Topic 3:

IMPROVE MATCHING BETWEEN EUROPEAN SME AND BUSINESS ANGELS NETWORKS AND/OR VENTURE CAPITAL

 

Reinhard Büscher, Head of Unit of Innovation Policy Development, DG Enterprise and Industry, EC:

 

“Support to cross-regional investments in early stages is particularly important since it allows for the scouting, screening and selecting of business ideas with a European potential. Selection at early stages with European anticipation provides business ideas with the highest chances of success at an international level and a higher level of value added.”

 

-          Coordinator:  Mediterranee Technologies, Marseilles, France

-          Signatories of  Cooperation Agreement:

o       Marseille Innovation (inkubator), Marseilles, France

o       Provence Business Angel, Marseilles, France

o       Finanziaria Laziale di Sviluppo SPA (FILAS), Rome, Italy

o       Advantage West Midlands (AWM), Birmingham, United Kingdom

o       Coventry University Enterprise Ltd, Coventry, United Kingdom Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany

o       Technology Park Ljubljana Ltd., Ljubljana, Slovenia

o       META Group Ltd., Ljubljana, Slovenia

o       Business Angels of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

o       Podlaska Regional Development Foundation (PRDF), Bialystok, Poland

o       Agentia pentru Dezvoltare Regionala Nord-Est, Piatra-Neamt, Romania