“National experience exchange workshop on SME’s innovation development approach”

“National experience exchange workshop on SME’s innovation development approach”

GRANT SCHEME FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS FОR INCREASING

 THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE BENEFICIARY COUNTRY

Project: Innovation Hub: Comparative Advantage for Greater Competitiveness

Contract no. 12-7324/1

    The Project is funded

    by the European Union

 

„Grant scheme for implementation of projects for increasing the competitiveness of the beneficiary country” – EuropeAid / 138495 / ID / ACT / MK

 

Contracting Authority:

CFCD – Ministry of Finance, Republic of North Macedonia

 

Improvement of the innovation and development capacities of SMEs, cooperation between NGOs, companies, universities and institutes

 

“National experience exchange workshop on SME’s innovation development approach”

 

Project Title: Innovation Hub: Comparative Advantage for Greater Competitiveness

 

Friday, 08th November 2019 / Saturday, 09th November 2019

 

Location: OHRID, hotel Metropol Lake Resort          

 

Trainers and Moderators: Prof. D-r. Azir Aliu, UMF Training                

                                                                                           Prof. D-r. Samoil, UMF Training

 Prof. Orce Simov, UMF Training

 

A G E N D A

 

Day 1

08 November 2019 (Friday)
Timeframe Activity/Topic Session
08.00 –  Departure from Kumanovo/Veles/Skopje
11.30 – 12.00 Arrival and accommodation of participants in the hotel Metropol Belvi          
12.00 – 12.15 Registration of participants
12.15 – 12.30 Introduction
  • Opening speech
12.30 – 13.15 Presentation of working procedures
  • Introduction of trainers and participants
  • Harmonize the expectations of the participants and the objectives of the training
  • Review of the Agenda, training methodology 
  • Presentation of the project: „Innovation Hub: Comparative Advantage for Greater Competitiveness “
  • Presentation of “Scaling up innovation to SMEs”
Session 1
13.15 – 14.30 Panel discussion: (innovation champions) which already implemented innovative projects through the national programme for supporting of innovations
  • Sharing experiences – Feedback on NMK Innovation Ecosystem 
14.30 – 15.30 Lunch
Session 2
15.30 – 17.00 EU/non-EU  and the regions of innovation

Best practices and achievements in regional innovation management, interregional cooperation, regional innovation strategies and instruments

  • EU innovation regulations
  • Best practices
  • Innovation strategies
  • Innovation instruments
  • Case studies
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break (conversations, introductions and networking)
Session 3
17.30 – 19.00 Enabling SMEs to scale up Questions for discussion

  • How can policy take into account different growth aspirations by entrepreneurs and help them manage the challenges of high growth?
  • Which barriers to SME growth call for further attention?
  • What policy approaches have proven effective in stimulating the scaling up of start-ups and SMEs?
19.00 – 19.15 Closing session
  • Wrap up
  • Conclusions
19.30 – 21.00 Dinner at the hotel

 

Day 2

09 November 2019 (Saturday)
Timeframe Activity/Topic Session
08.00 – 10:00 Breakfast at the hotel
10.00 – 10.20 Instroduction to the second day
  • Consolidation of information received from the previous day
  • Introduction to the second day agenda
Session 4
10.20 – 11.30 Innovation as an engine for SME growth
  • What is innovation? Group work
  • Successful stories

Questions for discussion

  • What are the main knowledge gaps with regard to Innovation conditions and trends?
  • What can governments do to create conducive framework conditions for innovation? 
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break (conversations and networking)
Session 5
12.00 – 13.00 The future of SMEs in the digital economy
  • What is Digital Economy?
  • How can policy address the barriers to adoption and use by SMEs of digital technologies?
  • How can digital technologies be harnessed to enable SMEs to scale up?
  • Successful stories from other countries
Session 6
13.00 – 14.30 Taking innovation to scale
  • The basic components of the scaling up framework
  • Lessons from Scaling Up Experience
14.30 – 15.00 Closing session
  • Conclusions
  • Evaluation of the workshop
15:00 – 16.00 Lunch
16:00 –  Departure 

 

Date

Nov 08 2019 - Nov 09 2019

Time

08:30 AM - 04:00 PM

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Location

Охрид
Хотел Metropol
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