Transcript Best practice cleantech incubation policies Main Findings #1

Preliminary Findings
from Cleantech Incubation Cluster Analysis on
Identifying Best Practice Cleantech Incubation Policies
Pauline van der Vorm, TU Delft, Netherlands
Gareth Jones, Opportunity Peterborough, UK
Best practice cleantech incubation
policies
What policies (strategies,
structures and processes)
are most effective in
enabling and supporting
cleantech incubation at
a regional level?
We interviewed, surveyed and
collected data on 16 clusters in 13
countries…
•Copenhagen (DK)
•Malmo & Lund (SE)
•Helsinki (FI)
•Munich (DE)
•London & Peterborough (UK)
•Oslo (NO)
•Delft & Rotterdam (NL)
•Zurich (CH)
•Styria (AU)
•Paris (FR)
•Barcelona (ES)
•Budapest (HU)
•Torino (IT)
Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2012 (map)
& Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2012
1
Denmark
16
Australia
2
Israel
17
Austria
3
Sweden
18
Belgium
4
Finland
19
France
5
USA
20
Japan
6
Germany
21
Spain
7
Canada
22
Hungary
8
South Korea
23
Czech Republic
9
Ireland
24
Portugal
10
UK
25
Brazil
11
Norway
26
Argentina
12
India
27
Italy
13
China
28
South Africa
14
Netherlands
29
Slovenia
15
Switzerland
30
Poland
Map source: DG Enterprise & Industry (2012)
Index source: Global Cleantech Group & WWF (2012)
Best practice cleantech incubation
policies
Main Findings #1
Cleantech Incubators are a good way to connect academic
research and public R&D institutes with SMEs for knowledge
transfer, and the reverse flow detailing innovation needs of SMEs.
Main Findings #2
Cleantech Incubation is at the core of regional eco-innovation
ecosystems and cleantech clusters.
Best practice cleantech incubation
policies
Main Findings #3
Cleantech Incubators need a stakeholders network with complex
interactions :
• Local and regional government
• Local and regional universities
• Local and regional companies, partners, etc.
• Financiers…
Example: I3P's stakeholders network
Main Findings #4
Cleantech Incubation can be "observed“ as a complex system
divided into four steps with many supporting actors and tools:
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1. Cleantech Incubation Ecosystem
•Definition of a cleantech policies
•Public procurement support
•Organising of networking and brokering activities
•Building the incubation stakeholders‘ network
2. Sources of Ideas / Idea Generation
•Innovation climate
•Research funding
•Entrepreneurship education
•PhD awareness of innovation
•Scouting
•Interviews with researchers
•Networking events
3. Selection of “Winners”
•Idea & business plan competitions
•Tutor support
•IP management & protection support
•Support in new company setup
•Definition of final exam criteria & commission
4. Funding Start-ups
•Pre-seed loans
•Prototype funds
•Proof-of-concept funds
•Seed investment funds
•Venture capital funds
•Access to special agreements with banks
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5. Facilities, business support,
training & coaching
•Physical infrastructure of the incubator
•Tutorship support (strategic consulting)
•Access to a network of professionals
•Business support
•Mediation instruments
•Access to "Friend-Companies“
•Marketing support
•Internationalisation support
6. Exit Strategy
•Monitoring tools for the “health" of start-ups
•Growth / acceleration programmes
•Support in facing the dilemma “sell / growth"
7. The Business of Incubation
•Best business models for running the incubator itself
8. Incubation Performance
•Best Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for cleantech
incubation (start-ups created, investment funding
collected, jobs created, etc.
These points will be summarised
in a new handbook:
"Cleantech Incubation Policy
and Practice: Recipes for
Creating Cleantech
Incubator Hotspots"
This will be ready for the final
conference in Delft, 12-13
June 2014.
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