Networking innovative ICT companies from the new member states

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Networking innovative ICT companies from the new
member states
Vlastimil VeselyFIRST Innovation Park
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Members
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• NETIES overall objective
• Networking SMEs in order to increase their
  participation and success rates in FP6
• Addressing knowledge economy sectors and three
  pilot countries (Czech Republic, Hungary and
  Slovakia) with some of the activities to be
  introduced also in Poland, Slovenia and Estonia
• Consortium
• VIP park (CZ)
• Imagion (HU)
• Dachto (SK)
• LLA (FR)

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NETIES survey results (Experience)

• 55 answered questionnaires (micro/small/medium)
• Information sources used
• Personal participation in events, 62
• Internet, 60
• Info exchange with foreign partners, 58
• Project intention consulted with
• National contact point, 27
• Independent consultant, 24
• European Commission representative, 20
• Problems when running a project
• Keeping cost within the budget, 27
• Communication with partners, 24
• Keeping the original goals, 15
• Would you participate in the same project again?

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NETIES survey results (Experience)Major benefits
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NETIES survey results (Interest)

• 212 answered questionnaires
• 30 micro / 50 small / 20 medium
• 44 newcomers, only 24 practical experience
• Interested in
• General info, 55
• Contacts to potential partners, 47
• Online information services, 46
• Educational events, 32
• Assistance for developing a project proposals,
  31
• Why not interested?
• Focused only on the local market, 39
• FP does not cover our RD area, 38

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NETIES survey results (Interest)Major barriers
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What should be changed for FP7?

• Better coordinate relevant programmes
• Promote a higher interaction between RD and
  bringing innovations to market
• Build on PPP to a greater extent
• Support systematically combination of funding
  from multiple sources and link the community of
  investors to representatives of funded projects
• Simplify significantly an ever growing
  bureaucracy and ever more complicated rules
• One year period is too much
• Allocate a larger share of the budget to STREPs
• Higher SME participation
• Earlier results and introducing innovations on
  the market expected
• not only development companies but also advanced
  technology users and pioneers in new
  technology applications across sectors
• Strictly separate (and adequately increase) the
  project budgets for certified audits smaller
  projects (with the budget up to 300k - 500k EUR)
• Apply FP project evaluation criteria also to
  national programmes of an adequate type
• to guarantee a greater compatibility
• multisource funding

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ICT oriented EU programmes

• Framework Programmes
• focused on supporting RD with a prototype as the
  final outcome there are other programmes
  following up and helping the developers to deploy
  and test the prototype on the real markets.
• eContentPlus
• 4-year programme (200508), following up the
  previous eContent
• budget of EUR 149 mil.
• to promote take up of leading-edge technical
  solutions to improve acessibility and usability
  of digital material in a multilingual environment
  
• addresses specific market areas where development
  has been slow geographic , educational,
  cultural, scientific and scholarly content.
• supports EU-wide co-ordination of collections in
  libraries, museums and archives and the
  preservation of digital collections
• Internet Safety Action Plan
• eTEN
• For areas where services are in the general
  societal or economic interest, but either do not
  promise a rapid return on investment, or bring
  benefits which are long term or not visible
  through direct financial reward to the operators.
  

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eTEN Promo Invest

• In contrast with EU research programmes, eTEN is
  also open to proposals from single entities
  provided they aim to be active in several member
  states. It is a key tool for the exploitation of
  successful research activities from technical
  development to the market.
• eGovernment, eHealth, eInclusion, eLearning,
  eBusiness Services for SMEs and Trust Security
  services
• Market validation (up to 50 of the total
  eligible cost)
• Initial deployment (up to 30 of the total
  eligible cost)
• Presenting promising projects / proposals at
• European Technology Venture Forum, Berlin,
  December 14
• Innovation Business LIVE conference, Prague,
  March 28
• eTEN workshop, Budapest, May 2nd
• eTEN workshop, Netherlands, June 1st
• Nordic Venture Summit, Copenhagen, October 8-9th
• eTEN workshop, Poland, November
• ...

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Contact
www.park.cz www.FIRST.park.cz
U Vodárny 2 616 00 Brno Czech
Republic Tel [phone] Fax  420 541
143 011E-mail vesely_at_park.cz