Europe INNOVA

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European Commission
Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry
Welsh Higher Education Brussels Seminar
Fostering European partnerships between
innovation professionals.
12/02/2008
The Europe INNOVA initiative creating European
networks of innovation practitioners for
specific theme
T. Heinemeier Support for Innovation Enterprise
and Industry DG
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Current Activities
Cluster Networks
Innovation Panels
Innovation Watch
Financing Networks
Cluster Mapping
Standards Networks
Innovation Management
Europe INNOVA Communications
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Likely Objective

• Areas of high political priority
• Facilitate the commercialisation of innovative
  products and services
• Accelerate innovation
• Combine specific, targeted measures
• European Innovation Platforms of innovation
  professionals
• Develop and test new practical innovation support
  services for SMEs
• start-ups

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Probable Characteristics

• Partnerships of innovation intermediaries
• Public-Private Partnerships
• Focus the services on SMEs
• SMEs test the support services
• Sustainability of the services after the project
• exit strategy
• Enterprise Europe Network
• Potential user of the new services
• Encouragement of participation

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Possible Priority Themes

• Eco-technology markets
• Climate change policy
• Lead Market Initiative
• Environmental Technology Action Plan
• Sustainable production and consumption
• Energy package
• Services
• Broad-based innovation strategy
• Lead Market Initiative
• Cluster co-operation
• Broad-based innovation strategy
• European Cluster Memorandum
• Structural Funds
• Lead Market Initiative

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Included Market Area Sectors

• Lead Market Areas
• Knowledge-intensive services
• Not yet covered by the current projects
• Eco-innovation
• Bio-based products
• Recycling
• Sustainable construction
• Transnational cluster co-operation
• Cross-sector orientation

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Activities

• Knowledge transfer, incubation
• Access to finance
• Use of standards, labels, certificates
• Market intelligence
• KIS-IP
• Tailored to likely high growth SMEs
• World-wide markets

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European Innovation Platforms
Market sector 3
Market sector 2
Market sector 1

• Main objectives
• Potential partners
• Knowledge transfer offices, science parks,
  incubators, consultants, training centres
• Business angels and venture capitalists
  specialised in the sector
• National/regional innovation or development
  agencies, chambers of commerce, business
  associations, standardisation organisations
• Cluster management organisations

Horizontal activities

• Observatories
• Award contests
• Facilitator, communication

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Possible Futures
Knowledge-intensiveServices
Innovation Watch
Innovation Panels
Horizontal actions
Eco-technologies
Cluster Observatory
Eco-innovation Observatory
Cluster Cooperation
Europe INNOVA Communications
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European Commission
Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry
www.europe-innova.org