Central Baltic Startup Springboard

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Description

Description (EN):

Central Baltic region has a great opportunity to strengthen its position as a globally competitive center of knowledge-intensive, born global startups aiming for rapid growth. The potential leans on high quality university education, wide selection of entrepreneurship studies and a network of support organisations. However, the international startup scene has become more competitive, thus creating a need to strengthen the regional approach through joint teams and processes. A cross-border business acceleration process is needed to be able to offer comparable value to compete with currently stronger startup regions. The Springboard project supports the development of new joint and cooperative knowledge-intensive startups springing up of the shared smart specialization strengths of the participating regions (ICT, cleantech, healthtech and biotech). The challenge of having gaps in the entrepreneurial path from the universities to existing business incubators and accelerators will be targeted by also addressing the unused possibilities of internationalisation in the early stage of entrepreneurship. Taking into account the small home market of the region, we need common tools to be able to create globally competitive businesses. The project provides its target group (PhD and degree students, researchers, recent graduates and highly educated expats) a smooth and supported path towards entrepreneurship. The consortium consists of 6 partners covering three Central Baltic countries. Partners from Turku (FI), Tallinn (EE) and Riga (LV) implement three joint 10-week business acceleration programs, coaching for the most potential teams and targeted matchmaking activities for already established early-stage companies. By combining expertise across borders, it is easier to find potential business ideas, establish globally competitive joint teams with versatile know-how and experience, and find a group of potential “CB startup stars” to coach towards success.

Expected Results (EN): R1.1. Number of new joint or co-operating knowledge intensive enterprises

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main result of the Springboard project is an increased capacity to produce international startups in the Central Baltic region. The increased capacity includes the enhanced support in the process of turning university-based business ideas to viable businesses and fostering of cross-border cooperation in the early stage of business development.The achieving of the results is demonstrated in the Programme Result Indicator. The Springboard project supports at least 60 teams and new enterprises during the project duration, finally aiming for 15 joint or co-operating knowledge intensive Central Baltic companies. Realistically 2-4 of these are startups with joint teams, joint management or joint ownership, and 11-13 will establish other type of co-operation in relevant areas of their business development (e.g. product development, marketing). The project supports teams and startups springing up of the shared smart specialization strengths of the participating regions (ICT, cleantech, healthtech and biotech).The indicator demonstrates the effectiveness of the chosen methodology and practice in reaching the overall objective of the project. By connecting the existing regional startup programmes and entrepreneurship courses with the joint cross-border operating model helps to guarantee the adequate proportion of participants for the project activities and at the same time innovate the independent programmes.

Themes

SME and entrepreneurship Knowledge and technology transfer

Specific Objective: New Central Baltic knowledge intensive companies

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03a) promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators

Partners

Lead Partner (EN): Turku Science Park Ltd

Lead Partner: Turku Science Park Oy Ab

Address: Lemminkäisenkatu 14-18 C, 20520 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.turkusciencepark.com

Total budget: EUR 398 774.00

ERDF budget: EUR 299 080.50

Riga Technical University

Name: Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte

Department: Project Management Department

Address: Kalku 1, 1658 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rtu.lv

Total budget: EUR 174 699.28

ERDF budget: EUR 148 494.39

Tallinn University of Technology

Name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

Department: Department of Business Administration

Address: Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ttu.ee

Total budget: EUR 186 352.00

ERDF budget: EUR 158 399.20

University of Turku

Name: Turun yliopisto

Department: Brahea Centre

Address: Yliopistonmäki, 20014 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.utu.fi

Total budget: EUR 197 967.23

ERDF budget: EUR 148 475.42

Latvia Technology Park

Name: Latvijas Tehnoloģiskais parks

Address: Pulka iela 3, 1007 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ltp.lv

Total budget: EUR 156 110.56

ERDF budget: EUR 132 693.98

Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol

Name: SA Tallinna Teaduspark Tehnopol

Address: Teaduspargi 6/1, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tehnopol.ee

Total budget: EUR 224 599.40

ERDF budget: EUR 190 909.49

Summary

Project name (EN): Central Baltic Startup Springboard

Project acronym: Springboard

Period: 2014-2020

Date of latest update: 2020-12-14

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Project start date: 2015-11-01

Project end date: 2018-01-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 338 502.47

European Union funding: EUR 1 078 052.98

Co-financing sources: ERDF

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Videos / films

Springboard 2016-2017 BusinessUp

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.cbspringboard.eu/en/cbspringboard/accelerator-programs

Publication date: 2020-01-30

Document date: 2016-08-01

Languages: en