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Description of measures Development works cover among others: creating projects, drawings, plans and other documentation on condition that they are not designated for commercial goals; compiling prototypes of potential commercial usage and pilotage projects (if the prototype constitutes a final commercial product and its production only for demonstration and validation purposes is too costly). Qualified expenses include: the acquisition of building property right, the acquisition or cost of creating fixed assets related to the implementation of industrial research results and development works by an entrepreneur, the cost of building works and materials, the purchase of intangible and legal values in the form of patents, licenses, unpatented technical knowledge, repayments of land and building initial value excluding returnable leasing, repayments of initial value of fixed assets or intangible and legal values excluding returnable leasing. The maximum support that can be obtained for the implementation amounts to 20 million zlotys. The value of qualified expenses should not exceed 200 million zlotys. R&D and design SWOT analysis in the sector of enterprises operating in Poland indicates a low level of their innovativeness, which is revealed by, among others, small share of advanced technologies’ industry in sold production and small share of entrepreneurs’ means designated for R&D. Poor financial condition, especially in SME, shifts into imperceptible creation and implementation of new solutions enabling to retain a competitive market position. At the same time entrepreneurs are characterized with low awareness in the scope of the usage of industrial and applied design as a source of competitive advantage. In order to reverse unfavourable trends, measure 4.2 Stimulation of R&D activity of enterprises in the scope of industrial design has been created. Within one of the components of this measure, entrepreneurs may obtain support for the development of R&D in companies, in particular for a transformation into a research and development centre (CBR). The subsidy covers also expenses on fixed assets and intangible and legal values related to the conduct of works in enterprises in the scope of R&D. Within the other component one can obtain support in the scope of elaboration of an industrial or applied design and its implementation to the production. The subsidy covers also the purchase of training services relating to methods of implementation of new design products and consultancy services connected with the elaboration of documentation of a conceptual project, constructive, technical and technological documentation, copyright design project, preparation of the final project. The measure can also finance necessary trainings and the purchase of fixed assets or intangible and legal values vital for the creation of a test part and the implementation of the design to the serial production. The budget of measure 4.2 amounts to 186 million euros. The maximum value of investment support cannot exceed 21 million zlotys; the training part cannot exceed 1 million zlotys (35% for big enterprises and 45% for SME), and the consultative part – 600 000 zlotys (50% of the project’s value). Support through credit A serious limitation in the realization of investments relating to the implementations of new technological solutions is a difficult access for SME to external financial sources and one’s own insufficient means. Measure 4.3 Technological credit consists in the support for SME (big companies cannot use this instrument anymore) through granting them credits for the implementation of one’s own or acquired new technology. After a project has been realized, the beneficiary applies for the amortization of the technological bonus by BGK (Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego). Pursuant to projected changes, commercial banks, by right of the agreement with BGK, grant technological credits to entrepreneurs from their own means for the financing of an investment consisting in the implementation of a new technology, both one’s own or acquired, the launch of a manufacture of new products, the modernization of manufactured products or rendering new services on the basis of this technology. The amortization of the part of the credit through granting of the technological bonus amounts to no more than 50% of the granted technological value and at the same time no more than 4 million zlotys. The amortization of the part of the technological credit takes place in payments no more often than twice a year in the amount of 20% of net value of the sales of products or services being the result of a technological investment confirmed by sales invoices and payment slips. The maximum support value amounts to 4 million zlotys (up to 50% of granted support in the form of a technological bonus constituting an allowance in credit repayment). Entrepreneurs’ projects – the maximum share of EU means amounts to 85% out of 50% of the total value of project qualified expenses, pursuant to the regional assistance map, however no more than 0.75 million euros. 14
Support for companies Innovative investment Companies planning big investments are in particular interested in measure 4.4 New investments of high innovative potential (they are sometimes compared with sub-measure 2.2.1 of the Sectoral Operational Programme – Improvement of the Competitiveness of Enterprises [SPO-WKP] but here entry criteria are of course higher due to an enterprise size and innovativeness level). The support is granted to investment projects connected with the usage of innovative technological solutions leading to the implementation of new products and services. The implemented technological solutions may be used globally for no longer than 3 years. The project relates to an initial investment connected with the usage of new technological solutions leading to the creation of a new or significantly improved product. There are more mandatory criteria; we mention only some of them. Market research should indicate the existence of the demand for a product or service that is to appear as a result of an investment. Financial projections have to confirm the investment’s profitability and the possibility of retaining the project’s results in the period required by the Programme’s rules. The launch of an investment cannot start before the project’s qualification is confirmed. Its beneficiaries may be entrepreneurs (SME and big enterprises) conducting business on the territory of the Republic of Poland. The subsidy may also be obtained on training and consultative activities necessary for the realization of investment projects (only as a component of an investment project, not separately). In the case of micro, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs conducting business in the transport sector there are no possibilities to heighten the support intensity criteria (compare with the “Support regional map” table). Qualified expenses (described in detail in measure cards) include: the purchase or cost of creating fixed assets, the cost of building works and materials, the purchase of intangible and legal values in the form of patents, licenses, unpatented technical, technological knowledge or knowledge from the scope of organization and management. The total operational budget amounts to 1.42 billion euros. The value of qualified expenses may amount from 8 million to 160 million zlotys. The maximum support value for the investment part (including consultancy for SME) amounts to 40 million zlotys and for the training part 1 million zlotys (35% for big enterprises and 45% for SME). The minimum beneficiary’s outlay amounts to 30% of the value of qualified expenses for the project investment part, 55% of the value of the project training part. Measure 4.4 excludes the following sectors: • agriculture, hunting and forestry • fishery • manufacture and turnover of products imitating or replacing milk and dairy products • artificial fibres • coal-mining • iron and steel metallurgy • shipbuilding. Support regional map The amount of the subsidy depends on a place in which an investment is located. The most money from EU budget is directed to underdeveloped regions of high, especially structural unemployment. A new map of regional support functions from 1st January 2007. It indicates how much support can be granted to a project depending on its location and the size of a company realizing it. See the support ranges in the specific regions of Poland: 50% 40% 30% lubelskie podkarpackie warmińsko-mazurskie podlaskie świętokrzyskie opolskie małopolskie lubuskie łódzkie kujawsko-pomorskie pomorskie zachodniopomorskie dolnośląskie wielkopolskie śląskie mazovian without Warsaw(to 31.12.2010) mazovian (od 01.01.2011) Warsaw GDP/inhabitant lower than 45% ~UE GDP/inhabitant lower than 60% ~UE GDP/inhabitant lower than 75% ~UE The range for micro and small enterprises increases in every voivodship by 20% and for medium-sized enterprises by 10%. For big companies (and companies from transport sector regardless of the size) there is basic support amount. 15
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