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Horizontal ICT Innovation actions
October European Council covered digital economy and innovation
• Investment and innovation in the digital economy will be key drivers of future growth, jobs and competitiveness.
• Europe is not yet taking full advantage of the opportunities afforded by the digital economy, in large part due to market fragmentation
• Completing the digital single market by 2015 is therefore a high priority!
Bridging the innovation gap by better use of innovation instruments
• The Union's intellectual and scientific potential does not always translate into new products and services that can be sold on markets.
• The main reasons for this commercialisation gap are: difficulties in accessing finance, market barriers and excessive red tape.
• Europe needs a better-coordinated use of tools such as grants, pre-commercial public procurement and venture capital,
• Europe needs an integrated approach from research and innovation to market deployment.
Open
Disruptive
Innovation
Growth phase
(SpeedUp Europe)
Access to Finance
Start-up phase
(StartUp Europe)
CONTEXT
H2020 ICT thematic
areas
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Support
CULTURE
SKILLS FINANCE
ECOSYSTEM
ICT 34 – 2015: Support for access to finance
• Access to finance for Europe's entrepreneurs in early growth stage
• Pilot action for Business Angels co-investment in ICT innovative companies
• Cross border and long term investments
• Implemented by European Investment Fund
Budget 15 M€ LEIT ICT + 15 M€
'Access to risk finance' Leveraging EIF contribution
and Business Angels co- investments
Expected impact Development of co-investments
and cross-border investments by business angels
Increased investments in key ICT sectors
ICT 35 a: Business idea contests in universities and high schools
Expected impact Increased awareness of ICT
entrepreneurship among young people in Europe;
Development of entrepreneurship skills and exploitation of e-skills
From school level to European level
• 1st selection takes place at Campus level and continues gradually up to European level
• Participation of minimum 10 MS or AC in 1st year
Funding ICT 35 a,b,c 4 M € innovation action
ICT 35 b: ICT Entrepreneurship summer academy
Expected impact Increased practical
entrepreneurial skills More young ICT
entrepreneurs in Europe
• Creation of a European wide system of Summer schools• For university and last year high school students • Action oriented: experimenting, mentoring; business
planning and setting up your company; matchmaking
Funding ICT 35 a,b,c 4 M € innovation action
ICT 35 c: Entrepreneurship labs
Expected Impact More ICT entrepreneurs More collaboration in the
entrep. ecosystem +opportunities for entrep.
Funding ICT 35 a,b,c 4 M € innovation action
Foster interaction between students &
entrepreneurs
• Bring entrepreneurs, students and companies in experimental spaces to foster innovation driven entrep.
• Workshops, learning by doing, co-working spaces, testing, prototyping, coaching and sharing experience
ICT 35 d: Campaign on entrepreneurship culture in innovative ICT sector
Expected impact Changing the attitude
towards risk-taking Decrease the fear of
starting a business
• Campaign focused on promoting entrepreneurship and the culture of risk-taking attitude in Europe with a focus on ICT sector
Funding 1,5 M € CSA
Role models, promotion of a risk-taking attitude, acceptance of failures & celebration of successes
ICT 35 e: Support for definition & implementation of Inducement Prizes
• Definition of 8 to 12 inducement prize competitions
• Development of prize concepts, value of the prize, market failures, success criteria, competition rules
Expected impact Identification of inducement prize
with highest impact and chance of mobilising stakeholders
Awareness about inducement prizes into new communities
Funding: 0,5 M € CSA
ICT 35 e: The Prizes Instrument
Recognition prizes
• Recognition of work that has already been done
Inducement Prizes• Providing a considerable financial inducement to stimulate
researchers / innovators to do something that has never been done before
• Typically deliver a major technological breakthrough for a predefined challenge
For ICT three "Inducement prizes" will be launched during 2014-15
Inducement Prizes in ICT LEIT WP 2014-15
"Breaking the optical transmission barriers in the core network"
With focus on optical networks
To be launched in 2014
€1m purse
"Collaborative sharing of spectrum"
With focus on wireless networks
To be launched in 2014
€1m purse
Implementation details to be published in 2014
Inducement Prizes in SC Health WP 2014-15
Development of interactive health & well-being app that• Ensures citizens can securely store and access their health
and well-being data and…
• Transmit it seamlessly to healthcare professionals and…
• Provide a health and well-being "scoreboard" to the user
Contest To be launched in 2015
Has €2m purse (to be distributed amongst at least 3 winners)
Implementation details to be published in 2014
Supplier B
Supplier C
Supplier D
Phase 1 Solution design
Phase 2 Prototypedevelopment
Phase 3 Original developmentof limited volumeof first test products /servicesSupplier A
Supplier B
Supplier C
Supplier D
Supplier B
Phase 0 CuriosityDrivenResearch
R&D / Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP)
Phase 4 Deployment of commercial end-productsDiffusion of newly developedproducts / services
Supplier D
Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI)
• PCP to steer the development of solutions towards concrete public sector needs, whilst comparing/validating alternative solution approaches from various vendors
• PPI to act as launching customer / early adopter / first buyer of innovative commercial end-solutions newly arriving on the market
… in line with WTO proc. rules, EU Treaty, State aid free
Supplier(s) A,B,C,Dand/or X
Also normally multiple sourcing here to keep competition going
PCP and PPI complementary
ICT 35 f: European networks of procurers
• EU wide networks of procurers identifying together shared procurement needs in short term (PPIs) & longer term (PCPs)
• Engage in open dialogue (also online) with all stakeholders (industry, research community, other procurers, end-users
• Investigate feasibility & prepare concretely 1 joint PCP or PPI
Finding partners EU procurement forum/;Linkedin groupKrakow PCP-PPI event (14-15 November 2013)Expected impact
Forward-looking, concerted approach to develop answers to challenges faced by the public sector
Reduced fragmentation of public sector demand
Funding ICT: 1 M € CSA
ICT 36 2015: Open call: Cofunding of PCP
• Close the gap between supply & demand for innov. ICT solutions
• Drive innovation from the demand side and reduce fragmentation of public sector demand in Europe
• PCP procurers buy R&D services including design, prototyping & real-life testing
• Same conditions as before: Example docs for open market consultation, tender docs available from ongoing PCPs
Expected impact Reduced fragmentation of demand for innovative solutions Increased opportunities for wide market uptake and
economies of scale
Funding: 4 M € PCP cofund
First results of EU funded PCPs
SILVER (robotics for ageing well aiming to care for 10% more elderly by 2020): R&D started 7 out of 33 bids selected: All EU based, all small
or medium size Also universities participate in winning consortia! Fair chance for participants from all over Europe
to participate: procurers so far DK, FI, SE, NL, UK CHARM (traffic management): benchmarking 20%
cost savings: Call closed on 23/10, 34 bids received. PCP for open modular architecture, opportunities
for new innovative suppliers, best value for money solutions