Promoting Innovation in the Promoting Innovation in the European Union: European Union: - Seventh Framework Program (FP7) - Seventh Framework Program (FP7) - Competitiveness and Innovation - Competitiveness and Innovation Program (CIP) Program (CIP) Mary Kavanagh Mary Kavanagh Science, Technology and Education Counselor Science, Technology and Education Counselor European Commission Delegation to the USA European Commission Delegation to the USA Technology Transfer Society, Washington DC, June 2007 Technology Transfer Society, Washington DC, June 2007
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Promoting Innovation in the Promoting Innovation in the European Union:European Union:
- Seventh Framework Program (FP7) - Seventh Framework Program (FP7) - Competitiveness and Innovation - Competitiveness and Innovation
Program (CIP)Program (CIP)
Mary KavanaghMary KavanaghScience, Technology and Education CounselorScience, Technology and Education CounselorEuropean Commission Delegation to the USAEuropean Commission Delegation to the USA
Technology Transfer Society, Washington DC, June 2007Technology Transfer Society, Washington DC, June 2007
Lisbon strategy
S&T contributes to the Lisbon objectives: economic growth, employment creation, environmental protection, social challenges:
fight poverty, improve human health and quality of life
R&D – Europe and the worldEU-25 US Japan
R&D intensity (% of GDP) (3) 1.93 2.59 3.15
Share of R&D financed by industry (%) (2) 54.8 63.1 74.5
Researchers per thousand labour force (FTE) (3) 5.4 9.0 10.1
Share of world scientific publications (%) (3) 38.3 31.1 9.6
Scientific publications per million population (3) 639 809 569
Share of world triadic patents (%) (1) 31.5 34.3 26.9
Triadic patents per million population (1) 30.5 53.1 92.6
High-tech exports as a share of total manufacturing exports (%) (3) 19.7 28.5 26.5
Share of world high-tech exports (%) (2) 16.7 19.5 10.6
Note: (1) 2000 data (2) 2002 data (3) 2003 data
Towards the Seventh Framework Programme 2007-2013 (‘co-decision’)
Summary
• Research: Seventh Framework Program
• Innovation: Competitiveness and Innovation Program
• Education: European Institute of Technology
• General Introduction to FP-7
The EU’s Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-
2013)
• FP-7: Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
• The European Union’s main instrument for funding research in Europe between 2007 and 2013
• FP7 supports research in selected priority areas
EU Research Framework Programmes
Annual Budgets between 1984 and 2013
NB: budgets in current prices. Source: Annual Report 2003, plus FP7 revised proposal
Euratom indirect actions – nuclear fusion and fission research
FP7 Indicative breakdown (€ million)
Cooperation programme (€ million)
• Process and Funding Schemes
Process
• Work Program (annual):Strategy/ approach, timing and content of calls (topics, funding schemes, budgets etc.)
• Calls for Proposals (no spontaneous applications)
• Deadlines for submission• Electronic submission of proposals• Eligibility Criteria• Evaluation Criteria • Peer review evaluation by at least 3
experts
Funding Schemes
• Collaborative projects– Consortia with participants from different countries– New knowledge, technology, products or common resources for research
• Networks of Excellence– Joint programmes by organisations integrating activities
in a given field
• Coordination and support actions– Networking, exchanges, trans-national access to research infrastructures,
studies, conferences, etc.
• Support to frontier research (ERC)
• Training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
• Research for the benefit of specific groups(in particular SMEs)
Promoting Innovation
European Technology Platforms
Industry-driven, competitiveness-focused European technology platforms
Concept
Stakeholders, led by industry, get together to define a Strategic Research Agenda on a number of strategically important issues with high societal relevance where achieving Europe’s future growth, competitiveness and sustainable objectives is dependent upon major research and technological advances in the medium to long term.
European Technology Platforms
• Bottom-up approach with industry in lead
• Wide stakeholder involvement
• Flexibility: No ‘one size fits all’
• EU Role: facilitating and guiding but not leading or owning
• Majority of strategic research agendas, where appropriate, taken into account in thematic priorities of FP7
• Minority of strategic research agendas lead to
‘Joint Technology Initiatives’
Joint Technology Initiatives
Identification criteria include:
• Added value of European-level intervention
• Degree and clarity of definition of objective
• Strength of commitment from industry
• Scale of impact on industrial competitiveness and growth
• Importance of contribution to broader policy objectives
• Capacity to attract additional national supportand leverage industry funding
• Inability of existing instruments to achieve objective
Potential Joint Technology Initiatives
Other possible themesto be identified later…
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
Aeronautics and Air Transport
Global Monitoring for Environment
and Security
Embedded Computing Systems
Innovative Medicines
Nanoelectronics
More on SMEs
Co-operation Program: Research for the benefit of
SMEs
• Research for SMEs
• Research for SME associations
• Encourage and facilitate SME participation across FP7