Where to innovate in Europe

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 Where to innovate in Europe ? Hot topics, Hot
spots, Hot support !
Philippe VANRIE CEO of EBN (European BICs
Network) 13 July 2007
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Workshop Plan

• A. Introduction problems, wisdom, pragmatism
• B. Innovation support hot topics, support,
  networkers, entrepreneurship, people
• C. Innovation mapping ranking indicators,
  EIS, RIS
• D. Stories
• E. The case of BICs/CEEIs

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200 BICs/CEEIs the EBN network

• The European Network of BI3Cs, incubators,
  innovation and entrepreneurship Centres gtgtgt
   Innovation-based incubators  (CEEI)
• An organised Network of 200 Business
  Innovation Support Centres covering most regions
  of EU 27 and neighbouring countries
• An initiative taken _at_ 25 years ago by the EC,
  public authorities, industry leaders, and
  Universities gtgtgt A pioneer in PPP, a connector
  between knowledge and business
• A dynamic cluster of clusters with 25.000
  entrepreneurs within the active portfolio gtgt
  Village Tronic, Paravision, cyberMD, Idratek,
  Semiotix, Biofly, Altrabio, EVSsystems,
• A uro-Global community of Techno
  Inno-preneurs, with BIC La Fucina, Euroimpresa
  Legnano, and PSTL Varese inside

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Whats the problem with Europe ?

• poor growth rates, lack of Venture Capital, low
  FDI,
• productivity falling behind, ageing population,
  massive
• downsizing and delocalisation, no European
  patent, outsourcing killing
• jobs, public sector looking for improved
  governance, lack of true
• entrepreneurship, persistent gaps in innovation,
• inadequate and not focussed enough business/RDI
  support services, .
• gtgtgtgtgt the time for theories and studies is over,
  the challenge is now to be pragmatic,
  market-driven, quick operational, consistent
  focussed, open collaborative, humble,..
• gtgtgtgtgt its about stimulating the emergence of
  knowledge-intensive constellations of
  entrepreneurial particles, even nanoscopic!

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B2Wisdom B2Basics

• Innovation through collaboration (co-development,
  collaborative/cooperative RD, joint-venturing,
  ad-hoc consortium,)
• Competiveness through Community development (this
  is about building purpose driven networks)
• Realism through customer-centric approaches (the
  customer is king, whats your USP)
• Realism through  thinking small agile  is not
  in contradiction with growth, profit and
  ambition look at dinosaurs!( Albert Frêre runs
  his empire with a small core team in Charleroi!)
• Creating wealth through the stimulation of the
  offer (Back to J. Delors white paper !
  Market-driven PUSH strategy !)
• Differentiation on branding and emotionnal
  values, not neccessarily on a technology
• Breakthrough thanks to creativity at the
  periphery, on emerging (research intensive)
  aspects of the business
• Business Model is essential !!! Then embed
  technology.

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The Technology Landscape critical but downstream
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• Changing Technology landscapeaffected by
  disruption, but more by a hunger for
  applications, the emergence of niches, an extreme
  diversity in applications, a national sport
  called opportunity spotting, by pervasive
  solutions gtgtgt case of LBS (Location-based
  services)
• Mobile com (3G, internet mapping)
• Positionning (wireless LAN, RFID, High precision,
  )
• Remote sensing (high resolution, CCTV camera,
  embedded sensors, cheap satellites, data
  storage,)
• Imagery and mapping (live streaming, real time,)
• Geospatial Dbase, semantic web search, 3D GPS
• WANTED ! gtgtgt growing ecosystems of hard, soft
  data downstream applications for usable products
  services

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non-academic/non-technology thinking

• Business plans vs business models
• Long/Slow vs Short/Quick
• Universities vs Technical colleges
• Science vs Engineering
• Technology vs Applications
• Campus vs Market
• High tech vs Low Tech
• Nanotubes vs Manufacturing (ClusesgtGrenoble!!)
• Complex vs Simple
• Nobel prizes vs Sales
• Patenting vs Trademarks
• gtgtgtgtgtgtgtSense simplicity Be pragmatic

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Innovation Policy hot topics

• Regulations Standards Interoperability
• Public procurement State Aids
• IPR, patenting, branding, licensing
• Clusters sectorial approach
• Emerging/converging Technologies
• Lead users Markets
• Customer-driven approach/ Users communities
• Platforms, poles, accelerators, incubators, BICs
• Creative systems and design
• Gazelles Rabbitts
• University/industry partnering
• LE/SME partnering (connect develop)
• 3C model (Customer, Cluster, Capital)

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The dreamt  Innovation support Agent 

•  I had a dream to meet an innovation support
  Agent, powered by a dream team, guided by
  visionaries, endorsed by leading stakeholders,
  totally credible to the private sector, mandated
  by the public sector, sustainable and politically
  independent, making impact on the civil society,
  stimulating the entrepreneurship culture,
  embedding innovation by all means and with all
  (from academic sources or not) , serving a multi
  sectors entrepreneurs communities, open to
  external partnerships and a connectors of small
  businesses to the global landscape, acting as an
  idea-lab and development centre for growing
  firms, providing knowledge and creativity
  centres facilities, finally an interactive
  cross-road for people, projects, know-how,
  technologies, IP, Investment, researchers and
  entrepreneurs 

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Hot Support is very serious !

