1. ScanBalt BioRegion - Innovation on Top of Europe

2. ScanBalt BioRegion - Companies Source: ScanBalt Yellow Pages, Jan. 2008 (absolute numbers)

3. The Development of ScanBalt BioRegion 2004-2007 Transparency of Competencies New Cluster Formations Infrastructure for Research and Education 2008-2011 Focus on Innovation Mentoring Shared services/SME Support Focus on Talents Development of Monitoring/Bench Marks 2001-2003 Establishment of Contacts Vision and Mission Development One-Stop-Entry and Visibility 2001-2003 2004-2007 2008-2011

4. A Cluster Based Cross Border Innovation System in Birth Financing Top of Europe Foundation/network to promote SME financing Fund raising Transparancy of Competencies ScanBalt CompetenceRegion Boosting Baltic Boost Biosystems Support Services Shared SME Support Shared media services Common cluster benchmarks Shared communication tools Thematic Clustering Biosystems Molecular Diagnostics Environmental Biotechnology Agro-Biotech Regenerative Medicine Intellectual Property Entrepreneurship Research and Education ScanBalt Campus ScanBalt Networks ScanBalt Academy Tech Transfer TT Model in Env Biotech Integrated IP- management Monitoring ScanBalt BioRegion Added Value Model ● Common Cluster Bench Marks Cross-Border INNOVATION

5. 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-2007-1 Kick off Meeting 6 March 2008

6. Evaluation of Bridge-BSR Bridge-BSR got 14 out of 15 points Finished 1st of 12 funded projects Approx 100 applications delivered Some Citations: ”Concepts and objectives are defined very clearly” ”Excellent recognition for the barriers to commercialisation and technology transfer” ”The Consortium as a whole is of high quality”

7. 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

8. Total Budget: 871.995 Euro (Incl. overhead) Total EC Contribution: 679.983,60 (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

9. Work Package List

10. Project Road Map

11. Work Package progress

12. Key Deliverables for review to EC ● Identifying barriers for bridging academic research and SME´s by analysis of: -Regional Innovation Strategies -Regional IP-Bottlenecks -Regional Financing Bottlenecks ● Create and implement a Joint SME Innovation Agenda ● Develop Shared SME Support Services between clusters ● Initiate a Top of Europe Life Science Foundation/Network ● Implement IP-indicators and business models in 2 ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Networks ● Develop and implement a Scoreboard model for cluster impact on regional economy

13. 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

14. Timing! European Cluster Memorandum January 2008, European Presidency Conference (organised by BSR Inno Net) : (1) ”Strengthening the potential of Clusters – moving them from co- located clusters to dynamic clusters with high level of coopetition, interaction and spill-over – is a central task that regional and national governments are best placed to adress” (2) ”Clusters reach their full economic potential if clusters are well connected to markets and clusters elsewhere and when clusters cooperate to strengthen linkages and align decisions that are not designed or allowed to distort the market”

15. Timing! (2): State of The Region Report, Baltic Development Forum 2007: ” The cluster portfolio of the region is solid but a region-wide strategy to develop it is required, in the face of increasingcompetition among clusters within Europe and globally” ScanBalt BioRegion and Bridge-BSR is such a Strategy!

16. Important Collaborations BSR INNO NET Baltic Development Forum Others?

17. And dont forget: The Big Fish Small Fish Model!! Asia ScanBalt BioRegion Silicon Valley US