The nationwide growth programme for small and medium-sized enterprises must be implemented over a three-year period. The project aims to strengthen the productivity and competitiveness of the participating production companies.The activities of the present application; covering North Jutland, Southern Denmark, the Main City Region and Central Jutland will be:Growth check: 890 growth checks will be carried out.The growth check will focus on making the company’s growth ambition concrete and explicit, as well as identifying which areas the company should focus on. The growth check is a dialogue-based analysis with the company’s management, which will result in the company drawing up an action plan that addresses a strategic prioritisation of various initiatives to improve the company’s competitiveness, productivity and the opportunities to realise growth potential.Output of growth check will be an action plan describing growth potential and challenges, as essential elements of the company’s development and growth strategy. The professional benefit of the growth check will differ from one company to another, but it is common that an action plan is developed which includes a strategic prioritisation of future initiatives that can strengthen the company’s productivity and competitiveness and support development and growth for the next 3-5 years. Growth promise is an individual programme designed to help the company realise the action plan prepared by the growth check consultant.Output of the growth promise will be that, over a period of time, individual advice is given to how the company realises its growth potential. Here, advice focuses on the topics or parts thereof contained in the Growth Check action plan.No new growth companies are expected to be created during the programme period. In the period 2 to 5 years after the programme period, 32 growth companies are expected to be created.