The SME Innovation Instrument, Horizon2020 and Talent Europe Alberto Di Minin Country Representative – H2020 SME and Access to Risk Finance Associate Professor Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa Meridian Fellow Social Innovation Italian Embassy, Washington DC, May 18 th 2015
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The SME Innovation Instrument, Horizon2020 and Talent Europe. A discussion by Meridian International Social Innovation Fellow Alberto Di Minin at the Italian Embassy in Washington
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The SME Innovation Instrument, Horizon2020 and Talent Europe
Alberto Di Minin
Country Representative – H2020 SME and Access to Risk FinanceAssociate Professor Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa
Meridian Fellow Social Innovation
Italian Embassy, Washington DC, May 18th 2015
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Agenda
• The Meridian Fellowship & Talent Europe• H2020 SME Innovation Instrument – State of Play• Discussion and Conclusions– 3 Ideas for Talent Europe
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The Meridian Social Innovation Fellowship
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Talent Europe: a “commando” think tank on Innovation and Science & Technology Policy
Communication of S&T
Mentoring HT Entrepr.
Corporate Entrepren.
Demand Side Innov Pol
HT Entrepreneurs
Digital Economy
Judiciary System
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H2020 AND SMESAn overview of the program and some numbers
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Something interesting happens
here..
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What was the main concen?
The European Paradox Compared with the scientific performance of its competitors, that of the EU is excellent, but over the last fifteen years its technological andcommercial performance in high-technology sectors such as electronics and information technologies has deteriorated. One of Europe’s major weaknesses lies in its inferiority in terms of transforming the results of technological research and skills into innovations and competitive advantages.
8How about here?
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…similar concerns
Five-Year Assessment of the European Union Research
Framework Programmes 1999-2003”,
European Commission, DG Research1. EU Universities/Research institutes have traditionally been able to develop
and maintain the European knowledge base, but have yet to fully respond to global competition for knowledge and talent.
2. Industry shows little interest to Public/private partnerships 3. The general public in Europe is becoming concerned about the social and
economic impact of scientific and technological advances
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“Today we toast to the largest research and innovation
program in Europe”Former Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn,
Dec 3rd 2013, European Council Research and Competitiveness
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Horizon 2020: Key elements
• Three pillars: societal challenges, industrial competitiveness and excellence in science
• More emphasis on innovation
• More involvement of industry via the industrial deployment of key enabling technologies, and through PPPs - institutional and contractual
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The Three Pillarsof Horizon 2020
1Excellent science European Research Council
Future and Emerging Technologies Marie Curie actions
Research infrastructures
2Industrial
leadership
3Societal challenges
Leadership n enabling and industrial technologies Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
Health, demographic change and wellbeing Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bio-economy Secure, clean and efficient energy Smart, green and integrated transport Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials Inclusive societies Secure societies
Budget allocated € 111.328.800(1,85 M€ per project)
€ 117.615.077(1,59 M€ per project)
€ 228.943.877(1,71 M€ per project)
Single companies rate for funded proposals
82% 80% 81%
Phase 2 Proposals in 2014:
Source: EU Commission on EASME data
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Proposals in Phase 1 by topic
Business Model Innovation
eGovernemnt
Urban Critical Infrastructures
Blue Growth
Biotech
Space
Food Production
Diagnostic Devices & Biomarkers
Gren Transport
Eco-Innovation & Row Materials
Nano-Tech
Low Carbon Energy Systems
Open Disruptive Innov -ICT
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
Jun-14 Sep-14 Mar-15
Dec-14 data is missingSource: our elaboration from EASME Data
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IT UK HU PL SI FI BG DK IE SK EE AT CZ LV CY LU MK
MD BA FO
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
Proposals Ph.1 (2014-2015) Proposals Ph.2 (2015)
Source: our elaboration from EASME Data
Proposing SMEs by Country
