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EIC Accelerator Pilot \ SME INSTRUMENT in Horizon2020

Israel Innovation Authority

• The country’s public entity which supports and funds local

innovation, industrial research & development. (former name: “Office of the Chief Scientist”)

• ISERD – Israel-Europe R&D Directorate:

“Your Israeli gateway to cooperation in research and innovation with Europe”

• ISERD is the NCP for H2020 in Israel, and aims at maximizing

the Israeli participation in the FPs

EIC Accelerator Pilot * INSTRUMENT SME (In Horizon 2020)

*SME = Small to Medium Size Enterprise:

• 1. less than 250 employees,
• 2. less than 50 million Euros in annual turnover or

less than 43 million Euros of balance sheet (Established in the EU or in an Associated Country)

Overview

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• What is the EIC Accelerator\SME Instrument?

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• Statistics – general

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• Statistics – Israel

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• How can ISERD assist?

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• Where to find additional info and whom to ask?

What is the SME Instrument?

• ‘Smart money’, soft blending tool
• Accelerator
• De-risking

Building on the existing mechanism:

Towards the next ‘HorizonEurope’:

EIC Accelerator Pilot

Taken from EC site: https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/pdf /ec_eic_factsheet_032019.pdf

Based on SME Instrument Phase-2: Will be

• perational from

the last cut-off

• f this year

(October 2019)

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Examples for Business Acceleration Services:

‘Corporate Days’ ‘Trade Fairs’

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‘Overseas Trade Fairs’

Examples for Business Acceleration Services:

Phase 1: what is the money for?

How much? 50,000 € How long? ~ 6 months project What for? Scientific or technical feasibility; exploring the commercial potential of a ground-breaking innovative idea, developing it into a credible business plan for scaling it up. Business idea conception and planning.

Advisable: mention status of development

Eligible activities: risk assessment, market research, user involvement, analysis of regulatory constraints or standards regimes, IPR management, partner search, any design or market studies, innovation strategy development, feasibility of concept, etc. (All topics that are necessary to asses quality and potential of the innovation idea) Goal: formulate a solid high-potential innovation project (with a European\global growth strategy); the proposal must be based on an initial business plan and outline the specifications of a more elaborate

• ne, which will be the outcome of the project

Phase 1: what is the money for?

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Taken from the PP Online Manual

Phase 2: what is the money for?

How much? 0.5-2.5 M € How long? ~2 years project (70% funding rate) What for? Developing a business concept into a market-ready product, service or process, aligned with the company’s growth strategy. Business plan execution, demonstration, commercialization.

(grant component only till June 2019):

Phase 2: what is the money for?

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Eligible activities: trials, prototyping, validation, large-scale product validation, demonstration, testing in real-world conditions, market replication, miniaturization, scaling-up, performance verification, developing pilot lines, development, different R&D activities, clinical trials, piloting, testing, design etc. (Focusing on innovation activities, the implementation of an innovation idea) Goal: To find the next UNICORN; commercialization; maturity for market take up

Who should apply?

• Main aim: foster innovative SMEs’ growth
• Cross the demonstration-phase “valley of death”;
• Close the gap between seed and early-VC-funding

Taken from a presentation of the EC, about the EIC pilot, Access4SMEs EIC workshop Feb. 2018

Explain market- creation in innovative usage! Usually fits deep tech

Taken from “EIC” presentation of Startup Europe, 2017

A breakthrough innovation leads to entirely new products, services or processes or to substantial improvements in the quality of existing ones. An example would be doubling the energy density in a battery for an electric car. This opens up whole new business models and market opportunities. Compared to incremental innovation, breakthrough innovations tend to come from new entrants, often start-ups without existing assets or cash flows. They tend to entail higher risks, in terms of technology, market and regulation. A disruptive innovation is one that threatens to make an existing solution or industry obsolete. Classic examples include the smart phone and on-line music and video streaming services. Disruptive innovations create … in some cases even new markets.

What are disruptive and breakthrough innovations?

Taken from EU’s communication “A renewed European Agenda for Research and Innovation - Europe's chance to shape its future”, May 2018

Taken from a presentation of the EC, about the EIC pilot, Access4SMEs EIC workshop Feb. 2018

Taken from EC site: https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/pdf /ec_eic_factsheet_032019.pdf

How are the winners chosen?

IMPACT is the most significant part in the evaluation (50% of the final grade, while the two other criteria are 25% each)

Innovation (and technology) Business, benefits Execution

The grade for each criterion is from 0 to 5

Building on the existing mechanism; for grant-component-only till June 2019:

And then… interview in Brussels!

Towards the next ‘HorizonEurope’:

EIC Accelerator Pilot evaluation

Taken from EC site: https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/pdf /ec_eic_factsheet_032019.pdf

Will be operational for the last cut-off of this year (October 2019)

Technology Readiness Level

TRL9: Actual system proven in operational environment

(competitive manufacturing in the case of key enabling technologies, or in space)

TRL8: System complete and qualified TRL7: System prototype demonstration in operational environment TRL6: Technology demonstrated in relevant environment

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

TRL5: Technology validated in relevant environment

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

TRL4: Technology validated in lab TRL3: Experimental proof of concept TRL2: Technology concept formulated TRL1: Basic principles observed

2018-10-17_EU_IPR_Helpdesk_IP in EU-funded projects MD

SME definition – it is not that obvious!

