1. Baden-Wuerttemberg
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum Your Partner for Innovation in Europe since 1990
Dr.-Ing. Petra Püchner
Commissioner for Europe of the Minister of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing Baden-Württemberg, Head of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum

2. A policy towards Innovation for SME in 1990
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ)
With the Commissioner for Europe of the Minister of Economic Affairs,
Baden-Württemberg
Located in a not for profit entity of the Steinbeis Foundation for Economic Promotion since 1990

3. A policy towards Innovation for SME until today
Dr.-Ing. Petra Püchner
Commissioner for Europe of the Minister of Economic Affairs,
Labour and Housing Baden-Württemberg, Head of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum
Head of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum
Plus
100 % Spin off
Steinbeis 2i GmbH (S2i)
Dr. rer. nat. Jonathan Loeffler, Managing Director

4. Commissioner for EU of the Minister of Economics in BW
Not for profit
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum
Steinbeis 2i GmbH

5. 3 year Track record ( )
21,5 Mio. Euro return flow of EU to Baden-Württemberg
2.852 EU funding consultations
166 European funding proposals were supported and submitted
298 Companies (SME) receiving IMGT Support
1.333 Consultations for technology transfer
207 client cooperation profiles from Baden-Württemberg for Europe
327 EoIs from Europe to bw organisations
233 EoIs from BW to European organisations
608 face2face meetings with clients at their or our premises

6. Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum
Innovation Relay Centre
EEN Partner

7. Project examples regional innovation

8. Danube Transfer Centers
PA8 - WG I&TT
Danube Transfer Centers
Project

9. Baden-Württemberg pilot initiative to support the competitiveness of enterprises in Danube Region
Project Ojective
Installation of :
Danube Technology
Transfer Centers (DTC)
organized as “one-stop-shops”
mainly for SMEs in regard of
innovation & technology transfer.

10. Step 1 Definition of target values:
Coverage of all 14 EUSDR countries
EU-membership and
Country size were taken into account

11. Benefits
Supporting Local and Regional development by the application of the DTC instruments and DTC business model
Assessment of the company's innovation capacities by application of the specific tools
Technology Offer
Technology Request
Innovation Audits
Mapping Local & Regional actors (Quadruple Helix Approach) and identification & estimation of the collaboration potentials for Technology Transfer
Universities, R&D Institutes, Researchers
SMEs, Companies, Clusters
Public Authorities, Governmental institutions
Civil Society

13. KETGATE

15. KETGATE

16. Made in Danube

17. Made in Danube

18. Made in Danube

19. Made in Danube CA – Cooperation Agreement (cooperation RTOs - SMEs)
IPA – Innovation Partnership Agreement (can be cooperation RTO - SME or SME –S ME to develop and place on the market an innovative product or service in the frame of three local action plans – Smart Agriculture, Wood sector and Bio-fules)

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