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Cotec Launches a tool in Internet so that the SMEs autoevalúen his innovative capacity
06/03/2013
6 March 2013
The Foundation Cotec for the Technological Innovation has developed a tool in Internet so that any SME can know, of simple form filling up a brief questionnaire, how is his innovative capacity and receive recommendations for his improvement. To this tool can access from the page of start of the web of Cotec (www.cotec.es) and also from the web of the CEPYME (http://www.cepyme.es/es/economia/), fruit of the agreement of collaboration signed with this institution to promote the innovation in the SMEs.
The small and medium enterprises contribute more than the 65 % of the Value Added Gross and around the 80 % of the places of work in Spain, by what suppose a fundamental pillar of our economy. These percentages, however, also put of self-evident that the productivity of the companies reduces what lower is his size. For this reason, it is necessary that the SMEs grow to elevate his productivity and the best form to attain it is through the innovation, that allows them compete in the global market in conditions more advantageous. The aim of this initiative is to provide to all the SMEs the opportunity to know his innovative capacity or endow of her, in case that no innoven, to be able to improve his productivity and his competitiveness.
For the design of the tool, Cotec split of the experience obtained of the analysis of the forms of innovar of many big companies, that have very formalised and experienced his innovative processes, analysis based in an extensive questionnaire happened to his directors and responsible of high level. This first questionnaire adapted to the SMEs, reducing it and including only questions that answered with If/No, referred to questions that the employer could answer easily taking advantage of his perception of the reality of his company as, for example, the worry of the steering by the innovation, the existence of personnel devoted to know the novelties of the market, the reward to the suggestion of new ideas or the knowledge of the public helps of promotion of the innovation, between others.
The SME generates, purchases and applies very distinct knowledges to produce changes in his processes and in his products or services with the end to improve his productivity, and the experience shows that they are also different the behaviours of the SMEs in front of some same needs or opportunities of innovar. For testar this tool, Cotec realised a first analysis of the information obtained of the behaviour in front of the innovation closely of a thousand of Spanish SMEs, that has allowed his classification to be able to offer them recommendations in function of the fortresses or weaknesses in his capacity of innovation.
