Transcript Ermis Project

Ermis Project
Final conference
5th November 2012
Municipality of Cesena
Lia Montalti
Councillor for environmental Sustainability, Energy policies and European projects
Also representing Partner 4 – CISE – Centre for Innovation and Economic Development
The Added value of ERMIS - Learning from
Partners
through ermis the Partners check for the
“blind spots” in a regional ecosystem in order
to evaluate a new range of possible services we translate this check in “Value Chain” of
Services for example:
Connecting large
companies, SMEs, young
would-be entrepreneur
& supporting shared
innovation processes
Connect
Denmark/DevLab
Matching ongoing
innovation processes with
professors, researchers,
students
United Brains
Providing
financial
resources for
innovation
processes
Aegean Technopole
+ incubator
ERMIS as an opportunity to share best
practice in terms of energy sustainability
We proposed our Sustainability Energy
Action Plan as a best practice. And it has
been chosen for transfer by 2 partners. In
French Riviera it is actually object of an
implementation design
Objective:
reduction 20%
CO2 emission,
equivalent to 130.000 TeqCO2
Cesena SEAP
 Promotes environmental innovation in SMEs through a
policy of sustainable actions.
 Allows a territory to achieve its goals concerning the control of
the use of energy and on the development of alternative
solutions.
 Measures the effectiveness of the cooperation between ICT
energy and ICT construction (monitoring of smart buildings).
 Allows a region to control its policies according to its
strengths and the local context through a logic of a BSC
(balanced score card)
 Promotes applied research and scientific knowledge in the
field of energy, promotes the link between market needs /
product / research and public policy and develops the local
market.
The good practices that the Municipality of
Cesena selected as likely for a transfer,
reflect a gap in the innovation policy mechanism
in our region and therefore
a most relevant for the regional situation in
terms of innovation potential
Examples of best practices actually being transferred
to our territory:
UNITED BRAINS
•INCUBATOR
Developing Ermis best
practices: United Brains
The municipality of Cesena is currently focusing on the
transfer of the best practice named “United Brains” and
proposed by P5.
In partnership with the local chamber of commerce and
the region’s public company that connects
university and local sme’s we arie preparing a
feasibility report that includes a survey with local
firms to be concluded by end of September.
By the end of year, in collaboration with above
mentioned public company, we will be holding a
workshop on the “united brains” model that will
serve as launching event of the practice in our
region
Cesena Business incubator
Cesena is currently engaged in setting up an ICT
business incubator, which will start before the end of
year. We're developing a new european project, Jobtown
Urbact II, that will address how to involve key
stakeholders in supporting the endeavour and making
it a success in creating viable businesses.
How it will work:
- Participants won’t pay rent and will be selected on the
basis of proposing the best business plans.
- The incubator will provide training in management and
business creation.
- The local administration will provide support with
administrative requirements.
- The Cesena Savings Bank and the Municipality will
support the propositions by providing a common fund for
business start up.
Architectural renderings of
the incubator
The good practices that the Centre for Innovation
and Economic Development of Forlì-Cesena
selected as likely for a transfer reflect:
• a gap in services to support new form of
cooperative/open innovation;
• a gap in the financing of innovation.
Examples of best practices actually being transferred
to our territory with reference to some of their
features are:
•DEVLAB
•CONNECT DENMARK
•AEGEAN TECHNOPOLE SEED CAPITAL
Building on DEVLAB and CONNECT DK
The next year, a new innovation support scheme will
be launched whereby large, medium and small
enterprises, along with high potential youths will
cooperate in generating and shaping a new
business.
Participants will be supported by experts in design
and creativity, living labs and quality function
deployment, business planning, financing, etc.
Cooperation will be on an open-innovation basis.
Innovation will be aimed at a better quality of life.
Building on AEGEAN TECHNOPOLE
SEED CAPITAL
In Italy, Consorzi Fidi are entities co-financed by
chambers of commerce, public institutions and
business associations that provide additional
guarantees to banks whenever SME applies for
loans at local banks.
Additional guarantees have the aim of reducing the
risk undertaken by the banks and therefore increase
their willingness to loan money at reasonable rates.
Such guarantees have rotational nature (unless the
SME does not pay back its loan, if so, the money
involved in the guarantee is lost).
Building on AEGEAN TECHNOPOLE
SEED CAPITAL
The idea is to have Consorzi Fidi (the CC already
co-funds) provide additional guarantees to
support SMEs applying for loans at local banks to
develop innovative projects.
Additional guarantees mean that SME with small
assets (i.e. unable to provide directly sufficient
guarantees) can apply for fujnding and thatk the
interest rate applied by banks can be lowered.
Only innovative projects that will have been positively
assessed by a technical committee will be awarded
such additional guarantees.
Lessons learnt from Ermis Project
Diversity of the economic base can represent
an asset for innovation, if it's integrated in a
“smart” system where regional and local actors
promote cross-fertilisation of ideas and
technologies.
The idea of “innovative ecosystems”, supported
in some regions within the ermis project, is to be
pursued.
•Interreg projects such as ERMIS represent a
unique opportunity to create awareness for a
place-based approach to innovation.