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Best practices and policy instruments supporting the internationalisation of
eco-innovative SMEs
Rita Silva
Portuguese Innovation Agency
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Project goals:
To understand the role and dynamics of public policies in eco-innovation
To promote and jointly implement better eco-innovation policies and instruments
To reinforce the European eco-innovation community
Accelerating Eco-innovation policies
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Accelerating Eco-innovation policies
•Contributes to the European level eco-innovation policy by:
• identifying and analysing promising eco-innovation practices and instruments
• launching pilot implementation actions in the partnering countries • developing recommendations for the implementation of better
eco-innovation policies and instruments
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Accelerating Eco-Innovation policies
• Green public procurement as powerful demand-side instrument
• Waste management & recycling as a sector with a very high CO2 footprint and high potential for business creation
• Internationalisation as means to increase productivity by enlarging markets for eco-innovators
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Prioritary areas:
Main difficulties that prevent eco-innovative Smes’ move towardsnew markets stem from the lack of scale and lack of critical massand are most visible on the levels of:
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SME’s lack the capital and have added difficulty in accessing funding to support their internationalisation strategies
the implementation of an internationalisation strategy requires a lot of time from companies, which comes at the loss of focus on day to day activities;
SME´s lack the means to effectively identify sources, analyze information and prepare market data, as well as to identify and screen potential clients.;
SME’s have low cooperation levels, have difficulties in creating their own international networking and generating effective business leads
WP6: Internationalisation frameworkDeveloping
internal resources
Developing internal
resources
Demonstrating technologies /
solutions
Demonstrating technologies /
solutions Creating networksCreating networks
ECO-INNOVATIVE
SMEs
ECO-INNOVATIVE
SMEs
Internationalization and Innovation
support services/programs
Policy: e.g. Positive
Discrimination via selection,
Financial incentives
Policy: e.g. Positive
Discrimination via selection,
Financial incentives
Setting up of businesses
Setting up of businesses
Market: Knowing, entering
Market: Knowing, enteringIdentifying
needsIdentifying
needs
Monitoring / Evaluation
Developing external resources
(networks)
Developing external resources
(networks)
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Main gaps and bottlenecks in the internationalisation Support system…..
Lack of public supporting lines for the demonstration and validation of technologies abroad
Lack of specialized and tailored support for the setting up of businesses in target markets
Development of internal skills on internationalisation management
Lack of adequate support for clusters international development and coordination along the value-chain
Insufficient coordination between internationalisation and innovation support entities, overlapping of instruments, dispersion of supporting programmes
Lack of venture capital instruments for fast-growing start-up companiesLack of flexible, innovative funding schemes Policy
Makers
Policy implementation
Agencies
Eco-Innovative SMEs
Monitoring / evaluating
Funding
Identifying needs
Developing internal resources
Developing networks
Demonstrating Technologies
Setting up of businesses abroad
Not enough focus on SMEs specific needs
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Best practices and policy instruments for filling the gaps and overcoming bottlenecks…..
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ECOPOL’s Recommendations
