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ИНОВАЦИОННИТЕ ВАУЧЕРИ
An attractive support instrument for green
innovation
GREEN VOUCHERS–NEW FINANCIAL TOOLS
RES & EE INNOVATION IN SMES
28 July 2011 – Sofia – Bulgaria
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Presentation plan
 Short introduction to Greenovate! Europe
 Innovation vouchers
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Concept
Rationale
Existing voucher schemes
 Examples how innovation vouchers schemes in
support of RES innovation, energy efficiency
could look
Greenovate! Europe
The European experts for eco-innovation
Greenovate! Europe
 Membership organisation
 Independent, non-for-profit
 Set-up with 7 founding members in August 2007
Objectives:
 to pool eco-innovation expertise
 to offer green innovation services for technology
developers, companies and policy-makers at panEuropean level
Our experts
Headquarters in Brussels and partners in 13 countries - A one-stop shop for sustainable
solutions
Innovation consulting
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Active Innovation Management (AIM) - Paris
Advansis (Ramboll) - Helsinki
Atlantis Consulting Cyprus
Bird&Bird LLP - Düsseldorf
CEIS, Innovation 128 - Paris
Greenovate Sprl - Brussels
i.con innovation - Stuttgart
Logotech s.a. - Athen
Mermaid Venture Consulting - Copenhagen
Michael Heidenreich Consulting - Vienna
Orion Innovations - London
Van der Meer en Van Tilburg – Utrecht,
Eindhoven
Youris.com - Milan
Technofi s.a – Sophia Antipolis
Zabala Innovation Consulting – Barcelona,
Madrid, Pamplona, Valencia
Technology experts, R&D
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Centre Technique des Industries Méchaniques
(CETIM)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Galvano- und
Oberflächentechnik (DGO)
DONG Energy Innovation
France Innovation Scientifique et Transfert (FIST)
GDF SUEZ (GdF) Research
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
UK Centre for Economic and Environmental
Development (UK CEED )
Industry networks and associations
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Amsterdamse Innovatie Motor (AIM)
Cluster de Energía del País Vasco (CEPV)
European Water Partnership (EWP)
Lahti Science and Business Park (LSPB)
Landesenergieverein Steiermark (LEV)
Oekoenergie-Cluster Upper Austria (OEC)
Zentralverband Oberflächentechnik (ZVO)
Overview business areas
1. Facilitate the access to market for green
products and services
2. Manage and support open innovation processes
3. Development of complex eco-innovation
projects
4. Eco-Innovation policy and programme design
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Innovation vouchers
Innovation vouchers
A modern innovation support
instrument
What are innovation vouchers?
 Първоначална помощ на първо ниво
 Малки грантови схеми които подпомагат
иновационните дейности на МСП
 Финансовите разходи на външни експерти 
старт и подсилване на професионалните
врзки с външни доставчици на знания и МСП
3. Тогава МСП се обръща
към експерта с молба за
помощ за сметка на ваучера
4. Външният експерт помага
на МСП с техническа/ бизнес
експертиза
1. МСП с иновационен
проект подава молба за
ваучер
5. Expert си възстановява
ваучера с органа, заедно с
доклада за дейност подписан
от МСП
2. Общ. Агенция оценява
проекта и отдава ваучер за
ползване и акредитиран експерт
6. Агенцията заплаща
еквивалентната стойност на
ваучера след одобряването на
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доклада
Vouchers are a revolution in speed!
 Day 1: Download application form
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Complete 2-3 pages application form
 Submit form
 Day 14: Voucher granted or refused
 Day 15: Contact chosen innovation expert
 Day 16: Start project with your individual coach
Why implement a voucher scheme?
 SMEs are the backbone of our economies
 SMEs have many innovative ideas but often lack the
necessary technical and / or business expertise to
transform their innovation project into a market success!
 Vouchers link SMEs with external support
 Voucher can be designed according to an agency’s
interests and the needs of SMEs in a certain market or
context
Green
Voucher
schemes
running in
Europe
Survey on vouchers in EU
 21 programs
 Start date: 1990 (1) – 2006 (3) – many around ‘09
 Amounts: 500 EUR (BE) – 66.000 EUR (DE)
 9/21 schemes are 100% funded
 SME own funding: 0% - 50%
 Eligible services: technological development, R&D
cooperation, business support, testing, etc.
