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PLACE PARTNER’S

LOGO HERE European Commission

Enterprise and Industry

Roger Hetherington

9th December 2014

Enterprise Europe Network & Innovate UK Practical help for small and medium businesses engaged

with research & innovation.

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• 600 partner organisations • In 54 countries • 4,000 people • Funded by the EU

What is Enterprise Europe Network?


EEN in the East of England

• European Information

Advisers

• Technology and

Business Advisers

Working with the UKTI East of England service


Enterprise Europe Network: our services

European Information VAT, EU Policies and Directives, CE Marking and Standards, EU Legislation

Public Procurement Public procurement rules, tenders alerting service

Your voice in Europe EU consultations, feedback mechanism relating to EU policies

Partnering Finding commercial, technology development and research partners

EU R&D Opportunities (including Horizon 2020) Help to access funding programmes and find project opportunities

We are the UK’s innovation agency

We fund, support and connect innovative British businesses

through a unique mix of expertise, facilities, networks and programmes

to accelerate sustainable economic growth.

A national organisation

• We are a national body set up by government to stimulate business innovation

• Working across business, universities and government

• We are mostly from business; together our 200+ people have over 2000 years’ business experience

• Investing around £400m per year in innovation

We consider…

• Can the UK do it?

• Is the idea ‘ready’?

• Is there a large market opportunity?

• Can we make a difference?


• From 1st January 2015 the Enterprise Europe

Network consortium in England, Northern Ireland and

Wales will be coordinated by Innovate UK.

• Allowing a synergistic alignment of programmes and

services for innovation and international

collaboration.


Innovation –what are the opportunities?

• European Programmes

Horizon 2020

Eurostars

• UK

Innovate UK Programmes

• Smart

• Collaborative R&D competitions

• Innovation Vouchers


Horizon 2020 –overall recap

• EU Research & Innovation programme for 2014-2020

• Successor to “Framework 7” but:

Greater emphasis on “innovation”

“Bottom-up” approach

Greater engagement with SMEs

• €79 billion budget (across Europe, over 7 years)

• 3 Priority “Pillars”

Excellent Science

Industrial Leadership

Societal Challenges

• SME Instrument

• Fast Track to Innovation Pilot


“Mainstream H2020” –points to note

• Applications have to be against specific calls

(see Participant Portal)

• Collaboration essential Consortia must reflect at least 3 different nation states

Consortia must include a mix of academia and industry

• Consortia roles: Coordinator

Participant

• SME participation “welcomed”


Designed to help fill a financing gap for business

innovators with international ambitions.

Horizon 2020 SME Instrument


Main Features

• Targeted at all types of innovative SMEs

• Only SMEs can apply

• Collaboration not a pre-requisite

• Competitive

• Market-oriented (EU dimension)

• “Bottom-up” approach but addressing specific challenges and/or key

technologies

• Grant-based staged funding.

• Coaching and Mentoring support through EEN.



PHASE I


Proof of Concept

• Typically 6 – 12 months

• Activities supported

• Prove Technical and

Commercial Viability

• Explore IP Regime

• Design Study

• Develop Pilot Application

• Risk Assessment

• Business Planning


PHASE II


Demonstration of

Commercial Potential

• Typically 12 – 24 months

• Activities Supported:

Prototyping

Testing

Piloting

Miniaturisation

Scaling-up

Application Development

Business Planning


PHASE III


Go-to-Market

• No direct funding

• Support for:

EU Quality Label (Promotion &

Networking with

Financiers/Clients)

Investment Readiness Training

Facilitating access to private

finance

Training, coaching, IP

management, Knowledge

Transfer


Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Topics

• Blue growth

• Biotech

• Green Transport

• Nanotech

• Eco-innovation

• Food security

• Low carbon energy systems

• Space

• Urban critical infrastructures

• Diagnostic and biomarkers

• Open disruptive innovation (ICT)

+ in 2015: • Mobile e-government applications

• SME business model innovation


Timetable

• Opened: 1st March 2014 for phase 1 & 2

• Deadlines for evaluation:

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 2

18 June 2014 9 Oct 2014 18 March 2015 18 March 2015

24 Sept 2014 17 Dec 2014 17 June 2015 17 June 2015

17 Dec 2014 17 Sept 2015 17 Sept 2015

16 Dec 2015 16 Dec 2015


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Excellent science

(ES)

Industrial Leadership

(IL)

Societal Challenges

(SC) FTI

(Fast Track to Innovation)


The FTI pilot is the only fully-bottom-up

measure in Horizon 2020 promoting

close-to-the-market innovation activities

that is open to all types of participants

FTI Pilot -What is it?


• Reduce time from idea to market ('last push')

• Increase participation of industry, first-time applicants, SMEs

• Stimulate private sector investment in R&I

FTI Pilot What is the idea?

