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EUREKAThe value of “Co-opetition for SMEs in Europe” and the role of EUREKA’s Eurostars Programme as the preferred platform

European Day of the entrepreneur15 October 2012 - SofiaMichel VanavermaeteActing Head of the EUREKA Secretariat

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> 2What is EUREKA ?

> EUREKA is a public network supporting R&D-performing businesses

> More than 25 years of R&D support

> Established in 1985 by President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl

> Since 1985, over 30 BILLION EURO of public-private investment has been mobilised to support 4 452 EUREKA projects


> 3What is EUREKA ?

• An intergovernmental network• 41 full members – EU 27, the EU and 12 other European

countries • Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina NIP ; • South Korea and Canada are associate countries

• Financed using national and regional public and private funding

• Market oriented • Research results must be a marketable product, process or

service for civilian use

• Bottom-up • The consortium – usually led by industry - decide on the project

aim. There is no thematic restriction


> 4EUREKA members and affiliates

AustriaBelgiumBulgariaCroatiaCyprusCzech Republic

DenmarkEstoniaEuropean UnionFinlandFranceFYR MacedoniaGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandIrelandIsraelItalyLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMaltaMonacoMontenegroThe NetherlandsNorwayPoland

PortugalRomaniaRussian FederationSan MarinoSerbiaSlovakia SloveniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyUkraineUnited Kingdom

Transitional status:AlbaniaBosnia-Herzegovina

Associate country:South KoreaCanada

EUREKA has 41 full members; two countries with transitional status and South Korea as two associated countries


> 5Who participates in EUREKA projects?

> Private companies represent 68% of participants


> 6What is a EUREKA project?

> EUREKA projects are Bottom-up, they reflect market demands

> EUREKA projects are Market oriented, their objective is to develop a product, a process or a service


> 7What is the EUREKA impact?

2 M€

Private

Funds


> 8SMEs and internationalization

> SMEs are Europe’s growth engine: • More than 99% of all companies being either small or medium-

sized • 85% of all jobs created over the last years are in SMEs

> Benefits of internationalisation*: • Internationalised SMEs create more jobs• Internationalised SMEs are more innovative• Internationalised SMEs are more competitive

The EUREKA network can support those SMEs with specific funding instruments !

Source: EC Study on the level of internationalisation of European SMEs, 2009


> 9EUREKA three pillars

1. EUREKA individual projects

2. EUREKA Clusters

3. Eurostars joint Programme


> 10EUREKA Portfolio : Number of projects

Total Number of EUREKA projects: 4 452

Introduction of Clusters

Introduction of Eurostars

Start with Individual Projects


> 11Typical EUREKA projects

EUREKA Clusters projects

EUREKA Individual projects

Eurostars projects

Average costs per project

20 M€ 1,7 M€ 1,4 M€

Average number of participant

20 4 3

Average project duration (months)

40 33 29

Consortium Leader (as most frequently observed)

Large Company

SME R&D SME


> 12EUREKA Individual projects

> Small, shorter-term projects

> Involve participants from at least two EUREKA member countries

> Result in a product, process or service with a significant advance in their sector


> 13EUREKA Clusters

> Medium-term, strategically-significant initiatives

> Large number of participants, many from Europe’s major companies

> Develop generic technologies of key importance to European competitiveness


> 14EUREKA Clusters

Information

technology

Manufacture

Water technologies

Energy

Communications


> 15EUREKA Clusters

> Pre-competitive research projects lead by Europe’s biggest companies


> 16

> A joint EUREKA-EU funding and support programme for R&D-performing SMEs

> Small, short-term projects, involving participants from at least two Eurostars participating countries

> Consortium leader is an R&D-performing SME

The Eurostars Programme


> 17Eurostars eligibility criteria

> Consortium leader must be an R&D-performing SME*

> Participants from a minimum of two Eurostars participating countries

> Project duration of less than three years

> Market introduction is planned within two years of project completion

> R&D-performing SMEs undertake at least 50% of total R&D cost

> The consortium must be well-balanced, with no country responsible for more than 75% of project costs

