Il Progetto "BioLinX": una iniziativa di Federchimica

per la Chimica Sostenibile Bioeconomy dialogues

Progetti green dal territorio e oltre

Milan, c/o Area della Ricerca CNR, 7th of March 2018

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Why BioLinX? ‘Innovations in project don’t get to the market (quick enough)’

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Scout FP7 & H2020 funded projects Select Innovation Owners and define support

Increase TRL Decrease time to market

Innovation Owner

Broaden network

Adding intel

Incubation Entre-

preneurial skills

Finance

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BioLinX services

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Innovation Owner

Broaden network

Adding intel

Incubation Entre-

preneurial skills

Finance

Online Partnering

Online Knowledge & IP database

Project initiation

Regional Brokerage events

Private Finance Public Funding

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Some key figures

Reached out to 509 unique projects;

Provided direct support 64 projects

Impacted 166 projects

Over 500 participants during various events / brokerage

10 regions analyzed

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Insights (up to now)

Dominant challenges for innovations:

• Funding…

• Market validation / Access to customers

• Technological development / Up-scaling

• Supporting legislation / Level playing field

Regional challenges found:

• Lack of financial instruments

• Fragmented messaging on bio / green

• Fragmented R&D / long term Human Capital issue

• Lack of long term policy (security)

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Support stories

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From a relative isolated starting point to centre piece in a

consortium and well-connected

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Upcoming events

Webinar on Entrepreneurial Training,

More brokerage to come…

3rd Finance Academy, Italy, Milan…

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BioLinX’s Brokerage & Finance Academy event in Milan (10th-11th of April 2018):

Bio-sourcing & Bio-transforming within manufacturing value chains & consumers’ markets

Federchimica Via Giovanni da Procida 11 – Milan (Italy)

BioLinX Finance Academy & Brokerage Event Milan 9 10th-11th of April 2018

Funding & Networking:

bio-sourcing & bio-transforming within manufacturing value chains & consumers’ markets

Venture Capital

Pitching Coatching

Innovation strategies

Large & SMEs Pitch and

meet 1-to-1

Time Finance Academy’s Coaching Sessions

13:00 Registration, Lunch buffet and coffee

13:45 Welcome & Introduction

14.15 First try-out on 1-minute elevator pitches

14.45 Coaching session

16.15 Coffee break

16.45 Training

19.00 Brokerage Dinner

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Milan, 10th of April 2018 Preliminary Program

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Time Brokerage Event

9.00 Welcome & introduction

9:30 Cosmetics’ & Nutraceutics’ Value Chain: H&M (tbc), Roquette (tbc), Arkema (tbc)

10:45 Home Products’ Value Chain: Novamont, Henkel (tbc)

12:00 BioBased Fine & Specialty Chemicals’ Value Chain: FATER, Bio-on (tbc)

13.15 Lunch

Time Finance Academy’s Pitching Sessions (Day #2)

14.15 Expert Commission’s from Industry & Finance (1)

15.30 Expert Commission’s from Industry & Finance (2)

16.45 Expert Commission’s from Industry & Finance (3)

18.00 Winning pitch & Conclusions

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Milan, 11th of April 2018 Preliminary Program

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Finance Academy (1)

Selected companies will gain access to a free coaching session on ‘VC-pitching’ during the pre-event. In addition, these companies will be given a unique opportunity to present their business projects and to network with the audience of experts in innovation, Business Angels, Venture Capitalists, Corporate and Institutional investors and peers. All the presenting projects are reviewed by an expert jury composed of relevant key industry players and based on the following criteria: Business potential, Team experience, Product/Technological merit, Competitive position, Investment or Partnering interest and Presentation quality. Open for a innovative SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs within bioeconomy and clean-tech innovation Organized by BioLinX, main partner Europe Unlimited S.A. • “provider of critical business resources to innovative technology

entrepreneurs, corporations, investors and researchers”

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Finance Academy (2)

After two editions in The Netherlands and Sweden, the BioLinX Finance Academy goes to Italy: April 10th the Academy will test entrepreneurs presenting their business proposals, to fine-tune their pitch and presentation skills for next day pitch, receiving feedbacks from experienced coaches April 11th, companies active in the bio-economy sector will be given a unique opportunity to present their business projects and to network with the audience of experts in innovation, Business Angels, Venture Capitalists, Corporate and Institutional investors and peers.

