CETMA: multidisciplinary skills to support SMEs for the territory development arch. Sonia Saracino General Manager Assistant CETMA - Engineering, Industrial Design & Materials Technologies Center Working with SMEs Bruxelles, 03-07-2012
Outline CETMA FACTS & FIGURES CETMA OPERATING MODEL SOURCE OF FUNDS AND KEY ACTIVITIES AN OVERVIEW OF APULIA REGION RESEARCH FOR SMES AT A GLANCE CONCLUSIONS
CETMA FACTS & FIGURES
CETMA is a RTO organized under the national law of private consortia. It is a non-profit organization and all its profits are reinvested in R&D. Founded in 1994 by ENEA with the aim of developing the Innovation System of Southern Italy, CETMA is a National Organization which operates in Apulia Region. CETMA SHAREHOLDERS PUBLIC SHAREHOLDERS ENEA 51% University of Salento 5% PRIVATE SHAREHOLDERS D Appolonia SpA (Genova) 13% Infobyte SpA (Roma) 11% Telcom SpA (Ostuni) 11% IGEAM D.D srl (Roma) 2% CEMIT srl (Taranto) 7%
CETMA is located in the area of Cittadella della Ricerca close to Brindisi. Laboratories and offices take up about 5.000 m2 A well equipped laboratory of advanced materials tecnologies One of the biggest Virtual Reality Center in Europe A prototyping laboratory 5
HUMAN CAPITAL & SKILLS 70 employees: Innovation managers, engineers, designers & research technicians. SKILLS Materials and Structures engineering Computer science and engineering Industrial design
DEPARTMENTS OVERVIEW (I) It coordinates and carries out activities of applied research in the field of the advanced materials, encouraging the development of products and innovative processes. DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES & PROCESSES AREA MODELLING & SIMULATION AREA Advanced Materials ENERGY & CIVIL ENGINEER APPLICATIONS AREA Numerical simulation
DEPARTMENTS OVERVIEW (II) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT Its mission is to promote applied industrial research activities and technological transfer in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It develops advanced information systems in various fields, such as the Product Engineering, Industrial Design, Logistics and Transport, Knowledge Management, Virtual Reality, Data Processing and Advanced Visualization. INFORMATIVE SYSTEMS & KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AREA AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS AREA DATA PROCESSING & IMMERSIVE SYSTEMS AREA
DEPARTMENTS OVERVIEW(III) Industrial Design department develops technological and productive opportunities to be transferred to product system in terms of quality related to technical, ergonomic and environmental functionalities. Our design aims to answer to the market requirements and to reduce costs during the product development. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN METHODOLOGIES & TECHNIQUES FOR DESIGN AREA VITUAL REALITY PRODUCTION & COMMUNICATION DESIGN AREA
BUSINESS SECTORS Material Technologies Transport Engineering Design and Modelling applied to Engineering Product Development Advanced Materials and Technologies for Civil Engineering Cultural Heritage Technologies Transport and Mobility Energy and Environment Medical Application Training MULTI-SECTOR S APPROACH
BUSINESS SECTORS
CETMA: Evolution of revenue and employees
CETMA OPERATING MODEL
Continuous investments in R&D activities Sufficient number of employees Multidisciplinary skills Effective operating model for applied research activities & technology development Skills for collaborating with SMEs
R&D funds Public funding CETMA Project Management Carrying out of independent Research projects Know-how generation Skills development Personnel qualification Services management Services Payment Advanced services offer Third parties (*) Contract R&D activities offering Financial flows Operative flows From knowledge generation to applied Research addressed to SMEs
Refunds for manpower lending + services compensations CETMA R&D grants Services compensation EUROPEAN & NATIONAL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS SHAREHOLDERS (*) shareholders contributions Independent R&D projects carrying out R&D project financing Special Services Advanced services offering CUSTOMERS (*) Manpower Lending Know-how generation + on the job human resources training (*) shareholders are considered as customers when demand services from Consortium Research Contract offering Financial flows Operative flows CETMA OPERATING MODEL
SOURCE OF FUNDS AND KEY ACTIVITIES
2002-2006 Training & Teaching 3.402.033 Advanced Services 10% 776.961 2% Indipendent Research Projects 20.981.967 65% Contract Research 7.545.710 23% Research projects in which CETMA is Partner or coordinator (almost 50%) Counterpart are represented by research contracts or special services to private and public companies. 2006-2010 In the last 5 years CETMA was engaged in research and innovation activities by almost 100 clients. Training & Teaching 2.054.064 7% Advanced Services 1.898.887 7% Contract Research 7.634.702 27% Indipendent Research Projects 16.682.317 59%
Management of 57 Independent Research Projects until may 2012 (75 M ) Source of funds: MIUR, MSE, EU Co-financing: services payment + shareholders contributions 5 Research Lines: 1. Innovative materials and technologies 2. Modelling & simulation 3. Visual Information Systems 4. Knowledge Systems 5. Control Systems Independent research projects Constant activity of searching for funds sources (currently projects with a value of 30 M are in evaluation)
