1. Lorenzo Lo Cascio Provincia di Milano Sophia Antipolis, Feb 4 th 2011 Component 4 State of the art

2. Component 4 Activities Starting date March 2011 Phase 4.1 Regional strategic/action plans M10-M15 Phase 4.2 Regional Workshops M13- M15 Phase 4.3 MED-KED Transnational Action-plan M14-M19 Phase 4.4 MED-KED Transnational workshop M17-M19 Ending date January 2012

3. Component 4 Deliverables D4.1 (5) Regional Strategic and Action Plans – 31st October 2011 D4.2 (5) Regional Workshop Reports – 30th September 2011. (1) summary Report – 31st October 2011 D4.3 (1) Regional Transnational Plan – 31st Jan 2012 D4.4 (1) Transnational workshop Report – 31st Jan 2012

4. Component 4 Objective Definition of action plan to accelerate KBE development

5. Component 4 Starting point Snapshot of the regional “habitat for entrepreneurship” as emerged from the three- level analysis – Picture of the current policy initiatives to support entrepreneurship as far as: their place in the entrepreneurship support chain the state-of-the-art in their implementation their success and failure factors – Relevant public and private actors in the region – SWOT

6. Component 4 Regional Strategies – Identification of strategic objectives – Identification of operational objectives – Identification of action (budget, timing actors) – Prioritization of actions – Identification of source of fundings – Engagement of Policy level – Identification of activities/actions that involve the international level – Selection of pilot initiatives – Monitoring

7. Component 4 Transnational plan Based on the content of the 5 regional strategic plans Reinforcing existing activities / launching new ones 3 levels – outbound (one to one – one to many) – inbound (one from one – one from many) bunga bunga – cooperation (outside the partenariat; many with many – bunga bunga)

8. Component 4 Feeding the action plan – Outbound Study visit Soft landing (sending) Talent circulation – Inbound Int. Business plan competition Soft landing (bridgeheads) Talent Attraction – Cooperation Network of KBEs (TIE) Trans-regional financial tools Cooperation agreement to reach oversea markets

9. Component 4 Identifying the pilot 3 objectives for sustainability (capitalization) – Build capacities – Test transferability – Showcase success

10. Component 4 Foreseen steps End of March 2011 Circulation of the Strategy structure (index) Sept 2011 Milan internal workshop to collect needs for international actions, share common initiatives and discuss pilots November 2011 Circulation of the Draft transnational Action plan

11. Component 4 Preliminary discussion Previous experiences? Pre-defined objectives? Suggestions?

12. Contact www.med-ked.eu Daniela Ferrè