Management, Project and Program Mangement,

Controlling and IT

Ideageneration

Launch/contin. improvement

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SMEs from a wide range of industry sectors are includedThe scope of IMP3rove: SMEs in focus

Companies in focus 2-20 employees

21-100 employees

101-250 employees

>250 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

01/06 12/06 11/07 12/09

Disseminate Innovation Management tools

• Comprehensive marketing and communication program to promote new tools

• Ensure increased sustainability

Test Innovation Management tools

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

Develop Innovation Management tools

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)

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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

For Intermediaries For SMEs

The approach of IMP3rove: Integrating all stakeholders of Innovation Management enhancement

• 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

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

Project's benefits

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Contact details

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Contacts

Project core team:• A.T. Kearney

Kai Engel, Eva DiedrichsTel: +49 211 1377 2266Fax: +49 175 13 2659 266improvecoreteam@atkearney.com

• Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO)Kristina WagnerTel.:  +49 (0)711 970-2215Fax:  +49 (0)711 970-2299improvecoreteam@atkearney.com

www.europe-innova.org

IMP3rove is a project of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry

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Information package

Train-the-Trainer events

CountryLaunches

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

supported by IMP3rove

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

Consultancy methodology & questionnaires for use with SMEs• Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish

• Available 12/2006 (English), 4/2007 (German, French, Italian, Spanish)

For intermediaries• 12/2006 (UK), 2007 (Germany, Italy, Spain, etc. tbc)

• Training in Innovation Management Consultancy Approaches

A whole set of promotion material is available for intermediaries

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• Encourage use of SAT & Innovation Management tools

• Showcasing 2-3 success stories