BIC Observatory 2012
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BIC OBservatOry 2012
CopyrightEBN
Ju
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2012
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Copyright EBN June 2012
This Obsevatoy epot was pepaed by the EBN team, M. Giodano
Dichte (Head o Quality and Technical Assistance), assisted by Ms.
Chiaa Davalli (Quality Oce). It was supevised by M. Philippe Vanie(CEO).
The inomation in this epot is issued by the Euopean BIC Netwok o geneal
distibution. Distibution is encouaged. Pats o tets and gues can be used
citing the souce.
Design:Arctiksprl
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Intdctin 4
Key Pemnce Indicts nd Vle Mney 6
Entepeneus and eisting SMEs 6Innovation 9Access to nance 10Physical Incubation 12Value o money 13
Pfling the EC-BICs 16
Owneship and inuence 16Human esouces & epetise 19Sevices 21
Sevices o new stat-ups 21Sevices o eisting SMEs 24Signposting 25
Business Model 26
Cnclsins 29
Tbles nd fges 30
Ntepd 31
Contents
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IntroduCtIon
Since 2004 EBNs ull membes, the EC-BICs (accedited Business and Innovation
Centes), povide a ull ange o data with the initial pupose o ensuing that
the EC-BIC tademak emains associated to innovation-based incubatos with
always inceasing quality standads. This enabled EBN to acquie a wide set o
data which, evey yea, is e-shaped in the om o the BIC Obsevatoy. This yea
makes no eception!
Also this yea the data was collected using the standad pocedues though the
EBN on-line sel-assessment questionnaie. In 2011 thee wee 144 BICs in Euope
and beyond, 130 o these povided answes that wee checked and hence validated
by the EBN quality team in the st quate o 2012. These epesent a little ove
90% o the BIC univese, endeing the data statistically vey elevant and making
it possible to povide a eal pictue o what has happened last yea within the BIC
community.
What will be shown in this epot theeoe is the esult o the had wok donedaily by the BICs staf and epets in suppoting new innovative stat-ups and in
intoducing innovation within selected eisting ms in the teitoies they seve.
Lets take a quick bids eye view o the data. Last yea the EBN netwok has
poduced moe than 5500 stat-ups, a little bit o a slowdown espect to the
data we had on 2010, but this is balanced by a aise in the total numbes o jobs
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poduced which is a gue close to 20.000, and again we can see that the cost
o ceating this jobs has signicantly deceased (as well as the public secto
contibution o each job ceated)! A sign o inceased eciency!
To have moe insights, you will have to go owad in eading the entie
epot, but beoe going into details about numbes and stats, we would
like to take the oppotunity to thank all the BICs. Women and men, who have
been able to take some time of om thei busy schedules to povide the data
that makes EBN the unique holde o a poweul database with inomation
on the Euopean innovation-based industy. An asset, we believe not many
can count on, and that is put to the sevice o EBNs membes in the om o
etensive epoting and always-moe sophisticated benchmaking tools.
Ss ess e se
Method: on-line sel-evaluation questionnaire plus subsequent validation
by the EBN Quality Team
Source: EBN Quality System http://quality.ebn.be
Total numbeo potentialpaticipants:
Pecentage oBICs paticipating
in the Suvey:144 90%
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Key PerformanCe
IndICators and
Value for money
EntrEprEnEurS and ExiSting SMESCompaed with the data om 2010, ou elements ae stikingly appaent in 2011:
The numbe o enquiies (contacts o entepise ceation) has inceased
damatically (vaiation +40%).
As a consequence moe business plans wee poduced in 2011 (vaiation +17,61%).
The inceased numbe o people passing though the pe-incubation stage didnot lead to an incease in the numbe o stat-ups. Indeed the aveage numbe
o stat-ups pe BIC evolved om the 2010 gue o 49,67 to 42,43 (vaiation
15,14%).
