Automatic access to the Innovative SMEs Register
AENOR certification provides automatic access to the Public Register of Innovative SMEs (under the authority of the Directorate-General for Innovation and Competitiveness, of the Ministry of the Economy and Business); for the first time, being registered enables companies to reconcile a 40% rebate in social security contributions for research personnel with a deduction of up to 42% of corporation tax R&D&I expenses.
The certificate of conformity for Innovative SMEs is based on the specification of AENOR EA
0047, which sets forth the requirements needed for an SME to be considered as innovative.
Companies must comply with a minimum of
400 points based on the
27indicators described in the standard, which are distributed among the areas of human resources, economic and financial resources, forms of innovation, organisation of the results of the process and generation of employment in R+D+I.
These indicators also enable companies to identify their strong and weak points in order to improve their performance in different management areas and to find out, through self-assessment, if they can obtain the minimum valuation of 400 points that is required to obtain an Innovative SME Certificate.