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Sophia Antipolis, July 10th 2006
IMIS Visiting Scheme
Gérard BONNES, VP CICOM Organisation
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Location
Sophia-Antipolis

• On the French Riviera
• Halfway between the main north-south (Paris-Rome)
  and east-west (Milan-Barcelona) roads
• Connected to 94 cities in 30 countries by the
  Nice Côte d'Azur International airport

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Sophia Antipolis Science Park
A unique location in Europe

• Largest European Science Park
• 26,300 employees
• 1,300 companies
• 2,300 hectares (5,700 acres)
• Four main areas of excellence
• Computer Science, Electronics, Robotics and
  Telecommunications
• Medical Sciences, Chemistry and Biology
• Research and Education
• Natural Sciences, Energy, Tourism, Cinema-AV
• International Surrounding

Sophia Antipolis
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Antipolis Business Resort An innovative vision
for economic development of territories
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Introduction to the concept

• Innovative concept based on providing flexible
  work environment based on high standard buildings
  and value added services around business and
  wellness.
• The business resort is re-creating in Europe a
  space close to the American university campus
  ecosystem.
• Modules
• Business centers with event venues, seminars and
  meeting rooms
• Restaurants, bars, fitness, swimming pool and
  social facilities
• Telecommunications centers, data centers, hubs
  demonstration centers
• Training centers institutes, Incubation center
  Cyberspaces
• Office space standard and customized

• The objective is
• to contribute to the territory economic
  development
• to sense and coach innovative projects and
  initiate start-ups
• to provide enterprise and people with an optimal
  environment for performance and wellness

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BUSINESS RESORT Market Positioning (1/3)
Services
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Science parks
Nurseries
Business centers
Convention Centers
Incubators


Private Structure
Public Structure
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BUSINESS RESORT Market Positioning (2/3)

• The Business Resort has been set-up in order to
• Contribute to company creation and innovative
  projects coaching
• Stimulate growth and add value
• Facilitate contacts and business networking
• Allow personal development through wellness

The Business Resort mission is to gather on a
single site services that would normally be found
in different locations
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BUSINESS RESORT Market Positioning (3/3)
Business Centers
Event Venues Convention Centers
Incubators Nurseries industry Clusters
BUSINESS RESORT
Hotels, Resorts, Sports, Fitness Wellness
centers
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BUSINESS RESORT Targets (1/2)

• Start-up companies and innovative projects
  needing evolving infrastructure, coaching
  services and synergy with mature companies  
• Mature companies, research labs, training centers
  needing an optimal work environment  
• Businesses with nomad workforce needing
  efficient and flexible telecommunication
  solutions
• Local governments for their public Welfare
  programs (incubators, Cyberspaces, institutes
  ...)
• Individuals and entrepreneurs needing fitness and
  wellness services very close to their work
  environment
• Local residents needing new sites for fitness,
  wellness and social activities

By welcoming these different targets, the
Business Resort becomes an environment
contributing to exchange, sharing of expertise
and know-how.
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BUSINESS RESORT targets (2/2)
Businesses
Entrepreneurs, Residents locals
Innovative Projects
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Public Interest Projects
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Benefits for clients partners
Creation
Development
Maturity
Business Centers
Incubator
Nurseries
Event Venues
Labs Show Rooms
Taking advantage of the BUSINESS RESORT at every
step of projects and company development
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CICOM role and examples of achievements in the
Antipolis Innovation Campus Business Resort
Gérard BONNES, VP CICOM Organisation
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Partnership Membership

• BIC, member of EBN (160 BICs)
• Retis, French chapter of EBN
• Telecom Valley (100 members)
• Méditerranée Technologies
• Universities (CERAM, Cambridge, Politecnico
  Torino)
• CCI Nice Côte dAzur
• TEAM Côte dAzur Côte dAzur Développement
• CASA (Antibes, Valbonne, Biot)
• Eden-energy,
• CASA NOVA
• ESINET (Space Incubators Network)
• Initiatives - Projects
• IRT Initiative Riviera Technologies
• EurOffice Services (EOS)
• Waking-up sleeping projects