The aveage numbe o jobs ceated in stat-ups pe BIC, albeit the gues above,
has not changed signicantly om 98,96 in 2010 to 95,85 in 2011 (vaiation
-3,1%).
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EnquiiesFeasibility
studies
Entepiseceationpojects
Businessplans
Stat-upsJobs ceatedin Stat-ups
2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011
Total 69307 97426 12461 13572 7125 7516 6989 8409 6358 5516 12668 12460
Aveage 541,46 749,43 97,35 104,40 55,66 57,82 54,60 64,68 49,67 42,43 98,96 95,85
Median 79,50 98,50 33,50 41,50 18,00 23,50 18,50 24,50 14,00 13,00 31,50 25,00
Table 1: new entrepreneurs - rom enquiries to job creation
As moe people ae contacting the BICs to get a st advice on entepise ceation,
the incubation pocess though the BIC model seems to have become moe
selective in the initial stages. This is also, most pobably, one o the key elements
o success o the BICs which still epot a vey high suvival ate o the suppoted
companies. This inceased selectivity is coelated with the highe ocus made by
BICs on innovation-based applications and entepeneus.
Figure 1: enterprise survival rate in 2011
Enterprise Survival Rate within incubation
period (%)
Enterprise Survival Rate 3 years following
graduation (%)
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Figure 2: some trends 2004 - 2008
O couse the BIC tademak is povided also to oganizations who not only
suppot the ceation o innovative stat-ups, but who, among othe things,
pomote the intoduction o modenization pocesses and o innovation in eisting
SMEs. In 2010, the BIC netwok has indeed shown inceased values o the KPIs inthis maket segment. Ove 14000 SMEs have eceived suppot in 2011 (vaiation
+31,5%) and ove 7000 jobs have been ceated in eisting SMEs (vaiation +16%).
Eisting SMEs suppoted Jobs ceated in SMEs
2010 2011 2010 2011
Total 11000 14472 6144 7389
Aveage 86 111,32 48 56,84
Median 46 40,50 21 23,50
Table 2: support to existing SMEs
The beakdown o sevices povided to SMEs makes us undestand that access
to nance is among the most equested, ollowed by a specic suppot to design
and implement innovative pojects. The need o innovation diagnostics is also
evincible om the data collected, as 22% o the sevices deliveed to eisting
SMEs ae ight on that taget.
Average N. of business plans
produced per BIC
Average N. of Start-ups
supported per BIC
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Figure 3: services to existing SMEs by typology
innovation
Innovation is o couse one o the main ocus o the BICs. O all the entepeneuial
pojects suppoted by the BICs, the level o innovation emains to date quite high,
conming that being innovative is one o the key chaacteistics o the stat-ups
and ms suppoted by a BIC.
Figure 4: technological innovation in BICs
Technological
innovation
Mechatronics &
Manufacturing
New & Advanced
materials
Energy and
environmental
technologies
Agro & Food
Technologies
Nano technologies
ICT, Software, Telecom &Digital Technologies
Life sciences & biotech
Non technological
innovation
Other (non
innovative)
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When zooming into technological innovation it is inteesting to analyze what
has happened duing 2011 with egads to IP development. Indeed the BICs have
collectively suppoted 2491 companies with IP issues, have equested 666 patents
o companies and entepeneus, who have nally been ganted a total o 307
patents. The gues show that thee has been a decease in the numbe o clients
suppoted when compaed with the 3006 suppoted in 2010 (vaiation -17%),although the EBN netwok has epeienced an incease in both, the numbe o
patents equested (vaiation +14%) and the numbe o patents ganted (vaiation
+15%). Anothe sign o the BICs inceased eciency.
Figure 5: intellectual property
accESS to financE
Ove 3600 clients o the BICs have been made eady to invest, though the BICs
sevices. This epesents an incease o 22% om the yea 2010, although the total
amount o capital aised o the companies has deceased by 5% to an estimatedtotal o 300.473,76.
