Willem Jonker, CEO EIT ICT Labs - iMinds TC 2013

1. EIT ICT Labs
Create for Value

2. Blended Life in a Connected World
 We experience a blending of
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Physical & Virtual
Private & Public
Work & Private
 We experience
an explosion of
communication and data
 We experience
a disruption of
our industries

3. Europe recognizes
that it needs to step up
 European Council
24/10/2013 – 25/10/2013
Brussels
 The agenda
 Digital Economy
 Single Digital Market
 Skills
 Innovation

5. EIT ICT Labs is delivering
 Pan-European ecosystem of ICT innovation CLCs
mobility of people, ideas, technologies & investments
 Pan-European Master and Doctoral Schools
excellence / blended I&E / T-shaped talents
 Portfolio of Action Lines integrating ERB
driving research-based innovations to the market
 Pan-European Business Development Accelerator
driving value extraction and entrepreneurship

6. Our achievements make us a
respected ICT innovation partner
for established players

7. EIT ICT Labs 2014 Create for Value
 ~300 M€ investment in 2014 as a next step in the consistent
and consequent build-up of EIT ICT Labs
 Balanced Education, Research, and Business focusing on
maximizing impact

8. EIT ICT Labs has precise and
ambitious goals for 2014
 Expand impact through London as full node,
roll-out X-Europe EU-28 and connect to Silicon Valley
 Double Master and Doctoral School admission; build
Professional School; deploy blended education by
injecting online platforms
 Portfolio of top-down High Impact Initiatives and
bottom-up activities in Action Lines strategic for
Europe
 Grow the pan-European BDA and drive
entrepreneurship via e.g. idea competitions

9. Ecosystem &
Co-Locations

11. Vibrant Co-location Centres
People working in our CLCs
250 / day
KIC Management
Node Staff
Business Developers
Action Line Leaders
Researchers & Faculty
Students
Startups
Visitors to our CLCs
1000 / week

12. EIT ICT Labs creates an interconnected European ecosystem
 Links are between people
and companies
 Investments, exec
positions, board
membership
 Ones in the middle have
the highest betweenness
 We conduct a longitudinal
study on ecosystem
evolution
Still, Huhtamäki, Russell, Rubens
(2012). Transforming Innovation
Ecosystems Through Network
Orchestration: Case EIT ICT Labs

13. Outreach: X-Europe and Silicon
Valley
 X-Europe
 Provide opportunities for students and educators
 Activate start-ups
 Collaborate with key people
 Organize events and create awareness of EIT
 Silicon Valley
 Two-way equal-base Europe-USA
connection
 Form a local EIT ICT Labs
consortium in Silicon Valley

14. Education

15. We educate Technical Entrepreneurs
Technical
skills
Innovation
skills
Domain
skills
Entrepreneurial
skills
Creativity
skills

16. Blended Education Schools
building on our Tools
Schools
Master
School
Doctoral
School
Professional
School
Tools
Partner
Universities
CoLocation
Centers
On Line
Platforms

17. EIT ICT Labs Schools: Systemic
through deep I&E embedding
Integrated I&E
Training
Technical base
Industrial
partners
Business
Development
Accelerator
Industrial
embedding
CLCs
Action Lines
I&E
Technical & Scientific
Master
School
25%
30 ECTS
75%
90 ECTS
Doctoral
School
20%
60 ECTS
80%
240 ECTS
Mobility /
international
mindset
University
partners

18. EIT ICT Labs Schools: Scalable
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Master
School
100
200
300
400
600
500
900
500
1000
Doctoral
School
40
80
130
180
200

19. Building our Professional School

20. Injecting Online Platforms
Khan Academy
You Tube
Moodle
Blackboard
Coursera
EdX
Udacity

21. Research-based Innovation

22. Blended Life in a Connected World
Strategic investments to make Europe lead
 Deploy ICT in the European environment
and industry
 Quality of life in our cities
 Intelligent environments
 A healthy life
 Sustainable energy supply
 Made in Europe and secured critical
infrastructures
 Create a safe and competitive European
ICT infrastructure
 Future Communication
 Service and Data Infrastructures
 Safe Cyberspace

23. Future Networking Solutions
Building Europe’s ICT infrastructure of tomorrow
 European ICT infrastructure for the massive data and communication
explosion
 Focus
 Scalable Access Networks
 Software defined Back-bone Networks
 Internet of Things
 EIT ICT Labs partners including Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent and
Telecom Operators provide living labs and world-wide access to the
markets

