European Technology Platform

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European Technology Platform

• ETP
• Hotel Leela Kempinski, Mumbai
• April 3, 2008

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Layout

• Concept
• Why ETP Expectations and Deliverables
• Stakeholders and their Role
• Organisation Structure
• Key Features of Platform
• Reaching Out
• ETP Working 3 Stage process
• Financial Engineering Funding option and JTI
• Journey so far Number of platforms
• Launch process of some platforms Textiles,
  Biofuels

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Concept

• A new instrument to strengthen the European-wide
  innovation challenge
• An (industry-led) framework to unite stakeholders
  around
• A common VISION for the technology concerned,
• An agreed STRATEGIC RESEARCH AGENDA, and
• A costed and managed IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.

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Why ETP

• A need to define Research and Technology
  Development priorities, timeframes and budgets on
  a number of strategically important issues with
  high societal relevance
• Achieving Europes future growth, competitiveness
  and sustainable development objectives is
  dependent upon major research and technological
  advances in the medium to long-term.
• European Technology Platforms will provide a
  means to foster effective public-private
  partnerships involving as appropriate public
  research, industry, financial institutions,
  users, regulatory authorities and policy-makers.

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Technology Platforms

• Uniting stakeholders around a common vision and
  approach for
• the development of the technologies concerned
• with specific focus on the definition of a
  Strategic Research Agenda
• and the mobilisation of the necessary critical
  mass of research and innovation effort.

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Stakeholders

• Industry - large, medium and small, embracing the
  whole production and supply chain, including
  component, equipment and sub-system suppliers and
  user industries.
• In addition to the researchers, those involved in
  technology transfer and the commercial deployment
  of technologies (for example, service providers
  and operators to participate).
• Public authorities - policy makers and funding
  agencies, as well as promoters and consumers of
  technologies.
• Policy measures and related initiatives may be
  launched at the European level, national,
  regional and local levels should also be
  associated, especially when they are important
  initiators of policy.

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Stakeholders

• Research Institutes and the academic community
  especially encouraging the academic/industrial
  interface
• Financial community private banks (including
  the EIB), the European Investment Fund (EIF), the
  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  (EBRD), venture capital, business incubators etc.
• Civil society, including users and consumers -
  ensure research agendas benefit from a mutual
  dialogue between the research community and
  society. Involve
• future customer base
• trade unions maybe considered

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Stakeholders - Role

• Key industrial concerns with technological
  competence in the particular field must play a
  leading and highly visible role in initiating the
  platform and moving it forward
• To be effective, platforms need to mobilise and
  balance in an open and transparent way the
  efforts of all the other key stakeholders.

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Role of theEuropean Commission

• Does not own the ETPs
• Provides various measures to support platforms
• Not in any way bound by the views, results or
  recommendations arising from the activities of
  any of the technology platforms.
• The setting up of a technology platform in a
  given field is by no means a pre-condition for
  inclusion of support for that field

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Organization Structure
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Organization Structure

• Advisory Council or High Level group
• Vision
• Guidance in the prelaunch stage
• Strategic Research Agenda
• Steering Committee
• Lays down the procedures
• Strategic Research Agenda
• Deployement Strategy Implements them
• Working Groups
• Specific Implementation plan of the strategic
  research agenda
• Detailing of Strategic research agenda in
  specific sub-sectors and technology

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Key People running ETP
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Platform Key features

• Openness
• Transparency
• Wide consultations
• Meetings and exhibitions
• Web based comment / feedback
• Open expression of interest
• Voluntary code of conduct / practise on openness
  and transparency
• Each platform is free to decide
• How to implement these principles
• Range of initiatives for implementation

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Key Features

• Accountability
• Existence and clarity of rules and procedures
• process for monitoring and adapting activities
  according to changing priorities and
  circumstances
• The European Technology Platform on Networked
  and Electronic Media has published its governance
  structure on its website. Representativeness of
  the Steering Board is ensured by splitting in
  equal shares the various sets of stakeholders,
  with elections held every two years.
• Flexibility and adaptability Depends on
• Maturity of the particular technology and the
  specific needs of the technological challenges at
  stake
• Structure and requirements of industry
• Market opportunities concerned.

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Flexibility

• Flexibility - for appropriate supporting
  structure
• To ensure a Networked approach including
  mechanisms to facilitate the activities of
  existing networks and the creation of new ones
• Open for new initiatives and entities to enter or
  leave the platform and, as it moves forward from
  the vision and strategy stage to the
  implementation phase, its character and structure
  may also need to change.

