Transcript European R&D trends and impact

EUREKA
The value of “Co-opetition for SMEs in
Europe” and the role of EUREKA’s Eurostars
Programme as the preferred platform
European Day of the entrepreneur
15 October 2012 - Sofia
Michel Vanavermaete
Acting Head of the EUREKA Secretariat
Doing business through technology
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What is EUREKA ?
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> EUREKA is a public network supporting R&D-performing
businesses
> More than 25 years of R&D support
> Established in 1985 by President Mitterrand and
Chancellor Kohl
> Since 1985, over 30 BILLION EURO of public-private
investment has been mobilised to support 4 452 EUREKA
projects
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What is EUREKA ?
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• An intergovernmental network
• 41 full members – EU 27, the EU and 12 other European countries
• Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina NIP ;
• South Korea and Canada are associate countries
• Financed using national and regional public and private
funding
• Market oriented
• Research results must be a marketable product, process or service
for civilian use
• Bottom-up
• The consortium – usually led by industry - decide on the project
aim. There is no thematic restriction
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EUREKA members and affiliates
EUREKA has 41 full members;
two countries with transitional
status and South Korea as two
associated countries
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
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Denmark
Estonia
European Union
Finland
France
FYR Macedonia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Montenegro
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Transitional status:
Albania
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Associate country:
South Korea
Canada
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Who participates in EUREKA projects?
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> Private companies
represent 68% of
participants
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What is a EUREKA project?
Biotech
13%
Other
techs 17%
Industrial
techs
29%
ICT techs
41%
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> EUREKA projects are
Bottom-up, they
reflect market
demands
> EUREKA projects are
Market oriented,
their objective is to
develop a product, a
process or a service
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What is the EUREKA impact?
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2 M€
Private
Funds
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SMEs and internationalization
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> SMEs are Europe’s growth engine:
• More than 99% of all companies being either small or medium-sized
• 85% of all jobs created over the last years are in SMEs
> Benefits of internationalisation*:
• Internationalised SMEs create more jobs
• Internationalised SMEs are more innovative
• Internationalised SMEs are more competitive
The EUREKA network can support those SMEs with specific
funding instruments !
Source: EC Study on the level of internationalisation of European SMEs, 2009
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EUREKA three pillars
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1. EUREKA individual projects
2. EUREKA Clusters
3. Eurostars joint Programme
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EUREKA Portfolio : Number of projects
Start with
Individual
Projects
Introduction
of Clusters
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Introduction
of Eurostars
Total Number of EUREKA projects: 4 452
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Typical EUREKA projects
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EUREKA
Clusters
projects
EUREKA
Individual
projects
Eurostars
projects
Average costs per
project
20 M€
1,7 M€
1,4 M€
Average number of
participant
20
4
3
Average project
duration (months)
40
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SME
R&D SME
Consortium Leader (as Large Company
most frequently observed)
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EUREKA Individual projects
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> Small, shorter-term projects
> Involve participants from at least two EUREKA member
countries
> Result in a product, process or service with a significant
advance in their sector
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EUREKA Clusters
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> Medium-term, strategically-significant initiatives
> Large number of participants, many from Europe’s major
companies
> Develop generic technologies of key importance to
European competitiveness
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EUREKA Clusters
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Information
technology
Communications
Energy
Water
technologies
Manufacture
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EUREKA Clusters
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> Pre-competitive research projects lead by Europe’s
biggest companies
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The Eurostars Programme
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> A joint EUREKA-EU funding and support programme for
R&D-performing SMEs
> Small, short-term projects, involving participants from at
least two Eurostars participating countries
> Consortium leader is an R&D-performing SME
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Eurostars eligibility criteria
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> Consortium leader must be an R&D-performing SME*
> Participants from a minimum of two Eurostars
participating countries
> Project duration of less than three years
> Market introduction is planned within two years of
project completion
> R&D-performing SMEs undertake at least 50% of total
R&D cost
> The consortium must be well-balanced, with no country
responsible for more than 75% of project costs
