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BIOECONFIN 2017
BIOLINX TO BIOPEN: CATALYSING,
DEVELOPING AND FUNDING INNOVATIVE
PROJECTS
BARBARA BENDAOUD & PATRIZIA CIRCELLI
PNO CONSULTANTS (GERMAN & ITALIAN OFFICES)

2. BIOLINX PROJECT
BIOECONFIN 2017
Support participants in FP7
and H2020 projects to
commercialize their
innovative ideas
Topic ISIB-08b-2014: “Bridging research and innovation efforts for a sustainable bioeconomy”
Connect them to knowledge,
regional networks, new
partners and funding
opportunities
Increase the TRL and decrease
the time to market of
innovations resulting from
funded projects
OBJECTIVES

3. BIOECONFIN 2017
This project has received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme
under grant agreement No. 65269

4. BIOECONFIN 2017
Project website
http://www.biolinx-project.eu

5. ACTIVITIES AND MAIN RESULTS:
BIOECONFIN 2017
• Providing access to new partners and networks: Join our Partnering and Intelligence
Platform and find the missing link in your value chain and participate in the regional
events BioLinX is organizing.
• Entrepreneurial training: Get additional information on many themes like Intellectual
Property, Venture Capital and Grants by following our online trainings & webinars.
• Financial events: Meet a broad range of (VC) investors and also gain insight into
public funding. BioLinX will organize financial events in Netherlands, Sweden and
Italy.
• Providing access to knowledge and intelligence: Get unique insights, browse
through our Partnering and Intelligence Platform where you can find, among other
things, relevant scientific articles and patents. Identify potential partners.
• Guided incubation process: Meet new potential partners to cooperate with
(business/grant) and drive you innovation to market.

6. BIOECONFIN 2017

7. BIOECONFIN 2017

8. BIOLINX TO BIOPEN
BIOECONFIN 2017
Objectives
Continuation
of the
successful
BioLinX
concept
Widening of
the audience
beyond EU
funded project
participants
Opportunity
New call: BBI-
2016-S03:
“Open-innovation
Platform
strengthening
cooperation and
joint
development of
bio-based
industries and
downstream
sectors”
Implementation
Set-up of a new
project
concept,
adapting the
BioLinX concept
to the new call
Building a new
partnership
with some
BioLinX and
additional new
partners

9. BIOECONFIN 2017
Design and develop the
European OPEN
INNOVATION platform.
Identify new applications
and value chains for Bio-
Based Products and
enabling technologies.
Stimulate and support the
creation of partnerships to
innovate processes and
products
Spread and share project
results and make the
Production System more
sustainable
BIOPEN PROJECT
OBJECTIVES
Topic BBI-2016-S03: “Open-innovation Platform strengthening cooperation and joint development of bio-
based industries and downstream sectors”

10. BIOECONFIN 2017
Ciaotech Srl, Italia,
Coordinatore
Innovation Engineering Srl,
Italia, partner
Europe Unlimited,
Belgio, partner
National Technical
University of Athens,
Grecia, partner
Klaster Chemiczny
Zielona Chemia, Polonia,
partner
Turku Science Park,
Finlandia, partner
Cluster Industrielle
Biotechnologie 2021 EV,
Germania, partner
BioEconomy Cluster
Management GmbH,
Germania, partner
BioBasedDelta, Paesi
Bassai, partner
Project duration : 1st May 2017 – 31st October 2019

11. ACTIVITIES AND MAIN RESULTS:
BIOECONFIN 2017
- support with regards to
setting-up at least 20 co-
innovation partnerships
alongside existing and
new value chains;
- knowledge centre
providing access to
relevant information for
markets and products
innovations in the bio-
based ecosystem.
- SMEs
- Large Industries
- Universities
- Research centres
- Organisations
- Associations
- NGOs

12. BIOECONFIN 2017
OPEN INNOVATIONPLATFORM
https://www.biopen-project.eu/
European
Visibility
Platform’s
mission
Accelerate
the Innovation
Collaboration
Opportunity

13. BIOECONFIN 2017
SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS :
Creation of co-innovation partnership with the aim of finding the right
innovation partners across Europe thanks to the presence of European bio
based clusters and the CiaoTech’s Network
Identifying R&D funding opportunities
Immediate availability of patents, papers and articles databases and sharing
information and knowledge with the Open Community
Publishing your ideas to find partners or search among the ideas published from
the other users.
PLATFORM BENEFITS

14. CONTACT DETAILS
Patrizia Circelli
Innovation Management Consultant
PNO Consultants (Italian office - CiaoTech srl)
E-mail: p.circelli@Ciaotech.com
Barbara Bendaoud
Senior Consultant H2020
PNO Consultants (DE Office)
E-mail: barbara.bendaoud@pnoconsultants.com
www.innovationplace.eu