Michel Vanavermaete Acting Head of the EUREKA Secretariat

1. The value of “Co-opetition for SMEs in Europe” and the role of EUREKA’s Eurostars Programme as the preferred platformEuropean Day of the entrepreneur15 October 2012 - Sofia Michel Vanavermaete Acting Head of the EUREKA Secretariat

2. What is EUREKA ? • EUREKA is a public network supporting R&D-performing businesses • More than 25 years of R&D support • Established in 1985 by President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl • Since 1985, over 30 BILLION EURO of public-private investment has been mobilised to support 4 452 EUREKA projects

3. What is EUREKA ? • An intergovernmental network • 41 full members – EU 27, the EU and 12 other European countries • Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina NIP ; • South Korea and Canada are associate countries • Financed using national and regional public and private funding • Market oriented • Research results must be a marketable product, process or service for civilian use • Bottom-up • The consortium – usually led by industry - decide on the project aim. There is no thematic restriction

4. EUREKA members and affiliates EUREKA has 41 full members; two countries with transitional status and South Korea as two associated countries Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia European Union Finland France FYR Macedonia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco Montenegro The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Transitional status: Albania Bosnia-Herzegovina Associate country: South Korea Canada

5. Who participates in EUREKA projects? > Private companies represent 68% of participants

6. What is a EUREKA project? > EUREKA projects are Bottom-up, they reflect market demands > EUREKA projects are Market oriented, their objective is to develop a product, a process or a service

7. What is the EUREKA impact? 2 M€ Private Funds

8. SMEs and internationalization • SMEs are Europe’s growth engine: • More than 99% of all companies being either small or medium-sized • 85% of all jobs created over the last years are in SMEs • Benefits of internationalisation*: • Internationalised SMEs create more jobs • InternationalisedSMEs are more innovative • InternationalisedSMEs are more competitive The EUREKA network can support thoseSMEswithspecificfunding instruments ! Source: EC Study on the level of internationalisation of European SMEs, 2009

9. EUREKA three pillars • EUREKA individual projects • EUREKA Clusters • Eurostars joint Programme

10. EUREKA Portfolio : Number of projects Total Number of EUREKA projects: 4 452 Start with Individual Projects Introduction of Eurostars Introduction of Clusters

11. Typical EUREKA projects

12. EUREKA Individual projects • Small, shorter-term projects • Involve participants from at least two EUREKA member countries • Result in a product, process or service with a significant advance in their sector

13. EUREKA Clusters • Medium-term, strategically-significant initiatives • Large number of participants, many from Europe’s major companies • Develop generic technologies of key importance to European competitiveness

14. EUREKA Clusters Information technology Communications Energy Water technologies Manufacture

15. EUREKA Clusters • Pre-competitiveresearchprojects lead by Europe’sbiggestcompanies

16. The Eurostars Programme • A joint EUREKA-EU funding and support programme for R&D-performing SMEs • Small, short-term projects, involving participants from at least two Eurostars participating countries • Consortium leader is an R&D-performing SME

17. Eurostars eligibility criteria Consortium leader must be an R&D-performing SME* Participants from a minimum of two Eurostars participating countries Project duration of less than three years Market introduction is planned within two years of project completion R&D-performing SMEs undertake at least 50% of total R&D cost The consortium must be well-balanced, with no country responsible for more than 75% of project costs * 10% FTE dedicated to R&D or 10% turnover dedicated to R&D

18. An international evaluationbased on 3 major criteria: Project consortium quality Technology and innovation of product/process/service Marketaccess and competitiveness National fundingschemes support Fast application process (avg 10 months from application to funding support) 3000 projects submitted, 70% of participants are SMEs Eurostars impact on participants : With 1M€ of public funds, 10M€ of additional turnover is expected The Eurostars Programme

19. Main motivations for participation

20. Size of Eurostars SMEs

21. SMEs Annual Turnover

22. SME’s expected turnover growth

23. EUREKA Wins – Success Stories

24. SUCCESS STORY Getting it together in the connected home The AMEC project recently won the 2007 ITEA Gold Achievement Award for its outstanding contribution to home technology innovation. Participants from the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey set out to explore how an adaptive, intuitive and ambient ecology of products, content, applications and services could support domestic life in the connected home of the future. EUREKA Cluster project – ITEA 03016 AMEC Participating countries > Turkey, The Netherlands, Spain

25. SUCCESS STORY Monitoring your car for a safer driving Each year over 40,000 people are killed on Europe’s roads. The partners of MEDEA+ project CARING CARS aim to drive down these chilling statistics with a system comprising in-car sensors and a wireless infrastructure monitoring the vital signs of drivers and sounding an alert if there is a problem linked for example to the driver’s fatigue. EUREKA Cluster project – MEDEA+ CARING CARS Participating countries > Turkey, The Netherlands, Spain

26. SUCCESS STORY Internet could be 10 times faster than it is Could the Internet just stop working one day? With bandwidth requirement increasing annually as the web becomes an ever larger part of the everyday life, keeping up is a challenge for Internet service providers. A EUREKA telecommunications cluster CELTIC-Plus project is pushing capacity upwards. EUREKA Cluster project – CELTIC 100GET Participating countries > Germany, Finland, France, Spain, Sweden

27. SUCCESS STORY Special effects in Avatar made possible thanks to European technology A joint UK/German collaboration has helped change film production worldwide, turning a work-intensive craft process into viable technology that adds a high level of realism to special effects. Results of this work have since won technical oscars for many of the researchers involved. EUREKA Individual project – E! 1683 FILM SPECIAL EFFECTS Participating countries > UK, Germany

28. SUCCESS STORY Biotech start-up brings DNA-sequencing to the medical market What started as a three-person start-up may well be on its way to becoming a multi-million euro success story. The SME FlexGen is attracting the attention of some key investors and demonstrating the added value of the Eurostars funding programme. EUREKA Eurostars project – Eurostars E! 4731 Arrayvolution Participating countries > The Netherlands, Italy

29. SUCCESS STORY An Innovation Star for Europe The Eurostars ISTAR project may well be an R&D effort that changes the game for the pharmaceutical industry. CrossJect, the company leading the project, plans to double its staff in the next five years. With the support of the Eurostars Programme, it is on way to major success as a pharmaceutical start-up, and has already attracted investors from large-scale investment funds. EUREKA Eurostars project – Eurostars E!4258 ISTAR Participating countries > France, Austria

30. Information website> www.eurekanetwork.org Information website > www.eurekanetwork.org

31. Thank you ! For more information, do not hesitate to contact your EUREKA National projectCoordinator! Ms. Bogdana Vatashka-AnaviBulgarian Small And Medium Size Enterprises Promotion Agency National Project Coordinatorb.vatashka@sme.government.bg