INNOMATCH 2017
THE REGIONAL ANNUAL INNOVATION EVENT
2017 EDITION
West Region, Romania
At the 5th edition, the Innomatch2017 Annual Regional Innovation Event organized by the West Regional Development Agency in partnership with the Tehimpuls Association, took place on December 12th 2017 at Venue Timișoara (9th Cavalry Street 64, Timișoara 300254).
The event represented a unique platform of interaction in the West Region for innovators and entrepreneurs, with both national and international presence.
The 2017 edition benefited from the presence of experts from United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium and Romania, who presented success stories on innovation in the ICT and automotive sector, practices on business support services that generated major economic impact, as well as practical experiences of attracting private capital in order to increase production and sales capacity.
Innomatch 2017 included also the “ScaleUP” Regional Competition which aims to select three innovative SMEs in order to be supported to scale their business. This competition included small and medium-sized enterprises from any economic sector in the regions covered by the Enterprise Europe Network, namely West Region (Arad, Caraș-Severin, Hunedoara and Timiș) and South-West Oltenia Region (Dolj, Gorj, Mehedinți, Olt , Vâlcea), with a minimum age of 3 years. The participating companies had the opportunity to present their business scaling plans in pitching format in front of the entire auditorium during the Innomatch Regional Innovation Event 2017.
The Innomatch2017 Annual Regional Innovation Event was organized by WRDA of Romania within the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) project – a European network present in over 60 countries, focusing on supporting small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing their inoovative and business in order to increase competitiveness and smart and sustainable development. WRDA of Romania is an EEN network partner since January 1, 2015.
The presentations and a selection of images from the event can be found at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GLD_ezuWdALt2aCXQcIjqRcL23Mm-mfk?usp=sharing
Short video summary of the event:
THE “SCALEUP” REGIONAL COMPETITION 2017
THE REGIONAL ANNUAL INNOVATION INNOMATCH 2017 EVENT
At its 5th edition, The Annual Regional Innovation Event organized by the Regional Development Agency of the West Region Romania with Tehimpuls Association will take place on December the 12th 2017 at Venue Timișoara.
This annual event represents a unique platform of interaction for innovators and entrepreneurs in the West Region, with both national and international participation.
In this yearsț edition, West Regional Development Agency will organize the ScaleUP competition 2017 aimed at selecting three innovative SMEs to be supported to scale their business.
The competition is open to the SMEs form every economic sector from the West and South-West Regions, having minimum three years of life cycle based on innovation. The companies participating in the competition will have the possibility to present their own scale-up plans in „pitching” format in front of the entire audience at the Annual Regional Innovation Event.
The companies selected during the competition will beneficiate from a consulting package that will include:
- Establishing the strategy for business scale-up
- Coaching for implementation of the strategy for business scale-up
- Training sessions for the specific scale-up phase (e.g. innovation management, leadership, international scale-up)
- Support for international strategic partners identification
- Individual consulting to access new international markets
- Internationally promoting the company
The first 3 winners of the competition will benefit from a consulting package that will include:
- Developing a strategy for business scale-up
- Coaching for implementation of the strategy for business scale-up
- Training sessions for the specific scale-up phase (e.g. innovation management, leadership, international scale-up)
- Supporting with identification of international strategic partners
- Individual consulting to access new international markets
- Promoting the company at international level
The registration to the ”ScaleUP” Competition can be made by filling the registration form (Annex 1) which can be downloaded at http://www.regiuneavest.ro/enterprise-europe-network/.
The deadline for submitting the forms is December 6th 2017.
For more information, please contact One-Stop-Shop Enterprise Europe Network team at West RDA, by e-mail office-een@adrvest.ro, or by phone 0256 491 923, contact persons:
Raluca Cibu-Buzac, Head of Regional Politics and Internationalization and EEN Coordinator for West and South-West Regions
Karla Hațegan, Chief Office IMM-EEN implementation services
The following documents must accompany the Registration Form for purpose of verifying the provided data:
- Certified Statement from the National Trade Register
- Declaration of SME Status and the report on SME Stauts obtained from http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/SME-Wizard/smeq.do;SME_SESSION_ID=TrpxSexQnbPfq8SI4SU_LECUHjjkdrG4W4QeSaVyYMJZjk1TI5II!103665658?execution=e1s1
- Balance Sheet on the last 2 years
The Registration form together with the aforementioned annexes must be sent by e-mail to office-een@adrvest.ro.
The deadline for submitting the registration forms is December 6th 2017.