• More info:
• Link to the SME definition, self-assessment and guide
• GROW-SME-DEFINITION@ec.europa.eu

Staff headcount Either turnover or balance sheet total

Is the enterprise autonomous, partner or linked? Shareholders can be foreign but economic activity should be in Israel (and Europe)!

Winners’ checklist:

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• Usually only one participant (not a consortium)
• Fully bottom-up; classification by keywords
• “Phases” are not interdependent but different tracks
• Europe is looking for Unicorns
• Evaluation process done “through an investor’s eyes”
• No dilution; 70% funding + 25% overhead

Highlights

How is the funding of the project calculated?

• 70% funding of the project
• 25% overhead (=indirect costs) calculated

automatically from direct costs and other direct costs Example:

• Direct costs (personnel, travel, equipment) = 100 Euros
• Subcontracting = 50 Euros
• Overhead (=Indirect costs) calculated from the

direct costs of 100 Euros: 25 Euros

• Overall budget of the project: 175 Euros
• EU contribution of 70%: 122.5 Euros (70% of 175)

A few more highlights

• Application size is 10 pages for Phase1 and 30 for

Phase2

• Phase2 includes a face-to-face interview
• Coaching for free (Ph1: 3 days, Ph2: 12 days)
• Threshold to be considered for funding is 13 – “Seal of

Excellence” (but actual funding requires a much higher grade)

Deadlines

Phase 1

• 08 February 2018
• 03 May 2018
• 05 September 2018
• 07 November 2018-
• 13 February 2019
• 07 May 2019
• 05 September 2019
• Phase 2
• 10 January 2018
• 14 March 2018
• 23 May 2018
• 10 October 2018
• 09 January 2019
• 03 April 2019
• 05 June 2019
• 09 October 2019

(Blended Finance!)

• 08 January 2020
• 18 March 2020
• 19 May 2020
• 07 October 2020

Interviews 2019

• Interview week for 1st cut-off:

February 11-15

• Interview week for 2nd cut-off:

May 13-17

• Interview week for 3rd cut-off:

July 8-12

• Interview week for 4th cut-off:

November 11-15

Budget of the program

Budget of the SME Instrument

€ millions 2018 2019 2020 Overall indicative budget

479.74 552.26 600.99

Phase 1 divided equally between cut-offs in each year 10% 10% 10% Phase 2 divided equally between cut-offs in each year 87% 87% 87%

Per cut-off: ~ 250 Phase1 winners ~ 50–70 Phase2 winners

General statistics

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General statistics

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• 57% are micro companies with less than 10 employees
• 20% of funded companies are pre-revenue
• Majority of winners (33%) are in project-to-project phase

Israel statistics

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Israel statistics 2014-2018

Phase 2 Israeli winning companies (46)

Number of Israeli winners Year 5 2014 6 2015 5 2016 13 2017 17 2018 Number of Israeli winners Year 11 2014 20 2015 24 2016 40 2017 75 2018

Phase 1 Israeli winning companies (171)

Israel statistics: 2018

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Phase 1 (~2200 submissions per cut-off, ~200 funded projects per cut-off)

European success rate

(funded projects out of submissions)

Cut-off 12.6% 1 11% 2 11.4% 3 9% 4

Phase 2 (~1600 per cut-off, ~55 funded projects per cut-off)

European success rate

(funded projects out of submissions)

Cut-off 4.9% 1 5% 2 3.7% 3 3.6% 4 Israeli winners

• ut of Israeli participants

27.3% 18% 15.9% 18.75% Israeli winners

• ut of Israeli participants

5.3% 4.1% 1% 7.7%

Taken from a presentation of the EC, about the EIC pilot, Access4SMEs EIC Webinar Dec. 2018

Taken from a presentation of the EC, about the EIC pilot, Access4SMEs EIC Webinar Dec. 2018

How to improve the Israeli success rate ?

• Increase the exposure of the program
• Increase the number of applications
• Increase the quality of the applications

How can ISERD assist?

• Ongoing guidance and support in submission: orientation

presentations of Horizon2020 and of the SME Instrument

• Red Team for Phase-2 (It is free…!)
• Preliminary review of Israeli proposals before the submission, by

expert evaluators from the IIA

• The draft proposal must be final and sent to ISERD at least one

month before the deadline!

• “Track 37”
• ISERD website- SME Department (webinars, guides, links and more)

Sources for more information:

In the Funding and Tender Portal: Funding and Tender portal SME-EIC call Horizon 2020 online Manual Funding and Tender portal IT Manual SEDIA IT Helpdesk contact form, Phone: +32229 92222 Email: ec-sedia-support@ec.europa.eu

Other sites: Guide for SME-I applicants Annotated Grant Agreement (GA) for SME-I (p. 583 onwards) and Model GA for phase 2 EASME’s website on SME-I EIC Work Program 2018-2020 You can address general questions to: Research Enquiry Service Other kinds of funding?

• r other

EIC Look under … calls 2020 Horizon

Follow SME on twitter, linkedin, EIC websites, etc

SME Instrument Data hub CORDIS

Context:

Taken from a presentation of the EC, about the EIC pilot, Access4SMEs EIC Webinar Dec. 2018

www.iserd.org.il

SME_FTI@iserd.org.il