The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has had and continues to have a major impact on the business community in Blekinge. Shutdown economies, changes in consumption patterns, reduced demand and the transformation of activities are among the reasons. Experience from previous crises shows that they hit Blekinge’s business and employment hard. The project aims to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises in Blekinge have achieved sustainable growth, strengthened their competitiveness, their capacity for transition, thereby strengthening their exit from the pandemic. The project objective is for 80 SMEs in Blekinge to have applied for and received business development vouchers, thereby increasing their ability to adapt. The project aims to launch business development cheques in the following areas: — Digital conversion. The support will be used to start, implement or accelerate the pace of digital transformation and the development of business models. —Green conversion. The support will be used for digital development, new business opportunities, developed business models and innovations -Internationalisation. The support will be used to strengthen value chains and ecosystems. The project enables sustainable growth through strengthened transition capacity, increased competitiveness and productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises in Blekinge. The COVID-19 pandemic has created insights into the need to reshape activities, business models and processes, but the need for innovation already existed before the crisis. The project also enables the implementation of the Regional Development Strategy (RUS) as well as the underlying regional innovation strategy. The impact of the project is assessed primarily on the priority area Working life in the RUS. The impact of the project will primarily contribute to the objectives of expansionary and competitive business, as well as the goal of the innovation climate and to the objectives linked to indicators that measure job growth, innovation capacity and productivity and competitiveness.