 Eligible knowledge services
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Technology / R&D
Management consulting & business process engineering
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Skill development 
Market studies
IT consulting
 External knowledge providers
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Usually national public centres
Some accept national private service providers
Few accept foreign private commercial providers
 Speed & complexity of application
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1 page – 1 day – 10.000 EUR (Flanders)
Average: 5 pages – 18 days
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 Control & monitoring
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Tight control at all phases (South)
Only sporadic ex-post audits (NL)
Impact?
 Little assessments so far – young programs
 NL & Limburg have assessments
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>50% of voucher users continued cooperation with
external knowledge provider
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70% of voucher users had never used public funding
before
What is working well at present?
 Traditional “access to research” vouchers
 Fully automated – low management costs
 Hands-off management of agencies
 25% own cost (own personnel costs)
 Amounts: 5.000 – 15.000 EUR (not too much!)
Typology of innovation vouchers
Different design for different
purposes
1. Technical support vouchers
 SMEs use the voucher with technical knowledge
providers
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Research centres
Universities
(Technical consultancies)
 Voucher mostly goes to PUBLIC sector expert
Example 1:
Dutch voucher for R&D collaboration
 Aim: encourage SMEs to collaborate with R&D
centres to implement their innovation projects
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2,500 EUR (100% financed)
7,500 EUR (25% SME own contribution)
 Management: Senter Novem (Innovation agency)
 Source: national R&D funding
2. Business support vouchers
 SMEs use the voucher with an innovation
consultant to solve non-technical problems
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Innovation consultant
IPR lawyer
(Business schools)
 Voucher mostly goes to PRIVATE sector expert
Example 2:
KIS-PIMS voucher for RES service innovation
 Aim: allow SMEs to buy business support for their
renewable energy service innovation project
 Value: 5.000 EUR / company
 Co-financing: 100% public funded
 Management: LEV (Regional energy agency of
Styria)
 Source: regional funding
3. Combination of technical and business
support voucher
 SME to use one part of the voucher with a
technical centre and another one with a
business consultant
 Possible to use ONLY a technical centre or ONLY
a business consultant
 Voucher goes to PUBLIC and PRIVATE experts
Example 3:
GreenConServe vouchers for sustainable
construction services
 Aim: to help SMEs launch new services that
make construction more sustainable
 Value: 15.000 EUR / company
 Co-financing: 50% of costs in-kind by SME
 Management: Innovation Norway (Norwegian
innovation agency)
 Source: national funds for innovation
4. Audit vouchers
 SMEs or private persons use the voucher to buy
an audit from an external auditor
 Used so far for industrial energy efficiency,
industrial resource efficiency (energy, water,
materials)
 Voucher goes to accredited auditor
Example 4:
REMake voucher for resource efficiency
audit in industrial SMEs
 Aim: to help industrial SMEs understand their
individual resource savings potential and what is
costs to implement efficiency measures
 Value: up to 17.550 EUR / company
 Co-financing: 33% of costs of audit paid by SME
 Management: DEMEA (German material efficiency
agency)
 Source: Ministry of Economy and Technology funds
Fictive scheme:
Building energy-efficiency-audit voucher
Aim: Help building owners understand the
potential for energy saving and how to go about
Manager: national / regional / municipal energy
agency
Target groups: owners of public buildings and
private house-owners
Financing: Structural Funds
3. Собственика преговаря с
одитира в замяна на ваучера
1. Собственика на
сградата кандидатства за
ваучер за ЕЕ
2. Агенцията оценява проекта и
дава ваучер
за използване от
акредитиран одитор
4. Одитора провежда одита
5. Одитора изпраща доклада
от одита и поисква от
агенцията да му се плати
6. След одобряването на
доклада агенцията му
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изплаща ваучера
Optional rules
Co-financing from building owners:
 Vouchers are free if owner implements at least
the two priority measures recommended in the
audit within the 12 months following the audit
 Otherwise, the house owner must pay 50% of
the audit costs
Combination with investment subsidies or zerointerest loans for energy efficiency investments
Pool of energy efficiency auditors
 A pool of energy auditors should be listed by the
energy agency for the house-owners to chose
from
 maybe need to set up professional training to qualify
more energy auditors?
Norvegian scheme:
Vouchers and green public procurement
Aim: Encourage subcontractors of public building
to work with innovative, green techniques and
services
Manager: Procurers for public constructions /
refurbishment
Target groups: subcontractors (architects,
engineers, construction companies…)
Financing: Innovation Agency in Norway
Discussion?
Contacts
Greenovate! Europe EEIG
Rue d’Arlon 63-65
B – 1040 Brussels
Tel +32 2 400 10 05
www.greenovate-europe.eu
Katharina Krell
[email protected]
Astrid Severin
[email protected]