Martin Schuurmans

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The EIT Sustainable Growth and
Competitiveness through Innovation

• Martin Schuurmans
• Chair EIT

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Our Dream, Vision and Ambition

• EIT is recognized as key driver of
• sustainable European economic growth and
• competitiveness through the
• stimulation of world-leading innovation

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Stakeholders

• Education
• Research
• Technology
• Business
• Entrepreneurs (incl. SMEs)
• Private investors VCs
• Investment Banks

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Mission

• Grow and capitalize on the innovation capacity
  and capability of the stakeholders (in and
  outside the Community) through Knowledge
  Innovation Communities (KICs) that
• Explore new innovative relationships between
  excellence in education, technology, research,
  business and entrepreneurship
• Create new business
• Educate and develop entrepreneurial people
  working across stakeholder boundaries
• Have societal impact

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Strategic Objectives Focus of EIT-GB

• 1. EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA)
  ideas/plans
• 2. KICs with unique impact KIC topics and
  format
• selection
• 3. Sustainable mobilization of additional
  funding, including
• EIT Foundation tools
• 2. is our topic today.
• We want to share our current views and learn from
  you.

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A KIC

• Is a collaborative consortium, a legal entity,
  of
• internationally distributed, yet thematically
  convergent
• parties consisting of the stakeholders
• Aims to reach and foster a worldwide lead
  position in a
• given field
• Will deliver a measurable impact on society from
  an
• economic, scientific, educational and
  entrepreneurial
• perspective
• Will have a minimum duration of KIC 7 years

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Goals of KICs (EP March 2008)

• Address long-term challenges and identify new
  opportunities
• for innovation in Europe
• Transfer higher education, research and
  innovation activities
• to the business context and their commercial
  application
• (create spin-offs, start-ups and SMEs)
• Attract partner organizations and talent from
  all over the
• world
• Develop entrepreneurial people bring them to
  business
• Maximise the share of financial contribution
  from the private
• sector

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Size and life of a KIC

• 50-100 M Euro total spending per year
• Life 7-15 years
• Funding
• EIT 25
• Others 75 (leverage factor 3)
• European programs
• European Structural Funds
• Industry (also in kind) investment
• EIT Foundation
• Private investors VCs
• Investment banks

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First call of Proposals

• Sustainable energy
• Mitigation and adaptation of climate change
• Future information and communication society
• Proposals may span 1, 2 or all 3 fields
• Transor interdisciplinary and drawing on
  existing European programs and projects
• Number of KICs to be selected 2 or 3
• Future Call Health care? Others?

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A KIC with impact

• Geographically distributed people working in
  co-location centers.
• An example
• One (lead) education center
• One (lead) high tech and entrepreneurs center /
  campus

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People in a KIC

• World class researchers, technologists,
  educators,
• business people, entrepreneurs
• Talented young academics from Europe and abroad,
  
• flexible, mobile, and eager to innovate
• People mobility between industry/business and
  academia
• A highly developed team culture/spirit
• Top management to lead the KICs
• People management
• Incentive schemes that stimulate brain gain
• Stimulate working/studying together in
  co-location centers
• Recognition of people e.g. EIT label for
  students and EIT
• brand

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Selection criteria for KIC

• Internationally distributed collaborative
  consortium
• Active in business, entrepreneurship,
  technology, research
• and education
• Each with a track record in excellence,
  international
• cooperation, knowledge dissemination and
  transition to business (elite center)
• Which promotes co-location of collaborative
  people in
• co-location centers
• With a legal identity and with a motivating IPR
  policy
• With top management, structure and
  accountability
• With public and private funding that triples the
  EIT funding
• over time access to resources beyond the EU
  direct
• budget (EUR 308 million).

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Selection criteria for KIC cont.

• Compelling innovative proposal with future
  potential
• Addresses broadly recognized topics in Europe
• Has (new) business and/or societal impact
• Makes innovation an integral part of education
• Goes beyond RT can include non-technological
• research
• Has performance parameters (KPIs), targeted
  investment returns and drivers identified
  upfront
• Has short, medium and long-term milestones
• Is beginning of continuous self sustaining
  activities
• Has broad public outreach

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Call, Selection and Monitoring

• Call for proposals of KICs by April 2009,
  submission June 2009
• Based on selection criteria and format KIC,
  finalized after Bratislava
• Selection of KICs by January 2010
• Distinguished team with the best chance for
  success
• Recognized as innovative and rational
• Selection is communicated widely in support of
  the teams elected and to help them in any way
• Evaluation and monitoring of KICs starting by
  August 2010
• Recognized as fair, simple and effective
• Is stable and solely derived from the original
  selection criteria

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Remember!

• Education and Entrepreneurship must be integral
  parts of innovation partnerships
• Opportunity for cross-fertilization and cross
  funding with other European and national programs
• EIT is owned by all of Europe
• Nothing is cast in concrete yet.
• The GB is eager to learn and assimilate your
  ideas, concerns, etc raised in speakers corner
  and the parallel sessions this afternoon

Thanks !!