Technological Fishing Pole Program

Strategic task under the Task Budget

Poland: from „losing ground country”

to „high performance country”*Professor Teresa LubińskaSecretary of State

Chancellery of the Prime Minister, PolandPresident of the Interministerial Team for Advanced

Technologies Sectors Development

*EU – Report: European Innovation Scoreboard 2005 TrendChart, 2006

V Konferencja „Uniwersytet dla

przemysłu”– finansowanie współpracy

26 marca 2007 r.

Uniwersytet Jagielloński

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Technological Fishing Pole Program

Strategic task under the Task BudgetInterministerial approach under the Task Budget: (Ministry of Science

and Higher Education, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Regional

Development, Ministry of Finance, Polish Agency for Enterprise

Development, Industrial Development Agency, BGK (state bank),

National Capital Fund, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Internal Affairs,

Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Environment , Ministry of Transport,

Warsaw Stock Exchange) in the high-tech area can bring significant

economic effects.

Cooperation: - Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland

- KRASP,

- Science Council of R&D units - JBR,

- Polish Academy of Sciences - PAN

- The Foundation for Polish Science

- employers’ associations

The instruments of fiscal and monetary policies are not taken into account in

this program

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Low level of economic development in high technologies – outcome

indicators

Country% of export based on high-tech

products

Ireland 40%

USA 36 %

EU 15 18%

Poland 2%

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0,34%

0,17%

1,08%

0,51%

0,76%

0,32%

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 060,0%

0,2%

0,4%

0,6%

0,8%

1,0%

1,2%

%GDP

total

public

private

Negative tendency on R&D expenditures as % of GDP in

Poland 1991 - 2006

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Innovation parameters

CountryR&D/GDP

[2004]

No. of applications to European Patent Office

per 1 m. inhabitants [2002]

EU15 2% 133,6

Hungary 0,98% 18,3

Czech Rep.

1,27% 10,9

Poland 0,58% 2,7

European Innovation Scoreboard 2005 TrendChart, 2006

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It is worth to be changed – a hidden Polish intellectual potential

Despite a very low level of financement:• Poland takes 21st position in the Journal

Citation Reports• We have wonderful examples of innovating

companies • There are very well prepared advisors

It is confirmed by the results of a research led by a Research Team „Integration” from the University of Szczecin

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COOPERATIONAuthority – researchers – business – surrounding institutions

Together, not separately

Technological Fishing Pole

-assumption data

Involvement of:- entrepreneurs- universities, state R&D units and other R&D units- Capital-donors: Warsaw Stock Exchange, VC/PE funds, banks- business surroundings’ institutions- local authorities

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Technological Fishing Pole An idea...

The main goal of the project is to make radical changes on the state of cooperation between business and scientific/research environment in the aim of increasing R&D activities – conditions for hi-tech companies establishing.

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Technological Fishing Pole – progression of

works• Favorable atmosphere and legislative solutions which enable R&D centres to commercialize their inventions – a solution of „vagueness” between The Public Finance Law and The Higher Education Law – there is possible an approval of Senate and Rector to sign agreements with companies (universities own the patents, participation in the license incomes)

• Finishing, in accelerated procedure, the notification process of National Capital Fund by European Commission

• Intellectual property’s protection (intellectual potential). The Amendment of The Industrial Property Law. The simplification of the procedures at The Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, the removal of legislative errors. The possibility of more effective courts’ activities in the area of adjudging in industrial property protection cases.

• Integration of budget funds and Innovative Economy Operating Program – a task frame

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Technological Fishing Pole

assumption dataDescription Previous

programs Proposed program

Purpose of R&D funds

General and not closely connected with commercialization

For projects with high probability of commercialization

Method of applications’ collecting

Inflow of applications after the publishing of the competition

Active search of leaders and projects

Method of projects’ evaluation and selection

List of experts of administrative unit at the central level

Board composed of at least 2 experts, therein with patents implementation output

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Technological Fishing Pole – budget and EU

funds

• 300 million PLN in the national budget for 2007• Possibility of supporting the Technological Fishing Pole

fund by the means coming from Operation Program Innovative Economy, which allows to increase it several times

• Possibility of supporting Technological Fishing Pole by entrepreneurs’ funds, venture capital funds, stock exchange

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Technological Fishing Pole Pilotage program „Call for

Leaders”

Present-day actions:• Identification of environmental leaders

(enterprises, R&D centres, service to business institutions) and establishing cooperation among them (gathering information about research projects and their leaders)

• Organizing meetings with environmental leaders and government representatives

• Cooperation with media

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Call for Leaders Project – the first project containing all stages of

innovativeness – from research to implementation

• 700 project from 30 domains has been submitted (6 weeks)

• Total value of required expenditures: 3.2 bln PLN

• Expenditures from Technological Fishing Pole: 2.1 bln PLN

• Total level of profitability of approximately 700 projects come to 19.1 bln PLN

Research Prototype Verification PatentImplementation

27% 21% 8% 2% 42%

Demand for TFP funds according to the stage of innovative project:

Międzyresortowy Zespół ds. Rozwoju Sektorów Wysoko Zaawansowanych Technologii

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Domain Number of projects

IT 106

Chemistry 70

Biotechnology 51

Environmental protection 48

Power industry 46

Material engineering 45

Food Technology 35

Medicine 34

Electronic engineering 31Pharmacy 30

Mechanics 23

Production process 18

Safety and Health at Work 14

Nanotechnology 14

Transport 14

Agriculture 13Building engineering 11

Shipbuilding 10Others 109

Total 722

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Project Call for Leaders

5 years prediction

in bln EURO

 2007

r.2008

r.2009

r.2010

r.2011

r.

Total Turnover:

0,2

0,45

0,8

1,2

1,8

- export incomes

0,09

0,2

0,35

0,55

0,8

- incomes from country sale

0,11

0,25

0,45

0,65

1,0

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Innovativeness monitoring indicators in Poland

Number of new-established spin-offs companies – high-tech companies

Number of patent applications in PCT per million inhabitants

Export of high technology products as a percentage of GDP

Increase of high-tech products share in GDP

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D as a percentage of GDP

Annual increase of private sector expenditure on R&D in bln PLN

Międzyresortowy Zespół ds. Rozwoju Sektorów Wysoko Zaawansowanych Technologii

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Technological initiative undertaking of Minister of Science

• „Technological initiative” is undertaking which puts into practice activities shown in „Technological Fishing Pole”

• It contains two modules: the first one is designed for R&D units and universities; the second one is designed for business surroundings.

www.mnisw.gov.pl

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Technological initiative Modules

• Module I: financial support is given on R&D activities which aim to develoop innovative products based on Polish scientific idea.

• Module II: financial support is given on business analysis of R&D projects and finding enterprenuers ready to implement R&D project results.

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