© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Enterprise Europe Network - EEN: Supporting Transnational Technology Transfer Viviane Boutinard Rouelle, EEN manager, Alliance - EPFL ERAcademy, Session 7, Impact and Innovation, November 11 th, 2009

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by Outline  What it is  History, who is the EEN and EEN in Switzerland  How it works  Goal/mission  EEN members: what they do; EEN clients: who they are  What it offers  Technology promotion  Database, Technology e-Alert, Events: brokerage events, SME missions  Data and results

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by No border to Markets, Innovation, Research and Knowledge EEN = 40countries: 27 EU + Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, China, Croatia, Israel, Norway,Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, USA,… 600 organisations What it is

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by Support for Business Business opportunities, market access, regulations Support for EU R&D SME support to access EU Research projects In Switzerland: Osec In Switzerland: Euresearch In Switzerland: Euresearch & EPFL - Alliance Support for Innovation & Technoloy Innovation opportunities and technology transfer The Enterprise Europe Network offers regional support in an international context What it is

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by Organisations in Switzerland for In Switzerland: Euresearch & EPFL-Alliance Support for Innovation&Technology Innovation opportunities and transnational technology transfer (French and Italian speaking Switzerland) (German speaking Switzerland and coordinator) What it is provided by Swiss support for European Innovation & Technology

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by Enterprise Europe Network helps to find a suitable partner for: Enterprises and research laboratories in Switzerland Enterprises and research laboratories in the 40 network countries Partnership agreements : - Technological development - License - Industrialization - Sub-contracting - Commercial with technical assistance - Joint venture How it works provided by Swiss support for European Innovation & Technology

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by Benefits  For companies  access to new technologies coming from other companies, spin-offs of universities, research laboratories of 40 countries  possibility to promote their own innovating technologies and find appropriate partners  For research laboratories or centres  possibility to identify industrial partners to transfer their innovations  Support during the whole process How it works provided by Swiss support for European Innovation & Technology

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by Technology Promotion – how to proceed Complete a standardized Technology profile Technology Offers (TO) and Technology Requests (TR) with:  Titel  Origin of TO/TR (country, type of institution)  Abstract  Description, Innovative Aspects, Main advantages  Technology Keywords / Market application  Type of partner & collaboration sought  IPR information, Development stage  Anonymous provided by Swiss support for European Innovation & Technology What it offers

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© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by  ESB 2009-Industrial Day AlpsBio cluster Brokerage events /SME Missions What it offers provided by Swiss support for European Innovation & Technology

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by Data & results Data&Results Swiss participants to BE/SME missions -454 meetings with non CH potential collaboration partners (18 months) Swiss participants to BE/SME missions -454 meetings with non CH potential collaboration partners (18 months) 430 subscribers to Technology e-alert in Switzerland >14’000 subscribers in the network 430 subscribers to Technology e-alert in Switzerland >14’000 subscribers in the network 4829 actual innovation opportunities from 40 countries (offers & requests) classified by markets & technologies EEN Database 330 discussions between CH - non CH potential collaboration partners (12 months) BE and Mission provided by Swiss support for European Innovation & Technology

© Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland   November 2009 Swiss support for European Business and Innovation provided by Contact  Enterprise Europe Network in Switzerland c/o Alliance – EPFL, station 10 CH Lausanne Tel.: c/o Euresearch Head Office CH-3003 Berne Tel.: provided by Swiss support for European Innovation & Technology