• The mission of driving the support to SMEs
  forward requires
• Serious/relevant people/team
• Serious processes
• Serious technologies
• Serious commitment
• Serious time-frame
• Serious input
• Serious output
• Serious partners gtgtgt serious networks !
• Serious impact gtgtgt serious results !
• Serious levers (political, financial)
• Serious/relevant (global) Vision

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We want Serial Networkers aiming at

• Learning gtgtgt Knowledge, know how, practices,
  tools, methods, ideas, inspiration
• Finding models gtgtgt business models, role models,
  benchmarks, leaderships, admiration,
  personalities
• Sharing efforts gtgtgt work, investment, risk,
  rewards
• Creating dependencies gtgtgt reality , perception
• Help taking decisions gtgtgt right or wrong
• Sharing values gtgtgt ethical, reputation, honesty,
  integrity
• Building its social environment gtgtgt Trust,
  affectivity, solidarity, support, collective
  representation
• Seeing and exploring the world gtgtgt personal swot
  analysis
• Making business, money and profits gtgtgt yes of
  course

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The Human factor / The Entrepreneur

• Its about people
• Its about entrepreneurial innovators
• Its about innovating entrepreneurs
• Its about innovative business models more than
  anything els
• Its about lateral thinkers, risk-takers, doers
• Its about new skills and behaviours
• Its about ICT, ICT and ICT (skills)
• Its about leaders, and managers (BSchools
  involved please)
• Its about a feeling about services and services
• Its about creative talents, quick movers and
  team-aholics
• Its about open innovation, people and
  entreprises

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The Lisbon Goal
Growth and Jobs
Internal market
Industrial policy
Inno-vation policy
Better regulation
SME policy
Budgetary programmes
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CIP 9 previous programmes
4 common objectives
1. ENTERPRISE (PARTICULARLY SME) COMPETITIVENESS
2. INNOVATION AND ECO-INNOVATION
3. COMPETITIVE, INNOVATIVE INCLUSIVE
INFORMATION SOCIETY
4. ENERGY EFFICIENCY NEW/RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOURCES
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CIP Features
CIP brings together several existing EU
activities supporting competitiveness
innovation Budget increase of 60 Targeted at
SMEs 350 000 enterprises should benefit 3
Sub-programmes Entrepreneurship Innovation
ICT Policy Support
Eco-Innovation (transversal theme) CIP
complements other EU programmes (cohesion
activities, research activities, EU programme for
lifelong learning)
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CIP Structure 3 pillars
ICT Policy(ICT) 728 million
Entrepreneurship Innovation(EIP)
2.166 million incl. 430 for eco-innovation
Intelligent Energy Europe(IEE) 727
million
EIP committee
IEE committee
ICT committee
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CIP Budget breakdown
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1st pillar EIP

• Objectives
• Access to finance (direct funding for SMEs)
• SME cross-border cooperation
• Innovation and eco-innovation(environmental
  technologies,intelligent energy)
• Entrepreneurship and innovation culture
• Policy development
• Main instruments
• Financial instruments (equity and loan
  guarantees)
• Business support services
• Projects (clusters, regional innovation)
• Analysis and monitoring
• Policy exchange

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EIP 3 new elements
1. Risk capital instrument for High Growth and
Innovative Companies
2. Securitisation of banks SME loan portfolios
3. Enhanced role for innovation and business
support networks
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Eco-Innovation in EIP
CIP ECO-Innovation ( 430)
LIFE (? 2006)
Nature
Environment
Access to finance (200 million) Articles 11,
16-19 Risk capital (GIF 12), capacity building,
including resources dedicated to support SMEs
developing or using environmental
technologies Networking of Eco-Innovation
actors Articles 13, 21 Clusters, partnerships,
networks, technology transfer, intellectual
property Business and innovation support, policy
development exchange
Environmental technologies Pilot and Market
Replication projects
FROM 2007
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2nd pillar - ICT Programme

• Objectives
• Single information space (open standards-interoper
  ability)
• Stimulating Innovation through investment in ICT
• Inclusive information society (more efficient
  effective services)
• Main instruments
• Networks for exchange of knowledge
• Pilot and market replication projects
• Policy analysis information

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3rd pillar - IEE Programme

• Objectives
• Improve energy diversification, Enhance
  competitiveness of EU
• Protect the environment 3 fields of action..
• Energy efficiency rational use of resources
  (SAVE)
• New renewable energy sources (ALTENER)
• Energy in transport (STEER)
• Main instruments
• Promotion and dissemination projects 
• Market Replication Projects

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In search of a quality and evaluation culture !

• Indicators in search of accountability and
  tracability
• Macro, mezzo- and micro-economics indicators
• National, regional, sub-regional
• Quantitative and qualitative approaches
• Quality
• Impact assesment
• Process, input and ouput indicators
• Ex-ante, in-itinere, and of course ex-post
  evaluations
• Policy-driven scoreboards
• Down-to-earth monitoring
• Benchmarking
• Clever ratios

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European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS)
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European Innovation Scoreboard Indicators
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The 2006 Summary Innovation Index (SII)
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Innovation Gap by Indicator (EU25 / US / Japan)
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Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) Performance
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A couple of unconventionnal places where
Entrepreneurs innovate!

• Coventry (entrepreneurial) University (42)
• Birmingham(real SMEs) Clusters (Photonics) (42)
• MechanicgtgtMecatronicgtgtMemsgtgtMicro/Nano (from
  Cluses to Grenoble) (33)
• Total Services concept (Biopolis Singapore)
• INI-Graphics Net , creative computing in
  Darmstadt (16)
• FDC, FLV, IMEC made in Flanders (32)
• Croydon, Wandsworth, Bexley, Enfield (?) (35)
• Sunderland Newcastle creativity
  regeneration (78)
• IncubaTel (CIA) !
• Lazio (44), Lombardia (71), .

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Value for money of BICs/CEEIs

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For more information

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• Tel. [phone], Fax [phone]
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