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Distribution of SMEs founded Phase 1 2014 (by country)
ES IT UK DE FR NL FI SE IE DK NO EE PT AT IL EL SI BE HU PL LT CZ IS TR CY LV RS SK BG HR LU0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
127
105
80
49
38
3024 24 22
1915 14 13 11 11 9 9 8 8 8
4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1
Source: our elaboration from EASME Data
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ES UK DE NL FR IT SE HU DK FI IE IL PL SI EE TR AT EL NO BE LU PT0
5
10
15
20
25
30
25 25
17 17
15
11
98
6 65 5
4 43 3
2 2 21 1 1
Distribution of SMEs founded Phase 2 2014 (by country)
Source: our elaboration from EASME Data
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Top-10 country success rates(all beneficiaries and all phases combined)
Source: EU Commission on EASME data
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Results of March 2015
Phase 1 Phase 2
Proposals 1556 619
Above threshold 251 (16%) 233 (38%)
To be funded 149 (59%) 37 (16%)
Budget allocated 7.480.000 € 68.045.000 €
Total 2015 Budget – € 259.700.000
Source: EU Commission on EASME data
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SOME EXAMPLES…
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Guger Technologies OG
BACKGROUND:Provides and develops new technology within many different fields, including BCI, physiology, Virtual Reality, real-time processing, and spike analysis. G.TEC was founded and is actually owned by Mr Cristoph Guger and Mr Guenter
Growing enterprise with two branches in Austria and in Spain, distribution partners all over the world.. Active member in national and international research projects and in scientific publishing.g.tec developed the first commercially available BCI system in 1999 and now sells this system in more than 60 countries worldwide.
• Brain-computer interfaces to control Social Networks, Virtual Reality, robots and many other application
• real-time analysis of brain signals and other physiological signals
Focuses
The idea is to provide both new brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies and an innovative business model focused on user-centered assessment and communication for persons with disorders of consciousness (DOCs)
Phase 1 Project
Guger Technologies OG
The winner project
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Supponor Oy
Espoo. Finlandwww.supponor.com
Product B2B
ICT (Enabled)
COMPANY PROFILE OPEN INNOVATION
• Creating new value for rights holders by enhancing and acquiring packages of their perimeter billboard inventory • Deliver of marketing opportunities to brands around the
world looking to engage specific sports audiences with relevant marketing• Supponor’s highly skilled software engineers in the
research and development team in Espoo, Finland, work constantly to refine and further develop the technology underpinning DBRLive, pushing boundaries to create new value for our clients and partners
BACKGROUND: Supponor Oy develops, commercializes, and installs digital billboard replacement technology for live sports broadcasts. Its international billboard rights allow advertisers to target various markets/regions with advertising from the same event in local language/with relevant messages for various markets. Innovative sports media and technology company whose DBRLive technology is revolutionising perimeter advertising in sports. Management and operation of DBRLive, a technically innovative and operationally robust media platform which integrates with live broadcasts.
ICT, broadcast
2001
• INDUSTRY
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Coelux S.r.l.
Lomazzo (Como) Italywww.coelux.com
Product B2BMaterials for
Building
COMPANY PROFILE BUSINESS
• Mission of the company: to combine worlds apparently distant as science, art and architecture towards a unifying view of lighting as a deep perceptive experience and to propose this experience through high-tech products.• CoeLux devotes a large part of its activity to the
relationship between visual comfort in artificial illumination and natural daylight, as evidenced by its major role in the FP7 EC funded project “CoeLux” (2010-2012).
Coelux was awarded an SME Instrument Phase 2 for an innovative technology that brings the outdoors indoors. CoeLux is the first product able to reproduce sky and sunlight in an interior space. Indoor spaces are transformed, they acquire volume and shape through light and shadow, creating a new relationship between people and the surrounding architecture. SME Instrument funding will help the company in scaling up the production , also increasing Coelux preparedness to the global market.
• INDUSTRY: Engineering• CoeLux Srl is a high-tech spin-off of Insubria University
at Como, Italy, founded in 2009 by Professor Paolo Di Trapani, located in ComoNext technology park, a site created by the Como Chamber.• CoeLux® is a research project funded by the European
Union under the 7th Framework Program for research and development