How can European Structural and
Investment Funds be leveraged to support enterprise competitiveness through innovation and ICT?

• Cohesion Fund
• European
Territorial
Cooperation
• ERDF
• EARDF
• EMFF
• Horizon 2020
• COSME
• ERDF
• Erasmus for all
• Social change and innovation
• Horizon 2020
• ESF
• EGAF

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In the programme:
FET (Future & Emerging Technologies)
KETs (Key Enabling Technologies)
ICT (Information & Communication Technologies)
Technology for Factories of the Future
RSFF (Risk Sharing Finance Facility)
Innovation in SMEs
Social challenges (health, wellbeing / Secure Society / Smart
Transport / Efficient Energy / …)

ERDF Contribution to H2020 objectives
• R&D+I Infrastructure
• Funding R&D+I activities
-Research projects
-Innovative projects
-Proof of concept
-Demonstration / Prototyping
• Advisory services
-Incubation services
-Use of KETs and ICT
• Commercialisation of R&D+I
• Networking of key stakeholders
-Enterprise-Research-University collaboration
-Student and PhD outplacement
-Clusters
-Open innovation
-Living Labs
- Demonstration Centres
H2020 Contribution to the 4 main
ERDF thematic priorities
• R&D+I
- Horizontal "focus"
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ERC – European Research Council
Collaborative projects
ERA-NET
Joint initiatives
Future and emerging technologies
- Sectorial "focus"
KET – Key Enabling Technologies
• Research infrastructures
• Shift towards a low carbon economy
• ICT
Activities will enable Europe to support, develop and exploit the opportunities brought by ICT progress for the benefits of its citizens, businesses and scientific communities.
• Enterprise competitiveness
- Dedicated SME instrument
- SME integrated participation
- Fast track to innovation
- Risk Sharing Financial Facility (RSFF)
- Voucher scheme
- Pre-commercial procurement

Source: 2013 European Innovation Union Scoreboard

iApple BMW/Audi Dyson
Do you know any SMEs and start-ups in your region?
Dell
Acer
Nokia
Opel
Peugeot/Citroën
Dacia Easy Jet Ryanair

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Loans
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Education
Talent
Skills
Vocational training
Students’ outplacement
Guarantees
Equity
Grants
Investment readiness
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RDAs e-platforms
Brokers
Voucher issuers
 Research centres
 TTO
 Technology centres
 Open innovation platforms
 Collaborative projects
Barriers
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Cost
Financing
Marketing
Competition
Information
Talent
Intervention
 R&D policy
 Entrepreneurship
 Infrastructure
 Education
 Business environment
 Tax
 Incubator
 Living labs
 Prototyping
 Design center
 Science parks
 Fab labs
 Global competition
 Standards
 Procurement
 First client
Type of enterprises
 Spin-off
 Gazelle
 Hidden champions
 Large enterprises
Support services
 Coaching
 Mentoring
 Professional services
 Clusters/interclusters
 University-enterprise partnership
 Diaspora
 Sustainable development
 Ageing population
 Social innovation

THE THREE-PILLAR BRIDGE TO PASS ACROSS THE “VALLEY OF DEATH”
OF AN EXCELLENT REGIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGY
Pilot deployment
Technological facilities Competitive manufacturing
Science
Technology & finance
Innovative products & services solution
Production
Inspired by Gabriel M CREAN’s presentation at Regions for Economic Change 2012

SOCIETAL
CHALLENGES
Ageing population
MARKETS
Business tourism
INNOVATION
E-Commerce
Mobility
Health food
Food processing
Energy
Health
Telesurveillance
Security
Energy savings
Sensor
KETs Key enabling technologies & ICT
TRADITIONAL
INDUSTRY, RESEARCH
& KNOWLEDGE BASE
Agrofood
Tourism
Bio
Toys
ICT
Space

INFRASTRUCTURES
Opportunities to access high-speed internet
INFORMATION
CONTENT e-health e-education e-adminstration
ENTERPRISES
Adoption of e-solutions
CITIZENS
Consumers, Social innovators, End users
Source: BC: e-friction index

Systemic functions
Entrepreneurial activities
Assessing the benchmarked performance of the regional ICT strategy
Change in employment using
ICT in sectors
Knowledge development & transfer
Innovation & business model generation
Financing innovation & growth
Collaboration & networking
Trends towards ICT R&D projects with emphasis on cross-sector
Increasing emphasis to integrate
ICT as a new enterprise business model
Trends in share of equity and other financial engineering funds allocated to ICT priorities investments
Extent of collaboration between universities, service and manufacturing firms in ICT clusters and in cross-cluster linkages
Inspired by: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=7300&lang=en

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Support service categories
Business support infrastructure: a) Flexible production space b) Shared working and collaborative space or equipment
Which tools?
• relay building
• demonstration centres
• sector technical, design or prototyping centres
• co-working space
• FabLabs
• incubators
• Living Labs
• science/technological parks
• soft landing

Support service categories Which tools?
Financial support: grants, loans, guarantees, venture capital or even mixed funding packages
• repayable short-term loans
• proof of concept
• financial engineering tools
• grants / tax reductions
• accelerator
• corporate venturing

Support service categories Which tools?
Advisory services: either generic or high-value added services
• innovation accelerators
• IP advice centres
• innovation management advice
• advice for first-time innovators
• open innovation
• Key Enabling Technologies mainstreaming
• incubation
• investment readiness
• market intelligence and emerging market opportunities analysis
• research lease

Support service categories Which tools?
Support to commercialise innovative products/services:
For innovative businesses, finding one or more first clients is crucial:
 deploying suitable public procurement policies
 helping match businesses with potential first clients
• market replication / first application
• large scale demonstrators
• pre-commercial public procurement
• meet-the-buyer-fairs
• soft landing
• technological showcasing
• quality and design management
• e-commerce platform

Support service categories Which tools?
Key stakeholder matching services:
Services of this type can promote:
• bilateral partnerships (involving universities, SMEs and/or businesses)
• matching of groups of stakeholders (clusters, business groupings, living labs, meet-thebuyer fairs, etc.).
• clusters
• large enterprise / SME cooperation
• university – enterprise networks
• interclustering
• strategic regional business portfolios
• vouchers
• open innovation

• Newly-developed companies
• Spin-outs and spin-offs of large businesses, research centres and universities
• Start-ups (less than five years in existence)
• Locally-rooted companies (micro-businesses and craft companies)
• Entrepreneurial growth companies
• Globally born companies
• Innovative businesses and companies leveraging RTD outcomes
• Companies in the process of being transferred
• Subcontractors
• Companies at risk of bankruptcy
• Phoenix enterprises
• Multinationals
• Social enterprises
• Entrepreneurs by necessity
• Lifestyle entrepreneurs
• Hidden champions

• New knowledge, competences, technologies
• New products, technical solutions, production processes
• New services
• New designs or brands
• New business operating models
• New systems and networks
• New life style ways
• New working practices, organisations or management models
• Public service realised in a new way
• Systemic innovation
• Frugal innovation

Reindustrialisation base
Small series outsourcing production
3D printing hubs
Productive investment
(production & equipment)
Entrepreneurship e-commerce platforms
Physical distribution networks
Market & business plan validation
Technology validation
Smart
Makers
Regional
Ecosystem
Makers and research results precommercialisation
Smart
Makers
Regional
Ecosystem
FabLab
Incubation
Accelerators
Proof of concept
Market intelligence
Business model validation
Crowdfunding platform
Formal banking
Equity
Business angel funding
Source: EURADA