This document describes the PERMIDES project, which aims to advance digital innovation in personalized medicine by facilitating cross-sectoral collaboration between biopharma and IT small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The project will identify innovation barriers, develop solution strategies, and link biopharma and IT SMEs to overcome these barriers through open calls, matchmaking events, an online platform, and innovation vouchers of up to €60,000 to support cross-sectoral innovation projects. The goal is to digitalize biopharma SMEs' value chains and provide direct innovation support to help advance personalized medicine.

1. 22/11/2016

2. Horizon 2020 / INNOSUP-1-2015
• Topic
• Cluster facilitated projects for new value chains
• Aims
• Development of new cross-sectoral industrial value chains across the EU by
building upon the innovation potential of SMEs
• Promotion of cross-border and cross-sectoral collaboration, innovation and
entrepreneurship across different regions and value chains
• Coordination and facilitation by cluster organisations
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3. Digitalization everywhere – also in Biopharma
• Personalized Medicine is the most promising approach
to develop therapies for severe diseases
• Advancing Personalized Medicine requires solutions
from IT sector
• e.g. big data, machine learning, IT security, data protection,
and cross-enterprise collaboration
• Biopharma and IT SMEs have a high innovation
potential, but lack knowledge about each others’
needs and potential solutions  innovation barriers
Cross-sectoral collaboration to overcome innovation
barriers and increase innovation potential of SMEs
3SMEs: small- and medium-sized enterprises, http://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/business-friendly-environment/sme-definition_en

4. 4
Teaming up
to advance digital innovation

5. EUR 3,7 MIO for direct
innovation support for SMEs
EU Horizon 2020 Consortium
Attracted EUR 4,8 MIO for PERMIDES
projcect
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6. Personalised Medicine Innovation through
Digital Enterprise Solutions - PERMIDES
• Aims
• Identification of innovation barriers regarding digitalization of the
biopharmaceutical value chain in personalized medicine
• Development of solution strategies
• Cross-linking of biopharma and IT SMEs to overcome these barriers
Building a joint cross-
sectoral and cross-boarder
understanding
Innovation support
• Open Calls
• Matchmaking Event
• Semantic Online Matchmaking
Platform
• Innovation Vouchers for
Innovation Projects
Follow-up coaching and
transfer to other SMEs
Stage 1
(Month 0-6)
Stage 2
(Month 7-18)
Stage 3
(Month 19-24)

7. Value Chain Challenges
• Data gathering and exchange – Provide access
to broad an complete data in real-time
• Big Data analytics & Machine Learning -
Generate actionable insights from massive data-
sets
• Development of novel data storage and mining
solutions
• Create novel production and supply solutions
for Personalised Medicine products
• Development of new business models and
marketing methods for Personalised Medicine
products
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8. Digitalize biopharma SMEs via partnerships
• Open collaboration space: workshops,
semantic matchmaking portal, matchmaking
events and support
• Innovation voucher scheme: funding for
cross-sectoral collaborations
• 90+ innovation projects between IT and
biopharma companies
• Up to 60.000 EUR per project
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9. Direct support for SMEs
Categories
• Travel voucher up to 1,800 €
Biopharma and IT SMEs can participate in matchmaking
events to find suitable partners
• Consultancy voucher up to 5,000 €
A biopharma SME can make use of an individual
consultation by an IT SME, regarding a specific challenge
in its value chain that could be improved via IT
• Prototyping voucher up to 30,000 €
A biopharma SME will order a prototype of a solution for
a specific challenge
• Customized solution voucher up to 60,000 €
A biopharma SME will receive a customized IT solution
adapted to its specific competitive situation
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10. Direct support for SMEs
• Follow-up Coaching
• Provide access to further support measures and
other regional and national funding programs
• Dissemination
• Opportunity to present project results at
conferences (Digital Health Forums, Cluster
conferences)
• Press activities by the consortium
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11. What’s next?
• Winter 2016/17 Workshops in Germany, Norway
and Austria
• Spring 2017 PERMIDES Platform launched,
matchmaking starts,
first calls for innovation projects
• Summer 2017 1st innovation voucher funding
granted
Website will be online in December: www.permides.eu
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12. This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 691546