New entepeneu eady o
investment
Eisting SMEs eady o
investment
2010 2011 2010 2011
Total 1592 1688 1376 1957
Aveage 12,43 12,98 10,75 15,05
Table 3: investment readiness
Number of client companies
supported in IP issues
Number of patents requested Number of patents granted
2010
2011
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Looking into the difeent souces o unding, in 2011, we can see that thee have
been quite signicant changes since the yea beoe. Indeed ventue capital has
deceased, as well as ealy stage unding. The othe types o capital aised has
eached 50% o the total, making it woth, net yea, to investigate what actually
othe capital aised means. Fom a look to gue 6, it appeas that govenment
unding schemes and access to bank loans ae most pobably the two itemswhich will mainly compose the othe categoy. Moeove moe attention should
pobably be made to Business Angels Investment as many BICs have developed
close links with vaious netwoks.
Figure 6: breakdown o unding sources
Figure 7: breakdown o fnancial services oered by BIC
Seed capital raised
Angel investment raised
Venture capital raised
Other capital raised
No nancial service offered
Supply of nancing from own resources
Contacts with informal investors/Business Angels
Entry to venture capital after the seed phase
Entry to seed capital providers
Entry to normal bank loans
Participation to public nancial programmes/ projects
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Figue 7 above gives an initial poling o how the BICs ae actually suppoting
und aising o entepeneus and SMEs. As could have been easily oecasted, all
BICs ae poviding nancial sevices unde difeent oms using all the possible
channels to get things stated!
phySical incubation
Aveage squae metes
o owned incubatosAveage occupancy ate
Aveage incubation time
(yeas)
2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011
7549 7271 0,78 0,63 3,1 2,64
Table 4: physical incubation
Aleady last yea we egisteed a decease o the aveage occupancy ate,
which hit the low o 78% in 2010. Fo 2011, as can be viewed by the table above
the data conm the tend, and we obseved a deceased value o 63%. Is it a
sign o the times which calls back the ecession spectum, which has indeed
paticulaly afected the popety development component o incubatos? O is
it a clea indication that thee might be the maket is demanding o moe vitual
incubation sevices? Indeed this is not good news, but thee is an oppotunityto put moe emphasis on the non-inastuctual sot components o the BICs
sevice potolio.
Tenants in incubatos Employment by tenants
2010 2011 2010 2011
Total 3937 3729 24505 19641,00Aveage 31,71 28,68 191,44 151,08
Median 23,50 21,50 98,00 83,00
Table 5: tenants in incubators
The KPIs maybe can tell us something! The numbe o tenants hosted in physical
incubatos has seen a vaiation o -19,5%, a gue highe than the -15,4% vaiation
o all stat-ups ceated in the netwok, maybe poviding some indications that, to
some etent, thee is the need to go vitual. The same eecise can be done looking
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at the statistics o the employment by incubato tenants. Indeed the vaiation o
employment in tenant companies has been o -19,8% which compaed to the moe
geneal gue calculated above o a decease o jobs ceated in statups o -3,1% ,
can be seen as a conmation o the above statement on vitual sevices.
valuE for MonEy
Some inteesting thoughts aise om the analysis o the value o money,
specically i we compae the gues o this yea with the tends in the last yeas.
Indeed, aleady in 2010 we could see that thee was a decease in the cost pe job
ceated, a decease which is conmed in 2011. We can also see that this decease
is accompanied by a decease o the public nancial contibution pe job ceated.
O is it an incease o the eciency o the BICs sevices?
Cost pe job ceatedPublic nancial contibution pe job
ceated
2010 2011 2010 2011
12058,79 10886,64 8338,79 7867,63
Table 6: investment per job created
I the cost pe job ceated has deceased o 9,72%, the public nancial contibution
has also deceased o 5,65%, which means that in elative tems thee is a highe
contibution pe job ceated o the public secto in the public/pivate secto tadeof,
but, in absolute tems a negative vaiation needs to be anyway epoted.
