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COMPETITIVENES AND
INNOVATION FRAMEWORK
PROGRAMME (CIP)
(A greater access to EU funds for SMEs)
UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD
CENTER FOR ADVANCED EUROPEAN
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
"European Studies Across Borders“
Dragica Koldžin
C O N T E N T
1. BACKGROUND, RATIONALE AND
ADOPTION
2. PREDECESSOR PROGRAMMES
3. OBJECTIVES
4. STRUCTURE
4.1. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP)
4.2. The ICT Policy Support Programme
4.3. The Intelligent Energy-Europe Programme (IEE)
5. BUDGET AND IMPLEMENTATION
6. CONSISTENCY WITH OTHER EU POLICIES
7. CONCLUSION
1. BACKGROUND, RATIONALE AND
ADOPTION
 The Lisbon European Council 2000 - Making Europe the most
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competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the
world by 2010
Particular attention – ensuring coherence and synergy among
all actions implemented at EC level in the field of innovation
and competitiveness
2003 Spring Council recommendations – put forward a
proposal for the implementation of CIP
December 2004 to February 2005 - Public stakeholders
consultation
April 2005 – Commission has adopted the proposal for CIP
October 2006 – European Parliament and the Council adopted
decision on establishing a CIP
2. PREDECESSOR PROGRAMMES
CIP
MAP
Innovation
LIFE (Environment)
Intelligent Energy Europe
(STEER, SAVE, ALTENER)
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2. PREDECESSOR PROGRAMMES
 Multiannual Programe for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
(MAP) - the most important framework plan of activities for
the period 2001-2006
 Aims:
-enhancing the growth and competitiveness of business in a
knowledge-based internationalized economy;
-promoting entrepreneurship;
-simplifying and improving the administrative and regulatory
framework for business so that research, innovation and
business creation in particular can flourish;
-improving the financial environment for business, especially
SMEs;
-giving business easier access to Community support services,
programmes and networks and improving the coordination of
these facilities
- did not include direct support to enterprises
3. OBJECTIVES
 Enterprise (particularly SME) competitiveness
(specifically target SMEs, encourage entrepreneurship,
development of innovation governance and culture, support
mutual learning and exchange of good practice)
 Competitive, innovative and inclusive information society
(stimulate the wider uptake of ICT by citizens, businesses and
governments; development of the Single European
Information Space; intensifying the public investment in ICT;
address the fragmentation of the European digital content
market)
3. OBJECTIVES
 Energy efficiency and new (renewable) energy sources
(facilitate the development and implementation of the energy
regulatory framework; increase the level of investment in new
and best performing technologies; increase the uptake and
demand for energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and
energy diversification through awareness and knowledge
raising among key actors in the EU)
 Innovation and eco innovation
(Eco-innovation will be a transversal theme of the whole
programme)
4. STRUCTURE
 Comprises three sub-programmes:
4.1 The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP)
4.2. The ICT Policy Support Programme
4.3. The Intelligent Energy Europe Programme
4.1. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Programme (EIP)
 The OBJECTIVES of EIP are:
- access to finance for the start-up and growth of SMEs and
investment in innovation activities;
- the creation of an environment favorable to SME cooperation,
particularly in the field of cross- border cooperation
- all forms of innovation in enterprises;
- eco-innovation;
- entrepreneurship and innovation culture;
- enterprise and innovation-related economic and administrative
reform
4.1. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Programme (EIP)
 The INSTRUMENTS referred to it are:
 The High Growth and Innovative SME Facility (GIF)
- Contribute to the establishment and financing of SMEs and the
reduction of the equity and risk capital market gap, which
prevents SMEs from exploiting their growth potential, with a
view to improving the European venture capital market and
supporting innovative SMEs with high growth potential, in
particular those undertaking research, development and other
innovation activities
- GIF1 will cover early stage (seed and start up) investments
- GIF2 will cover expansion stage investments
4.1. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Programme (EIP)
 The SME Guarantee (SMEG) Facility
- provide counter-guarantees or, where appropriate, co
guarantees for guarantee schemes operating in the eligible
countries and providing direct guarantees for any other
appropriate financial intermediary
 The Capacity Building Scheme (CBS)
- improve the investment and technology expertise of funds and
other financial intermediaries investing in innovative SMEs or
SMEs with growth potential; stimulate the supply of credit to
