1. JIC Open Day (26th May 2015)
SME Instrument proposal preparation - perspective of first Czech
beneficiary
Radek Štourač (CEO)
2. • Established 2006
• 26 employees and consultants
• Industrial software and computer vision oriented
• Production management and machine controlling software in
electrotechnics
• Quality control solutions
• Single purpose machines
• Measuring software
• 1 million EUR turnover
• 10-30% increase every year
• Export oriented services
• 90% of our services go to EU
Who we are?
3. • Relatively simple way how get financial support and opinions from
external experts for the project
• Difficulty is in having interesting project not writing 10 pages of the
text
• What does it take?
• One resource – it was just me who worked out the proposal
• 2 weeks of the time
• We failed with our first application – Why?
Our experience
Proposal preparation
4. • Follow proposal instructions precisely
• Don’t think that any part is not relevant if it is really not
• Risk to underestimate parts…
• Current market situation – find as much numbers that can support your proposal as
possible
• Find and compare existing solutions with the item of the proposal – very important
• List possible competitors
• Risk analysis
• Do basic IPR study – use Google
• Don’t give up when fail
• We succeeded on second try
• Don’t file a complaint or request for review concerning the evaluation of
your proposal
• Focus on improving the proposal instead
Hints
Proposal preparation
5. • Don’t go too deep in technical details – rather describe it so one
can understand it
• Keep your promises at realistic and achievable level
• Else you will have problem to finish it on time
• Ask somebody to check your English
• Ask JIC for reading your proposal
• They have experience
• They know where to ask if something appears to be unclear
Hints
Proposal preparation
6. • Great tool for supporting economy of EU
• SMEs can afford to be more brave in their ideas and investigation of
their potential
• We got money for financing feasibility study
• Money for research
• Money for experts
• Business plan and market analysis
• Detailed IPR study
• Possibility to continue within SME Instruments Phase 2
• Benefits for company PR
Benefits for company