The business model o the BICs still depends heavily on public secto unding
which epesents 67% (63% in 2010) o the total income o the EC-BICs. The total
investment o the public secto in the BICs in 2010 is estimated at 181.582.532,00
(estimated collective amount) wheeas in 2011 the estimation is o 175.685.071,00.This vaiation o -3,2% can patially eplain the incease in the value o money
inde, especially i coupled with the inceased numbes o jobs ceated in the
netwok (in new stat-ups and eisting SMEs).
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Stat-ups pe
100K o BIC
ependitue
Jobs ceated
pe 100K o
BIC ependitue
Business plans
ceated pe
100K o BIC
ependitue
SMEs assisted
pe 100
o BIC
ependitue
2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011
Aveage 2,59 3,24 7,74 13,21 4,37 4,31 4,84 8,88
Table 7: value or 100k Euro o BIC expenditure
The gues above denitely conm that thee has been a moe ecient use o
the available nancial esouces and a stonge capacity and eibility o the BICs
to adapt themselves to changing cicumstances. The gues below instead, ae
epession o the decease in tems o stat-up ceated and o the incease o the
KPIs elative to the eisting SMEs suppoted in the yea.
Stat-ups pe
FTE membe o
BIC staf
Jobs ceated
pe FTE
membe o BIC
staf
Business plans
ceated pe FTE
membe o BIC
staf
SMEs assisted
pe FTE
membe o
BIC staf
2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011
Aveage 2,92 2,60 8,74 10,82 4,94 4,23 5,77 8,07
Table 8: value or FTE member o BIC sta
Among all the statistical calculations that stem out o the dataset, the value o
money in tems o cost pe job ceated in tems o public nancial contibution pe
job ceated, povide pobably the most poweul inomation on the impact BICs
can achieve. A public nancial contibution o less than 8.000,00, epesenting72% o the actual unds needed to ceate a job, with a suvival ate o aound
90%, is quite a unique agument demonstating that the BICs community has
a stong and ecient impact on the economic egeneation pocess and on the
geneation o new ms and jobs. A mission o clea public inteest, poweed by
entepeneus.
The public secto is o couse heavily involved, as can be seen in table 9, which
epots the degee o owneship (in tems o voting ights) o the BICs. Howeve,
the involvement o the public secto could and should be upgaded, in odeto povide moe esouces investing in human capital (and less on physical
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inastuctues), the human skilled and epeienced human esouces who can be
engaged in boosting the BICs value chain, with a net positive leveage efect on
the ceation o ms and jobs and on the development o competitive SMEs.
This epot demonstates that investing in BICs is a sae and sound investment othe public secto. A low-isk investment, as the suvival ate is vey high, with high
and ast etuns since in less than 1 yea the public secto will get its investment
back thanks to the inceased ta inow it has geneated suppoting the ceation
o new jobs.
Figure 8: some trends o BICs value or money
Figure 9: trends o some KPIs per 100K o BIC expenditure
Start-ups
Jobs created
Business plans
SMEs assisted
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ProfIlIng
the eC-BICs
ownErShip and influEncE
Geneally, in 2011, thee has been a slight incease o the numbe o oganizationengaged in the BICs govenance, although, inteesting enough, the pecentage
o public bodies owneship has inceased om 68,48% to 71,20%, conming the
high involvement o the public secto as BICs shaeholdes.
Public Bodies Pivate Bodies Total
Numbe 667,00 1182,00 1849,00
Owneship (%) 71,20 28,80 100,00
Table 9: BIC ownership
Epectedly the main public shaeholdes o BICs ae epesentations o local
administations (egions, local govenments and municipalities NUTS 1, 2 and 3
levels) which count up to 64% o public secto owneship. As o pivate secto
owneship, it is woth to mention that the majoity o pivate shaeholdes ae
actually entepises (38%).
