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Ellen Pedersen, ex-Project Manager TACIS, currently manager of the EU export promotion programmes to Japan:
"inno engaged with the European Commission in the process of modernising the naukograds (Scientific Cities) in the Russian Federation. The project team made all the difference in that process, and results emerged in each naukograd. A sound regional Innovation Strategy (the first of its kind in Russia) was approved and implementation started, commercialisation activities from scientific centres took place with concrete return on investments, and related benefits.
A successful project depends on people, ideas, and political will."
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NATIBS - New approaches and tools for incubated biotechnology SMEs
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FP6 Project aiming at structuring and reinforcing the European research area with the objective of increasing the involvement of European SMEs from the life science and health sector in EU RTD projects.
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The project aimed at increasing the number of SMEs involved in the LSH (life, science, health) activities of the FP6 and to analyse the barriers and constraints that hinder SMEs to participate. This analysis resulted in policy recommendations for EU policy makers.
The project focused on SMEs working in the field of biotechnologies related to human health which were still experiencing their incubation phase or their first year(s) of activities. The objective was to birng these companies to co-operate closely with research organisations and higher education institutes in order to be able to participate in networks of excellence or integrated projects – very often based on research. Larger and more mature companies working in the same field were not relevant for the scope of the project as they are supposed to have more means and competences to participate in such programmes without such support.
To reach these objective, inno – together with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Essonne and the Genopole Evry bio cluster – built a consortium gathering two incubators from Berlin, one from Stockholm, one from Barcelona, one from Israel and one from Tallinn. The work programme consisted of auditing 170 SMEs and contacting 40 IPs/NoEs, to cross-match them, build new projects in the FP6 and prepare policy recommendations for facilitating the involvement of new biotech SMEs in the FP6. Several workshops and conferences were organised to facilitate the dissemination of results and exchanges on policy recommendations. The project aims to continue in the FP7 by building new projects and cooperation platforms.
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