24. Health and Wellbeing
Prevention through the Quantified Self
 Reduce the demand for expensive healthcare by early detection of
physical and mental health issues and suitable lifestyle interventions
 Focus
 Personalized Fitness for Cardio-vascular
 Stress
 Cognitive Decline
 EIT ICT Labs partners including Start-ups, SMEs, Siemens and Philips
provide world-wide access to the markets

25. Future Cloud
A secure data and service infrastructure for Europe
 Build a European position in the emerging and strategic area of Cloud
Computing
 Focus
 Trusted Cloud
 Big Data in Cloud
 EIT ICT Labs including Start-ups, SMEs, SAP and Telecom Operators
provide test beds and world-wide access to the markets

26. Future Urban Life and Mobility
Informed citizens and revolutionized urban mobility
3CIXTY HIGH IMPACT INITIATIVE
 Support citizens and visitors to navigate
around in cities and at large scale events
 Living lab deployment at EXPO Milano

27. Business & Entrepreneurship

28. Business and Entrepreneurship
Business and Entrepreneurship
 Mission: Value Creation from EIT ICT Labs innovation investment and
ecosystem growing the European ICT industry
 Strategy: Create a unique European deal flow on technologies, ideas,
talents and investments by deploying the business catalysts
Cyber-Physical Systems
Activities
Future Cloud
Knowledge
Technologies
Future Networking Solutions
Ecosystem
Future Urban Life and Mobility
SMEs, Startups
Entrepreneurs
Investments
Health & Wellbeing
Privacy, Security & Trust
Smart Energy Systems
Smart Spaces
Education
Talents, Ideas
289 scouted IO‘s
67 coached IO‘s

29. Business Development Accelerator
European Growth Stories
Research-Based Spin-Off
(DE)
Strategic Alliance
 Urban Life and Mobility Action Line
 Applying dedicated research and business
catalysts to carrier project results
 Creating a new company in 2012
 Finding investors
 Extending the business from Germany to France
 Smart Spaces Action Line
 Innorange – hosted at the Helsinki CLC – and
Cliris got support to grow their business in Europe
 Matching interest between Innorange and Cliris
resulted is a common business offer for a large
French customer
Technology Transfer
INCA (DE/FR/FI)
 Urban Life and Mobility Action
Line
 Technology from FhG
 Spin-out of FhG ongoing
 Transfer to Thales ongoing
 Alliance with SME’s Traxmeet
(FI) and Wizzilab (F)
(FI)
Access to Finance
67
67 (GER)
(FR)
Strategic Coaching
(FI)
240
 Heath&WellBeing Action Line
207
289
 Investors were found in NL PHS
Capital Amsterdam and German
Public VC IBBBet.
 Smart Spaces Action Line
 Founded in 2012 and incubated
in the Helsinki CLC
 3 deals signed at the European
level with BDA Support

30. Business and Entrepreneurship
Stimulating Entrepreneurship
14 Start-ups of our Health &
Wellbeing Action Line spend a an
intensive and inspiring week in
Silicon Valley.
Pitch Coach Beth Susanne from
San Francisco executed a
exclusive pitch training for 18
European startups from the EIT
ICT Labs network in Berlin
CLC.
EIT ICT Labs
Investors' Dinner Eindhoven
CLC results in investment in
4 companies.
67
289
EIT ICT Labs coordinated the
Helsinki SLUSH Health &
Wellbeing track with more
than 120 startups.
Jukeboss, a pure EIT Master
School student startup, wins
the European Entreprise
Challenge 2013 Award
Alain le Loux (EIT ICT Labs
BDA) speaking in the
European Parliament on
"Innovating our way out of
the crisis"

31. Business and Entrepreneurship
Access to Finance
Address a pivotal European bottleneck
 European VC is far behind US VC
 Fundraising is more and more difficult for SMEs

32. Summary

33. EIT ICT Labs in a nutshell
Passion for Innovation, Focus on Quality, Drive for Results
 Established, recognized and delivering
 CLC centered true pan-European ecosystem achieving high mobility
 Scalable pan-European entrepreneurial education delivering T-shape students
and bringing European universities the future of blended education
 High impact Research-based Innovation with deep ERB integration targeting
vital European interests
 Pan-European Business Development Accelerator driving value extraction and
entrepreneurship across Europe