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Figure 10: breakdown o public sector shareholders in BICs
Figure 11: breakdown o private sector shareholders in BICs
The catchment aea o BICs is vey much local and egional. BICs ae and emain
local tools to suppot entepeneuship and ae acknowledged mostly by egional
and local administations, although, to be noted, national govenments ae also
moe and moe ecognizing the ole o the BICs.
National/federal government
Local Government
100% publicly nanced R&D structures
Public owned capital funds
State (s) in federal organized states
Municipalities
Public owned companies
Others
Regional Government
Specic governmental agencies
Chambers of commerce (if public)
Private nanced R&D structures
Employers associations
Economic development not for prot entities
Private owned capital funds
Private people
Chambers of Commerce
Trade Unions
Enterprises
Banks
Others
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Figure 12: catchment areas o BICs
Figure 13: public sector acknowledgment o BICs
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huMan rESourcES & ExpErtiSE
A little ove 2100 people have been employed oveall in BICs in 2011, and since the
coe mission o the BICs is to sustain entepeneuship, 28% o these wee diectly
involved in entepeneuial guidance activities.
Figure 14: human resources, breakdown by role
In tems o BICs size measued by numbe o employees, the modal value is the
ange 7-9 ollowed closely by the ange 3-6. BICs ae still eible oganizations
who tend to intenalize a substantial potion o the equied epetise.
Figure 15: BICs size (sta)
Other
Incubator management
Administration
Training entrepreneurs
EU / National / Regional project management
General Management
Communication, events, animation
Entrepreneurs guidance and support
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Figure 16: man/days o external expertise used by BICs
As last yeas suvey showed, also this yea, it is clea that the key aeas o epetise
o the BICs ae the ceation and suppot o high-tech SME ceation and suppot
and access to nance.
Figure 17: BICs core areas o expertise
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Intenationalization sevices ae also etensively deliveed by the BICs. Indeed
68% o the BICs ae actually poviding these sevices though in-house schemes o
in patneship with patne oganizations, including though the newly established
EBN sot landing platom.
The oveall othe sevices ofeed by BICs, besides thei coe aea o epetise,
elate mainly to the povision o specic taining and the set-up o intenational
and national pojects as well as to specialized technology suppot.
Figure 18: additional services oered
SErvicES
This epetise tanslates in specic sevices and in a specic set o tools and
pocedues that each BIC delives and implements on a daily basis. Sevices
diected to new entepeneus o the ceation o new stat-ups, as well as to
eisting SMEs o an aea, intended to incease the eciency with which they go
to maket.
SErVICES FOr NEW STArT-UPS
Conming last yeas analysis, the BICs appea to povide a wide ange o sevices
to new entepeneus and appea to be well equipped! All o them povide nancial
suppot and the ovewhelming majoity povides suppot in the pe-incubation
phase (beoe the actual ceation o the m).
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Figure 19: services to new entrepreneurs
Identicationofidealtarget/
entrepreneur
Templateforriskanalysis
Entrepreneurialskill-a
ssessmenttool
Provisionofbusinessplantemplate
Helpingtodenethe
businessmodel
Helpingtowritethebusinessplan
Financialplanningandsimulation
Availabilityo
fdatabaseofnancialtools
Helpingtondna
ncialsupport
Provisionofincubation
space
Assessmentoftr
ainingneeds
Trainingforentrepreneurs
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Much action takes place when it is time to pomote entepeneuship. Indeed
ove 4200 events have been oganized acoss the netwok and these have been
attended by moe than 158000 people, while when it comes to taining ove 5200taining sessions have been oganized o moe than 58000 paticipants. The
beakdown o taining topics by BIC can be seen in gue 20.
