1. KETGATE: Your Gate to Innovation and High Level Technology Services
Silicon Alps Cluster, Villach –
KETGATE: Your Gate to Innovation and High Level Technology Services
JOANNEUM RESEARCH KETGATE TEAM

2. KETGATE vision and the KETGATE NETWORK
What are KETs? Why are they important?
Project motivation
Project objectives
Project vision
Working mode of the KETGATE Points
Services for SMEs and RTOs

3. WHICH KETS THERE ARE? Nanotechnology Micro- and nanoelectronics
Photonics
Industrial Biotechnology
Advanced Manufacturing technologies
Advanced Materials
Pictures Wikipedia commons

4. Why are KETs important?
Challenges in Europe’s industry: global competition and the need for a more efficient use of energy and resources.
KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES (KETs)
Strategic, innovative technologies
Increase economic growth and create jobs
They are crucial to
Upgrade products
Improve processes for regional innovation capacity
Open new market opportunities
Guarantee future competiveness of CE industry on a global scale

5. INTRODUCTION TO KETGATE
Project Motivation
Insufficient access to KETs for SMEs
Insufficient access to Research and Technology Organizations (RTO) offering KET technology services to SMEs
Regional disparities in CE
Access for SMEs to technology infrastructures for piloting and testing under real conditions is insufficient
No transnational access

6. INTRODUCTION TO KETGATE
Project motivation
Barriers for transnational KET services
Networks as in previous pilot projects (FP7, H2020) work in English - SMEs prefer access in their native language
Regional funding bodies finance RTO infrastructure for servicing the regional industry – not SMEs abroad
SMEs cannot identify relevant RTOs
RTOs offers are too expensive for SMEs
Intellectual property issues

7. INTRODUCTION TO KETGATE
Project objectives
Deliver tools and network structures
Install a transnational KET Innovation Ecosystem
Facilitate the CE-wide access to the newest Key Enabling Technologies for SMEs.
Nanotechnology
Micro- and nanoelectronics
Photonics
Industrial Biotechnology
Advanced Manufacturing technologies
Advanced Materials
Pictures Wikipedia commons

8. transnational KET Innovation Ecosystem
Consulting on KET access and implementation in mother tongue
SMEs
KETGATE Point
RTO 1
Selection
Services 2
Information on KET
Needs

9. KETGATE Points in Central Europe
GAPR VI
JOANNEUM
TERA
BZN
JSI
NCA
SEZ
8 KETGATE Points in Central Europe:
5 Business Support Organisations
3 Research and Technology Organisations

10. How can SMEs benefit from ketgate?

11. How can SMEs benefit from ketgate?
KETGATE provides you quick and easy access to a network of dozens of experts bringing you innovative technological solutions for your specific needs. We support you by:
Evaluating the innovation capacity of your company
Facilitating your cooperation with RTOs
Providing you information on RTO services
Providing you with services (e.g. funding possibilities like MICRO GRANTS up to € ) to bring your idea to the market

12. Why should my SME be a member of the KETGATE COMMUNITY?
Improvement of your products and services using KETs – More competitiveness in the market
Tailor-made and personalized services on cooperation between SMEs and RTOs in your national language
Solutions to your technological challenges

13. How can RTOs benefit from ketgate?

14. How can RTOs profit from ketgate?
KETGATE helps you acquire industrial clients by promoting your expertise and connecting you with SMEs across Europe. We support you by:
Promoting your latest developments and services
Connecting you with SMEs across Europe
Strengthening your cooperation with other RTOs across Europe
Providing you information on funding schemes

15. Why should my rto be a member of the KETGATE COMMUNITY?
Visibility on the market
New research cooperation possibilities with RTOs from other countries or with other competences
Follow-up contracts after a successful cooperation with an SME

16. How does the KETGATE network works?1
SME contacts its regional KETGATE Business Advisor in its national language 2
KETGATE transmits the SME request to appropriate RTOs in the KETGATE network 3
RTOs in the KETGATE network present offers with a concrete solution to the challenge 4
SME picks the best offer according to its needs and signs a contract with the RTO 5
Innovation project starts

17. Join our community www.interreg-central.eu/KETGATE www.ketgate.eu
Interreg KETGATE

18. KETGATE REGIONAL CONTACTS
Daniele Cozzi, M.Sc.
Joanneum Research Materials, Weiz, Austria