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Specific Challenge:Innovative European businesses, including start-ups and SMEs, face a real problem to attract suitable financing solutions. Adequate access-to finance is widely considered a key precondition to ensure further growth and development of these companies. One of the major weaknesses of Europe with regard to innovative SMEs lies on the lack of focus on developing intellectual property (’IP’) portfolio strategies to protect their R&D investments and make them more attractive to investors, raise growth capital and remain competitive in Europe and globally.
Access to finance requires a long and costly work of promotion and exploitation of their innovations to inform and secure commitments by investors.
Companies tend to suffer from lack of financing and the decoupling between business strategies and the generation of IP assets protecting their R&D.
This leads to three major challenges for innovative SMEs:
Without a sound IP strategy, investors will ask for higher risks premia, due to information asymmetries and the difficulty to assess the technological risk These companies often face the trade-off bet...
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Specific Challenge:Innovative European businesses, including start-ups and SMEs, face a real problem to attract suitable financing solutions. Adequate access-to finance is widely considered a key precondition to ensure further growth and development of these companies. One of the major weaknesses of Europe with regard to innovative SMEs lies on the lack of focus on developing intellectual property (’IP’) portfolio strategies to protect their R&D investments and make them more attractive to investors, raise growth capital and remain competitive in Europe and globally.
Access to finance requires a long and costly work of promotion and exploitation of their innovations to inform and secure commitments by investors.
Companies tend to suffer from lack of financing and the decoupling between business strategies and the generation of IP assets protecting their R&D.
This leads to three major challenges for innovative SMEs:
Without a sound IP strategy, investors will ask for higher risks premia, due to information asymmetries and the difficulty to assess the technological risk These companies often face the trade-off between keeping control of the capital of the business and scaling up at the price of an equity dilution;Delayed IP protection or liquidity shortages can result in innovations and skills flowing outside the EU The development, protection and exploitation of the IP portfolio of innovative European SMEs, including start-ups, is a key element to reduce this information asymmetry. It should lead to ensuring alignment of interests between innovative SMEs and start-ups, IP advisory service providers and, ultimately, secure investors commitments.
An integrated approach to address this market failure in providing finance to innovative companies for protecting and exploiting their innovations in early development stages, without equity dilution, remains to be developed at European level. This is meant to encourage SMEs and start-ups to design and implement their IP strategy in order to facilitate access to finance.
Among EU and national level schemes, available support to companies is mainly financial. However, there is a clear need for significantly improving the effectiveness of the available counselling support through a more joined-up approach at EU level. The lack of coordination of existing schemes is a key driver of these informational asymmetries, causing duplications of assessment costs, and missed economies of scale.
Scope:The proposed action aims at encouraging innovative SMEs and start-ups to better exploit and promote their innovative assets, as well as building a strategic vision based on their first results that should be easily assessable by the funders.
To achieve this goal, proposals should aim at designing and running a support platform, offering smart online assistance tools that may serve as a pilot test for future bound measures of InvestEU-Advisory Hub and beneficiaries of the European Innovation Council. The platform should team up experts from different backgrounds such as patent engineers, lawyers, industry specialists, finance experts, including National Promotion and Investment Banks, in an attempt to pool their offer.
The platform could contribute to this goal by:
Identifying highly innovative European SMEs and start-ups and help them to define the most value-creating business strategy to better value and protect their intangible assets;Identifying and mobilizing European, national and regional funding programs, public and private, to facilitate the access of these SMEs and start-ups to the shared pooled or strategic support services for the protection and enhancement of intellectual property;Help identify financial guarantees, at regional, national and European level, to reduce risk levels for the financing of SMEs by European, national and regional funding programs or National Promotion and Investment Banks and financial intermediaries;Create a specific database of highly qualified experts and develop (pre)certification programs for them;Create a specific smart online tool that start-ups and SMEs may use to access pooled resources, consolidated expert database, funding programs information and smart online assistance tools;Offering individualized support services integrating, beyond the core aspects of support (legal aspects, financing dimensions…), coaching and mentoring trough highly qualified experts and smart online assistance tools, paying special attention to women-led SMEs;Reducing the cost and increase the quality of IP-driven support services offered to start-ups and innovative businesses;Fast-tracking the repayment capacity of the beneficiary start-ups and SMEs by increasing investors’ interest through the acceleration of the protection of their R&D and strategic intangible assets;Reducing the risk profile and increase the financial attractiveness of start-ups through the perspective of commercial exploitation of protected and intangible assets;Increasing the leverage effect of intangible assets for public investors (European, national and regional funding programs) and private investors (Business Angels, VCs, banks, etc.);Helping identify other financing schemes, like blended finance combining grants and financial instruments. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 0.5 and 1 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.
Expected Impact:Accompany at least 15 start-ups or innovative SMEs established in at least 10 EU member states or H2020 associated countries.Enable European start-ups and innovative SMEs to protect and enhance the value of their innovations and the attractiveness for investors.Contribute to de-risking access to strategic IP financing for start-ups and SME businesses by decreasing informational asymmetries.Increase the leverage effect of intellectual property assets of the supported SMEs and start-ups.
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Características del consorcio
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La ayuda es de ámbito europeo, puede aplicar a esta linea cualquier empresa que forme parte de la Comunidad Europea.