* 10% FTE dedicated to R&D or 10% turnover dedicated to R&D


> 18

> An international evaluation based on 3 major criteria:> Project consortium quality> Technology and innovation of product/process/service> Market access and competitiveness

> National funding schemes support

> Fast application process (avg 10 months from application to funding support)

> 3000 projects submitted, 70% of participants are SMEs

> Eurostars impact on participants : With 1M€ of public funds, 10M€ of additional turnover is expected

The Eurostars Programme


> 19Main motivations for participationMain motivations for participating in Eurostars

Mutual sharing of human and

financial resources

Develop new products/services/

processes

Complement skills with the skills of other participants

Obtain public funds

Access new markets

Mutual sharing of existing know-how

Share the risk Develop strategic co-operation

with competitors

Other 0.00%

10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

60.00%

70.00%

80.00%

90.00%

100.00%


> 20Size of Eurostars SMEs


> 21SMEs Annual Turnover


> 22SME’s expected turnover growth


> 23EUREKA Wins – Success Stories


> 24SUCCESS STORY

Getting it together in the connected home

The AMEC project recently won the 2007 ITEA Gold Achievement Award for its outstanding contribution to home technology innovation. Participants from the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey set out to explore how an adaptive, intuitive and ambient ecology of products, content, applications and services could support domestic life in the connected home of the future.

EUREKA Cluster project –ITEA 03016 AMEC

Participating countries > Turkey, The Netherlands, Spain


> 25SUCCESS STORY

Monitoring your car for a safer driving

Each year over 40,000 people are killed on Europe’s roads. The partners of MEDEA+ project CARING CARS aim to drive down these chilling statistics with a system comprising in-car sensors and a wireless infrastructure monitoring the vital signs of drivers and sounding an alert if there is a problem linked for example to the driver’s fatigue.

EUREKA Cluster project –MEDEA+ CARING CARS

Participating countries > Turkey, The Netherlands, Spain


> 26SUCCESS STORY

Internet could be 10 times faster than it is

Could the Internet just stop working one day? With bandwidth requirement increasing annually as the web becomes an ever larger part of the everyday life, keeping up is a challenge for Internet service providers. A EUREKA telecommunications cluster CELTIC-Plus project is pushing capacity upwards.

EUREKA Cluster project –CELTIC 100GET

Participating countries > Germany, Finland, France, Spain, Sweden


> 27SUCCESS STORY

Special effects in Avatar made possible thanks to European technology

A joint UK/German collaboration has helped change film production worldwide, turning a work-intensive craft process into viable technology that adds a high level of realism to special effects. Results of this work have since won technical oscars for many of the researchers involved.

EUREKA Individual project –E! 1683 FILM SPECIAL EFFECTS

Participating countries > UK, Germany


> 28SUCCESS STORY

Biotech start-up brings DNA-sequencing to the medical market

What started as a three-person start-up may well be on its way to becoming a multi-million euro success story. The SME FlexGen is attracting the attention of some key investors and demonstrating the added value of the Eurostars funding programme.

EUREKA Eurostars project –Eurostars E! 4731 Arrayvolution

Participating countries > The Netherlands, Italy


> 29SUCCESS STORY

An Innovation Star for Europe

The Eurostars ISTAR project may well be an R&D effort that changes the game for the pharmaceutical industry. CrossJect, the company leading the project, plans to double its staff in the next five years. With the support of the Eurostars Programme, it is on way to major success as a pharmaceutical start-up, and has already attracted investors from large-scale investment funds.

EUREKA Eurostars project –Eurostars E!4258 ISTAR

Participating countries > France, Austria


> 30Information website > www.eurekanetwork.orgInformation website> www.eurekanetwork.org


> 31Thank you !

For more information, do not hesitate to contact your EUREKA National project Coordinator!

Ms. Bogdana Vatashka-Anavi Bulgarian Small And Medium Size Enterprises Promotion AgencyNational Project [email protected]

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