horizon2020 - sme's and horizon2020, steve bradley, european commission - 27 may 2014
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SMEs and Horizon 2020 - SME Instrument
Horizon 2020 – how to access EU funding for R&D & Innovation Olympic Suite, Titanic Belfast – Tuesday, 27th May 2014
Steve Bradley - EU National Contact Point for SME‘s (UK)
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Strategic positioning:
R&D driven projects
Market opportunity
driven projects
Cooperation logic at regional or national level
Transnational cooperation logic
Horizon 2020SME instrument
Target: Business innovation motivated SMEs
Eurostars 2Target: R&D
intensive SME
Horizon 2020Collaborative
ResearchTarget: R&D topics
National & regional programs
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Outcome of impact assessments• Less than 50% of industrial partners use the publicly funded applied
research projects strategically
• Only about 22% of SMEs participating in EU research programs are strategic innovators
• Most academics engage with industry to further their research rather than to commercialise their knowledge
• Results are not exploited because projects were not designed for exploitation
• There is a strong relationship between internationalisation and innovation, but SMEs are not aware of internationalisation support programmes.
• The information environment of (European) R&D programmes is unattractive and off-putting to SMEs
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Activities for SMEs in Horizon 2020• All forms of R&D and all forms of innovation, towards exploitation and
commercialisation
• SME participation in collaborative R&D or innovation projects (all three priorities)
• SME instrument (budget from all societal challenges as well as from the Leading Enabling Industrial Technologies LEITs)
• Innovation in start-ups, spin-offs and young companies (Eurostars and other measures)
• Access to risk finance (debt and equity facility)
• Exchange and mobility of researchers involving SMEs (Marie Curie actions))
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SME instrument main features
• Targeted at all types of innovative SMEs
• Only SMEs allowed to apply for funding (single company support possible)
• Competitive
• Market-oriented, EU dimension
• Bottom-up while addressing societal challenges and/or key enabling technologies
• Grant-based staged funding
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IDEA continued support throughout the project MARKET
Concept & Feasibility
Assessment
DemonstrationMarket Replication
R&D Commercialisation
Idea to concept, risk assessment, technological &
commercial feasibility
Demonstration, prototyping, testing ,
market replication, scaling up, miniaturisation,
research
Quality label for successful projects,
access to risk finance, indirect
support
SME window EU financial facilities
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Phase 1: Concept and feasibility
assessment
Phase 2: R&D, demonstration,
market replication
Input: Idea/Concept: "Business Plan 1"
(~ 10 pages) 10% budget
Activities:Feasibility of concept
Risk assessmentIP regime
Partner searchDesign study
Pilot applicationetc.
Output: elaborated "Business plan 2"
Input: "Business plan 2" plus description of activities under Phase
2 (~ 30 pages)88% budget
Activities:Development,
prototyping, testing, piloting,
miniaturisation, scaling-up, market
replication, research
Output: "investor-ready Business plan 3"
Lump sum: 50.000 €
~ 6 months No direct funding
Phase 3: Commercialisation
1-3 (5) M€ EC funding
~ 12 to 24 months
Promote instrument as quality label for
successful projects
Facilitate access to risk finance2% budget
Support via networking , training, information,
addressing i.a. IP management, knowledge sharing, dissemination
SME window in the EU financial facilities (debt
facility and equity facility)
Possible connection to PPC (and PPI?)
10-15% success 40-50% success
Phase 3 & coaching = 2% budget
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H2020 SME instrument: Total Volume Overall ~2,8 B€ over 2014-2020
5,200 Phase 1 projects
~1500-2500 Phase 2 projects*
Phase 350 k€ lump sum 0,5 to 2,5 M€
*Depending of funding per project
10% 88%
2% coaching
Funding
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Evaluating SME instrument activities
There has to be a market
Easy to use/producefor the customer
and the firm
Technical solution possible and betterthan existing ones
Excellence in innovation
Commercialisation potential and economic impact
Company's potential to achieve the envisaged results
Plus: EU added value
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Coaching and EEN support
EEN Initial
Assessment
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
Coaching
Regional
HR
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SME Instrument
Support for Application
Support for EU project Management
Support for Access to Finance
Facilitation and Moderation
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What does "Access to risk finance" mean in the Horizon 2020 context ?
Using part of the Horizon 2020 budget to stimulate more investment in research and innovation, not through grants, but in the form of Financial Instruments:
o Debt finance
Loan finance, i.e. risk-sharing loans to companies and for innovative projects introducing new technologies
Guarantees to financial intermediaries (commercial and development banks) that provide loans to research- and innovation-driven SMEs and small mid-caps
o Equity finance
Equity, i.e. venture capital for newly created companies exploiting R&D results
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Next steps..Publication date: 11th Dec 2013
Opened: 1st March 2014 for phase 1 and 2
Deadlines for evaluation:
• Further reference documents - for preparing your proposal
• http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h2020-smeinst-1-2014.html - list of related topics
Topic identifier: Open call cut off dates
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase2
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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Further information:• http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/index_en.htm
• Europe 2020 is the European Union’s ten-year growth strategy. It is about more than just overcoming the crisis which continues to afflict many of our economies..
• www.ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020• Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union a Europe 2020 flagship initiative
aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness.• http://ec.europa.eu/easme/sme_en.htm
• Executive Agency for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (EASME) • http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/ the Participant Portal is the entry point for electronic
administration of EU-funded research and innovation projects, and hosts the services for managing proposals and projects throughout their lifecycle.
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