Borris Haupt
Transcript of Borris Haupt
Financing business-research cooperation for
Innovation in the organic sector
- Science Day, Biofach, 13 February 2015
Dr. Borris Haupt
Bayern Innovativ GmbH - Partner of Enterprise Europe Network
Disclaimer:
This project has received funding from the European
Union‘s COSME Programme (2014-2020) under grant
agreement No. 671811.
The presentation and given information is not legally
binding. Bayern Innovativ does not accept
responsibility for any use made of the information
contained therein.
EC – Support of innovative SME
Horizon 2020
~ 80 Mrd. €
COSME
~ 2,3 Mrd. €
1. Collaborative Projects
2. SME Instrument
3. Eurostars
4. Fast Track to Innovation
1. Financing
2. Enterprise Europe Network
3. Entrepeneurs
4. Framework
Excellent
Science
Industrial
Leadership
• LEIT
Societal
Challenges
• all challenges
Horizon 2020 – strong participation of SME
20% Partcipation of SME (as target)
7% SME Instrument (approx. 2.8 bn €)
o ICT: open disruptive innovation
o Nanotech, or other advanced tech
for manufacturing and materials
o Space research and development
Societal Challenges (SC)
o Diagnostics devices and
biomarkers
o Sustainable food production and
processing
o Blue growth
o Low carbon energy systems
o Greener and more integrated
transport
o Eco-innovation and sustainable
raw material supply
o Urban critical infrastructure
o Biotechnology-based industrial
processes
o Mobile e-government applications
(2015 only)
o SME business model innovation
(2015 only)
Leadership in enabling and industrial
technologies (LEIT)
Topic-oriented Market-oriented
At least 3 Partner from 3 Countries
Top
Down
Collaborative
Projects
13 %
Bottom
up
SME Instrument
7 %
1 SME sufficient
Horizon 2020: SME-Instrument
New Approach of the EU
to Fund Ambitious Innovation Projects of SME
SME Instrument: Market-oriented Innovation Projects
Source: European Commission
Why participate?
Rank among the best (“Champions league”)
European SMEs
Visibility at a European and global level
Business/management coaching
Networking opportunities
Support for follow-up financing
For innovative SMEs with an ambition to develop, grow
and have an international impact
Focused on established SMEs with high growth potential
Single company support (consortia of several SMEs
possible)
Activities at TRL 6 or above
No obligation for applicants to sequentially cover all three
phases; still a "linear" process is strongly encouraged
70% funding (exceptions possible)
Who should apply?
TRL 1 – basic principles observed and reported
TRL 2 – technology concept and/or application formulated
TRL 3 – Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept
TRL 4 – Technology validated in laboratory environment
TRL 5 – Technology validated in relevant environment
(industrially relevant environment in the case of key enabling technologies)
TRL 6 – Technology demonstrated in relevant environment
(industrially relevant environment in the case of key enabling technologies)
TRL 7 – System prototype demonstration in operational environment
TRL 8 – System complete and qualified through test and demonstration
TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
KM
U-I
nstr
um
ent
SME Instrument – three phases
Prototype Market
Phase 1
• Concept & Feasibility Assessment
Phase 2
• Innovation Project
• Demonstration
• Market-Replication
Phase 3
• Market launch
50.000 €
~ 6 months
10 page business proposal
0,5 – 2,5 Mio. €
~ 12 - 24 months
30 page business plan
No direct funding„Champions League“
Support through Enterprise Europe Network
Business Coach
SME Instrument – Cut off Dates
Source: European Commission
Evaluation criteria
Possible economic Impact
Excellence in innovation
Commercialisation potential
SME potential (Implementation) achieving the envisaged
results
Evaluation can be stopped if proposals fail to achieve a
threshold for 'impact' criterion
Call for Sustainable Food Security
o Sustainable Food Production Systems
o SME Instrument: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food
production and processing
SFS-8-2014/2015: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and
processing
Specific Challenge: To remain competitive, limit environmental degradation and
optimise the efficient use of resources, the development of more resource-efficient and
sustainable food production and processing, throughout the food system, at all scales
of business, in a competitive and innovative way is required. Current food production
and processing systems, especially in the SME sector, need to be revised and
optimised with the aim of achieving a significant reduction in water and energy use,
greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation, while at the same time improving the
efficiency in the use of raw materials, increasing climate resilience and ensuring or
improving shelf life, food safety and quality. New competitive eco-innovative processes
should be developed, within the framework of a transition towards a more resource-
efficient, sustainable circular economy.