SMEs by enhancing the credit appraisal procedures for SME
lending
4.1. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Programme (EIP)
 The SERVICES IN SUPPORT of business and innovation:
- Euro Info Centre
- Innovation Relay Centre networks
 ACTIONS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
INNOVATION CULTURE AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT
(encouraging entrepreneurial mindsets, skills and culture; encouraging a
business environment favorable to innovation, enterprise development and
growth; supporting cooperation between actors, including trans-national
cooperation of national and regional programme managers; encouraging
the creation and transfer of enterprises; analyzing and monitoring
performance, and developing and coordinating policy; contributing to the
definition and promotion of competitiveness strategies related to industry
and service sectors; supporting mutual learning for excellence in national
and regional administrations)
4.2. The ICT Policy Support Programme
 Promote the opportunities and benefits that ICT bring to
citizens, public authorities and business, in particular SMEs
 The ACTIONS under this Programme are:
- development of the Single European information space and
strengthening of the internal market for ICT products and
services and ICT-based products and services;
- stimulation of innovation through the wider adoption of and
investment in ICT
- development of an inclusive information society and more
efficient and effective services in areas of public interest, and
improvement of quality of life
4.3. The Intelligent Energy Europe Programme
 The IEE will contribute to achieving the three general
objectives of the EU energy strategy:
- improving energy diversification and supply security in the EU
- enhancing the competitiveness of EU companies
- protecting the environment
 It includes ACTIONS:
- to foster energy efficiency and the rational use of energy
resources
- to promote new and renewable energy sources and to support
energy diversification
- to promote energy efficiency and the use of new and
renewable energy sources in transport
5. BUDGET AND IMPLEMENTATION
 BUDGET: 3.621 billion EUR (2007-2013)
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programe (EIP) - 2.166
billion EUR
- ICT Policy Support Programme - 728 billion EUR
- Intelligent Energy Europe Programme (IEE) - 727 billion EUR
 ANNAL WORK PROGRAMMES
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(measures needed for its implementation; priorities; qualitative
and quantitative objectives; appropriate evaluation criteria and
qualitative and quantitative indicators to analyze effectiveness
in delivering outcomes that will contribute to the achievement
of the objectives of the specific programmes and the
Framework Programme as a whole; operational timetables; the
rules for participation; the criteria for the selection and
evaluation of the measures)
6. CONSISTENCY WITH OTHER EU
POLICIES
 Regional and Cohesion Policy
(The new cohesion policy addressees to persistent regional
disparities in the fields of competitiveness and innovation by
making these fields an explicit and central basis for Structural
Fund intervention in the objectives of Convergence and
Regional competitiveness and employment )
 Rural Development Policy
(By improved competitiveness of the agro-food chain,
sustainable land management, economic diversification and
local development – it contributes to rural areas throughout
the EU to sustainable development, growth and employment.
A particular accent is put on innovation.)
6. CONSISTENCY WITH OTHER EU
POLICIES
 Research and Development
- FP7 and CIP are complementary and mutually reinforcing in
their support of the Lisbon goals
-CIP will promote innovation support services for technology
transfer and use, projects for the implementation and market
take-up of existing new technologies in fields like ICT, energy
and environmental protection, as well as the development and
coordination of national and regional innovation programmes
and policies
6. CONSISTENCY WITH OTHER EU
POLICIES
 Education
(Essential for Europe’s human capital necessary for
innovation. Lifelong Learning will help to promote
entrepreneurship, support continuous vocational education and
training and help organizations to become ‘learning
organizations’ )
 Trans European Networks for Transport, Energy and
Telecommunications
(Reinforce each other by helping to foster competitiveness for
business)
7.
CONCLUSION
 New and the most important instrument at promoting
innovative potential of European enterprises
 Increased emphasis on small firms
 Open questions
(there are not more specific explanations as to how the
synergies of the existing programme will effectively take
place; concerns and calls for a strengthened coordination
between Member States, the establishment of common
indicators and objectives and better follow-up mechanisms as
well as the calls to involve more representative business
organizations at an early stage of the policy making process)
 Shall be open to countries of the Western Balkans