Competitiveness and. Innovation Programme Competitiveness and Innovation Programme University of the West of England 5 December 2006 andrewa.smith@bbsrc.ac.uk http://www.ukro.ac.uk

Competitiveness and Innovation Overview Aim is to become one of the main community measures in securing economic growth and creating more jobs How? by closing gap between research and innovation and promoting all forms of innovation How much? €3.62 blln [Commission proposal €4.21 blln] What does it look like?: The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme The ICT Policy Support Programme The Intelligent Energy Europe Programme Competitiveness and Innovation

Competitiveness and Innovation Main steps 6 April 2005 Commission proposal 13 March 2006 Competitiveness Council adopts partial general approach 16 May 2006 Parliament first reading 29 May 2006 Council debate 1 June 2006 Parliament adopts proposal October 2006 Competitiveness Council adopted CIP 2006-2007 Work Programmes - Prepare and Adopt 2008+ CIP Executive Agency Competitiveness and Innovation

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP) Largest part of the programme worth €2.16 blln sub-divided into: High Growth and Innovative SME facility Networks in Support of Business and Innovation Innovation Activities Eco-inovation Activities Entrepreneurship and Innovation Culture and Policy Development Venutre capital provided through European Investment Fund (EIF) Competitiveness and Innovation

The ICT Policy Support Programme Objective is to - help develop a sustainable, competitive and innovative information society in Europe Programme worth €728 mlln Will fund projects and actions that: Help to develop a single European information space Stimulate innovation through the wider adoption of and investment in SMEs Develop an inclusive European information society Competitiveness and Innovation

The Intelligent Energy Europe Programme (IEE) Sub-programme worth €727 mlln Its objective is to - promote energy efficiency and new and renewable energy sources in all sectors IEE to comprise 3 fields of action: Energy efficiency and rational use of resources (SAVE) New and renewable resources (ALTENER) Energy in transport (STEER) Competitiveness and Innovation

Competitiveness and Innovation Complementarities FP7 CIP Funding of projects Research, technological development and dissemination Take-up of proven technologies: environmental, ICT and Energy efficiency SMEs participation in Research Simplification Definition of thematic content Specific schemes for SMEs Actions promoting SMEs participation in FP7 Access to finance Risk-sharing finance facility for larger European RTD projects and infrastructures Risk capital (start-up and expansion) SMEs guarantee facility SMEs loan finance securitisation Dissemination of knowledge Within projects In thematic areas Networks providing innovation support services Regions Research driven clusters Innovation clusters Competitiveness and Innovation

Opportunities for Universities As ‘spin-off’ companies To develop research for market for FP-funded products and services Through INNOVA and PRO INNO platforms Through knowledge transfer products In CIP tenders, including specific policy related studies Competitiveness and Innovation

Further information DG Enterprise http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm CIP web pages http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/enterprise_policy/cip/index_en.htm Intelligent Energy web pages http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/index_en.html European Investment Bank http://www.eib.europa.eu/

Competitiveness and. Innovation Programme Competitiveness and Innovation Programme University of the West of England 5 December 2006 andrewa.smith@bbsrc.ac.uk http://www.ukro.ac.uk