# Presentation: 840312

## Public Support to Healthcare Projects

**CzechInvest and Others**
- Jakub Mikulasek
- Chief Operating Officer
- March 1, 2007

## CzechInvest’s activities: developments since 1993

- 1998
- Development of business infrastructure
- (Product dev‘t)

- 1993
- FDI

- 2003
- Local entrepreneurs
- Structural funds

- 2005
- Consolidation
- +
- Technological development

## Life Sciences – current support measures

**support through the EU structural funds**
**FDI support**
**interlinking local and foreign businesses**
**technology transfer, joint projects, clustering...**

## Structural funds – a tool to enhancing competitiveness

**local SMEs, institutions and selected MNCs**
**2004-2006 CzechInvest engaged in selected operational programmes targeting enhancing competitiveness of Czech businesses and economy **
**1300 project approved, approx. 340 mil. USD allocated**
**2007-2013: focus on innovation, ****allocation of more than 4 500 mil. USD**
**lessons learnt, effective processes**

## Structural fundsSupport available 2007 - 13

**OP Enterprise and Innovation**
- -- the introduction of innovation, technologies,    products; cooperation of the industrial sector   with R&D; quality of the business infrastructure

**  ****OP Human Resources and Employment****  **
-  -- further professional education, modern forms of HR      management

**OP Research and Development for Innovation**
-   R&D capacities, capacities for cooperation between the     public and private sector

**CzechInvest**

- SMEs, large, MNCs

- SMEs, large, MNCs

- Non profit research org.

## OPEI - the programme’s priorities and areas of support 

| Priority | Area of support  | Programme | % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. Establishment            
    of companies  | 1.1 Support for beginning entrepreneurs  | START | 0,6 |
|  | 1.2 Use of new financial instruments  |  | 2,0 |
| 2. Development 
    of companies  | 2.1 Banking instruments for the support of  SMEs  | CREDIT  | 2,6 |
|  |  | GUARANTEE  | 5,0 |
|  |  2.2 Support for new production technologies  
       and ICT in companies  | DEVELOPMENT  | 3,0 |
|  |  | Business-support and ICT Services  | 7,0 |
|  |  |  Use of ICT in Companies  | 4,2 |
| 3. Efficient  
    energy  | 3.1 Energy conservation and renewable   
      sources of energy  | ECO-ENERGY  | 4,0 |
| 4. Innovation  | 4.1 Increased innovation efficiency of  companies  | INNOVATION  | 14,0 |
|  | 4.2 Capacities for industrial R & D  | POTENTIAL  | 8,4 |
| 5. Business and  
    innovation  
    environment  | 5.1 Cooperation platforms  | COOPERATION  | 5,3 |
|  |  | PROSPERITA | 12,0 |
|  | 5.2 Infrastructure for human resources development  | TRAINING CENTRES  | 5,0 |
|  | 5.3 Business infrastructure  | REAL ESTATE  | 16,1 |
| 6. Business-
   development 
   services  | 6.1 Support for consulting services  | CONSULTING  | 5,0 |
|  | 6.2 Support for marketing services  | MARKETING | 2,9 |

**Notes:**
Alokace v % z celkové alokace pro celý OPPI. 
Po sečtení Priority 1 – 6: 97.1 % (zbylé 2,9 % je technická pomoc).

## OPResearch and Development for Innovation

| Priority 1 | Development of R&D capacities  |
| --- | --- |
| Priority 2 | Development of capacities for cooperation between the public and private sectors in research and development |
| Priority 3 | Enhanced capacities of universities for tertiary education  |

- Programme priorities

## R&D Support

**EU and national programs **
**Financing of R&D activities**
- National Program of R&D and Support II.  Sustainable Welfare program
- 7th Framework Program of the EU

## OPHuman Resources and Employment

- Programme priorities and areas of support:

| Priority 1 | Adaptabilita
-- Increased competitiveness of enterprises through further professional education  (Educa, Introduction of Modern Forms of HR Management )
-- Increased adaptability of the workforce and prevention of unemployment 
-- Support for the development of a system of further professional education  |
| --- | --- |
| Priority 2 | Active labour-market policies  |
| Priority 3 | Social integration and equal opportunities  |
| Priority 4 | Public administration and public services  |
| Priority 5 | International cooperation  |

- CzechInvest, MLSA and MIT are preparing 2 programmes:                **EDUCA** and **Introduction of Modern Forms of Human Resources Management**

## Support for Technology Centers

**Development and innovation activities with the close linkage to production of high-tech products and technologies, including development of specific software, in the following fields:**
- aerospace
- computers and **machinery**
**electronics** and microelectronics
- telecommunications
**pharmaceuticals**
- motor vehicles etc.
**Subsidy for business activity; training and retraining**

**Life Sciences Clusters in the Czech Republic**

## Life Sciences Clusters

**4 Life Sciences clusters in development**
**1) Water Treatment Alliance**
- technology for water purification
**2) Bioinformatics**
**3) Nanomedicine**
**4) Medicine – Pharma**

**Brno**

**Hradec Kralove**

## Medipark and Life Sciences Campus Brno

**New campus of Masaryk University **
**Integrated laboratories of biomedical technologies**
**Faculty hospital**
**Center for technology transfer**
**Spin off center**
**Biotechnology incubator**

## International Clinical Research Center (ICRC)

**Joint project of St. Anne‘s University Hospital and Mayo Clinic (USA)**
**Platform for close collaboration between US****A**** and Europe**
**Research and development period shortened by half**
**Finished 2009**

## Brno cluster

- University campus
**BASIC RESEARCH**

- Cardiovascular animal research centre
**PRECLINICAL RESEARCH**

- ICRC
**CLINICAL RESEARCH**

**TECHNOLOGY**

- Medical Devices

**Thank you for your attention**
**jakub.mikulasek@czechinvest.org**