* 10% FTE dedicated to R&D or 10% turnover dedicated to R&D
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The Eurostars Programme
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> An international evaluation based on 3 major criteria:
> Project consortium quality
> Technology and innovation of product/process/service
> Market access and competitiveness
> National funding schemes support
> Fast application process (avg 10 months from application
to funding support)
> 3000 projects submitted, 70% of participants are SMEs
> Eurostars impact on participants : With 1M€ of public
funds, 10M€ of additional turnover is expected
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Main motivations for participation
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Main motivations for participating in Eurostars
100.00%
90.00%
80.00%
70.00%
60.00%
50.00%
40.00%
30.00%
20.00%
10.00%
0.00%
Develop new
products/services/
processes
Complement skills
with the skills of
other participants
Obtain
public funds
Access
new markets
Mutual sharing
Mutual sharing
Share the risk
of human and
of existing
financial resources
know-how
Develop strategic
co-operation
with competitors
Other
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Size of Eurostars SMEs
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Eurostars Participants: Number of Employees
50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
46%
37%
17%
Approved COD 1 - 5
0 - 9 employees
10 - 49 employees
50 - 249 employees
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SMEs Annual Turnover
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Annual Turnover (M€)
SME Annual Turnover - median (M€)
10.00
9.00
8.00
7.00
6.00
5.00
4.00
3.00
2.00
1.00
0.00
8.92
0.20
1.45
SME Annual Turnover - median
0 - 9 employees
10 - 49 employees
50 - 249 employees
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SME’s expected turnover growth
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Expected Turnover Growth (average)
250%
200%
194%
150%
100%
50%
65%
13%
0%
Expected Turnover Growth
0 - 9 employees
10 - 49 employees
50 - 249 employees
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EUREKA Wins – Success Stories
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SUCCESS STORY
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Getting it together
connected home
Participating countries >
Turkey, The Netherlands,
Spain
in
the
The AMEC project recently won the 2007
ITEA Gold Achievement Award for its
outstanding
contribution
to
home
technology innovation. Participants from
the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey set out
to explore how an adaptive, intuitive and
ambient ecology of products, content,
applications and services could support
domestic life in the connected home of the
future.
EUREKA Cluster project –
ITEA 03016 AMEC
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SUCCESS STORY
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Monitoring your car for a safer
driving
Participating countries >
Turkey, The Netherlands,
Spain
Each year over 40,000 people are killed on
Europe’s roads. The partners of MEDEA+
project CARING CARS aim to drive down
these chilling statistics with a system
comprising in-car sensors and a wireless
infrastructure monitoring the vital signs of
drivers and sounding an alert if there is a
problem linked for example to the driver’s
fatigue.
EUREKA Cluster project –
MEDEA+ CARING CARS
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SUCCESS STORY
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Internet could be 10 times faster
than it is
Could the Internet just stop working one day?
With bandwidth requirement increasing
annually as the web becomes an ever larger
part of the everyday life, keeping up is a
challenge for Internet service providers. A
EUREKA telecommunications cluster CELTICPlus project is pushing capacity upwards.
Participating countries >
Germany, Finland,
France, Spain, Sweden
EUREKA Cluster project –
CELTIC 100GET
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SUCCESS STORY
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Special effects in Avatar made
possible thanks to European
technology
Participating countries >
UK, Germany
A joint UK/German collaboration has helped
change film production worldwide, turning
a work-intensive craft process into viable
technology that adds a high level of realism
to special effects. Results of this work have
since won technical oscars for many of the
researchers involved.
EUREKA Individual project –
E! 1683 FILM SPECIAL EFFECTS
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SUCCESS STORY
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Biotech start-up brings DNAsequencing to the medical market
What started as a three-person start-up
may well be on its way to becoming a
multi-million euro success story. The SME
FlexGen is attracting the attention of some
key investors and demonstrating the added
value of the Eurostars funding programme.
Participating countries >
The Netherlands, Italy
EUREKA Eurostars project –
Eurostars E! 4731 Arrayvolution
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SUCCESS STORY
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An Innovation Star for Europe
Participating countries >
France, Austria
The Eurostars ISTAR project may well be an
R&D effort that changes the game for the
pharmaceutical industry. CrossJect, the
company leading the project, plans to
double its staff in the next five years. With
the support of the Eurostars Programme, it
is on way to major success as a
pharmaceutical start-up, and has already
attracted
investors
from
large-scale
investment funds.
EUREKA Eurostars project –
Eurostars E!4258 ISTAR
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Thank you !
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For more information, do not hesitate to
contact your EUREKA National project
Coordinator!
Ms. Bogdana Vatashka-Anavi
Bulgarian Small And Medium Size
Enterprises Promotion Agency
National Project Coordinator
[email protected]
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