1. The SUPER-SME Consortium Centre for Science, Technology, Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep. STSS Centre Prague, Czech Republic www.flu.cas.cz/stss SUPER-SME Kick-Off: 9-10 February 2006, Metz

2. STSS Centre Research Topics  Social and cultural context of S&T  Innovation studies  Science and innovation policy  Knowledge and communication

3. EU Projects Participation 5 FP : - RECORD (Recognising Central and Eastern European Centres of RTD) - TAMI (Technology Assessment in Europe: Between Method and Impact) 6 FP: - INES (Institutionalisation of Ethics in Science Policy) - Pro-Act ( Practical Regional Innovation in Action) - SUPER-SME

4. NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 regions in the Czech Republic

5. Praha

6. Praha

7. Praha

8. Praha

9. Praha - Industry generates almost 16,5 % of the total gross value added of the region of Prague; - Services represents near 83,2 %; - Agriculture is negligible with only 0.2 % of the gross value added of the region; - High concentration of financial and other services and trade.

10. S&T + Innovation Actors  Academy of Sciences (30 institutes)  5 major public (research) universities  cca. 20 Public Research Organisations  255 (institutional) members of Association of Research Organisations (both public and private organisations doing research in some way)

11. Innovation and Intermediation System  Prague City Development Section  Centre for Regional Development  CzechInvest (Investment and Business Development Agency)  Prague Economic Chamber  3 Technology Centres (BIC) – (Academy, Charles University, CTU)

12. BRIS – Bohemian Regional Innovation Strategy  project supported by City Prague/ EU in 2002-2004  developing regional innovation strategy  proposal of a business service system stemming from the needs of SMEs

13. SME needs  access to funding (venture & seed capital, innovation angels, etc.)  entrepreneurial know-how (innovation management, marketing, property rights, etc. – non-technical skills)  access to international markets

14. SUPER-SME expectation  Broadening know-how in:  innovative SME needs and practices  S&T- business mediating practices  networking practices

15. STSS Centre Adolf Filáček (filacek@kav.cas.cz, stsscz@cesnet.cz) Jiří Loudín (edist@lorien.site.cas.cz, stsscz@cesnet.cz) Looking forward to collaboration