Presented to the British High Commission, British Council and the Royal Moroccan Science Council at the Mediterranean Space of Technology and Innovation (MSTI) event held in Rabat, Morocco, this presentation highlight the data innovation ecosystem in the UK.

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Chandan Rajah
@ChandanRajah | chandan.rajah@gmail.com
Innovation in the UK
“Only Continuous Innovators Survive”

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Innovation Landscape
“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity” – Michael Porter

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Research, Innovation and the Economy
innovationresearch
TRL 1
economy
TRL 9
Universities, Research Centres,
Research Technology Organisations
unified strategy
Innovate UK
Industry: Organisations
Large & Small

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Innovation Landscape
innovationresearch economy
what’s the overall strategy?
Research Strategy
- Specialised grants
- Research institutes
- Industry collaboration
Digital Strategy
- Inject capital into TRL 4/5 SMEs
- Accelerate the best ideas
- Showcase innovations
Information Economy Strategy
- Invest in large scale activities
- Create marketplaces / ecosystems
- Reduce skills deficit

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Innovator’s Dilemma
“Innovation without commercialisation is like a car without an engine” – Vince Cable

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Pillar’s of Commercialisation
finance
talent access
• Knowledge Transfer Network
• Catapult Network
• UK Trade & Investment
• Innovate UK Community
• Tech UK, TechHub & Others
• Technology Focused Institutes
• Higher Education Funding Council
• British Council
• University Partnerships
• Meetups & Silicon Milkabout
• Government Grants
• Innovation Competitions
• Incubators & Accelerators
• Angel Networks (UKBAA)
• Crowd Funding
• Venture Capital (BVCA)

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Data Innovation in the UK
“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves” – Tim Berners-Lee

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Opportunity: Not all Data is born Equal
Time & Volume
Value
government data
open data
personal data
internet of things

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Open Data in Action
“Open data isn’t a discipline, it’s a movement” – Tom Steinberg

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Government and Open Data

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London Data Store & City Mapper

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Value of Open Government Data

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Personal Data in Action
“If data is the new oil, personal data is the rocket fuel of the future”

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Company held Data

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Government held Data
Identity assurance
programme
to implement access to
personal data held by
government
and personalized services

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Internet of Things Data in Action
“there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2050” - Deloitte

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IoT Demonstrator in Glasgow
£24 million investment

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Investment in IoT Ecosystem
•£9m investment
•A network of Internet of Things
clusters
• Give open accessibility to IoT
data
• Adoption of ‘information hubs’
•Interoperability between hubs
•A platform for collaboration

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IoT Data Interoperability

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Investment in Big Data Research
“Big Data is not about the data but the Insight”

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Lots of investment in big data research by gmnt
£50m in bioinformatics data research
£14m in local authorities big data
£4.6m in environmental big data

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Big Data Turing Institute 22
£42m (€50m)

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What’s the Holy Grail ?

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Open Data Personal Data
Iot Data Closed Organisational Data
is another dimension to add

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Thank You
Chandan Rajah
@ChandanRajah | chandan.rajah@gmail.com
Senior technologist and inventor. 18yrs of experience in data science, HPC and AI.
Technology Expert and Advisor for Big Data and IoT at the Digital Catapult.
Entrepreneur in high performance computing and real time prescriptive analytics