Source: European Commission
Sustainable
food
production
and
processing
SFS-08-
2014-1
18 projects
€0.9m
SFS-08-2014
~5 projects
€8m
SFS-08-
2015-1
18 projects
€1.7m
SFS-08-2015
~10 projects
€15m
Themes Call id 2014 Call id 2015
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 2
Source: European Commission
Topics of funded Phase 1 projects SFS-8-2014/2015
•Transitioning to microalgae as a sustainable, high-quality large-scale food source through
launching the first daily drink containing spirulina
•BeadCAP-DNA: 30-minute on-site DNA test kit
•Increasing grain quality through advanced oxidation treatment during storage
•Fermentation processes for functional foods from RAPeseed, Sunflower and Other EU
matrices Devoted to Young animals.
•Improved machine vision for guidance of optical system for cost-effective and
environmentally safe in-situ removal of ectoparasites from farmed fish
•High Pressure Processing (HPP) equipment for large beverage productions
•New eco-efficient and healthy professional espresso coffee machine
•Colour-code labelling for continuous monitoring of quality and safety of packed chicken
meat
•A truly-rapid, one-minute test system for the dairy industry to assess raw milk quality,
detect sub-clinical mastitis and monitor udder health, reducing antibiotic usage and
environmental impact
•An innovative fruit ripeness checker, to offer non-destructive testing in order to ensure
resource efficient fruit processing – Ripesense
Horizon 2020: Fast Track to Innovation
The fully-bottom-up measure to promote
close-to-the-market innovation activities
Proposals relating to any technology field under LEITs and
Societal Challenges (bottom-up driven logic)
Open to any legal entity - consortia of 3 to 5 participants
About 100 grants will be given
Permanently open call with three cut-off-dates per year
Impact criterion given a higher weighting in evaluations
Time-to-grant: 6 months
Funding of innovation actions (close-to-market)
For proposal involving technological innovation, the Technologies
are at least at TRL 6.
Proposals shall include a business plan describing the business
opportunities of participants and a credible commercialisation
strategy.
Particular attention should be paid to IP protection and ownership,
and the possibility of commercial exploitation ('freedom to
operate').
Initial market take-up no later than 3 years after submission.
at least 60% of the overall budget of the proposal must be
allocated to consortium partner(s) from industry
the minimum number of industry participants must be 2 in a
consortium of 3 or 4 partners, and 3 in a consortium of 5
partners.
The maximum EU contribution per project is EUR 3 million.
The indicative EU contribution per project is expected to be
between EUR 1 million and EUR 2 million.
Funding rate 70 % (companies) + 25 % overhead
Cut-off dates:
29/04/2015
01/09/2015
01/12/2015
Similar expected for 2016
Enterprise Europe Network
Support
of about 500.000 SME each Year
600Organisations
More than 3000 Experts
53
Countries28 EU
27 Non EU about 2500 partnership
agreementseach year
Founded
2008
Bayern Innovativ – Partner of the Enterprise Europe Network
Contakt:
Dr. Borris Haupt
Bayern Innovativ GmbH
Internationale Netzwerke
Rathenauplatz 2
90489 Nürnberg
Tel.: +49 911 20671-175
www.een-bayern-innovativ.de
Unsuccessful proposals were
too much project focussed, not enough business opportunity
oriented
Description of company not convincing (why would this company
succeed and not the competitor)
No information on competing solutions
Innovation content too low; product exists already on the market
(just incremental improvement)
Just ideas, no proof of existing commercialisation concept (TRL
far too low)
Just trying ones luck
First lessons learned