1. Flanders Innovation and Entrepeneurship
Research and innovation programmes for companies in Flanders
Elsie De Clercq
Maarten Sileghem

2. Flanders: landscape innovation and entrepreneurship
Subsidy & Service, innovation & entrepreneurship
VLAIO
Equity & Loans
PMV
Internationalisation
FIT
Research at universities & RTO
FWO
Policy dept economy and innovation
EWI
Fiscal incentives: personnel tax reduction for R&D
Federal

3. Flanders Innovation and Entrepeneurship (VLAIO)
Information and counselling
Funding Enterprises
Funding
Innovation industrial focus
Stimulation of
entrepeneur-ship
International and European Collaboration
Clusters
European and Regional Developmenf Fund

4. Subsidy industrial R&D
Principle
Direct financial support to R&D projects in industry
Bottom up: no thematic priorities
Characteristics
Market failure, additionality - risk sharing & economic return region when succesful
Support as direct state aid (European competitiveness rules do apply)
Features
Industrial research: 50%, experimental development: 25%
Bonus: 10% medium sized company + 10% small sized enterprise+10% collaboration (either with SME or enterprise different members state EU)
Cap (max %) 60 research or mixed – 50 development
Companies with exploitation in Flanders

5. Portfolio R&D projects
In total portfolio industrial R&D projecten : 524 mill. euro
Mill. euro %
Young innovatie companies (sme <10y)
121
23%
Growing companies (10% employment over 3 years)
156
30%
Collaboration (industry and/or RTO)
372
71%

6. Collaboration (open Innovation, Ecosystem, ..)
Industrial R&D:
Collaboration between companies: bonus 10% collaboration SME or enterprise in different member state
With RTOs: research partner financed by company
Combination industrial R&D to enterprises and direct support to RTOs: state aid to enterprises and non economic support 100% RTO (=ICON)
International collaboration:
Foreign Subcontractors or universities in Flemish program
Funding Flemish part international project in networks
Specialised programmes
Programs for activities with a collective character
PhDs and post doctoral research in close collaboration with industry
Clusters
Structural networks of companies and RTOs: basic funding and project funding
Market oriented. Top down, thematic

7. Programmes collective character
Support to organisations for research and knowledge dissemination
Activities close to market
Aim for transfer: immediatie integration but to large group of enterprises or to public domain
Knowledge creation, implementation, disclose existing knowledge, dissemination, stimulation of innovation
Users’ commitee in case of transfer to enterprises
3 programmes:
Tech transfer from universities & polytechnic schools
Agriculture
Collective R&D and knowledge dissemination:
Research institutes and public authorities/administrations
Towards wide group of enterprises or integration in public service (common interest)
Only in context international collaboration or cluster

8. Structural collaboration: clusters
Structural collaboration enterprises, research organisations and other public organsiations
50% funding basic working (cluster support)
Projects:
Collaborative industrial R&D
ICON: open innovation: collaboration RTO and industry
Collective R&D and knowledge dissemination including innovation followers
Flanders’ Food
Catalisti
SIM
VIL
Flux 50
De Blauwe Cluster
12 personen, mix ex-IWT en ex-AO

9. 4 strategic centres (IMEC, VIB, VITO, FLANDERS MAKE)
Smart choices
Priority Domains
Sustainable chemistry
Advanced materials
Smart manufacturing
Health & life sciences
Specialised logistics
Agro-food
ICT: electronic systems, IOT, photonic systems
Environment & cleantech EU
Smart choices
Foster process from discovery to market
Entrepreneurial discovery
Around focal points: regional strengths
NETWORKS
Flanders
6 clusters
4 strategic centres (IMEC, VIB, VITO, FLANDERS MAKE)

10. Budget 2017 Programme Million euro Industrial R&D projects 101
Sme program 34
SPRINT 3
PhD 8
Post Doc 4
Collective activitities 7
TETRA
Agriculture 12
SUBTOTAL
176
Cluster - ICON 25
Cluster – strategic research 14
Cluster - collective 10
SUBTOTAL CLUSTER 49

11. International collaboration
Funding of Flemish part in international consortium:
2017: 23,7 mil. €, 75 participation
Enterprises: 18,6 mill. € 57 participations
Funding through networks
Access to EU programs R&D funding
Horizon 2020.
2016 Enterprises: 57 mill. €, 182 participations
Service: National Contact Point
Close to market: partnering and business
600 members
Service: Enterprise Europe Network

12. Overview networks: funding
Eureka
Flemish Funding
ERA-NET
ERA-Cofund
Flemish funding + Single call cofund EU
Art 185
Flemish funding + continuous EU co fund
Art 187
(JTI)
Flemish funding + EU Funding
Horizon 2020
EU funding

13. Evolution portfolio networks
Medio 2016: portfolio fragmented, no clear focus
31 networks from which 20 thematic ERA Nets.
Focus
Alignment with Flemish Innovation policy
High turnover: downsize present portfolio & rebuild portfolio with focus policy
Make choices
Topic alignment Flemish Innovation Policy priority domains see clusters & Strategic Research Centers
Commitment intermediary field
Interaction Clusters