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Members. EC project references. In August 1999 Virtual Innovation Park became the official information resource for the European Survey of Information Society (ESIS) development in the Czech Republic.

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  1. Members

  2. EC project references In August 1999 Virtual Innovation Park became the official information resource for the European Survey of Information Society (ESIS) development in the Czech Republic. Through our work with the European Tech Investment Forums and the Venture Academies, Europe's leading investment platform for ICT companies, we have been helping the best and most ambitious tech companies in the new member states to gain access to world-class coaching and to an international platform of venture capital investors and leading technology corporations. From 2002 www.park.cz/techforum Bio Venture Academy East Programme–intensive and highly interactive entrepreneur coaching programme designed to provide selected biotech start-ups in the New Member States with practical feedback and learning on how to enhance their business, partner and/or investor propositions and presentations. From 2005 www.park.cz/biotech

  3. NETIES overall objective • Networking SMEs in order to increase their participation and success rates in FP6 • Addressing knowledge economy sectors and three pilot countries (Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) with some of the activities to be introduced also in Poland, Slovenia and Estonia Consortium • VIP park (CZ) • Imagion (HU) • Dachto (SK) • LL&A (FR)

  4. Technology innovation, Central Europe, R&D, EU funding, venture capital, entrepreneurship, content, SMEs...New content on the websitewith 10 years tradition and roots around Esther Dyson’s European forums. Practical look from the point of view of entrepreneurs, success stories, profiles of technology SMEslooking for partners, sharing the market specifics, ...www.nowEurope.com

  5. NETIES survey results (Experience) • 55 answered questionnaires (micro/small/medium) • Information sources used • Personal participation in events, 62% • Internet, 60% • Info exchange with foreign partners, 58% • Project intention consulted with • National contact point, 27% • Independent consultant, 24% • European Commission representative, 20% • Problems when running a project • Keeping cost within the budget, 27% • Communication with partners, 24% • Keeping the original goals, 15% • Would you participate in the same project again?

  6. NETIES survey results (Experience)Major benefits

  7. NETIES survey results (Interest) • 212 answered questionnaires • 30% micro/ 50% small/ 20% medium • 44% newcomers, only 24% practical experience • Interested in • General info, 55% • Contacts to potential partners, 47% • Online information services, 46% • Educational events, 32% • Assistance for developing a project proposals, 31% • Why not interested? • Focused only on the local market, 39% • FP does not cover our R&D area, 38%

  8. NETIES survey results (Interest)Major barriers

  9. ICT oriented EU programmes Framework Programmes • focused on supporting R&D with a prototype as the final outcome there are other programmes following up and helping the developers to deploy and test the prototype on the real markets. eContentPlus • 4-year programme (2005–08), following up the previous eContent • budget of EUR 149 mil. • to promote take up of leading-edge technical solutions to improve acessibility and usability of digitalmaterial in a multilingual environment • addresses specific market areas where development has been slow: geographic , educational, cultural, scientific and scholarly content. • supports EU-wide co-ordination of collections in libraries, museums and archives and the preservation of digital collections Internet Safety Action Plan eTEN • For areas where services are in the general societal or economic interest, but either do not promise a rapid return on investment, or bring benefits which are long term or not visible through direct financial reward to the operators.

  10. eTEN Promo Invest • In contrast with EU research programmes, eTEN is also open to proposals from single entities provided they aim to be active in several member states. It is a key tool for the exploitation of successful research activities from technical development to the market. • eGovernment, eHealth, eInclusion, eLearning, eBusiness Services for SMEs and Trust & Security services • Market validation (up to 50% of the total eligible cost) • Initial deployment (up to 30% of the total eligible cost) • Presenting promising projects / proposals at • European Technology Venture Forum, Berlin, December 14 • Innovation & Business LIVE conference, Prague, March 28 • eTEN workshop, Budapest, May 2nd • Nordic Venture Summit, Copenhagen, October 8-9th • eTEN workshop, Poland, November • ...

  11. Competitiveness and Innovation Programme(2007-2013) • Indicative budgetary allocations for the specific programmes are the following (Annex I): • EUR 2 631 million for the pursuance of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme, of which up to 520 million will be implemented to promote ecoinnovation; • EUR 801.6 million for the pursuance of the ICT Policy Support Programme; • EUR 780 million for the pursuance of ‘the Intelligent Energy – Europe Programme’. Foreseen budget for the CIP is EUR 4 212.6 million.

  12. Contact www.park.cz www.FIRST.park.cz Vlastimil Veselý U Vodárny 2 616 00 Brno Czech Republic Tel: +420 541 143 053 Fax:  +420 541 143 011E-mail: vesely@park.cz

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