KONYA SANAYI ODASI

Their core work

Konya Chamber of Industry is a regional industry association in central Turkey that supports local SMEs through the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) Anatolia initiative. Their H2020 involvement is entirely focused on improving innovation management capacity among SMEs in the Konya region — helping businesses benchmark their innovation practices and connect with European opportunities. They act as a local delivery partner for EEN services, bridging Turkish manufacturing SMEs with EU innovation support instruments.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their focus has been remarkably consistent across 2015-2021 — all four projects are successive editions of the same EEN Anatolia SME innovation support program. The early projects (2015-2018) concentrated on basic innovation management and key account management. By 2019-2021, they added explicit references to SME Instrument and Fast Track Innovation, suggesting they expanded from general innovation advice toward helping SMEs access specific EU funding instruments.

Moving from general innovation benchmarking toward actively guiding SMEs to specific EU funding mechanisms like SME Instrument and Fast Track Innovation.

How they like to work

Always a participant, never a coordinator — they join an existing EEN consortium rather than leading projects. Their network is very narrow: 5 unique partners all from a single country, indicating they operate within a fixed regional EEN Anatolia partnership rather than building diverse European consortia. Working with them means engaging a stable, locally embedded partner rather than a dynamic networker.

Very small, localized network of 5 partners within a single country (Turkey), all part of the EEN Anatolia consortium. No evidence of broader European partnerships beyond this fixed group.

What sets them apart

As a Chamber of Industry (not a university or consultancy), they offer direct access to a membership base of manufacturing and industrial SMEs in the Konya region — one of Turkey's major industrial centers. For anyone looking to reach Turkish SMEs in central Anatolia with technology or innovation services, they are a natural gateway. Their value is in local reach and trust, not in technical research capability.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EENinnoSMES4
  Most recent and largest-funded edition (EUR 20,925), with expanded scope covering SME Instrument and Fast Track Innovation advisory services.
• EENinnoSMES
  First project in the series (2015), establishing Konya Chamber's role in the EEN Anatolia network for SME innovation support.