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European Projects

• PRAXIS, SMART
• ETI-BIC, ENTRAIN Net, Leonardo
• PAXIS I HIGHEST The Net (Coord)
• PAXIS II
• - HIGHEST (CICOM Coord)
• - SUN SUP
• DETECT- IT 1 2 (Energy Cluster Leader)
• Gate2Growth (Regional Network Operator)
• Underway
• - TRADI (Lithuania Coord)
• - ISLATEC (Cyprus Coord)
• - IMIS (Greece Coord)
• - INVESaT (EBN Coord)
• - EurOffice Services (CICOM Coord)

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• Start-Up Representatives Network
• Start-Up Service Providers Network
• Set-up two networks in order to provide the
  European Commission with a voice of European
  start-ups, and develop new tools and services in
  order to overlap existing gaps in start-ups
  creation and development in Europe.
• PartnersEuropean Federation of high tech SMEs
  (co-ordinator, B)Logos (B)FSDA (UK)CICOM/EBN
  (F)EBAN/EURADA (B)UTC (Divergent)/Twente
  University/ECIU (F)
• New services proposals to start-ups
• B3-A2 FAME (Find the Adequate Mentor)
• B2 Network of experienced non-executive
  directors for management coaching programs
• A3 The elevator program creation of a
  comprehensive training and capacity building
  support service for entrepreneurs on how to deal
  with different investors, including a quality
  check of their business plan
• A4 Fuzzy Self-Evaluation Tool. IntelliTechs
  Xtractis has generated a model that can predict
  the global evaluation of an unknown business case
  with about 80 correlation to real expert rating!
  

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FAME How does it work?
2) Start-up fills a mentor registration form on
the FAME platform
4) Requests examination companies needs,
business plan, development possibilities to
assess the most interesting projects

• Start-up Entrepreneurs want to work with a mentor
• Entrepreneur fills a registration form on FAME
  platform
• Mentors join FAME network. Creation of Advisory
  Board
• Application form examination by advisory board
  mentors
• Matching between start-up mentor
• Mentor contacts start-up work together on
  long-term

1) Start-ups and young entrepreneurs
3) Mentors network SunSup Mentors join the FAME
service Advisosory Board (5 people)
Meetings work together on long-term
5) Mentors decide which companies they want to
support
6) Mentor contacts the selected start-up
FAME Advisory Board approves and gives contacts
details of the selected start-up to the mentor
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• Innovative Training System for SME Support
  Institutions
• PartnersKaunas Technical University Regional
  Business Incubator (co-ordinator,
  Lithuania)Talos Ltd (Cyprus)Helsinki School of
  Economics, The Small Business Center
  (Finland)CICOM Organisation (France)Kaunas
  Regional Innovation Center (Lithuania)Lithuanian
  Development Agency for SMEs (Lithuania)
• Utena College (Lithuania)
• ELFA, s.r.o. (Slovakia)
• Modules for E-learning materials
• Business Organisation
• Business management (CICOM)
• Support for SMEs
• Financial Resources
• Innovation Management
• Project Management
• Innovative Training Methods

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• Fostering Entrepreneurship in the EU islands
• PartnersAthena High Tech Incubator Ltd
  (Cyprus)CICOM Organisation (France)
• COPYMSULA, Confederation Espagnola de Pequenas y
  Medianas Empresas Insulares (Baleares, Canarias,
  Spain)
• UETP Action Link/Action Synergy S.A. (Greece)
• The Technological Institute of Iceland (Iceland)
• Associazione Professionalisti Sarde Settore
  Formazione Prefessionali (Sardenia, Italy)
• ALMI Froretagspartner, Gotland AD, (Sweden)
• Manchester Science Enterprise Centre
  (Manchester, UK)
• Overall expected outcomes and deliverables
• Surveys in reference with technological
  entrepreneurial environment in European Union
  Islands
• A series of structured and intensive 30-36 hour
  training seminar
• An e-learning training platform
• A Trainers Guide
• Multimedia (CD) self-training didactic material
• B-plan competition guide
• Website portal

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IMIS

• Implementing Innovative Strategies
• PartnersLogotech, (co-ordinator,
  Greece)Advansis Oy (Finland)CICOM Organisation
  (France)i.con innovation Gmbh (Germany)
• IMIS regions
• Silesia (Poland)
• Opole/Bohemia (Poland/Czech Republic)
• Prague/Pilsen (Czech Republic)
• South Transdanubia (Hungary)
• Central Transdanubia (Hungary)
• South Great Plain (Hungary)
• Tartu region (Estonia)
• West Romania (Romania)
• Nitra region (Slovakia)

