Enterprise and Industry DirectorateGeneral

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European Commission
David Kolman
Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General
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General Objectives

• Closing gap between research and innovation
• Promotion of all forms of innovation
• Administered by Directorate General for
  Enterprise and Industry

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Political and Economical Placement The Lisbon
Goal
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CIP Adoption Procedure

• Co-decision of the EP and the Council
• Commission proposes
• Council and EP amend
• Commission modifies
• Council (and EP) aprove
• Current Status
• 06/04/2005 Com. Proposal
• 28/02/2006 Council Draft
• 01/06/2006 EP 1st Reading
• Now waiting for adoption by the Council Oct.06?

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CIP 9 previous programmes
eCONTENT
Innovation
Modinis
MAP
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 Budget breakdown
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1st pillar/SP EIP
Support of enterprise, particularly SMEs

• Objectives
• Access to finance
• Environment for SME (cross-border) cooperation
• Innovation and eco-innovation
• Entrepreneurship and innovation culture
• Policy for innovative environment
• Main instruments
• Financial instruments
• Business support services
• Projects (clusters, regional)
• Analysis and monitoring
• Policy exchange

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Access to Finance (1)

• High Growth and Innovative SME Facility (GIF)
• operated on behalf of EC by EIF
• GIF1 investing in early stage, local or RTD
  venture capital funds that provide capitals to
  SMEs
• GIF2 investing in expansion stage capital funds
  that provide capital to SMEs

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Access to Finance (2)

• 2. SME Loan Guarantee Facility (SMEG)
• operated on behalf of EC by EIF
• guarantees for high risk loans
• support to financial institutions to provide
  micro credit financing
• guarantees for equity or quisi-equity investment
• securitization of SME debt finance portfolios

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Access to Finance (3)

• 3. Capacity Building Scheme (CBS)
• operated on behalf of EC by EBRD, EIB, EIF CEB
• Seed Capital Action grants to stimulate supply
  of venture capital to SMEs (incl. for HR)
• Partnership Action grants to financial
  intermediaries, esp. in countries with low credit
  volumes to SMEs

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SME Cooperation Support Services

• Network partners will provide for SMEs
• Information, Feedback, Business Cooperation,
  Internationalisation Services
• Services for Innovation and the transfer of
  Technologyand Know-How
• Help with participation in FP7

These services are currently provided by
and
No wrong door no closed door
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Innovation activities

• Pilot projects and market replication projects
  (introduction to market)
• Mainly to reduce energetic consumption and
  increase energetic efficiency
• To be realized in the second half of the
  programming period 2007-2013

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Eco-innovation

• New production processes or business methods
  lowering costs and environmental impacts
• Environmentally-friendly products and services
  addressing new needs, new markets
• Voluntary approaches to environmental management,
  eco-innovation clusters and networks

Reducing pollution and optimising resource use
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Support to eco-innovation

• Via Financial instruments (228 million)
• Investment in Venture Capital funds active in the
  field of eco-innovation
• Capacity building for the technical capacity of
  financial intermediaries
• Pilot and market replication projects (205
  million)
• Innovative products, services, clean technologies
  developed by or for SMEs
• Environmental management, eco-design,
  eco-labelling
• Eco-innovation networks and clusters

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Policy for Innovative Environment
Clusters, regional innovation

• Support to international cooperation between
  clusters
• Europe INNOVA http//www.cordis.europa.eu/innova
  tion/en/policy/europe-innova.htm
• PRO-INNO Europe http//www.cordis.europa.eu/inno
  vation/en/policy/pro-inno-text.htm
• IPR Helpdesk http//www.ipr-helpdesk.org

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2nd pillar/SP - ICT Programme
Establishment of Information Society

• Objectives
• Development of a single European information
  space
• Wider uptake and better use of ICT
• An inclusive Information Society
• Main instruments
• Pilot projects
• Best practice exchanges and networking
• Policy analysis and promotion actions

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2nd pillar ICT Main objectives (1)

• Single Information Space
• ensuring seamless access to electronic services
• supporting the development of digital content
• monitoring the European Information Society

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2nd pillar ICT Main objectives (2)

• Wider uptake of ICT in businesses
• (in particular for SMEs)
• uptake of ICT in processes, products and services
• facilitating public and private
  interaction/partnerships
• promoting and raising awareness of ITC benefits

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2nd pillar ICT Main objectives (3)

• An inclusive Information Society
• improving the quality, efficiency and
  effectiveness of electronic services in areas of
  public interest
• European enterprises (SMEs) should benefit from
  the wide business opportunities offered by
  ICT-based services
• benefits to all citizens
• widening ICT accessibility and digital literacy
• reinforcing trust and confidence in ICT

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3rd pillar/SP - IEE Programme
Secure, sustainable and competitively priced
energy for Europe

• Objectives
• 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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3rd pillar - IEE Programme

• Promotion and dissemination projects
• Five main areas of Action
• Enabling policies strategies (e.g. policies in
  transport)
• Market transformation (e.g. small-scale
  renewables applications)
• Access to capital and sustainable energy
  procurement
• Changing energy behaviours (e.g. awareness
  raising, education)
• Acting at local level (e.g. knowledge of local
  actors, networking)

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Implementation Issues

• The Commission shall be assisted by three
  Programme Committees, one for each SP (nomination
  of a delegate and an expert for each PC by MS)
• The Commission will adopt annual Work Programmes
  for each SP and shall also ensure their
  implementation
• (WP for 2007 in making in the Commission)
• Annual implementation reports Interime
  evaluation (31.12. 2009) Final evaluation
  (31.12. 2011)
• Participation open in general also to EEA
  countries, candidate countries and countries of
  Western Balkans

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FP7 CIP
FP7-RTD
CIP
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CIP Structural Funds
CIP
SF
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Further Information/Contact

• http//ec.europa.eu/enterprise/enterprise_policy/c
  ip/index_en.htm
• http//www.czelo.cz
• kolman_at_tc.cz