Presentation at the EP of the Europe Enterprise Brussels activities … A department of the Brussels Enterprise Agency

1. Enterprise Europe Brussels’
Role & Services
for SMEs’ internationalisation
13.11.2013

2. Bruno M.WATTENBERGH
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MD of the Brussels Enterprise Agency
Chairman of the Brussels Guarantee Fund
Independent Board member
Daily Chronicle on the radio & Founder of TV Show Starter!
Professor & lecturer in strategy & entrepreneurship
Master in Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship @
TiasNimbas (The Netherland)
Certificate Strategy & Innovation & MIT Sloan
Entrepreneurship Development Program @ MIT Sloan
Advanced Degree in Management @ Ichec
Master in Labor Science @ ULB

3. Brussels Enterprise Agency
The BEA’s purpose is to provide
information and support to entrepreneurs
in Brussels.
It specialises in corporate financing,
strategy and innovation.
 Customer Centric …

4. Enterprise Europe Brussels has a role to play : why?
SMEs have great ability to quickly
transform new ideas in successful
business BUT ……..
……SMEs have size-related problems to
become more innovative & more
competitive alone :
•Time, human & financial resources
•Difficulties in getting access to finance
•Effective exploitation of/full advantage of
internationalisation & innovation opportunities & services

5. Synergies with
NCP Brussels & local clusters

6. Enterprise Europe Network ID Card
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Name: Enterprise Europe Network
Surname: Business Support on Your Doorstep
Date of birth: 01/01/2008
Place of birth: Europe
600 partner organisations in
Nationality: Global
Issued by: European Commission 54 countries

7. Enterprise Europe Brussels
Enterprise Europe Brussels is
the local gateway to
doing business abroad,
accessing European funding,
driving innovation and
increasing your
competitiveness in new
markets.

8. Enterprise Europe Brussels
Our services in a nutshell :
Going international
Technology transfer & innovation
Business, R&I & technology watch
Match-making support to successful B2B events
Access to finance
Research funding
Advice on EU law and standards
Intellectual property and patents
Speak up on EU law

9. Organization of local events
To Whom : local SMEs, clients
Why : to support their internationalization &
innovation processes, raise awareness on EEB
services and on EU policies, legislation &
standards, EU programs & funding opportunities

10. Organization of local events
 Better pitching during BE (Brokerage Events)
or Company Mission to better sell
products/ideas while protecting IPR
 Integrate open/eco/non-tech innovation in
SMEs’ mgt process
 Trainings on H2020 (R&DI programme) &
COSME
 Workshops aimed at empowering SMEs
towards inno & Internationalisation

11. Customized approach
Providing international visibility
• Develop, together with clients, customized &
targeted cooperation / partnership profiles
(offers or requests)
20.000 profiles, from all sectors
• Distribute them within the Network,
mainly through databases + pro-active
“push”
• Daily pro-active monitoring of opportunities
performed by EEB advisors

12. Customized approach
Providing international visibility
• TR - Anaerobic Digestion Technology sought to generate electricity in
combination with photovoltaic projects Ref.TRBE20130812001
A Brussels-based company specialized in the photovoltaic projects management
is looking for a Biomass production process to generate electricity from
agricultural waste of farms and from organic waste in order to reach
complementary model of renewable energy production.
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TO - 3D gesture-control interactive solutions Ref. TOBE20130703001
A Brussels SME has integrated and optimized a commercial depth sensing
camera and Software Development Kit (SDK) for best performance and quality in
building 3D gesture-based applications and interfaces they offer. By teaming up
with application and methodology experts and embedded ICT system
manufacturers, the company aims at enhancing the user experience of its gesture
recognition tools in diverse scenarios for the consumer electronics market.
Technical cooperation is sought.

13. Customized approach
• Pre-arranged bilateral meetings (F2F) during
main fairs (no « speculative » business trip !)
 Upstream preparation with the company
 Assistance on the spot
 Downstrem assistence & follow-up => cooperation
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15. Key Enterprise Europe Brussels’ results 20112012
• 31 collaboration agreements signed between a Bxl-based
and a foreign company
• 808 answers provided to SMEs on EU legislation /
standardisation
• 202 Bxl-based profiles made visible & disseminated in the
EU tech & R&DI, business DB for transnational
collaboration
• 1.615 participants in workshops on FP7/CIP calls, EEB
services, EU legislation/EU laws &regulations affecting
businesses
• 123 supporting services on « project’s financing »
• 1077 F2F meetings for 185 clients participanting in
match-making events

16. Stay tuned!
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