About
The Horizon 2020 “Innovation in SMEs” (INNOSUP) programme aims to test new approaches for better innovation support through funding opportunities for innovation actors across Europe. It consists of innovation-support measures designed to provide opportunities to Member States and regions to enhance their services to SMEs through collaboration, peer-learning, and testing new approaches that facilitate SMEs’ access to customers, capital and competencies; the latter especially in the domains of business, innovation and intellectual asset management.
Its ultimate goal is hence to help strengthen the dynamism and the resilience of the SME innovation ecosystem in Europe, though INNOSUP Actions generally operate as pilots to test out particular approaches.
Calls are, generally, directed to intermediaries that nurture and support innovative SMEs, such as innovation agencies, industrial clusters, and innovation associations of different kinds and from different sectors. Some of the calls are also directly targeted at SMEs (final beneficiaries), while others are intended to support existing European innovation-support schemes (e.g. the Enterprise Europe Network).
Currently, the INNOSUP actions fall under the European Innovation Ecosystem.
Information about past projects managed under the previous agency (EASME) can be found on the legacy legacy website.
Funding opportunities
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Project results
Publications
This report presents the context and set-up of 13 projects financed under the Action “Support to design and running of randomised control trials (RCTs)” under the Horizon 2020 Work Programme.
This report presents how the INNOSUP-04 action promoted the development of a European-led model of Workplace innovation amongst SMEs through its projects.
This report from the Innovation Growth Lab brings together analysis and key findings from thirteen projects who were chosen to break new ground in many agencies by applying experimental approaches to innovation policy.
Report on Public Innovation Support for SMEs in Europe
Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains - Impact Report
News
AMULET’s Final Event, held on 16-17 October 2024, brought together over 100 participants to celebrate the results of the project and the three years of cluster collaboration
The GreenOffshoreTech project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 (INNOSUP) programme, held a two-day final event in Hamburg, on 5-6 June.
The URBAN TECH final event, “Innovate for Europe – Greentech, Health Tech & Smart City Showdown,” took place on 6 June, as part of the Impact Days 2024, during ViennaUP, a city-wide celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship