NU/1176 Consultancy Services for the INNOGROW Project

Newcastle University is a partner in the INNOGROW Project funded by the Interreg Europe Programme. The INNOGROW project seeks to implement regional policies for innovation driven competitiveness and growth of rural SMEs. The leader partner is the Region of Thessaly (Greece). Rural economy SMEs face challenges in adopting innovation to increase their competitiveness. The project will play an important role in supporting the modernisation of existing rural SMEs and the proliferation of innovative start-ups. It will improve the capacity of managing and regional authorities to implement policies that promote the adoption of technology and business model innovations by rural SMEs. The scope of the work is to provide three sets of services: 1. Methodology design for measuring the impact of the main new disruptive technologies on rural SMEs competitiveness and productivity 2. Collection of evidence and development of an impact analysis report to present the main new disruptive technologies’ impact on rural SMEs’ competitiveness and productivity. 3. Development of the project’s sustainability plan.