Enterprise Europe Brussels’Enterprise Europe Brussels’Role & Services Role & Services

for SMEs’ internationalisationfor SMEs’ internationalisation13.11.2013

Bruno M.WATTENBERGH

• MD of the Brussels Enterprise Agency• Chairman of the Brussels Guarantee Fund• Independent Board member• Daily Chronicle on the radio & Founder of TV Show Starter!• Professor & lecturer in strategy & entrepreneurship• Master in Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship @

TiasNimbas (The Netherland)• Certificate Strategy & Innovation & MIT Sloan • Entrepreneurship Development Program @ MIT Sloan• Advanced Degree in Management @ Ichec• Master in Labor Science @ ULB

Brussels Enterprise Agency

The BEA’s purpose is to provide information and support to entrepreneurs in Brussels.

It specialises in corporate financing, strategy and innovation.

Customer Centric …

Enterprise Europe Brussels has a role to play : why?

SMEs have great ability to quickly transform new ideas in successful business BUT ……..

……SMEs have size-related problems to become more innovative & more

competitive alone :

•Time, human & financial resources

•Difficulties in getting access to finance

•Effective exploitation of/full advantage of internationalisation & innovation opportunities & services

Synergies with NCP Brussels & local clusters

Enterprise Europe Network ID Card

• Name: Enterprise Europe Network• Surname: Business Support on Your Doorstep• Date of birth: 01/01/2008• Place of birth: Europe• Nationality: Global• Issued by: European Commission

600 partner organisations in

54 countries

Enterprise Europe Brussels

Enterprise Europe Brussels is the local gateway to doing business abroad, accessing European funding, driving innovation and increasing your competitiveness in new markets.

Enterprise Europe Brussels

Our services in a nutshell :

Going international

Technology transfer & innovation

Business, R&I & technology watch

Match-making support to successful B2B events

Access to finance

Research funding

Advice on EU law and standards

Intellectual property and patents

Speak up on EU law

Organization of local events

To Whom : local SMEs, clients

Why : to support their internationalization & innovation processes, raise awareness on EEB services and on EU policies, legislation & standards, EU programs & funding opportunities

Organization of local events

Better pitching during BE (Brokerage Events) or Company Mission to better sell products/ideas while protecting IPR

Integrate open/eco/non-tech innovation in SMEs’ mgt process

Trainings on H2020 (R&DI programme) & COSME

Workshops aimed at empowering SMEs towards inno & Internationalisation

Customized approach

• Develop, together with clients, customizedcustomized & targetedtargeted cooperation / partnership profiles partnership profiles

(offers or requests) 20.00020.000 profiles, from all sectors

• Distribute them within the Network, mainly through databases + pro-active “push” • Daily pro-active monitoring Daily pro-active monitoring of opportunities

performed by EEB advisors

Providing international visibility

Providing international visibility• TR - Anaerobic Digestion Technology sought to generate electricity in

combination with photovoltaic projects Ref.TRBE20130812001

A Brussels-based company specialized in the photovoltaic projects management is looking for a Biomass production process to generate electricity from agricultural waste of farms and from organic waste in order to reach complementary model of renewable energy production.

• TO - 3D gesture-control interactive solutions Ref. TOBE20130703001

A Brussels SME has integrated and optimized a commercial depth sensing camera and Software Development Kit (SDK) for best performance and quality in building 3D gesture-based applications and interfaces they offer. By teaming up with application and methodology experts and embedded ICT system manufacturers, the company aims at enhancing the user experience of its gesture recognition tools in diverse scenarios for the consumer electronics market. Technical cooperation is sought.

Customized approach

• Pre-arranged bilateral meetings (F2F) during main fairs (no « speculative » business trip !)

Upstream preparation with the company Assistance on the spot Downstrem assistence & follow-up => cooperation

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Customized approach

Key Enterprise Europe Brussels’ results 2011-2012

• 31 collaboration agreements signed between a Bxl-based and a foreign company

• 808 answers provided to SMEs on EU legislation / standardisation

• 202 Bxl-based profiles made visible & disseminated in the EU tech & R&DI, business DB for transnational collaboration

• 1.615 participants in workshops on FP7/CIP calls, EEB services, EU legislation/EU laws &regulations affecting businesses

• 123 supporting services on « project’s financing »• 1077 F2F meetings for 185 clients participanting in

match-making events

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