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DETECT-IT 2

• A dedicated network of incubators detecting new
  FP7 opportunities for SMEs through connecting
  existing regional clusters in Biotech, Renewable
  Energies and IST
• EBN (co-ordinator, Belgium)
• Fraunhofer TEG (France)
• T.I.I asbl on behalf of PROTON
• Brussels Enterprise Agency
• Centre de Reserca I Investigacao de Catalunya
• Institute of Fundamental Technological Research,
  Polish academia of Sciences
• PERA
• ZUPA
• EurExel
• Area Trieste
• Nantes Atlanpole
• Barcelona Activa
• Coventry University Enterprises
• Tehnopol Tallinn
• BIC Poland
• TZL TechnologieZentrum Ludwigshafen an Rhein
  BIC Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck
• Centre Henri Tudor

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INVESaT

• Bridging the gap between INnovative enterprises
  and financial InVEstors in the emerging ICT
  markets of SaTellites applications
• Partners
• EBN (co-ordinator, Belgium)
• Expert partners
• European Space Agency (The Netherlands)
• Capital High Tech (France)
• Joerg Kreisel International Consultant Gmbh
  (Germany)
• Technofi S.A. (France)
• DAppolonia S.p.A. (Italy)
• Incubating Structures
• CICOM Organisation (France)
• Hermia Business Development (Finland)
• Hertfordshire Business Incubation Center (UK)
• Consorzio per lAREA di Riserca Scientifica e
  Technologica di Trieste (Italy)
• Barcelona Activa, Barcelona City Council Local
  Development Agency (Spain)
• Universities
• HfB Business School of Finance Management
  (Germany)

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www.Gate2Growth.com
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Network of Excellence
Incubator Expertise Thematic Network

• Alpes-Maritimes, France - Helsinki
  Region, Finland - Southern Sweden
  - Torino Area, Italy
• - Berlin, Germany
• - SwissParks.ch, Switzerland

The incubator science parks expertise network
HIGHEST Network Helping Innovative firms Growth
and Entrepreneurship using Emerging IST and other
Technologies
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HIGHEST Thematic priorities

• Identify, Analyse, Improve and Share Innovation
  Best Practices, Focus on ICT
• Selected priorities are
• Political awareness on innovation
• Early stage finance
• Business exploitation of research results
• From idea to company
• Waking-up sleeping projects
• Opening European markets
• Effective transformation of
• knowledge and innovation into real business
• connecting Companies and Incubator activities

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Opening European Markets

• Services
• Mutual Custom-Made Services for Technology
  Based Companies, Start-ups and Entrepreneurs
  to Expand and to Internationalize their
  Business
• EURO OFFICE
• www.euro-office.net
• Welcome Package

• Euro Expo
• Business Connect

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Euro-Office Network
Opening Markets for Companies

• Euro-Office services
• Access to markets via leading Science Parks and
  Incubators
• Working space in business environment
• Flexible services
• Contacts for testing European operation
  location in Incubator

• Otaniemi offers visitors
• European leading RD environment
• Mobile wireless
• ICT Microsystems
• Paper technology
• 300 High-Tech firms
• Service concept for innovative high-tech companies

? Next Step Global Soft Landing, Coaching
Contacts
www.euro-office.net
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Services and tools for SME
Opening European Markets -

• Soft Landing tools in place
• Euro-Office
• Welcome Package
• Euro-Expo
• Business Connect
• Newly Generated approaches
• SUN SUP FAME Find the adequate
  Mentor DETECT-IT and DETECT-IT 2

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Opening European Markets
Euro Office Network http//www.euro-office.net
Get it 3 days for free!
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Euro Office Services - EOS

• Opening international markets for small
  innovative firms
• World Class Partners (21)
• Business Innovation Centers, Incubators,
  Science ParksInnovation Development Agencies
• Associated members Euro Office Network
  Members (30-40)
• Existing good/best practices gt Professional
  Services quality certified (label)
• Basic Euro-Office extensions
• Awareness Training Services
• Marketing Sales Networking Services
• Human Resources Business Accelerator Services
• Access to Early Stage Finance Services
• 2 years, start 9/2006, EC FP6 Coordination Action
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Opportunities for cooperation

• Capitalize upon EOS
• Cross support entrepreneurs
• Exchange of knowledge
• Embark on new projects
• EuropAid Asia Invest
• Others
• Others ideas
• discussion

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Thank you
Gérard BONNES, VP CICOM Organisation