1. Bridging Life Science Research and SME’s in the Baltic Sea Region - Putting Cluster Policies into Practise for the Benefit of SME´s Coordination and support actions FP7-Regions-2007-1 Project Meeting 31 January 2008

2. Agenda 31 January 2008 Welcome and General Introduction to Bridge-BSR (Peter Frank, SB) Presentation of Work Package 1 and discussion of draft guidelines and considerations for Innovation Desk Study (MVA) Introduction to each of the other Work Packages (by WP Leaders). Project economy, administrative issues and reporting (Miriam Halle, SFZ) Discussion of draft consortium agreement (Peter Frank, SB) Discussion of Programme for Kick off meeting 6 March (Mairita Coneva, LBA). Meeting calendar for the project partners (Peter Frank, SB). Any other matter

3. 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”

4. 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

5. 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

6. Partner Budget Coordination/Support: WP, 1,2,3,4,5,7 Management: WP 6 (Project Management)

7. Work Package List

8. Project Road Map

9. Work Package progress

10. Key Deliverables 2008 for review to EC ● Work plan and Timetable to Project partners (Month 1, SB) ● Project Web/Extra Net (Month 3, SB) ● Final Bussiness Plan, SME Support (BCV, Month 8) ● Analysis of Regional Cluster Innovation Strategies for Bridging Research and SME´s (MVA, Month 9) ● Report, IP Bottlenecks (SFZ, Month 9) ● Report SME Financing (BFO, Month 9) See complete list in Annex 1, page 28-29

11. Timing is Everything! European Cluster Memorandum January 2008, European Presidency Conference : (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”

12. Timing is Everything! (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!

13. Possible Collaborations BSR INNO NET Baltic Development Forum Others?