Características del Proyecto
Los costes de personal subvencionables cubren las horas de trabajo efectivo de las personas directamente dedicadas a la ejecución de la acción. Los propietarios de pequeñas y medianas empresas que no perciban salario y otras personas físicas que no perciban salario podrán imputar los costes de personal sobre la base de una escala de costes unitarios
Los otros costes directos se dividen en los siguientes apartados: Viajes, amortizaciones, equipamiento y otros bienes y servicios. Se financia la amortización de equipos, permitiendo incluir la amortización de equipos adquiridos antes del proyecto si se registra durante su ejecución. En el apartado de otros bienes y servicios se incluyen los diferentes bienes y servicios comprados por los beneficiarios a proveedores externos para poder llevar a cabo sus tareas
La subcontratación en ayudas europeas no debe tratarse del core de actividades de I+D del proyecto. El contratista debe ser seleccionado por el beneficiario de acuerdo con el principio de mejor relación calidad-precio bajo las condiciones de transparencia e igualdad (en ningún caso consistirá en solicitar menos de 3 ofertas). En el caso de entidades públicas, para la subcontratación se deberán de seguir las leyes que rijan en el país al que pertenezca el contratante
Características de la financiación
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon 2020 projects. See the information in the Online Manual.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in Annex B and Annex C of the Work Programme.
Proposal page limits and layout: please refer to Part B of the proposal template in the submission system below.
3. Evaluation:
Evaluation criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex H of the Work Programme.
Submission and evaluation processes are described in the Online Manual.
4. Indicative time for evaluation and grant agreements:
Information on the outcome of evaluation (single-stage call): maximum 5 months from the deadline for submission.
Signature of grant agreements: maximum 8 months from the deadline for submission.
5. Proposal templates, evaluation forms and model grant agreements (MGA):
Coordination and Support Action:
Specific provisions and funding rates
Standard proposal template
Standard evaluation form
General MGA - Multi-Beneficiary
Annotated Grant Agreement
6. Additional provisions:
Horizon 2020 budget flexibility
Classified information
Technology readiness levels (TRL) – where a topic descrip... 1. Eligible countries: described in Annex A of the Work Programme.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon 2020 projects. See the information in the Online Manual.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in Annex B and Annex C of the Work Programme.
Proposal page limits and layout: please refer to Part B of the proposal template in the submission system below.
3. Evaluation:
Evaluation criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex H of the Work Programme.
Submission and evaluation processes are described in the Online Manual.
4. Indicative time for evaluation and grant agreements:
Information on the outcome of evaluation (single-stage call): maximum 5 months from the deadline for submission.
Signature of grant agreements: maximum 8 months from the deadline for submission.
5. Proposal templates, evaluation forms and model grant agreements (MGA):
Coordination and Support Action:
Specific provisions and funding rates
Standard proposal template
Standard evaluation form
General MGA - Multi-Beneficiary
Annotated Grant Agreement
6. Additional provisions:
Horizon 2020 budget flexibility
Classified information
Technology readiness levels (TRL) – where a topic description refers to TRL, these definitions apply
7. Open access must be granted to all scientific publications resulting from Horizon 2020 actions.
Where relevant, proposals should also provide information on how the participants will manage the research data generated and/or collected during the project, such as details on what types of data the project will generate, whether and how this data will be exploited or made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved.
Open access to research data
The Open Research Data Pilot has been extended to cover all Horizon 2020 topics for which the submission is opened on 26 July 2016 or later. Projects funded under this topic will therefore by default provide open access to the research data they generate, except if they decide to opt-out under the conditions described in Annex L of the Work Programme. Projects can opt-out at any stage, that is both before and after the grant signature.
Note that the evaluation phase proposals will not be evaluated more favourably because they plan to open or share their data, and will not be penalised for opting out.
Open research data sharing applies to the data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications. Additionally, projects can choose to make other data available open access and need to describe their approach in a Data Management Plan.
Projects need to create a Data Management Plan (DMP), except if they opt-out of making their research data open access. A first version of the DMP must be provided as an early deliverable within six months of the project and should be updated during the project as appropriate. The Commission already provides guidance documents, including a template for DMPs. See the Online Manual.
Eligibility of costs: costs related to data management and data sharing are eligible for reimbursement during the project duration.
The legal requirements for projects participating in this pilot are in the article 29.3 of the Model Grant Agreement.
8. Additional documents:
1. Introduction WP 2018-20
2. Future and Emerging Technologies (FETs) WP 2018-20
3. Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) WP 2018-20
4. Research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures) WP 2018-20
5. Introduction to Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEITs) WP 2018-20
5i. Information and communication technologies (ICT) WP 2018-20
5ii. Nanotechnologies, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing and processing, biotechnology WP 2018-20
5iii. Space WP 2018-20
6. Access to risk finance WP 2018-20
7. Innovation in SMEs WP 2018-20
8. Health, demographic change and well-being WP 2018-20
9. Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy WP 2018-20
10. Secure, clean and efficient energy WP 2018-20
11. Smart, green and integrated transport WP 2018-20
12. Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials WP 2018-20
13. Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies WP 2018-20
14. Secure societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens WP 2018-20
15. Spreading excellence and widening participation WP 2018-20
16. Science with and for society WP 2018-20
17. European Innovation Council (EIC) WP 2018-20
18. Dissemination, Exploitation and Evaluation WP 2018-20
20. Cross-cutting activities WP 2018-20
General annexes to the Work Programme 2018-2020
Legal basis: Horizon 2020 Regulation of Establishment
Legal basis: Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation
Legal basis: Horizon 2020 Specific Programme
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