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The Enterprise Europe Network Peter Wragg European Commission - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Enterprise Europe Network Peter Wragg European Commission - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Enterprise Europe Network Peter Wragg European Commission European Commission Enterprise and Industry EU SME Policy Context Europe 2020 - strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth: Includes an industrial policy for globalisation
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SME facts and figures
- EU has 23 million SMEs (<250 persons)
- 99% of all EU enterprises
- 59% of the Union's total economic added value
- 90 million jobs (67% of private employment)
- SMEs are
– adaptable with flexible structures – key generators of employment – important source of innovation
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SME access to markets
- Single European Market
25% of EU SMEs export to the internal market and beyond 500 million consumers in the EU
- International markets
Only 13% of EU SMEs are internationally active outside the EU
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A network of excellence
- The largest network offering integrated
business and innovation support services targeted at SMEs
- Organisations from the business
support community join forces to offer a
- ne-stop service for enterprises at
European level
- Implementation of the ‘No wrong door’
principle
- The broadest range of services for
SMEs in the EU and beyond
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Key facts and figures on the Network
- Started in 2008; and will be renewed for the period 2014-2020.
- 600 organisations involved in the Network: mix of regional chambers of
commerce, business organisations, technology and innovation agencies, sector associations, regional development agencies, research
- rganisations and universities.
- Centres in all EU27 Member States and 26 countries worldwide
- More than 3000 experienced staff
- 4000 local events organised annually on SME-related topics
- €380 million EU contribution for supported projects until 2014
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Key Network services
- Facilitating SMEs’ awareness raising and access to information on
Community legislation and programmes and promotion of SME participation in them
- Helping SMEs to expand to new markets, to find cooperation
partners, to fully exploit the opportunities of the internal market
- Facilitating technology and knowledge transfer, partnership building
between the various actors, innovation services, improving innovative capacity of SMEs
- Increase R&D activities of SMEs by assisting participation in FP7
- Organising a sounding board for future EU policies through
feedback functions and business panels
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The Network’s value chain
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The Network’s results since 2008
- Helped businesses to sign over 9,255 partnership agreements
- Organised international brokerage events for over 30,000 companies
- Local events for half a million companies
- Over 250,000 technology and company reviews, IPR, financing &
funding
- 9000 SMEs consulted via feedback and panels
- Information and services used by over 2.5 million SMEs
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Unique worldwide coverage
- Full coverage throughout all EU regions
- Europe:Norway, Iceland and Switzerland
- US and Canada
- Candidate countries: Croatia, FYROM, Turkey
- Neighbourhood: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Serbia, Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova,
- Latin America: Brazil, Chile and Mexico
- Asia: China, Hong Kong, Japan, India
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Sector Groups
- Structured support to SMEs in specific sectors
- Sectoral approach, demand-driven, bottom-up
- Principle of “No wrong door”: SMEs can contact any Network partner
to get access to all the services of the Network
- In addition, specialised services provided for companies in specific
sectors of activity
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The Network’s 17 Sector Groups
- Agrofood
- Automotive, Transport and
Logistics
- Biotech, Pharma and
Cosmetics
- Chemicals
- Creative industries
- Environment
- Healthcare
- ICT Industry and Services
- Intelligent Energy
- Maritime Industry and
Services
- Materials
- Nano- and
Microtechnologies
- Services and Retail
- Space and Aerospace
- Sustainable Construction
- Textiles
- Tourism and Cultural
Heritage
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Tools for internationalisation and innovation support
- Cooperation databases with over 12,000 active profiles
– Bulletin Board Services (BBS) to disseminate technology offers and requests. – Business Cooperation Database (BCD) to help firms find partners for commercial cooperation
- Automatic matching tools and robots to alert over 30 000 clients of
matching profiles
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Automatic Matching and dissemination
Client contact resulting in encoding of request or
- ffer for cooperation
EACI quality check Technology and Business cooperation profiles Matching History Companies interested for partnership
Matching
If one keyword in common
Send Email with Matched offers/request
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Success Stories
A German maker of environmentally friendly chemical products swiftly found a new distributor in Denmark. Jens Becker, Bio-Circle export manager, says: “We never found such a reliable business partner in such a short time. The Network is outstanding at generating successful business contacts – we couldn’t have done it without them.” With new machines from Austria, a Siberian agricultural firm prepares to branch out into butter and juice production after landing new SME suppliers through the Network.
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Success Stories
British nanotechnology specialist Owlstone will supply its chemical detection system to a Luxembourg company. Acute myeloid leukaemia is a rare blood cancer that progresses rapidly in the body and can cause death within months or weeks if untreated. Two SMEs in Sweden and the UK are researching a promising new treatment, supported by €500,000 in EU funding.
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