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Reaching outExamples from ETPs

• Global Animal Health
• Drew up a broad list of organisations that could
  have a role to play and invited them to
  participate.
• NanoMedicine
• published a call for expressions of interest. 45
  applications were received for the platform and
  its working groups.
• Innovative Medicines
• Coordinated by the Federation of Pharmaceutical
  Industries and Associations (EFPIA). EFPIA has a
  direct membership of 29 national associations and
  represents about 1900 companies.
• Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies
• Sent an invitation to participate to more than
  8000 relevant addresses. The platform currently
  has 433 members.
• Plants for the Future
• Organised National consultations in the form of
  meetings, on-line surveys and dedicated sessions
  at conferences

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Civil Society Involvement

• Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants.
• The Climate Action Network and WWF International
  are members of the Advisory Council
• Food for Life
• Organisations representing consumers, farmers and
  retailers contributed to the Vision document
• These organisations are also members of the
  Board, act as advisors to the Board and
  participate in Working Groups.

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ETP Working
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• STAGE 1
• Emergence and setting-up Stakeholders getting
  together

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Step 1 Vision Document

• The first stage in launching a technology
  platform is to bring all the key stakeholders
  together.
• In advance of setting up a platform, the main
  actors have usually been brought together by the
  Commission services
• through the organisation of a major conference
  in order to develop a Vision Document for the
  development in Europe of the technologies
  concerned.
• This typically covers a horizon of the next 10-20
  years.

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Step 2 Launch of Vision Document Platform

• After the consensus amongst stakeholders on the
  path and structure for the platform, a launch
  event for the platform is often held
• The Commission has been active as a facilitator
  of the widespread consultation processes, which
  are needed to mobilise all the key stakeholders
  concerned.
• In this respect, a project team has normally been
  put together for each platform, including
  representatives from those Commission services
  directly concerned.
• The Commission also ensures a high level
  representation in the various advisory bodies
  overseeing their development.

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• STAGE 2
• Platform activities deliverables
• Stakeholders define a Strategic Research Agenda
  (SRA)

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Step 1 Strategic Research Agenda3

• Upon start up, activities of technology
  platforms focus on the following deliverables
• Elaborating a Strategic Research Agenda
• sets out Research and Technology Development
  (RTD) priorities for the medium to long-term,
• Measures for enhancing networking and clustering
  of the RTD capacity in Europe.
• SRA looks closely at the technological framework
  (including regulatory issues, intellectual
  property rights etc.) and the business
  environment for future market penetration.

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Step 2 Resource Deployment Strategy

• In harness with the SRA, a Deployment Strategy
  is formulated
• Mechanisms to mobilise the private and public
  investments for implementation.
• the potential range of funding sources includes
  the Community Framework Programmes, the
  programming documents of the Structural Funds,
  national,regional and private research funding,
  the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the
  intergovernmental EUREKA Initiative.
• Explore with the financial community and the
  European and national public authorities ways to
  enhance guarantee mechanisms in attracting both
  debt and equity financing for implementing RTD
  activities.

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Step 3 - Communication for sustenance of ETP

• Establish ongoing communication process
• Raising public awareness
• Enhancing dialogue on the justification for
  efforts at a European level in the technological
  field concerned.
• Identify challenges and actions related to
  education and training opportunities
• maintaining and enhancing a high-skilled work
  force for an effective implementation of the
  technologies in the medium to long term.

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• STAGE 3
• Stakeholders implement the Strategic Research
  Agenda

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Implementation

• Priority will be given to implementation of the
  defined Strategic Research Agendas
• The use of existing instruments for collaborative
  research, possibly with some adaptation, is the
  way of providing support for the implementation
  of the majority of the research agendas.
• Community support for this implementation is
  through open calls for proposals for
  collaborative research (for example, integrated
  projects or other collaborative research
  instruments), research infrastructures etc.

