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Connecting Bulgarian Entrepreneursto the European Knowledge Base

Virginia Jordanova MercouriCORDIS Communication and Awareness

v.mercouri@cordis.lu

European Day of the Entrepreneur, Sofia

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is.luTo succeed, entrepreneurs need:

• Information, know-how, exploitable technologies

• Contacts - for partners and advice

• Access to finance

• Promotion

• Etc.

EU’ research & innovation portal CORDIS can help!

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Objectives

• Offer free access to information on European research & innovation

• Ease participation in programmes and activities

• Enhance research results exploitation

• Provide all stakeholders from MS and CCs with an interactive platform www.cordis.lu

Community Research and Development Information Service

What is CORDIS?

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Used by over 150 countries

7 000 000 pages viewe/month

250 000 unique users/month

300 000 documents downloaded/month

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One of the most comprehensive resources on the Web today

Candidate Countries – 9 % of CORDIS usersSmall companies – 13 %

What is CORDIS?

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Featuring EU, national and regional policy initiatives and their implementation

• Interviews with stakeholders

• Examples of research breakthroughs, innovation in practice

• Events coverage

• Free magazine every two weeks

www.cordis.lu/news

Stay informed

You can also make the news!

News and Views on R&D and Innovation

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Innovation policy studies

• covering innovation management & finance, promotion & technology transfer

• including Bulgaria & all CCs

• stimulating informed debate on innovation policy issues in the CCs

www.cordis.lu/innovation-policy/studies

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Analysis

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Trendchart on European Innovation

• European innovation scoreboard covering Bulgaria

• Insights on policy measures and support schemes in current & future Member States

• Networking innovation scheme managers

http://trendchart.cordis.lu

www.cordis.lu/scoreboard

Benchmarking and best practices

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Economic and Technological Intelligence for SMEs

http://sme.cordis.lu

• Financed by the EU research budget – FP6

• Information and analysis on science and technological developments, applications and markets

• Stimulating international clustering of SMEs with similar innovation needs

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Technology Marketplace

• Descriptions of available technologies

• From EU-funded and national research

• Clearly identified business applications in the key priorities for EU competitiveness

• Useful links and tips to ease technology transfers

www.cordis.lu/marketplace

Stay informed

Emerging and promising technologies

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• Access to the largest network of technology transfer organisations in the world

• Examples of entrepreneurial success

Find contacts for technology transfer and incubation

http://irc.cordis.lu

www.cordis.lu/incubators

• The single entry point to European business incubators

• Facilitates networking among business incubators in Europe

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• Details of thousands of requests from companies, research centres, universities in Europe and the world

• Already more than 400 potential partners related to Bulgaria

• For research funding and/or commercial exploitation of technologies

• A free communication channel to promote your skills

www.cordis.lu/partners-service

Find contacts

Introduce your organisation as potential partner

Manage your international partnerships

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Selection based on five criteria

• Impact – social, economic

• Effect on employment

• Closeness to market

• Marketability – how likely to succeed

• Other factors – e.g. public profile, early indicators of success, enabling effect

Nearly 50 competitive technologies from Candidate Countries5 from Bulgaria

Get promotedSubmit your research results

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www.cordis.lu/wire

Get promoted

CORDIS Wire

• interactive innovation exchange platform

• your own announcements on the results of innovation, tie-ups, spin-offs and more

• used by incubators, universities, SMEs and business support services

Put your innovation in the spotlight

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Access to EU funding

www.cordis.lu/fp6

For research into new technologies

The FP6 Web

• all you need to understand, prepare, take part and benefit from FP6

• step by step guide

• searchable calls service

• library of participation information

• interactive tools for partners and electronic submission

Over 2, 100 million Euro reserved for SME participation!

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www.cordis.lu/finance

Access to innovation finance

The Gate 2 Growth• One stop shop for technology entrepreneurs

• investor matching, business diagnostic and planning tools

• resources for trainers and organisers of business contests

• professional development and networking

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Conclusion

www.cordis.lu/express

Keep up-to-date!CORDIS Express

• Brings you in a single e-mail the updates to all this information on CORDIS

• Your weekly briefing on EU research and innovation

• EU information for entrepreneurs made easy

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Conclusion

Stay connected!

www.cordis.lu/paxis

Get promoted!

www.cordis.lu/Bulgaria

CORDIS information is free!