Events oganized
to pomote
entepeneuship
People that
attended events
to pomote
entepeneuship
Taining
events o new
entepeneus
New
entepeneus
that attended
events
Taining events
o SMEs
People that
attended events
o SMEs
2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011
Total 3925 4208 168284 158296 4506 5280 62978 58661 2003 2300 36120 33877
Aveage 30,66 32,4 1314,7 1217,7 35,20 40,6 492,00 451,2 15,64 17,7 282,18 260,6
Table 10: promotion o entrepreneurship and training.
Figure 20: breakdown o trainings or new entrepreneurs by topics
Many topics ae taught in BIC taining, but the most equent ae the classics!
Indeed maketing, business planning, management and investment eadiness
emain in the top list.
Business
Planning
Investment
Readiness
Management Marketing IP Rights Other
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SErVICES FOr ExISTING SMES
Appaently SMEs ae looking o specic pogams to develop innovations in thei
own companies, which o couse bings the case o seious innovation diagnostics
to be undetaken by the BICs (22% o the sevices deliveed to SMEs ae innovationdiagnostics as pe gue 3).
Figure 21: services to existing SMEs
Taining activities have been oganized thoughout the netwok also o eisting
SMEs. 2300 events have been oganized in 2011 which saw the paticipation o
moe than 33500 SMEs.
It is possible to zoom into the development o innovative pojects o SMEs and
to undestand the content o these pojects. Oveall 75% o the BICs ae ceating
and suppoting SMEs with pojects elative to the establishment o coopeation
among the SME themselves and the r&D institutions o the aea. Moe than hal o
the BICs (55%) ae developing intenational technology tanse oppotunities as
well as SME specic nancing schemes. Also coss-bode coopeation pogams
hit high in the list (50% o BICs), as intenationalization o businesses emains a
high pioity.
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Figure 22: programs to develop innovation in SMEs
Intenationalization sevices ae equested by SMEs and signicantly deliveed by
BICs. Indeed 95% o the BICs epot being eady to povide sevices o SMEs to
stat intenational business, and 72% o the BICs have epoted doing assessments
on intenationalization needs.
SIGNPOSTING
Coopeation with othe oganizations o intenationalization activities is quite
stong. As can be seen in the gue below BICs signpost o such sevices mostly
to Chambes o Commece, to govenmental epot agency and to pivate
consultants. Coopeation in this espect with the Entepise Euope Netwok
involves 50% o the BICS.
Figure 23: signposting or internationalization services
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Moe geneally the BICs ely on thei netwok to be able to both, povide a ully
compehensive ange o sevices, and to make sue these ae popely tailoed to
the needs o the entepeneus and SMEs. Indeed no BIC epots opeating alone,
without patneing no signposting activities! Legal and accountancy sevices
ae heavily signposted, as well as the sevices elated to epetise on intellectual
popety ights.
Figure 24: signposting
buSinESS ModEl
As aleady epoted above BICs ely o two thids o thei needs on thepublic secto. Thee is o couse a diect coelation between the public secto
benetting om the BICs actions and the public nancial contibution afecting
the ovewhelming majoity o the BICs (only 1 BIC epots not eceiving unds om
the public secto in 2011).
Subsidies play a geat ole hee. Indeed i we add up the values o income coming
om national, egional and local bodies, stuctual unds and othe public subsidies,
we each a gue o 58%.
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Figure 25: public sector income
A close look into the beakdown o pivate secto unding will eveal that 79% o
it is coming om the management o the incubato (entals) and ees o sevices
(o tenants, entepeneus and eisting SMEs).
Figure 26: private sector income
On the ependitue side, the most impotant items ae those elative to human
esouces: staf costs (42%) and etenal epetise (15%). Oveheads each 20%
o total epenses, while maintenance o the incubato buildings sums up to 11% o
total ependitues.