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Financial Engineering
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Funding Sources

• The complementary nature of the different
  potential funding sources,
• Commission level
• Non-Commission European level
• National/regional level
• Mobilise loans and other financial instruments
  from European Investment Bank as well as private
  banks.
• Dependent on most appropriate partnership
  structure.
• European Investment Find (EIF) and Risk Sharing
  Finance Facility Allows the EIB to expand Banks
  basis for providing financing for high risk RD

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Budget Outlay and Sources of Funding

• Nanomedicine
• Euro 100 M for year 1 FP7 funding
• Euro 100M from Public and Private investment
• Forest Based Sector
• Initial projects financed by European
  Confederation of Woodworking Industries
  (CEI-Bois), the Confederation of European Forest
  Owners (CEPF) and the Confederation of European
  Paper Industries (CEPI)
• For implementation of SRA, funding request to
  Framework programme
• Global Animal Health
• Financing through FP7 and EIB

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Budget Outlay and Sources of Funding

• Industrial Safety
• Operation Cost Euro 400K / year
• For SRA implementation Euro 60 Million / year
• Contribution Industry 30 Govt 50 EC 20
• Photovoltaics
• Euro 156 Million / year to operate and implement
• From 2007-13 Govt 50 and Industry 50 Beyond
  2013 Govt 33.3 and Industry 66.6
• Sustainable chemistry
• Euro 1400 Million / year
• Govt 50 and Industry 50
• Textiles
• Euro 1 Billion over 3 years for operating and
  implementation
• Govt funding to match Industry

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Special Scheme Joint Technology Initiatives
(JTI)

• Some of the research agendas of an ambitious
  scale requires very high public and private
  investments, and a large critical mass of
  researchers throughout Europe and even beyond.
• JTI is a mechanism specifically for this purpose.
• Funded by a combination of private sector
  investment and European public funding.
• The partners in the Joint Technology Initiative
  should demonstrate a strong financial commitment.
  
• Orientation of one third public and two thirds
  private research investment towards this
  objective could serve as a reference.
• Confirmation of a very significant private
  financing contribution would provide a guarantee
  of the solidity of the initiative.

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The Journey so far
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Existing Platforms - 34
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Growth of ETPs
Data not available on exact numbers
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Technology PlatformAlliances outside Europe

• Building alliances
• International co-operation is considered on the
  potential for real added value.
• a technological lead held by Europe
• preparing global markets,
• aiming to attract the participation of large
  multinational companies offering the prospects of
  significant inward investment in RTD.
• Participation from developing countries to prove
  highly beneficial, for example in the case of the
  platforms covering environmental technologies, or
  health matters etc.

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Examples of ETPs Launched
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• Launch of ETP for
• Future of Textiles and Clothing

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Rationale Background

• October 2003 EC Communication Textile Clothing
  Industry - key industrial sector for enlarged
  European Union (4 ind. output, 8 ind.
  employment, 224,000 companies in EU-25)
• T/C High Level Group (since March 2004)
  holistic approach to long-term industry
  transformation competitiveness (RD,
  innovation, education, IPR protection,
  legislative framework, trade)
• Major RD recommendation Set-up of European
  Technology Platform to fight research
  fragmentation in Europe and to develop a
  long-term research innovation agenda for the
  sector
• October 2004 EC Communication in response to HLG
  recommendations Favourable view on
  establishment of Textile Technology Platform

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HLG Recommendationto Launch

• June 2004 HLG Recommendation for ETP set-up
• August 2004 first ETP draft (Euratex)
• September 2004 consultation and approval by
  industrial and scientific community
• October 2004 revised ETP Vision document
  draft, start collection of input/ideas for expert
  group areas
• November 2004 publication ETP vision document
  and invitation to launch event
• December 2004 launch event in Brussels

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• Launch of ETP for Biofuels

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Preparation Phase

• Invitation of Advisory Council (BIOFRAC), 15 June
  2005
• Develop a Vision for Biofuels Technology up to
  2030 and beyond
• The Vision report was intended to become a
  guidance tool for all stake-holders, including
  policy makers, and lay the foundation for a
  Strategic Research Agenda. It should support
  support initial development of FP7

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Implementation

• The Platform was launched on June 8, 2006 in
  Brussels where the 1st Platform
• Steering Committee was established
• Mission Contribute to the development of
  cost-competitive world-class biofuels
  technologies, to the creation of a healthy
  biofuels industry and to accelerate the
  deployment of biofuels in the European Union
  through a process of guidance, prioritisation and
  promotion of research, development and
  demonstration.
• The Steering Committee is currently completing
  the organizational structure
• Involvement of stakeholders at all level will be
  pursued more than 300 formal expressions of
  interest received to now
• Key tasks for first year
• To build image and communication tools
• To ensure public presence of the platform
• To elaborate a Strategic Research Agenda and a
  Deployment Strategy
• To hold 1st Stakeholder Plenary meeting 4Q 2007

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Time taken for Platformactivities
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