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07/12/2015 1 Text Text New and growing digital businesses by research and education Göran Olofsson – 20151130 Text Text A PanEuropean Innovation and Education Ecosystem Göran Olofsson – EIT Digital, Node Director Sweden – 20151130 3 What is EIT and what is a KIC? The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) an independent EU agency EIT operates through Knowledge and Innovation Communities KICs Originally: Climate, Energy, and Digital New: Raw Materials, and Health A few more KICs will start during the next years Food, Manufacturing, and Urban Mobility The EIT is an integrated part of Horizon 2020 An average annual budget of 400 M€ www.eit.europe.eu 4 Knowledge Triangle Integration Focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Text Text Characteristics of KIC operations doing things in a different way Stakeholder owned and driven Investment attitude and business style management for efficiency, agility, impact and speed Cofunding (mostly inkind) through National / Regional public funds Other EU projects Private resources EIT will fund up to 100% of “KIC added value activities” up to max 25% of total funding Physical colocation of education, research, business and innovation Single point of contact with the EIT Text Text The EIT Investment Model To realise the innovation cycle a "catalystcarrier model" is applied The application of a catalyst create significant added value towards the European innovation agenda and the goals of EIT

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New and growing digital businesses by research and education

Göran Olofsson – 2015‐11‐30

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A Pan‐European Innovation and Education Ecosystem

Göran Olofsson – EIT Digital, Node Director Sweden – 2015‐11‐30

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What is EIT and what is a KIC?

• The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)  ‐an independent EU agency

• EIT operates through Knowledge and Innovation Communities – KICs 

• Originally: Climate, Energy, and Digital• New: Raw Materials, and Health

• A few more KICs will start during the next years

• Food, Manufacturing, and Urban Mobility  

• The EIT is an integrated part of Horizon 2020 • An average annual budget of 400 M€

• www.eit.europe.eu

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Knowledge Triangle Integration

Focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Characteristics of KIC operations‐ doing things in a different way

Stakeholder owned and driven

Investment attitude and business style management for efficiency, agility, impact and speed

Co‐funding (mostly in‐kind) through 

National / Regional public funds

Other EU projects

Private resources 

EIT will fund  up to 100% of “KIC added value activities” up to max 25% of total funding

Physical co‐location of education, research, business and innovation

Single point of contact with the EIT

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The EIT Investment Model

To realise the innovation cycle a "catalyst‐carrier model" is applied

The application of a catalyst create significant added value towards 

the European innovation agenda and the goals of EIT

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About EIT Digital

• Pan‐European Vibrant Ecosystem of 

Innovation Hotspots 

• Leading European organisation for innovation 

and education in ICT

• Over 130 partner universities, research 

centres and companies all over Europe 

• Fostering innovative technology and 

entrepreneurial talent for economic growth 

and quality of life in Europe. 

• Known as EIT ICT Labs, new name EIT Digital 

as of 1 June, 2015

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The strength of EIT Digital rests on our partners

Core Partners represent some of the world’s leading organisations, universities, research institutes and companies in the field of ICT

Affiliate Partners of EIT Digital

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Business Development Funnel

TechnologiesInnovation Activities

Startups

Business Strategies

ResearchResults

Talents

Cyber‐Physical System

Future Cloud

Future Networking Solutions

Health & Wellbeing

Privacy, Security & Trust

Smart Energy Systems

Smart Spaces

Urban Life & Mobility

EuropeanSuccessStories

Selectfrom our ecosystem and beyond

Growthrough our ecosystem

SucceedIn world markets

By bringing together the leading corporations, the best research institutes and top universities in ICT with SMEs and startups, EIT Digital boosts innovation in 8 thematic areas. 

Entrepreneurial education

• EIT Digital educates a new generation of ICT thought 

leaders, innovators, and knowledge workers by 

providing excellent technical programs with deeply 

embedded innovation and entrepreneurship 

education. 

Tomorrow’s ICT Leaders Lifelong at the frontier of ICT Innovation

Tomorrow’s ICT Innovators and Entrepreneurs

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tInnovation Programs as ‘Action Lines’:     European entrepreneurs driving digital innovation

tHelp to ensure the European lead in solutions and standards based on cost‐effective as well as energy‐efficient networking technology, which supports the traffic demands resulting from an ever increasing and variable set of applications. 

Future Networking Solutions – Building Europe’s Communication Infrastructure of Tomorrow 

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Achievements ‐ Re‐use of copper cable

• G.fast (G.9701)  BT deploys ultrafast broadband 500Mbps in urban 

environment

"BT is a world leader when it comes to fibre innovation and we are excited about the next stage in our story," said CEO Gavin Patterson. "We believe G.fast is the key to unlocking ultrafast speeds and we are prepared to upgrade large parts of our network should the pilots prove successful."

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Hybrid20-200m

FttH

FttH

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Hybrid & Fullfiber system

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Achievements 

Reducing energy consumption for mobile 

access networks such as base stations and 

mobile user terminals for sustainable and 

affordable mobile Internet growth

Standardisation contributions

5Green Project

90% energy savings with 

5GrEEn compared to today

Network power consumption 

critical in cities

Health & Wellbeing ‐ Prevention through the Quantified Self 

Reduce the demand for expensive healthcare by detecting small physical and mental health issues early and avoiding larger health problems by suitable lifestyle interventions.