From national, regional, local bodies
Other public subsidies
Income from EU Programmes
EU structural Funds
Public Income through National & Regional programmes
Other public income
Income from housing + incubator services
Other private income
Income from client-SMEs/Entrepreneurs
Private sponsorship
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Figure 27: BICs expenditures
Payroll
Overheads
Other costs
Consultants and external experts
Cost of incubator building(s)
Subsidies to Entrepreneurs
Financial costs
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ConClusIonsBy Philippe Vanrie, EBN CEO
Inteesting things have happened last yea! Ate moe than a quate o a centuy,
EBN can again demonstate that BICs still epesent one o the most ecient
answes o ceating new ms, geneating jobs enabling applied innovation acoss
SMEs, and stimulating local and egional economies.
Futhe challenges ae awaiting BICs in the nea utue as new tends, altenative
methodologies and advanced tools ae emeging. Living labs ae booming, the
co-woking movement is gowing, open innovation is evealing its potential, angels
unds and cowd unding ae catching the entepeneuial communities attention,not to mention the new wave o acceleation pogams. I see that BICs ae moe
and moe able to integate these new tends though a coopeative mindset athe
than a competing attitude, which again conms the ndings o the obsevatoy
epot, whee comments wee made about the eal capacity o the BICs to adapt
to new contets.
The cuent challenging economic times actually pesent etaodinay
oppotunities o enhancing the competitiveness o oganizations though
innovation, coopeation and entepeneuship. We stongly believe thatbottom-up mico-economic initiatives (entepise ceation and development
based on innovation and collaboation) can signicantly and positively afect the
maco-economic landscape. Communities o poessional enables such as BICs,
Incubatos and simila oganizations ae ecient geneatos and acceleatos o
entepeneuial innovations and the engine o building myiads o mico & mezzo-
business objects.
The Euopean Economy needs to enhance the opeational eciency o the delivey
mechanisms though which challenges ae addessed and solutions ae deliveed!
As descibed in the statistics above, BICs and thei stakeholdes ae ofeing the
peect stat+gowth packages to thei innovating custome-entepeneus,
deliveing thei double mission o public and pivate inteest with dedication,
poessionalism, intelligence and an impessive value o money!
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Table 1: new entepeneus - om enquiies to job ceation 7
Table 2: suppot to eisting SMEs 8
Table 3: investment eadiness 10
Table 4: physical incubation 12
Table 5: tenants in incubatos 12
Table 6: investment pe job ceated 13
Table 7: value o 100k Euo o BIC ependitue 14
Table 8: value o FTE membe o BIC staf 14
Table 9: BIC owneship 16
Table 10: pomotion o entepeneuship and taining oganized 23
Figue 1: entepise suvival ate in 2011 7
Figue 2: some tends 2004 - 2008 8
Figue 3: sevices to eisting SMEs by typology 9
Figue 4: technological innovation in BICs 9
Figue 5: intellectual popety 10
Figue 6: beakdown o unding souces 11
Figue 7: beakdown o nancial sevices ofeed by BIC 11
Figue 8: some tends o BICs value o money 15Figue 9: tends o some KPIs pe 100K o BIC ependitue 15
Figue 10: beakdown o public secto shaeholdes in BICs 17
Figue 11: beakdown o pivate secto shaeholdes in BICs 17
Figue 12: catchment aeas o BICs 18
Figue 13: public secto acknowledgment o BICs 18
Figue 14: human esouces, beakdown by ole 19
Figue 15: BICs size (staf) 19
Figue 16: man/days o etenal epetise used by BICs 20
Figue 17: BICs coe aeas o epetise 20
Figue 18: additional sevices ofeed 21
Figue 19: sevices to new entepeneus 22
Figue 20: beakdown o tainings o new entepeneus by topics 23
Figue 21: sevices to eisting SMEs 24
Figue 22: pogams to develop innovation in SMEs 25
Figue 23: signposting o intenationalization sevices 25
Figue 24: signposting 26
Figue 25: public secto income 27
Figue 26: pivate secto income 27
Figue 27: BICs ependitues 28
taBles & fIgures
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