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The EC-BIC label & the European Business Innovation Centre Network EBN Kosice, 3 June 2011

The EC-BIC label & the European Business Innovation Centre Network EBN Kosice, 3 June 2011. The Story Line. 2000 – 2002 Re-engineering of the EBN Association.

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The EC-BIC label & the European Business Innovation Centre Network EBN Kosice, 3 June 2011

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  1. The EC-BIC label & the European Business Innovation Centre NetworkEBNKosice, 3 June 2011

  2. The Story Line 2000 – 2002 Re-engineering of the EBN Association

  3. Launched in 2004 and revised in 2008 The BIC Quality Mark Criteriathe main characteristic that distinguishes the European BIC Network from others around the globe… they relate to theGeneral Mission… innovative, innovative and innovative entrepreneurship, the Organization… visible, adequate, ppp, sustainable independent... Services... To entrepreneurs, SMEs, Signposting... Quality, tracking, benchmarking, improving... Performanceand Efficiency... of the services, performances and processes

  4. The EC-BIC Criteria General Mission: innovative, innovative and innovative local and sustainable entrepreneurship!!! TAGs: Professional Innovation Incubation BSO R&D Technological innovation Entrepreneurs SMEs Regional/local Economic development Sectors Territory Competitiveness Growth

  5. The EC-BIC Criteria Organization: visible, adequate, ppp, represented, sustainable, independent!!! TAGs: Catchment area Public sector Strategies Private sector Coordination Positioning Financially Sustainable Premises Visibility Autonomous Staff Adequate

  6. The EC-BIC Criteria Services: To SMEs, to entrepreneurs, to start-ups... Signposting!!! TAGs: Incubation Start-ups Pre-incubation Business plan Business model Financial planning Training Mentoring Coaching Networking Hosting Access to finance IPR Post-incubation Follow-up Diagnosis Projects Innovation profiling Signposting

  7. The EC-BIC Criteria Activity measurement and evaluation of performance: Tracking, Benchmarking, continuous improvement TAGs: Review Common indicators Observatories Self-evaluation questionnaire Benchmarking Reputation

  8. The EC-BIC Criteria Quality: Giving to the community of entrepreneurs and BICs to get positive returns!!! TAGs: TQM Compliance Process Quality system Self-evaluation questionnaire On-site visits BQMC Customer satisfaction surveys Management information systems

  9. The portrait of a BIC • A light and flexible structure(10 to 15 staff + outsourced experts) • Predominantly a public body, but highly representative of the private sector as well! (Legal status: 51% public, 14% mixed private-public, 35 % private) • A regional and international “networker” : • Universities, Science Parks and R&D institutions • Chambers of Commerce & Regional Development Agencies • Large Companies and Investors • Public Institutions • Highly focused on innovative entrepreneurship, increasingly in: • ICT, Telecom and Mobile Apps • Energy, Environment and Cleantech • Life Sciences and Biotech • Mecatronics and Software Apps

  10. The portrait of a BIC • Providing added-value services to entrepreneurs: • Business planning and modeling • Scenario building and financial simulation • SME Financing, Seed capital and venture capital, growth financing • International cooperation and partner search • Hands-on customized support to high-growth gazelle (post-incubation) • Legal business advice, commercial contracts, Intellectual Property Rights • Stimulating the eco-system • Offering “incubation facilities” (average of 30 companies, creating 155 Jobs, living together in 3000 m2) • Animating clusters and helping collaborative projects to succeed (poles of competitiveness, local clusters, etc.)

  11. Managing the Network

  12. Whatdoes the Quality team do? • Management of the EC-BIC trademark on behalf of DG Enterprise (quality process) • Deployment of Technical Assistance Programmes • Data collection and Elaboration of statistics: • Network Observatory • Country and Regional Observatories • Customized benchmarking report • Publications (i.e. The Smart Guide to Innovation-Based Incubators; quality eMag) • Membership Development • Helpdesk

  13. Whatdoes the Project team do? • Management of European projects (for and with EBN members) • Proposals’ development (including supporting BICs biding) • Tender Watch (selected opportunities for BICs and their client SMEs) • Advice (in depth assistance for BICs in preparing, implementing and reporting EU projects) • Consortium building (Partner searches, connecting stakeholders) • Promotion of opportunities for BICs’ client SMEs • Thematic working groups: ESINET, Maritime BICs, FOOD-BICs, Cleantech BICs

  14. What does the Event team do? • Organization of EBN Events: • The Annual Congress (www.ebn-retistoulon2011.com) • The Annual Conference • The training workshops • BIC Master Classes • Project Seminars • The Thematic Working Group meetings

  15. The Perfect BIC ...powered by dream teams, guided by visionaries, endorsed by leading stakeholders, totally credible to the private sector, mandated by the public sector, sustainable and politically independent, making impact on the civil society, stimulating the entrepreneurship culture, embedding innovation by all means and with all (from academic sources or not) , serving a multi sectors entrepreneurs communities, open to external partnerships and a connectors of small businesses to the global landscape, acting as an idea-lab and development centre for growing firms, providing knowledge and creativity centres facilities, finally an interactive cross-road for people, projects, know-how, technologies, IP, Investment, researchers and entrepreneurs.

  16. EBN-European Business Innovation Center Av. De Tervuren 168 -1150 Brussels Phone: 0032 2 772 89 00 E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu www.ebn.eu Quality Department Giordano Dichter gdi@ebn.eu Projects Department Robert Sanders rsa@ebn.eu Events Department Silvia De Pasquale sdp@ebn.eu

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