The Commission promotes commercialisation and uptake of innovation through the Horizon 2020 programme and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). With the budget of EUR 80 billion, Horizon 2020 will help bring innovative ideas to life. ESIF will dedicate around EUR 110 billion to innovation activities, ICT, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) competitiveness.
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract.
Our experts have more than 100 YEARS OF INNOVATION FUNDING EXPERIENCE with a proven track record and many success stories from executive positions from the fund management companies, as well as business angels and private equity working in America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.R
Investor Horizon and the Life Cycle of Innovative Firms managed in a proper way by our experts have been recognised for performance for many years running sector funds as Environmental, Pharma, Biotech, Techno, Internet etc, awarded continuously with Lipper, S&P/Morningstar, Funds Europe Business Award, Österreichischer Fondspreis, Trigos Award (first time financial Institution achieves this Award), Hubertus Award (similar to Trigos), Money European Fund Award and many more.
We will accompany you through the whole fundraising process and help you with:
Exploring and assessing the technical feasibility and commercial potential of a breakthrough innovation that a company wants to exploit and commercialise.
Typical activities include: risk assessment, design or market studies, intellectual property exploration; the ultimate goal is to put a new product, service or process in the market, possibly through an innovative application of existing technologies, methodologies, or business processes.
Funding for innovation projects underpinned by a sound and strategic business plan (potentially elaborated and partially prepared by previous stage).
Typical activities includes: prototyping, miniaturisation, scaling-up, design, performance verification, testing, demonstration, development of pilot lines, validation for market replication, including other activities aimed at bringing innovation to investment readiness and maturity for market take-up.
With the view of facilitating the commercial exploitation of the innovation activities resulting from stage 1 or stage 2, support for further developing investment readiness, linking with private investors and customers through brokerage activities and events (including trade fairs), assistance in applying for further risk finance, and a range of other innovation support activities and services offered via our experts.
Typically mobilising acceleration funds from multilateral financial institutions combined with local donors and financial instruments.
Innovation and Business Development Coaching is offered in parallel throughout stage 1 and 2 to help SMEs:
Coaching is provided by our experienced business coaches.
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If you are a company / project holder please Contact us for a further assistance.