\nFrom research to private investment
\nCOWIN success and best practices to make it happen<\/p>\n
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\n17-18 March 2014|European Parliament, Brussels<\/p>\n
COWIN<\/strong>, a European Commission Coordination and Support action, aiming supporting commercial exploitation of EU collaborative research projects organised a Reception and a Breakfast debate, in cooperation with Knowledge4Innovation, in the European Parliament on 17-18 March 2014. The event, hosted by Ms Teresa Riera Madurell, MEP, Rapporteur for Horizon 2020, presented the successful activities of COWIN and culminated in an award ceremony to honour the most successful young entrepreneurs in the field of smart systems.<\/p>\n During the last three years, this Coordination and Support Action dedicated to contribute to bridge the gap from research to market has generated more than 15 million euro direct early stage investment opportunities, while setting-up an attractive ecosystem for exploitation. COWIN engaged more than 1200 industrials and more than 60 VCs to consider investing in early stage ICT start-ups.<\/p>\n The event gathered Members of the European Parliament (Christian Ehler, Kent Johansson, Amelia Andersdotter), Corporate representatives, Venture capital firms (Banexi Venture Partners, QBIC Venture Partners, Capricorn Venture Partners), EC officials (DG RTD, DG Connect), networks and technology platforms.<\/p>\n Speakers included Mr Khalil Rouhana, Director, Components and Systems at DG Connect, Roberto Zafalon, R&D and Public Affairs, EU Technology Programmes Director ST Microelectronics andG\u00e9raldine Andrieux Gustin, Senior Partner Yole Finance.<\/p>\n Following the speeches, three succesful entrepreneurs received the COWIN Entrepreneurship Award.<\/p>\n Ms Madurell, MEP<\/strong>, stressed that \u201ethe importance of COWIN lays in providing research institutions and partners with support to reach maturity for further investment. It offers interesting companies the access to exploit collaborative research results to the market. I hope that COWIN continues to work under Horizon 2020, because we need more than ever initiatives, which will help to leave behind the valley of the death of our innovation chain\u201c.<\/p>\n Mr Roberto Zafalon, ST Microelectronics<\/strong> argued that \u201ethe business model, provided and pushed through by COWIN represents one major step concerning the transfer from pilot lines to the market, resulting in wellness, revenues and recovery\u201c.<\/p>\n Mr Ehler, MEP, Rapporteur for the Horizon 2020 Rules of participation<\/strong>, emphasised \u201ethe need to identify certain sectors where the leverage is high, like the smart systems field, and focus our funding instruments on them. The security issues, within the ICT area are becoming more and more important and it is one of the areas where we have realistic chances to get R&D production back to Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n According to Mr Jean Luc Mate, Continental Engineering Services<\/strong>, \u201cCOWIN is starting a unique process, something which has not existed before \u2013 to give a chance to young entrepreneurs from different fields to cross the death valley and succeed\u201d.<\/p>\n Khalil Rouhana, Director Components and Systems DG Connect at the European Commission<\/strong>, explained the approach to innovation in H2020 and the role of initiatives like COWIN. He highlighted the importance of smart systems in future development of ICT including the Internet of Things and the need to accelerate the transformation of Europe’s knowledge and research assets in this field into commercial successes.<\/p>\n Mr Andreas Wild, ENIAC JU<\/strong>, asserted that \u201cCOWIN took European policies and implemented them in a clever way, by helping the SMEs, finding the relay of companies engaged in the growth path and providing support through the ecosystem\u201c.<\/p>\n According to Ms Geraldine Andrieux Gustin, Yole Finance<\/strong>, \u201ethe key for COWIN\u2019s success is that we focus on one thematic \u2013 smart systems – and we cover the whole value chain from research to private investments in conducting operational actions. With a market pull approach, we have set up an attractive ecosystem for investment and for the growth of European champions\u201c.<\/p>\n For more information about the event, including photos and participants, please visit the event page here.<\/p>\n Kontakt:<\/strong><\/p>\n COWIN K4I Secretariat <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRESS RELEASE Building the European Smart Valley for SMEs: From research to private investment COWIN success and best practices to make it happen 17-18 March 2014|European Parliament, Brussels COWIN, a European Commission Coordination and Support action, aiming supporting commercial exploitation of EU collaborative research projects organised a Reception and a Breakfast debate, in cooperation with […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uudised"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
\nG\u00e9raldine Andrieux Gustin
\nEmail : andrieux@yole.fr<\/a>
\nWebsite : www.cowin4u.eu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nTel: +32 2 23 354 51
\nEmail: k4i@knowledge4innovation.eu<\/a>
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.knowledge4innovation.eu\/<\/a><\/p>\n