ICT 2013 H2020 horizontal innovation actions

Editor's Notes

• #6: - ICT sector is one of the strongest catalysts of social and economic progress. It responds to the Europe 2020 Strategy goal to set out the foundations for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for the European Union , and the two flagship initiatives: the Digital Agenda for Europe and the Innovation Union . - Evidence show that share of old companies, which originate from startup, is lower in the EU than in the US. In Europe, the technological edge of innovative companies is equivalent to the US. Yet European companies meet much more challenges to develop, scale up and become global . - On this supply side, ICT entrepreneurs constitute a specific category of entrepreneurs who create new digital services.- In addition to this, on the demand side, better use of ICT can significantly help new businesses to thrive. ICT is the key source of growth for national economies and European SMEs grow two to three times faster when they embrace ICT. - The Commission will help entrepreneurs and SMEs to fully exploit the potential of ICT, both in terms of supply of new digital products and services, and in terms of demand and smart use of these technologies.- The support to ICT entrepreneurship becomes, in this context, a priority for the Horizon 2020 programme, in order to foster the innovation potential of research and technological development.
• #7: This is a contribution from the ICT in LEIT to a pilot scheme that will co-finance investments by business angels in innovative SMEs and small midcaps that are aiming to commercialise new ICT-related products and services. Potential co-investors with business angels can include family offices and equity crowd-funders.The domains of photonics, microelectronics, microsystems and robotics, and also the ICT-related creative industries, will receive particular attention. The Commission will incentivise the entity entrusted with implementing the pilot to make a particular effort, including targeted awareness-raising, to ensure that a significantly higher proportion of investments are ICT-related.
• #8: Organise and promote ICT business idea contests addressed to University and high-school students. ICT business ideas contests should be organised at national and subsequently European level. A participation of at least 10 Member States or Associated Countries in the first year (up to all Member States and Associated Countries) should be sought. The first selection takes place at Campus level and will continue gradually up to the European level with a final event Support will go to a well-focused consortium which members should have demonstrated capacity in mobilising students and having experience with similar large scale events.
• #9: The creation of a European wide system of Summer Academies for university and last year high school students entirely focused on ICT entrepreneurship. The summer academies will be action oriented and include activities such as ICT and entrepreneurial skills development; experimenting, mentoring; support for business planning and setting up your company; matchmaking; generation and development of ICT-related business ideas. The project will complement, extend and enrich similar existing actions while focusing on the ICT sector and excellence.
• #10: Activities: product testing, coaching, knowledge sharing…Stakeholdersinvolved (entrepreneurs, researchers, consumers, public authorities, investors…).
• #12: The objective is to define 8 to 12 inducement prize competitions. This includes a validated analysis for multiple ICT thematic areas of technological or societal challenges that potential competitions will solve; development of a list of prize concepts and size of associated prize fund appropriate for addressing the challenges; identification of underlying market failures that each prize seeks to address; definition of success criteria; and, drafting prize competition rules, developing plans for evaluations and operationsImpact:Comprehensive prize design delivered by a consortium with experience in designing inducement prizes. Identification of inducement prize with highest impact and chance of mobilising the stakeholders to engage and participate. Awareness of potential of inducement prises raised beyond the community typically active in the competition area.
• #17: Previous projects: PCP/PPI projects in ICT domainThese are hyperlinks
• #18: Scope:The objective is to bring radical improvements to the quality and efficiency of public services by encouraging the development and validation of breakthrough solutions through Pre-Commercial Procurement. This specific challenge is open to proposals requesting EU cofunding for pre-commercial procurement in all areas of public sector interest requiring innovative ICT based solutions, complementary to PCP Cofund actions foreseen under other challenges in ICT LEIT. It is open both to proposals requiring improvements mainly based on one specific ICT technology field, as well as to proposals requiring end-to-end solutions that need combinations of different ICT technologies..Expected impact:Reduced fragmentation of demand for innovative solutions by enabling public procurers to collectively implement PCPs in areas, which due to their nature are better addressed jointly, or which they would not have been able to tackle independently.Increased opportunities for wide market uptake and economies of scale for the supply side through the use of joint specifications, wide publication of results and where