Bridging Life Science Research and SME’s in the Baltic Sea Region - Putting Cluster Policies into Practise for the Benefit of SME´s Acronym: Bridge-BSR Coordination and support actions FP7-Regions ScanBalt Forum 2008
ScanBalt BioRegion - Innovation on Top of Europe
ScanBalt BioRegion - Companies Source: ScanBalt Yellow Pages, Jan (absolute numbers)
The Development of ScanBalt BioRegion Transparency of Competencies New Cluster Formations Infrastructure for Research and Education Focus on Innovation Mentoring Shared services/SME Support Focus on Talents Development of Monitoring/Bench Marks Establishment of Contacts Vision and Mission Development One-Stop-Entry and Visibility
Evaluation of Bridge-BSR Bridge-BSR got 14 out of 15 points Finished 1st of 12 funded projects Approx 100 applications delivered
Partners ScanBalt (Coordinator) - DK Steinbeis Transferzentrum – GE BioCon Valley – GE IPPT PAN, National Contact Point – PL BioForum Oulu – FI Medicon Valley Alliance – DK Latvian Association of Biotechnology – LV Estonian Biotech Association – EE
Total Budget: Euro (Incl. overhead) Total EC Contribution: ,60 (78 %) Start date: 1 January 2008 End Date: 30 June 2010 (Month 30/Final Conference) 30 Sept 2010 (Month 33/Report to Commission) Kick off: 6 March 2008, Riga
Work Package List
Project Road Map
Key Deliverables for review to EC ● Analysis of: -Regional Innovation Strategies -Regional IP-Bottlenecks -Regional Financing Bottlenecks ● Joint SME Innovation Agenda ● Shared SME Support Services between clusters ● Top of Europe Life Science Foundation/Network ● IP-indicators and business models in 2 ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Networks ● Scoreboard model for cluster impact on regional economy
Some Tools Bridge-BSR Innovation Council Financing Expert Council Mentoring by 5 regional round tables Awareness seminars on IP- management Workshops at ScanBalt Forum Final Conference, Tallin Project web and intranet
Bridge-BSR Contact: Coordinator Peter Frank, ScanBalt,