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Contribute to the creation of an open European energy market by testing and deploying ICT solutions for decentralised power generation infrastructures and user‐centric services for smart energy systems.

Smart Energy Systems – Defining Europe’s Future Energy Market

Increase the efficiency and reliability of industrial production systems and critical infrastructures by combining embedded systems, sensors, control systems, and data aggregation and analysis technology into smart systems‐of‐systems. 

Cyber‐Physical Systems – European Leadership in Production and Infrastructures

Turn ICT breakthroughs into new upscaled urban services to develop new mobility behaviours as well as citizen empowerment via the validation of new business models in the context of Smart Cities.

Future Urban Life & Mobility – Informed Citizens and Revolutionised Urban Mobility 

Create comfortable experiences for users and efficient resource optimisation solutions for businesses via applying advanced ICT to everyday working and living environments.

Smart Spaces – Blending the Physical World and the Virtual World 

Drive European competitiveness in the area of Cloud services and Big Data via the deployment of trusted Cloud technologies and Big Data Analytics Cloud infrastructures. 

Future Cloud – A Secure Data and Service Infrastructure for Europe 

Mission: Support users and businesses in protecting their digital assets and transactions, promoting robust and safe products and services that realise data privacy and security. 

Privacy, Security & Trust – A Protected Blended Life 

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European Entrepreneurial Education

Master School Talents bring entrepreneurshipSummer Schools drive innovation uptakeDoctoral School Talents bring cutting edge technology 

Education: Feed the Action Lines with Talents

Create T‐shaped professionals with state‐of‐the‐art technical excellence in key ICT areas, especially in those addressed by the EIT Digital Action Lines, in combination with strong expertise in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The goal is to establish a world‐renowned Masters Level Education brand. 

Master School – Tomorrow’s ICT Innovators and Entrepreneurs 

Create world‐class ICT Leaders with deep technical expertise in key ICT areas, especially in those addressed by the EIT Digital Action Lines, in combination with strong background in Innovation & Entrepreneurship and establish a world‐renowned Doctoral School brand.. 

Doctoral School – Tomorrow’s ICT Leaders

Raise the ICT competence level of Europe’s professionals, especially in those key ICT areas that are covered by the EIT Digital Action Lines, via blended learning packages of technology updates with peer‐education. 

Professional School – Certified ICT Competence 

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Underpin strategy planning of Action Lines Scout promising technologies early Drive utilisation of the Experience & Living Labs and testing infrastructures 

Research: Feed the Action Lines with Technology Insights and Opportunities 

Drive value extraction through business development Enhance Action Line investments Attract ideas and companies for Action Line activities and ecosystemEnsure access to finance through portfolio of attractive contacts 

Business: Extract Value from the Action Lines & the Ecosystem 

tA Longer‐term Perspective

3‐D Printing   Supercomputing   Collaborative ConsumptionBrain Understanding   Technological Singularity   Ambient Computing Context‐

based Interfaces   Graphene material science Work‐Life Integration   Aging Population 

Longer‐term perspective: opportunities on the horizon 

For the period 2015 – 2016 we continue to step up

Role‐out ARISE Europe EU‐28 and connecting to Silicon ValleyScale up Master and Doctoral Schools, build and run Professional SchoolCarry out a balanced portfolio of top‐down High Impact Initiatives Expand the pan‐European Business Development Accelerator

eitdigital.eu

Ecosystem and partners

Stockholm Node profile

Stockholm CLC activities

The Stockholm Node

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Success stories from EIT Digital

KTH selection

• Integration of innovation and entrepreneurship curricula

within technical Master education across Europe

• Active European Business Developer network envigorating the 

local innovation scene

• Business driven technology maturation in the networking and 

cloud computing areas

• Establishement of the European Co‐location Centre network

Unique accomplishments

Create T‐shaped professionals with state‐of‐the‐art technical excellence in key ICT areas, especially in those addressed by the EIT ICT Labs Action Lines, in combination with strong expertise in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The goal is to establish a world‐renowned Masters Level Education brand. 

Master School – Tomorrow’s ICT Innovators and Entrepreneurs  Changing the mindsetEntrepreneurial spirit + Engineering knowledge

Unique Pan‐European BD network

No other organization in Europe able to match in terms of 

Coverage: local ecosystems in 9 European NodesEIF partnership and VC eco‐system

Speed:  from opportunity spotting to execution in weeks

Depth:  top expertise through our partners

Quality:  seniority of the team in business development

Swedish Business Development Accelerator team

Björn Hovstadius

SICSFuture Cloud

Raoul StubbeSTING

Future Networking

Solutions

Tobias Vahlne

Stockholm Node

Master School students

Håkan Borg

KTH Innovation

Future Cloud

Agneta Jacobson

STING

Stockholm start‐up success stories

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Help to ensure the European lead in solutions and standards based on cost‐effective as well as energy‐efficient networking technology, which supports the traffic demands resulting from an ever increasing and variable set of applications. 

Future Networking Solutions –Building Europe’s Communication Infrastructure of Tomorrow 

Stockholm Results

M2MRISEEnergy efficient access 

networksMobile backhaulMedia distribution 

solutions ETSI collaboration

Stockholm Node in Kista 

Stockholm Innovation Center –a dynamic collaboration place

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Göran Olofsson – [email protected]