Bridging Life Science Research and SME’s in the Baltic Sea Region

- Putting Cluster Policies into Practise

for the Benefit of SME´s

Coordination and support actions  FP7-Regions-2007-1

Project Meeting 31 January 2008

Agenda 31 January 2008

• Welcome and General Introduction to Bridge-BSR (Peter Frank, SB)

• Presentation of Work Package 1 and discussion of draft guidelines and considerations for Innovation Desk Study (MVA)

• Introduction to each of the other Work Packages (by WP Leaders).

• Project economy, administrative issues and reporting (Miriam Halle, SFZ)

• Discussion of draft consortium agreement (Peter Frank, SB)

• Discussion of Programme for Kick off meeting 6 March (Mairita Coneva, LBA).

• Meeting calendar for the project partners (Peter Frank, SB).

• Any other matter

Evaluation of Bridge-BSR

• Bridge-BSR got 14 out of 15 points• Finished 1st of 12 funded projects• Approx 100 applications delivered

Some Citations:”Concepts and objectives are defined very clearly”

”Excellent recognition for the barriers to commercialisation and technology transfer”

”The Consortium as a whole is of high quality”

Partners

ScanBalt (Coordinator) - DKSteinbeis Transferzentrum – GE BioCon Valley – GEIPPT PAN, National Contact Point – PL BioForum Oulu – FI Medicon Valley Alliance – DK Latvian Association of Biotechnology

– LV

Estonian Biotech Association – EE

Total Budget: 871.995 Euro (Incl. overhead)Total EC Contribution: 679.983,60 (78 %)

Start date: 1 January 2008End Date: 30 June 2010 (Month 30/Final

Conference)

30 Sept 2010 (Month 33/Report to Commission)

Kick off: 6 March 2008, Riga

Partner Budget

Coordination/Support: WP, 1,2,3,4,5,7

Management: WP 6 (Project Management

Work Package List

Work package list

WP no.

WP title Type of activity

Lead beneficiary

no.

Person months

Start month

End month

1 Analysis of Regional Cluster Innovation Strategies for bridging research and SME´s

SUPP 6, MVA 11 2 9

2 Analysis of IP Bottlenecks, development and implementation of guidelines

SUPP 2, SFZ 10 3 30

3 Analysis of SME Financing Bottlenecks/Investors and initiation of SME Support Mechanism

SUPP 5, BFO 12 2 30

4 Innovation agenda for ScanBalt BioRegion

SUPP 4, IPPT PAN 9 10 30

5 Mentoring and Integration between clusters and networks

SUPP 3, BCV 13 2 30

6 Project Management MGT 1, SB 11,5 1 33 7 Dissemination of Knowledge SUPP 1, SB 12 1 30 TOTAL 78,5

Project Road Map

Work Package progress

Key Deliverables 2008 for review to EC

• Project Web/Extra Net (Month 3, SB)

• Final Bussiness Plan, SME Support (BCV, Month 8)• • Analysis of Regional Cluster Innovation Strategies

for Bridging Research and SME´s (MVA, Month 9)

• Report, IP Bottlenecks (SFZ, Month 9)

• Report SME Financing (BFO, Month 9)

See complete list in Annex 1, page 28-29

Timing is Everything!European Cluster Memorandum January 2008,

European Presidency Conference :(1)”Strengthening the potential of Clusters – moving them

from co-located clusters to dynamic clusters with high level of coopetition, interaction and spill-over – is a central task that regional and national governments are best placed to adress”

(2)”Clusters reach their full economic potential if clusters are

well connected to markets and clusters elsewhere and when clusters cooperate to strengthen linkages and align decisions that are not designed or allowed to distort the market”

Timing is Everything! (2):

State of The Region Report, Baltic Development Forum 2007:

” The cluster portfolio of the region is solid but a region-wide strategy to develop it is required, in the face of increasingcompetition among clusters

within Europe and globally” ScanBalt BioRegion and Bridge-BSR

is such a Strategy!

Possible Collaborations

• BSR INNO NET• Baltic Development Forum• Others?