The ScaleUP Competition will take place as follows:
- Fill in the form to register at the competition
The registration shall be made available on http://www.regiuneavest.ro/en/news/page/id/278/ . It can be also provided if contacting the Helpdesk Enterprise Europe Network one-stop-shop Department in RDA of the West Region, by e-mail ofice-een@adrvest.ro, or by phone 0256 492 923. The completed forms should be submitted by e-mail at office-een@adrvest.ro. The deadline for submitting the forms is 06.12. 2017.
- Participating at the “pitching” session at the Annual Regional Innovation Event 2017 and the announcing of the winners
A “pitching” session will be organized on December 12th 2017, where the applicants will present their business and scale-up strategy in front of the entire audience composed of experts from RDA of the West Region.
- Evaluation of the registration forms
The evaluation commission composed of experts from RDA of the West Region will gather between December 13th – December 14th 2017 in order to evaluate the registration forms as per the evaluation criteria. The ranking will be established on the scores given by the Evaluation Commission.
- Announcing the winners
The winner list will be published on the web page http://www.regiuneavest.ro/en/news/page/id/281/ on December 15th 2017. The first three winners will beneficiate from the business scale-up program offered by the RDA of the West Region within Enterprise Europe Network. The complaints can be made between December 18th – December 20th 2017 and the results will be released on December 21st 2017. The final results will be published on the web page mentioned above on December 22nd 2017.
West Regional Development Agency Romania
&
Tehimpuls – The Regional Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre
organized
the 4th Edition of the Regional Innovation Fair in November 3rd 2016
in West Region, Romania
Entrepreneurs, managers and innovators have met in Timisoara at Innomatch 2016, event organized by West Regional Development Agency (RDA West) in partnership with Tehimpuls – Regional Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer, on November 9, 2016, West Region Romania.
West RDA’s role to support the development of West Region is reflected also in the organization of Innomatch 2016 – given that a healthy region is one that has a stable business environment, which is constantly developing. The involvement of Tehimpuls Association alongside West RDA in organizing the event aimed to facilitate the collaboration between businesses and institutes / research centers so that the sustainable development of the business environment to be achieved through innovation.
In order to help the SMEs to learn from each other, to interact with companies and managers from other European countries, but also to facilitate the promotion of companies from West Region internationally, Innomatch 2016 event consisted of two parts, a conference and an international brokerage event that facilitated the establishment of contacts, collaborations and partnerships between private companies from West Region and organisations (private companies and/or research centers) from abroad acting in ICT, automotive and agro-food sectors.
The topics addressed by speakers at the conference were: leaders in management, innovative products and services, digitization and competitiveness of companies, “green” innovation and evolution of companies – including how to get grants for such initiatives, innovation and performance management companies ( IMP3rove presentation – European instrument for assessing a company’s innovation capacity, its competitiveness in terms of innovation and its possibilities for development).
For more information and the full experience of the event, please follow the link: https://www.facebook.com/Tehimpuls/videos/1138116529628481/.
The third edition of The Regional Innovation Fair, October 21, 2015.
The event was a unique meeting platform for innovators and entrepreneurs in the West Region, attended by both Romanian and international participants. Furthermore, the Regional Innovation Competition award ceremony was a key moment of the event.
This year marked a new expansion of the Regional Innovation Fair with the addition of an international brokerage session where regional companies had a chance to interact with foreign companies brought here by Enterprise Europe Network Partners in Europe and beyond, with the goal of forging transnational business partnerships.
The brokerage session focused on the following fields:
- Information and Communication Technology – applications, software products and services, software engineering, interoperability, IT security, integrated systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, Big Data, Mobility, Consultancy Services, Outsourcing, Enterprise Services, IT Applications for production processes, energy efficiency, business performance, transport and logistics, financial services, telecommunications, retail, healthcare and telemedicine, e-governance solutions
- Automotive – production methods, finished products and components, materials, raw materials, and semi-finished products, design, “green” cars, electrical engineering and sustainable car manufacturing, industrial automation and software, measuring and control equipment, industrial electronic products, electrical equipment and mobility, robotics, services
- Agri-food – innovative solutions for higher performance in agriculture, genomics and assisted reproduction (crops and animal breeding), race/seed protection, harvesting technologies, natural extracts, green products, food industry technologies, sustainable processing systems, nutrition and health, nutritional products and delicacies
The benefits of attending this brokerage session included:
- Meeting potential partners and clients
- Making translational contacts and initiating partnerships
- Identifying marketing, technology, or research partners
- Gaining information about the research and innovation activity in the West Region
- Showing, discussing, and developing new projects
- Cooperation agreement assistance provided during and following the event
The participants also had the opportunity to visit the West Region Innovative product exhibition and discuss technological, marketing, distribution, production or licencing cooperation opportunities with the exhibitors.
The agenda is available here.
