RAPIDEImprovements of Public

Services30th November 2010

EUROPEAN UNION European Regional Development Fund

Benjamin KuscherRAPIDE Project ManagerKWI Consultants GmbHBenjamin.Kuscher@kwi.at

What is RAPIDEBringing innovation faster to the market

› 13 partners from

› 12 regions in

› 11 EU member states › discussed

How to bring regional innovation faster to the market

RAPIDE’s results Bringing innovation faster to the market

› 17 Action Plans of 5 innovative RAPIDE Actions are currently implemented:

1. Innovation Voucher Schemes2. Business Angel Network Academy3. Assessment tool for start-ups

4. Pre-Commercial Procurement projects (PCP)5. Digital Storytelling to bring innovators to

finance/market

Pre-Commercial Procurement PCP

Bringing innovation faster to the market

› What is PCP?› The public sector does not procure a final product, but

much more it procures the research to satisfy a need (social, technical, economical,…)

› RAPIDE and PCP› FP7 project under the PCP structure to solve the need

for a pre-selection tool of start-ups for public and private funds

› 3 RAPIDE regions currently implement PCP projects1. Kujawsko-Pomorskie – Poland2. South West of England – UK3. Észak-Alföld – Hungary

“DigStar” Digital Storytelling to bring innovation faster to market/finance

› Digital storytelling to bring innovation to finance/market

› FP7-ICT-2011-8 PCP e-governance

› Target:› structured digital storytelling will replace written

application forms as a new way of selecting start-ups for public and/or private seed funding.

› Result:› public investors will use similar selection criteria for

start-up funding as private Venture Funds do.› Output:

› Developed text analysis technology will allow to countercheck the future applications with other funding programmes to avoid double funding.

PCP in Észak-Alföld Bringing innovation faster to the market

› Why?

› Giving chance to SMEs to enter into the procurement practises

› Generating competition on the field of Research and Development

› Giving chance to the procurers to buy the best solution available or developed

› Giving the opportunity to the developers to commercialize the developed product

› Developing products where the market needs meets supplied R&D developments

› Broadening the scale of RDI measure from the demand size

PCP in Észak-Alföld Bringing innovation faster to the market

› By whom? – Regional partnership› National Development Agency

› Managing Authority of Regional Operational Programme› Észak-Alföld Regional Development Agency

› Intermediate Body of Regional Operational Programme› INNOVA Észak-Alföld Regional Innovation Agency

› What? – All partners engaged MAs to ensure that the Action Plans developed through RAPIDE are delivered through the mainstream programmes› Észak-Alföld Regional Operational Programme – Priority 1:

Regional Economic Development – Component 1.1.3/B Experimental Actions, referring to development of the innovation potential of the region

For more information

RAPIDE www.rapidenetwork.euInterreg IVC www.interreg4c.netDG Regio ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/index_en.htmÉszak-Alföld www.eszakalfold.huKWI Consultants www.kwi.at

EUROPEAN UNION European Regional Development Fund

Zoltan Baloghregional representativeÉszak-Alföld Regionzoltan.balogh@eszakalfold.hu

Benjamin KuscherRAPIDE Project ManagerKWI Consultants GmbHBenjamin.Kuscher@kwi.at