Funding Gap (range:

1-3 m€)


• Will follow bottom-up logic (within SC and LEITs)

• One common call, permanently open, 3 cut-offs per year

• Time-to-grant 6 months

• Will fund innovation actions (70%), grant up to €3m

• Will allow consortia of min. 3, max. 5 members —

mandatory industry involvement

• Impact criterion will have higher weighting in evaluations

• Budget: €200 mn for 2015/2016 (100 + 100) — ca. 100

projects with average EU contribution of €2m

• Future of pilot (beyond 2016) only decided after full evaluation

FTI Pilot Key Features

Eurostars

• Supports collaboration between research and innovative SMEs at a European level

• Can address any technology area, but must aim to develop a new product, process or service with a civilian purpose

• Projects must involve at least two participants from two different Eurostars member countries

• Academics and large companies welcome to participate in projects but must fund themselves

• Funding available: up to €360k per UK partner, 60% of eligible costs (75% for SMEs)

• Currently closed, next call deadline 5th March 2015

• Launched in April 2011, building on earlier schemes run by RDAs

• Single-company grants for proof of market projects, proof of concept or development of prototypes

• UP to a maximum of £250,000

• Purely for SMEs: around 90% are small or micro companies and 80% are less than 5 years old

• Evaluation of the previous schemes showed they returned an additional GVA of £9 per £1 spent

Smart grants

Small Business Research Initiative: procuring innovation

• A competitive process using public sector challenges to stimulate innovation.

• Helps the public sector to access novel ideas and work with innovative companies

• Helps SMEs to engage with the public sector

• Gives companies a lead customer and a route to market

• Used by many Government departments and other bodies

• Over £189m of contracts awarded since 2010

SBRI: Currently open challenges

• Power Train Challenge

• Affordable space-based capability

• Detection of clandestines

• SBRI Healthcare Autumn 2014 (closes today!!)

• Inclusive Technology Prize

• Predictable and optimised braking challenge

• GNSS Antenna

• An integrated future for cities

Collaborative R&D Competitions

• Flexible Manufacturing

• Delivering economic benefit through the development of low carbon, low emission automotive propulsion technologies

• Better interactions between people and machines

• Building UK’s leadership in aerospace technology

Innovation Vouchers Round 10

• Up to £5k funding for start-up, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to work with an external expert to gain the knowledge to innovate and grow.

• External experts may be: –universities and further education colleges –research and technology organisations –technical consultancies –Catapult centres –design advisers –Intellectual Property advisers


Innovation Support Issues:

Which

programme

or scheme?

Applying is

very

complicated!

How do I find

partners?

It’s very

competitive!

How can I make

my bid strong

enough?

How do I find

the time to

apply?

Help!


EEN Help With Innovation Support

• Initial assessment (which scheme or programme?)

• Finding collaborative partners (Horizon 2020 & UK Collaborative R&D)

• Identifying potentially relevant calls (Horizon 2020)

• On-the-ground referral point for NCPs

• Finding help for bid preparation (Horizon 2020 and Innovate UK programmes)

• On-going support within the SME Instrument • Coaching

• Advice


EEN Help With Innovation Support

• Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity

• 7 days coaching support through Enterprise Europe Network

• Available to a limited number of innovative SMEs not participating in Horizon 2020.

• Includes working through benchmarked innovation management assessment programme

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

• A recently qualified ‘associate’ joins a company to work on a challenging innovation project.

• Draws on the expertise in universities and colleges

• Improves competitiveness and unlocks innovation capability

Knowledge Transfer Network

• Launched 1st April 2014, unifying the previously separate KTNs

• Learning from the history of publicly funded networking to combine best of breed

• A not-for-profit company with more than 120 knowledge-sharing professionals

• Friendly to other networks in the UK, EU and world-wide.


Stimulating Ideas

Solving Problems

Speeding Uptake

Technology Planning

Bringing together people

who wouldn’t usually meet

Challenge-led and cross-cutting,

articulating user challenges to people with

solutions

Connecting up the innovation journey from

idea to exploitation

Capability mapping,

Roadmapping

The Catapults

• A network of world-leading centres...

• …where the best businesses, scientists and engineers work side by side on research and development

• Transforming ideas into new products and services to generate economic growth

• An investment in the future of the UK economy - for the long term

Catapults – now and soon

High Value Manufacturing

Cell Therapy

Offshore Renewable Energy

Satellite Applications

Connected Digital Economy

Future cities

Transport systems

Precision medicine

Energy systems

National Contact Points e.g. Climate Action, Environment, Resource

Efficiency and Raw Materials

Ewa Bloch

Tel: 07771 372 409 Email: [email protected]

Energy

Kerry Young and Helen Fairclough


Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Jane Watkins


See https://www.h2020uk.org/national-contact-points

mailto:[email protected]







https://www.h2020uk.org/national-contact-points






Summary -Opportunities

• Horizon 2020

Mainstream collaborative

SME Instrument

Fast Track to Innovation Pilot

• Eurostars

• Innovate UK

Smart

SBRI

Collaborative R&D

Innovation Vouchers


Summary –Help Available

• Enterprise Europe Network Initial assessment and advice

Finding partners for collaboration

Innovation Management Coaching

Within SME Instrument

Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity

• Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnerships


Catapults

National Contact Points

www.innovateuk.org

Roger Hetherington –Technology Adviser

T: 01707 398735

M: 07860 753081

E: [email protected]

General

T: 0845 641 9955

E: [email protected]

W: http://www.enterpriseeuropeeast.org.uk



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