Financing business-research cooperation for

Innovation in the organic sector

- Science Day, Biofach, 13 February 2015

Dr. Borris Haupt

Bayern Innovativ GmbH - Partner of Enterprise Europe Network

Disclaimer:

This project has received funding from the European

Union‘s COSME Programme (2014-2020) under grant

agreement No. 671811.

The presentation and given information is not legally

binding. Bayern Innovativ does not accept

responsibility for any use made of the information

contained therein.

EC – Support of innovative SME

Horizon 2020

~ 80 Mrd. €

COSME

~ 2,3 Mrd. €

1. Collaborative Projects

2. SME Instrument

3. Eurostars

4. Fast Track to Innovation

1. Financing

2. Enterprise Europe Network

3. Entrepeneurs

4. Framework

Excellent

Science

Industrial

Leadership

• LEIT

Societal

Challenges

• all challenges

Horizon 2020 – strong participation of SME

20% Partcipation of SME (as target)

7% SME Instrument (approx. 2.8 bn €)

o ICT: open disruptive innovation

o Nanotech, or other advanced tech

for manufacturing and materials

o Space research and development

Societal Challenges (SC)

o Diagnostics devices and

biomarkers

o Sustainable food production and

processing

o Blue growth

o Low carbon energy systems

o Greener and more integrated

transport

o Eco-innovation and sustainable

raw material supply

o Urban critical infrastructure

o Biotechnology-based industrial

processes

o Mobile e-government applications

(2015 only)

o SME business model innovation

(2015 only)

Leadership in enabling and industrial

technologies (LEIT)

Topic-oriented Market-oriented

At least 3 Partner from 3 Countries

Top

Down

Collaborative

Projects

13 %

Bottom

up

SME Instrument

7 %

1 SME sufficient

Horizon 2020: SME-Instrument

New Approach of the EU

to Fund Ambitious Innovation Projects of SME

SME Instrument: Market-oriented Innovation Projects

Source: European Commission

Why participate?

Rank among the best (“Champions league”)

European SMEs

Visibility at a European and global level

Business/management coaching

Networking opportunities

Support for follow-up financing

For innovative SMEs with an ambition to develop, grow

and have an international impact

Focused on established SMEs with high growth potential

Single company support (consortia of several SMEs

possible)

Activities at TRL 6 or above

No obligation for applicants to sequentially cover all three

phases; still a "linear" process is strongly encouraged

70% funding (exceptions possible)

Who should apply?

TRL 1 – basic principles observed and reported

TRL 2 – technology concept and/or application formulated

TRL 3 – Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept

TRL 4 – Technology validated in laboratory environment

TRL 5 – Technology validated in relevant environment

(industrially relevant environment in the case of key enabling technologies)

TRL 6 – Technology demonstrated in relevant environment

(industrially relevant environment in the case of key enabling technologies)

TRL 7 – System prototype demonstration in operational environment

TRL 8 – System complete and qualified through test and demonstration

TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment

Technology Readiness Level (TRL)

KM

U-I

nstr

um

ent

SME Instrument – three phases

Prototype Market

Phase 1

• Concept & Feasibility Assessment

Phase 2

• Innovation Project

• Demonstration

• Market-Replication

Phase 3

• Market launch

50.000 €

~ 6 months

10 page business proposal

0,5 – 2,5 Mio. €

~ 12 - 24 months

30 page business plan

No direct funding„Champions League“

Support through Enterprise Europe Network

Business Coach

SME Instrument – Cut off Dates

Source: European Commission

Evaluation criteria

Possible economic Impact

Excellence in innovation

Commercialisation potential

SME potential (Implementation) achieving the envisaged

results

Evaluation can be stopped if proposals fail to achieve a

threshold for 'impact' criterion

Call for Sustainable Food Security

o Sustainable Food Production Systems

o SME Instrument: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food

production and processing

SFS-8-2014/2015: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and

processing

Specific Challenge: To remain competitive, limit environmental degradation and

optimise the efficient use of resources, the development of more resource-efficient and

sustainable food production and processing, throughout the food system, at all scales

of business, in a competitive and innovative way is required. Current food production

and processing systems, especially in the SME sector, need to be revised and

optimised with the aim of achieving a significant reduction in water and energy use,

greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation, while at the same time improving the

efficiency in the use of raw materials, increasing climate resilience and ensuring or

improving shelf life, food safety and quality. New competitive eco-innovative processes

should be developed, within the framework of a transition towards a more resource-

efficient, sustainable circular economy.

