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Thematic Network on Knowledge Valorisation The
SCONE Network IRE Thematic Networks
co-ordinators meeting
Luxemburg 15-16 May 2003
META Group
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Scone main activities
The first 12 months of the Scone Network have
been devoted to

• Development of a simple and user friendly
  communication channel
• Visits and bilateral meetings to better
  understand local relevant good practices
  supporting the company creation process
• Setting up and animation of the Spinning club
• Project building activities among Members
• Exploring synergies with other relevant Thematic
  Network

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1. Development of a communication strategy and
channel

• The Scone communication Strategy is based on
• the Central Portal (www.sconetwork.net)
• Trimonthly newsletter,
• targeted e-mails
• bilateral visits
• plenary meetings (4)
• promotional material

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www.sconetwork.net
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www.sconetwork.net

• The Scone Central portal (www.sconetwork.net)
  stimulates and supports cooperation among Members
• It is used as tool for spreading relevant
  information and good practices (regarding
  scouting, pre seed, incubation and acceleration)
  identified at regional level
• It is intended to be
• A virtual platform for discussion and exchanging
  information among members and spinning club
  companies
• A virtual place for project building activities
  and/or business cooperation

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Work in progress

• The Scone Web Site is continuously under
  improvement.
• It is envisaged to develop a an interactive
  discussion forum among Scone Members and Spinning
  Club Companies (restricted area)
• A dedicated site for SP Companies is under
  construction (www.spinning-club.com). It will be
  designed according to SC Company needs and
  suggestions

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2. Collecting and exchanging good practices
The diversity that characterises the European
Regions is one of its major strengths.
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Collecting and exchanging good practices
Learning from each other, adapting each others
good practices with a view to improve existing
support measures, these are the main activities
within the Scone project
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• These examples of good practice can be useful
  for
• persons involved in business support measures,
• especially to the professionals working directly
  with enterprises in helping them to develop their
  business.

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Expected Results

• Guidelines for policy maker and stakeholders
  stressing regional strengths and weaknesses in
  terms of company creation
• A shared database of Regions capacity in
  implementing effective tools and schemes for
  supporting knowledge valorisation and company
  creation
• Projects (on regional, national and European
  level) integrating tools supporting the creation
  of knowledge based company

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Scone Visits until December 2002
2003 Asturia, Kent, Eskan, Utrecht, Aosta, V
Gotaland
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Good practices identified
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3. The Spinning Club, a cluster of new ventures

• The Scone members have identified 19 Companies
  which form the Spinning Club (SC).

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The Spinning Club
The Spinning club is acting as a reference group
for the validation of the Knowledge valorisation
tools available in the Regions. It is
conceived for ensuring a bottom up-demand side
approach for projects building and good practices
exchange among Scone Members. The Scone network
is assisting Spinning Club Members to make
national and international contacts which, in
turn, will help SMEs to access new markets for
the products and services, and find international
partners and customers.
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Criteria for SC Members Selection

• SME, entrepreneurs and/or researchers
• Already experienced within the region tools and
  schemes for knowledge valorisation and company
  creation.
• For companies SMEs are innovative, fast growing
  and familiar with EU programmes

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4. Project building activities

• Scone is supporting project Building activities
  on two different levels
• Among providers of tools and schemes for the
  valorisation of Knowledge (Scone Members)
• Among end-users of tools and schemes for the
  valorisation of Knowledge (Spinning club
  companies)

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Project building activities among Scone Members

• Through an effective ideas sharing process, the
  network is making available selected measures
  supporting the creation of Knowledge based
  companies and develop new ones through project
  building activities carried out both on regional
  and interregional level

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1. Project building activities among Scone
Members EU level

• INTERREG IIIC
• 1. Business ideas generation and Incubation
  (BIG-IN)
• Development of a dedicated fund for start-up
  companies (E-VAI)
• Economic and Technological Intelligence
• 3. ETI Club project

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Project building activities among Scone Members
Regional/National Level

• Scone is also supporting the integration of
  tools and meausures for the creation of knowledge
  based companies into Regional development
  programmes, helping Members to reach ad hoc
  facilities and eu grants and aids (i.e. European
  Investment Fund (EIF) for seed capital funds and
  incubation programmes via the Multiannual
  Programme for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
  (MAP) 2001-2005)
• So far, Aosta Valley, Sicily, Umbria and
  Slovenia have received ad hoc support for
  introducing specific measures into their regional
  innovation strategies

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Project building activities among Spinning club
companies

• Just Started!
• SC first meeting has been organised in Huelva
  during the third SCONE Plenary meeting

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5. Exploiting synergies with other relevant
Network and Projects

• SAIL (Thematic Network)
• CRESCENDO (Thematic Network)
• INSPIRED
• SLORITTS
• ISME

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INSPIRED Innovation Policy Interface
(2002-2005)

• Inspired is an Innovation Policy Interface
  Accompanying measure which will support and
  contribute to the strategic objectives of the
  European thematic networks dealing with
  entrepreneurship and high tech start up
  development, and recommend a set of strategic
  priorities for innovation policy at European
  level.

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SLORITTS Regional Innovation and Technology
Transfer Strategy for Slovenia (2002-2004)

• Slovenia is Member of the Scone project and Meta
  Group is the international consultant for
  Sloritts project which aims at developing the
  regional strategy for TT and innovation of
  Slovenia.
• Strategy for supporting the creation of knowledge
  based companies will be a key point for the next
  Slovenian innovation policy

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ISMEInternational Network for SMEs"

• INSME's main objective is to set up, at
  international level, a Community of political and
  technical stakeholders working in the field of
  innovation and technological transfer. It is an
  initiative aimed at stimulating SME's innovation
  processes, through the strengthening of
  technology transfer services supply. INSME will
  act as a hub, facilitator and catalyser of
  existing intermediaries and their networks at
  national, regional and international level and
  will contribute to specialising, integrating and
  internationalising their offerings set with
  regards to innovation and technology transfer to
  SMEs.
• It will be used as tool for supporting Spinning
  Club companies and their activities