Driving SME Innovation in the West Midlands

推动西米德兰兹郡中小企业创新

• 批准号: 10101973
• 金额: $ 88.05万
• 依托单位: COVENTRY COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10101973
• 关键词: Driving; SME; Innovation; West; Midlands

The project focuses on supporting businesses to innovate in the areas of digital and green technologies, enabling the transition to net zero through the introduction of new products, services and processes, predominantly targeting the Engineering, Construction, Transport and Logistics and Digital sectors.Each College will establish an Innovation Centre to become the main interface for businesses wishing to discover how FE can support them with innovation. Innovation Centres may have a dedicated physical location at some or all of the college locations described above but importantly will:* Be focused on each College's sector specialist knowledge, expertise and facilities* Be established using the Innovation Centre name, alongside shared FE and Skills branding* Promote distinct points of access to the service within each college* Deliver a programme of collaborative events and activities to maximise engagement and avoid duplication* Focus on innovation diffusion and knowledge transfer, supporting innovation adoption within local businesses* Provide a Key Account Manager for each client business who will follow their journey through the available support, ensuring consistency of serviceWe will deliver a programme of support targeted at businesses wishing to transition to new technologies, incorporate new services into their business and change their business processes to become more efficient.Our Innovation Practitioners will focus on innovation diffusion and knowledge transfer, supporting innovation adoption within local businesses. Businesses will be taken on a consistent 'customer journey', with the aim of creating a structured response to their innovation aspirations. Our Innovation Centres will deliver support based on a 7-Step Customer Journey to create consistency of service for each business regardless of which College becomes their primary connection. See Annex 4.1 for further details of the Customer Journey.The Customer Journey centres around three core elements of:* Organisational Needs Analysis - to determine innovation aspirations and support needs* Innovation Plan - to propose and document appropriate innovation support needs, co-created with an Innovation Practitioner within the Innovation Centre* Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Management Programme - facilitated participation by the business in support offered across the Innovation Centres including innovation awareness sessions, sector specific upskilling, technology demonstrations, practical sessions in college facilities and extensive signposting to onward support such as Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and University servicesCollaboration is an important element of our Innovation Centres project. Our primary collaboration will be between the 4 colleges, building on our pre-existing partnership delivery of other projects and initiatives in recent years.

该项目的重点是支持企业在数字和绿色技术领域进行创新，通过引入新产品，服务和流程实现净零过渡，主要针对工程，建筑，运输和物流以及数字部门。每个学院将建立一个创新中心，成为希望了解FE如何支持他们创新的企业的主要接口。创新中心可能会在上述部分或所有学院的位置有一个专门的物理位置，但重要的是：* 专注于每个学院的部门专业知识，专业知识和设施 * 使用创新中心的名称，以及共享FE和技能品牌建立 * 促进每个学院内的服务访问的不同点 * 提供协作事件和活动计划，以最大限度地提高参与度并避免重复 * 专注于创新传播和知识转移，支持本地企业采用创新 * 为每个客户业务提供一名大客户经理，通过可用的支持跟踪他们的旅程，确保服务的一致性我们将为希望过渡到新技术的企业提供支持计划，将新服务融入其业务，并改变其业务流程以提高效率。我们的创新实践者将专注于创新传播和知识转移，支持本地企业采用创新。企业将采取一致的“客户之旅”，目的是创造一个结构化的响应他们的创新愿望。我们的创新中心将根据7步客户之旅提供支持，为每个企业提供一致的服务，无论哪个学院成为他们的主要联系人。有关客户旅程的更多详细信息，请参见附件4.1。客户旅程围绕以下三个核心要素：* 组织需求分析-确定创新愿望和支持需求 * 创新计划-提出并记录适当的创新支持需求，与创新中心内的创新实践者共同创建 * 知识转移和创新管理计划-促进企业参与创新中心提供的支持，包括创新意识会议，特定部门的技能提升，技术演示，学院设施的实践课程和广泛的路标，以向前支持，如知识转移合作伙伴关系和大学服务协作是我们的创新中心项目的重要组成部分。我们的主要合作将在4所学院之间进行，建立在我们近年来其他项目和举措的现有合作伙伴关系的基础上。