Source: European Commission

Sustainable

food

production

and

processing

SFS-08-

2014-1

18 projects

€0.9m

SFS-08-2014

~5 projects

€8m

SFS-08-

2015-1

18 projects

€1.7m

SFS-08-2015

~10 projects

€15m

Themes Call id 2014 Call id 2015

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 2

Source: European Commission

Topics of funded Phase 1 projects SFS-8-2014/2015

•Transitioning to microalgae as a sustainable, high-quality large-scale food source through

launching the first daily drink containing spirulina

•BeadCAP-DNA: 30-minute on-site DNA test kit

•Increasing grain quality through advanced oxidation treatment during storage

•Fermentation processes for functional foods from RAPeseed, Sunflower and Other EU

matrices Devoted to Young animals.

•Improved machine vision for guidance of optical system for cost-effective and

environmentally safe in-situ removal of ectoparasites from farmed fish

•High Pressure Processing (HPP) equipment for large beverage productions

•New eco-efficient and healthy professional espresso coffee machine

•Colour-code labelling for continuous monitoring of quality and safety of packed chicken

meat

•A truly-rapid, one-minute test system for the dairy industry to assess raw milk quality,

detect sub-clinical mastitis and monitor udder health, reducing antibiotic usage and

environmental impact

•An innovative fruit ripeness checker, to offer non-destructive testing in order to ensure

resource efficient fruit processing – Ripesense

Horizon 2020: Fast Track to Innovation

The fully-bottom-up measure to promote

close-to-the-market innovation activities

Proposals relating to any technology field under LEITs and

Societal Challenges (bottom-up driven logic)

Open to any legal entity - consortia of 3 to 5 participants

About 100 grants will be given

Permanently open call with three cut-off-dates per year

Impact criterion given a higher weighting in evaluations

Time-to-grant: 6 months

Funding of innovation actions (close-to-market)

For proposal involving technological innovation, the Technologies

are at least at TRL 6.

Proposals shall include a business plan describing the business

opportunities of participants and a credible commercialisation

strategy.

Particular attention should be paid to IP protection and ownership,

and the possibility of commercial exploitation ('freedom to

operate').

Initial market take-up no later than 3 years after submission.

at least 60% of the overall budget of the proposal must be

allocated to consortium partner(s) from industry

the minimum number of industry participants must be 2 in a

consortium of 3 or 4 partners, and 3 in a consortium of 5

partners.

The maximum EU contribution per project is EUR 3 million.

The indicative EU contribution per project is expected to be

between EUR 1 million and EUR 2 million.

Funding rate 70 % (companies) + 25 % overhead

Cut-off dates:

29/04/2015

01/09/2015

01/12/2015

Similar expected for 2016

Enterprise Europe Network

Support

of about 500.000 SME each Year

600Organisations

More than 3000 Experts

53

Countries28 EU

27 Non EU about 2500 partnership

agreementseach year

Founded

2008

Bayern Innovativ – Partner of the Enterprise Europe Network

Contakt:

Dr. Borris Haupt

Bayern Innovativ GmbH

Internationale Netzwerke

Rathenauplatz 2

90489 Nürnberg

Tel.: +49 911 20671-175

haupt@bayern-innovativ.de

www.een-bayern-innovativ.de

Unsuccessful proposals were

too much project focussed, not enough business opportunity

oriented

Description of company not convincing (why would this company

succeed and not the competitor)

No information on competing solutions

Innovation content too low; product exists already on the market

(just incremental improvement)

Just ideas, no proof of existing commercialisation concept (TRL

far too low)

Just trying ones luck

First lessons learned