The Nordic Climate Innovation Centre at DTU

CESAER Annual Meeting, TU Wien, 16 Oct 2016

Henrik C. Wegener, provost, DTU

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Total students 11,000

including PhD 1,400

and Int. MSc 1,400

Research publications 5,700

Leiden Ranking 2016:

no. 1 in the Nordic region

no. 21 in Europe

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Mission

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“Research

DTU will develop and createvalue using the naturalsciences and the technicalsciences to benefit society.

H.C. Ørsted, founder of DTU in 1829

Scientific adviceInnovationEducation

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Registered inventions

79

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Start-up companies

Innovation

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54 start-ups in 2015

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founded byresearchers

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Student innovation

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Our facilities support student innovation and entrepreneurship

Green Challenge (Grøn Dyst)

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Sustainability in all engineering programmes

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EU definition of Open Innovation

The basic premise of Open Innovation is to introduce more

actors in the innovation process so that knowledge can

circulate more freely and be transformed into products and

services that create new markets, fostering a stronger

culture of entrepreneurship.

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Open innovation at DTU– Strategic Partnerships/Platforms, examples

• Nationally

– Some with public funding: InSpire (food production), Blue Innoship(maritime industry), CITIES (smart cities), MADE (production)

– Some with only private funding: Centre for Applied Hearing Research (hearing aid industry strategic collaboration), Wind Energy cluster

• Internationally: Siemens CKI, EIT and KICs, including Climate-KIC

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Climate-KIC Nordic hosted by DTU

Nordic part of Climate-KIC launched in April, 2014

Part of the world’s largest Climate PPP with more than 250 partners

Financed mostly by the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT)

Climate-KIC partners have jointly delivered €1.8b climate action since 2010

23 Nordic partners and growing:

6 universities

9 cities

8 companies, business parks

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Framework for Accelerating and Promoting Innovation

• Climate-KIC helps to bring together triple-helix partners on major climate

mitigation and adaptation projects

• Climate-KIC, through its instruments

• provides financing

• facilitates ideation and bottom-up ideas

• helps projects towards maturing

• and promotes challenges aiming at end-user needs and market development.

• Results: CKIC leverages partner consortia, start-ups and other actors, into a

unique network that can create scale on a pan-European level.

Defining priorities

Pathfinder Accelerator Demonstrator Scaler

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Mobilizing students for creating climate impact

Master Programme

• The EIT Master’s Label Programme adds extra value to selected master degree programmes at Climate-KIC’s partner universities.

• Students participate in the Journey, attend seminars, go on mobility, take complimentary courses and write a thesis with a climate change and entrepreneurship topic.

The Journey

• The Journey is a 5 week summer school traveling across Europe.

• It aims at fostering entrepreneurial thinking among students and future entrepreneurs.

• DTU and other Nordic university partners have hosted 3 Journeys a year for the past 3 years .

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Mobilizing partners and engaged citizens

Ideating with partners

Ideation Day, 1 September• 70 participants• DTU• Inspirational talks by COWI, Skanska,

Rockwool and IKEA• 20 project pitches• Jury representation from Themes and

industry• 15 prizes (€5-15.000)

Climathon –city challenges

• Climathon is a global 24-hour climate change event which takes place simultaneously in major cities around the world once a year.

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In conclusion

Climate-KIC

• is a strategic platform for DTU

• to work long term

• with the core areas of innovation and entrepreneurship

• for students, researchers and companies originating from DTU

• complementing the many activities that we have already

• in a key area for DTU – sustainability

By hosting the Nordic CLC and engaging in decision bodies of Climate-KIC, we contribute to setting priorities and implementingactivities

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