Finland - Israel Business Seminar 3.9.2012

1. FIT Program –
Financing possibility for
your innovation projects
Kirsi Vähä-Pietilä
Head of Finnish EUREKA Office
E-mail kirsi.vaha-pietila@tekes.fi
Tel. +358 10 605 5730
3.9.2012 Copyright © Tekes

2. Tekes Strategy in a nutshell
Growth and wellbeing from renewal
Tekes funds leading edge research, development and
innovation projects
• Priority to growth-seeking, innovative SME’s
• Increased focus on forerunners and strategic innovations
• Customer success in global value networks
• Services and non-technical contents as
important as industry and technologies
• Tekes will play a more essential role in the innovation
services cooperation network
• A more customer-oriented and flexible approach
Tekes R&D funding in 2011
• Total 610 million euros and 1,928 projects
• More than half to enterprises, 80 M€ to SHOKs, 200 M€ to
research in universities & research centres
DM 775643 03-2011 Copyright © Tekes

3. R&D investments in some countries
Percentage of GDP
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
Source: OECD, Main Science and Technology Indicators
DM 36109, 36054 and 640134 09-2011 Copyright © Tekes

4. Finland-Israel Technology Cooperation Program
FIT
What & why?
To implement the MoU signed 2001 between Finland and
Israel for cooperation in the field of industrial research and
development
To increase and support Finnish and Israeli organisations’
cooperation
To offer R&D performing companies and research institutes a
great opportunity to collaborate with the most advanced
players in Finland and Israel
To provide public funding to qualified projects and qualified
participants by national authorities:
the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) in Israel and Tekes, the
Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation in
Finland
Ministry of
Industry, Trade and
Labor (MOITAL)
Office of the
Chief Scientis t
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5. Annual calls for proposals for joint R&D
projects
Focus
Project proposals on industrial research and development of
innovative products and applications in different technology
areas
Announcement and application forms will be publish on Tekes
and Matimop webpages
Participants
at least one Israeli and one Finnish commercial company
Call Ministry of
Industry, Trade and
Labor (MOITAL)
Two phase procedure Office of the
Chief Scientis t
Phase 1: A short project outlines submitted to MATIMOP and Tekes.
The outlines will be screened and evaluated by the joint appraisal
committee.
Phase 2: Partners with approved outlines will be invited to submit
national funding applications according to the national rules of Tekes
and OCS respectively. Copyright © Tekes
08-2009 Copyright © Tekes

6. Annual calls for proposals for joint R&D
projects
Submission and evaluation
Phase 1: Identical applications to FIT committee in both countries.
FIT program committee and evaluators from both countries make a
joint decision
Phase 2: Local funding application forms and local evaluation
procedures at each side and joint decisions of both countries
Funding
Each agency funds the local participants according to the
local regulations and conditions
Ministry of
Financing Industry, Trade and
Labor (MOITAL)
Office of the
Chief Scientis t
project participants finance their costs from own funds,
capital market or the applicable national or regional funding
schemes
OCS and Tekes have earmarked a budget of up to 5 million
euros each for the Call
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08-2009 Copyright © Tekes

7. Finland-Israel Technology Cooperation Program
FIT
Some projects
E!3808 RPT
• Developing Robotic Preeclampsia Diagnostics With The Delfia Series And The
Placenta Protein 13 (Pp13) Biomarker
E! 3630 ESDSL
• Extended Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ESDSL) Modem Performances
E! 3638 MMS DELTA
• Mobile Multimedia Transcoding And Delivery System
E! 3639 NETHAWKEYES
Ministry of
Industry, Trade and
• A Gsm And 3g Cellular Network Rf Optimisation System Labor (MOITAL)
Office of the
Chief Scientis t
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8. Finland-Israel Technology Cooperation Program
FIT
Some projects
E! 3951 MAGCAST
• Development Of Permanent Mould Cast Creep-Resistant Magnesium Alloys For
Safety Related Components
E! 3952 SMPFL
• Novel Industrial Pulsed Fibre Laser With Ideal (Single Mode) Beam Quality
E! 3998 NETHAWKEYES2
• Gsm (Global Standard For Mobiles) And 3g Cellular Network Rf Optimisation
System Ministry of
Industry, Trade and
Labor (MOITAL)
Office of the
Chief Scientis t
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9. Finland-Israel Technology Cooperation Program
FIT
Some projects
E! 4973 RNU2001PB
• Development of a small size and low cost Wimax Pico Base Station for Extension
coverage
E! 5812 MiraVigi
• Integrating Mirasys Recording and Vigilant Management Platforms to develop
cutting edge Solution for Video Recording
E! 7193 EEG-MEG-MRI
• Development of Functional Imaging Method to improve Brain-based Diagnosis and
Treament
Ministry of
E! 7195 HEDiL-FL Industry, Trade and
Labor (MOITAL)
Office of the
Chief Scientis t
• Development of Pulsed High Energy High Peak Power Lasers with Diffraction
Limited Beam Quality
E! 7599 Safetylocation
• Integration and Optimisation of an accurate GPS for Vehicle Safety Application
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10. Israeli-Finnish Cooperation in Tekes funded
R&D projects 2002 –2011
Number of projects Tekes funding
Total 138 pcs Total 40,0 million euros
30 9
25 8 1,9
7
20 6
20 5,0
15 8 5
7 4 1,5
10 6 7 5 2 6,8
11 3 0,8 3,4
7
5 11 2 2,3
5 7 7 8 8 10 0,6 2,3 2,9 2,6
3,4
1 3 4 1 0,4
0 2 1 0,9 0,7 1,0
0 0,7 0,4
0,1
Research Projects
Company projects
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11. Finland-Israel Technology Cooperation Program
FIT
• FIT offers
• innovative companies and research institutes a great opportunity
to collaborate with the most advanced players in Israel and
Finland
• Support to start and run the innovation projects
• Publicity on EUREKA web pages and news
• FIT provides public funding to qualified projects and qualified
participants by national authorities:
• For SMEs seeking growth trough internationalisation Ministry of
Industry, Trade and
Labor (MOITAL)
Office of the
• High-risk, growth-oriented development projects by companies
Chief Scientis t
of moderate growth
• Partners in close-to-market FIT projects often offer
market channels to new markets and businesses
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12. Interested?
Additional information
• Tekes
Ms. Kirsi Vähä-Pietilä
+358 1060 55730
e-mail: Kirsi.Vaha-Pietila@tekes.fi
• Matimop
Mr. Uzi Bar-Sadeh
+972-3-5118185
e-mail: uzi@matimop.org.il
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