1.028.475 11% CONTRACT RESEARCH - ACQUISITION IN THE LAST 10 YEARS 1.063.581 12% 1.982.114 22% 4.909.512 55% from Public Bodies from Large Enterprises Totale = 8.983.682 from SMEs from Aggregation
Innovation Services - Contracts acquisition in the last 10 years 1.530.958 37% 1.277.435 31% from Public Bodies 468.196 12% Total = 4.107.799 831.210 20% from Large Enterprises from SMEs from Aggregation
CETMA has a National and Regional customer base. Contract research and services by region REGIONS Contract proposals Contracts n. of Contracts Mean value Lazio 13.249.311 11.335.491 36 314.875 Puglia 22.090.075 7.283.626 210 34.684 Sicilia 3.829.379 2.853.388 4 713.347 Toscana 1.343.363 961.403 7 137.343 Campania 2.331.265 1.102.765 15 73.518 Liguria 985.301 709.756 20 35.488 Basilicata 779.193 572.233 7 81.748 Calabria 825.425 377.525 3 125.842 Marche 285.254 223.976 5 44.795 Lombardia 279.204 166.754 9 18.528 Umbria 289.212 92.212 5 18.442 Emilia Romagna 721.150 109.870 2 54.935 Veneto 659.313 145.005 14 10.358 Piemonte 194.000 59.000 3 19.667 Abruzzo 65.090 2.840 1 2.840 Friuli Venezia Giulia - - - - Molise - - - - Sardegna - - - - Trentino Alto Adige - - - - Trento - - - - Valle d'aosta - - - - TOTAL 47.926.534 25.995.844 341 76.234
AN OVERVIEW OF APULIA REGION
APULIA REGION AN OVERVIEW Population (2007): 4.086.608 Overall land area: 19.363 Km2. Coastline: c. 800 km Major cities: Bari (pop. 325.052), Taranto (pop. 191.810), Foggia (pop. 153.529), Lecce (pop. 93.529 ) and Brindisi (pop. 89.780 )
ECONOMY STRUCTURE IN APULIA Approximately 340.000 active businesses located in the region = 7% of all active businesses in Italy (source: Infocamere, 2010) Apulia s economy is based on very diverse sectors of activity, characterized by dynamic private ownership, due the highly favourable local business environment. Key sectors of the regional economy cover various service industry and manufacturing specialisations, including: emerging business sectors based on the knowledge economy and continuous innovation (aerospace, mechatronics, renewable energies, sustainable building); a range of sectors widely associated with the world renowned made in Italy image of quality and design (textiles, clothing, footwear and furniture), as well as metal works and mechanical engineering; tourism and logistics.
KEY PRODUCTIVE DISTRICTS IN APULIA REGION AEROSPACE WOOD & FURNITURE ECO-BUILDING NAUTICAL TOURISM FASHION LOGISTICS RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES STONE ENVIRONMENT & RECYCLING MECHANICS ICT AGROINDUSTRY
RESEARCH FOR SMEs AT A GLANCE
THE ROLE OF SMES IN THE INNOVATION SYSTEM SMEs are at the core of European industry and key players in the innovation system. SMEs have to respond increasingly to a strong competition in the internal market and globally.... SMEs are also the key customers of CETMA!
TOTAL VALUES OF CONTRACT RESEARCH & INNOVATION SERVICES ACQUIRED IN THE LAST 10 YEARS 2.559.432 20% 2.341.016 18% Total = 13.091.480 2.813.324 21% 5.377.708 41% from Public Bodies from Large Enterprises from SMEs from Aggregation
WHEN DO SMEs INVEST IN OUTSOURSING R&D? CETMA EXPERIENCE When SMEs have not internal R&D labs and/or skilled human capital. When there is a strong relationship between SMEs and RTDperformers. When public investments in R&D (to support SMEs outsourcing research activities) are available. When SMEs have a real need for innovation (unvoiced or explicit need).
VALUE, euro NUMBER OF CONTRACTS THE ROLE OF PUBLIC INVESTMENTS IN R&D TO SUPPORT SMES OUTSOURCING RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 1.600.000 1.400.000 EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRACTS ACQUIRED BY LOCAL SMEs Value Number 16 14 1.200.000 1.000.000 800.000 600.000 400.000 200.000 12 10 8 6 4 2 * Operational Programme 'Puglia' Under the Convergence co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 0
CONCLUSIONS
LAST CONSIDERATIONS SMEs need to invest in outsourcing R&D more than Large Enterprises Any kind of company needs an adequate financial support. The main difference between SMEs and LEs is that, to start their process of innovation, SMEs need assistance in all phases of the process: - at the beginning (for the problem setting and planning); - during the research project (for project management and technical activities ); - at the end (for industrialization assistance). RTOs can offer this kind of services. RTOs can integrate R&D activities of Universities and Public Research Bodies. Policy Makers should take into account the complexity of innovation systems and the need for stable policies.
RTOs are a fundamental element to ignite the Virtuous Knowledge Circle PUBLIC RESEARCH: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION RTOs: ENGINEERING AND CONTEXTUALIZING OF KNOWLEDGE NEW KNOWLEDGE DEMAND RTOs FUNCTIONS CREATION OF HIGH QUALIFICATION JOB MARKET ENGINEERING SYSTEMS EVOLUTION KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE BASED SERVICES ECONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Sonia SARACINO - sonia.saracino@cetma.it phone +39 0831 449111-303; fax +39 0831 449120 www.cetma.it