The event will be highly interactive and will be composed of a mix of presentations & networking Your benefits by pitching at the BioLinX Finance Academy:

• Getting a half-day coaching session at the Finance Academy on the day prior to the event • Presenting opportunity before Investors in your sector • Networking opportunities with investors, consultants, researchers & companies • Visibility through the website & your company profile in conference binder • A regional and European promotion • Networking Dinner You can register for the event directly on the website via this link

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Brokerage Event

Join the opening seminar with speeches about innovation strategies and innovation support projects

• Keynote speakers from Large Companies within the Value Chains

• Learn about Innovation support projects

Pitch your company, project, idea,…

Meet 1-to-1

Enjoy the mingle area

• Put up your roll-up or poster. Distribute printed information

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Focus on Cosmetics & Nutraceuticals, Home Products and Fine & Specialties

Workshops will be arranged by SC exploiting industrial networks represented by Cosmetica Italia, Assocasa and by different AISPEC sectoral groupings of Federchimica Sessions will be articulated within the following 3 sessions: • Nutraceutics & Cosmeceutics and Home Products (2 sessions) • Fine & Specialty Chemicals (different manufacturing sectors/downstream users)

Invited companies will present their innovation needs and/or technology offers and competencies on selected topics such as biobased renewable content, sustainable raw materials and health promoting ingredients All Value Chain actors and players, industrial and/or R&D, will be invited Concrete development projects formed How to get invited? • Participation is open for cluster members and other relevant Value Chain

stakeholders. Contact p.manes@sviluppochimica.it

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The BioLinX network

In addition to the project partners, BioLinX represents a pan-European network of companies, academy and RTOs, accessible via the BioLinX partnering platform: http://www.biolinx-project.eu/partnering-platform

Here (see “Progemme” subsection) you can download previous presentations offered in Milan (event hosted by Banca Intesa Sanpaolo)

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BioLinX partners – a network of expertise (Alphabetic order)

DECHEMA (Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology) brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines, institutions and generations to stimulate scientific exchange in chemical engineering, process engineering and biotechnology. DECHEMA facilitates the transfer of research results into industrial applications. Being very experienced in organizing partnering events (both physical and online) DECHEMA’s main tasks will be to set up the partnering platform and to co- organize the regional events.

Europe Unlimited (eUnlimited) provides event and online matching platforms between emerging innovative companies, investors and partners across Europe. They link entrepreneurial companies in many venture fora and partnering events to venture capital and corporate investors and improve the investor-readiness of companies. In BioLinX eUnlimited will lead the workshops on Business development and finance, contribute to the assessment of the projects and contribute to the dissemination of the project results

INNEN is focused on the design and development of advanced IT solution to search, access and manage relevant knowledge within enterprises, with specific focus on the Technology Innovation domain. Innovation Engineering will integrate information from several heterogeneous sources and will provide the search engine features, covering scientific publications, patents and ongoing public-funded innovation projects. Within BioLinX they will realize the Intelligence platform

PNO is involved as advisor in various PPP roadmap development. They have a strong focus on industrial biotech and develop European networking and incubator projects with various smart specialization regions. Within BioLinX they will use their real life experience to assess the EU funded projects, support the analysis of the regions , support the regional workshops and will implement the advising on public funding opportunities and the proven incubation process.

REWIN is involved in (trans)national and (trans)regional cooperation projects, Smart Specialization Strategy, regional analysis and the bioeconomy. REWIN supports the Triple Helix partners in the Biobased Economy and operates various SME driven development programs. Within BioLinX REWIN is responsible for the coordination and communication/dissemination, is involved in the assessments of EU-funded projects, the regional assessments as well as the regional workshops.

SP main expertise relates to innovation systems analysis, life cycle analysis, foresight, energy systems analysis, policy and economics, and communication and process management. These competences are extended to research and development within, amongst others, the food and biotechnology area. In BioLinX, SP will use their expertise to assess the EU funded projects and classify them according to the level of support needed from BioLinX, support the analysis of the regions and implement the regional workshops

SC Sviluppo chimica S.p.A. is a service company totally owned by Federchimica, the Italian Federation of the Chemical Industry, that is a member of Confindustria, the General Confederation of the Italian Industry, and CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council. In BioLinX SC will enable the assessment of projects and enable the analysis of its own region, organize the regional events and will actively support the incubation process

TNO (Strategy & Policy) use insights from innovation sciences, public administration and spatial and economic science. TNO has a strong footprint in regional analysis (technology / innovation system analysis). In BioLinX, TNO will use their expertise to support the assessments of the KBBE projects, set the pathway for analysis of the regions and implement reflective learning on the project to further improve the services offered.

Coordinator; Lead for Communication; representing Southwest-Netherlands region

Lead for project analysis; representing South Sweden region

Representing North-Italy as starting region; support project assessments and incubation

Lead for Partnering database; co-organizing physical and on-line meetings

Lead for business support program; organizing Private funding events

Lead for Intelligence platform

Lead for Incubation process ; organizing Public funding events

Lead for reflective learning and regional analysis; support project assessments

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