Climate-KIC is Europe's largest public-private partnership focused on climate change innovation. It brings together partners from businesses, universities, research organizations and government. Its goals are to support climate entrepreneurs, accelerate low-carbon innovations to market, and train climate change leaders through its education programs. Climate-KIC uses a hub-and-spoke model with five co-location centers and over 100 regional innovation communities across Europe. This network integrates activities in research, entrepreneurship, education and market delivery to spur climate innovations.

1. Innovating for low-carbon
prosperity and climate
resilience
Máster Internacionalización Empresa
25 Abril 2012
Andreu Campos Candel
RIC Project Manager / FCVRE

2. Climate-KIC: Europe’s engine for
climate change innovation
The innovation pipeline
Ecosystem: Pathfinder: Innovation Delivery:
The research and Market Product and Marketable
knowledge base identification service products and
development services
Education – entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship – incubation and support

3. CLC and RIC are the crucial hubs
for integration of these actors and
activities

4. CLC and RIC are a key dimension of
Climate-KIC matrix management

5. Our Innovation Community and
European ‘interconnectivity’
Co-location Centre
• We form a network of ~100 partners Regional
across Europe Innovation and
• We come together at 5 Co-locations Implementation
Community
• We reach out right across Europe
via our Regional Innovation &
Implementation Community (RIC)
• We are run like a business – CEO,
Executive, Governing Board,
Assembly
• We identify and respond to the
challenges of Climate Change
• Our activities cross boundaries:
discipline, sector, geography
•Europe’s engine for innovation in climate
change mitigation and adaptation

6. Partners in the Valencian Region
• AIDICO
• Asociación de Industrias del Mármol
• Ayuntamiento de Castellón
• CEU-Cardenal Herrera
• DG Obras Públicas (Conselleria Infraestructuras, Territorio y Medio Ambiente)
• Edinn
• FCVRE
• Federación Valenciana de Empresarios Construcción (FEVEC)
• FVMP
• IMPIVA
• Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación (IVE)
• Instituto Tecnológico Cerámico
• Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía
• MIDEME
• Universidad de Alicante
• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

7. Our Core Partners:
7 universities; 5 business; 5 Research
institutes; 3 RTO
Innovative companies Leading academic and
across several industries research institutes
and 17/83 Affiliate partners are universities 7

8. Integration of FOUR sectors for
innovation
Excellence is paramount Government &
Public Bodies
Our partners span top:
•universities and research institutes
(35)
•business (19), SMEs (21)
•regional and local government (13)
•Not-for-Profit organisations and Innovation
networks (13) domain
Research
Climate-KIC therefore brings together Business
all the actors of the innovation
pyramid ..... Education
...and integrates these with our three pillars:
•Innovation & Pathfinder
•Entrepreneurship
•Education

9. Innovation:
initially 4 themes across 5 CLC to
avoid silos
Source: IPCC AR4 WGII

10. Developing thematic areas
CITIES AND BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
•Cross-CLC/RIC
Innovation &
Pathfinder projects Land, Water &
Ecosystem
WATER &
management
ENERGY
•Evolving CLC/RIC Agricultural
Production
leadership in high
SPATIAL AND LAND
impact innovation MANAGEMENT
PRODUCTION AND
CONSUMPTION
areas
ASSESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND
MANAGING ITS DRIVERS

11. Entrepreneurship support
Support for students, project teams, start ups
and SMEs
Incubation & Support, Business Creation,
Events & Competitions e.g.
– Climate-KIC Incubator network
– Climate-KIC Master Class Programme
– Climate-KIC Venture competition
– Open Innovation Slams
– SME Climate Innovation Vouchers
– Climate-KIC Market Accelerator
More climate starters, more starters & SMEs
on fast growth trajectory, business
acceleration for innovations

12. Climate-KIC
Entrepreneurship programme 2012
Clear ambition:
 More climate starters
 More starters & SMEs on fast growth trajectory
 Business acceleration for innovations
1. Incubation & Support
2. Business Creation
3. Events & Competitions
4. Pioneers into Practice
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13. Pioneers into Practice:
What‘s involved
 A placement programme will allow participants to be placed in a range of low
carbon projects (e.g. Climate-KIC innovation and pathfinder project)
 An organised mentored programme: Participants will be supported by
leading European experts on transition thinking and systems innovation
through a structured programme of learning by doing.
 Venture Support: The best practice ideas developed during the Pioneers
programme will be eligible for further support to explore the potential for
innovation in practice
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14. Pioneers into Practice:
Experiences and Outlook
 Two pilot editions:
2010: domestic placement and crucibles; more than 50 Pioneers
2011: innovation festival in Budapest, foreign placement and joint crucible;
more than 50 Pioneers
 Current edition in 2012: two placements (regional and international) and
innovation festival in Bologna, around 150 Pioneers
 http://www.climate-kic.org/entrepreneurs/networks/pioneers-programme/
 Link
Valencia, October 2010 Brussels, November 2011 14

19. http://ec.europa.eu/clima/documentation/roadmap/docs/com_2011_112_en.pdf

20. Climate-KIC
Entrepreneurship programme 2012
Clear ambition:
 More climate starters
 More starters & SMEs on fast growth trajectory
 Business acceleration for innovations
1. Incubation & Support
2. Business Creation
3. Events & Competitions
4. Pioneers into Practice
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21. Master classes for most
promising starters and ventures
Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
21-22 May 2012, Utrecht
Open Innovation framework where, through collaboration
with a variety of partners, new improved ventures can be
created faster than their current corporate or start-up
environment by Henry Chesbrough
‘real beef’, entrepreneurial experience, startup organization
July: Master class Customer Development by Steve Blank
September: Masterclass on Finance
November: Masterclass on Business Modelling
http://www.climate-kic.org/entrepreneurs/masterclasses-events/masterclass-
open-innovation/

22. Education: The Academy for
Climate Innovation
The programmes
•Masters
•PhD
•Postdoctoral theJourney: An
•Professional intensive 5 week
programme for all
Masters and PhDs
that creates a
community of
climate innovators
and entrepreneurs.

23. Some examples of our
successes....

24. Pioneer Cities – led by Climate-KIC
regions
• Retrofit of
housing stock Outcomes = New
Buildings
• Energy Demand Place-based
Management
Business Models
• Bio-waste into
Cities:
Pioneer Energy energy • Birmingham
Cities Networks • Combined heat • Frankfurt
and power
• Bologna /
Modena
• Low Emission • Budapest
Vehicle Systems
Mobility
• Integrated • Wroclaw
Mobility Services • Castellon /
Innovations – new financing models, forms of user engagement
Valencia

25. Our young enterprises:
Naked Energy – EIT Award 2012
and joint winner of Climate-KIC Venture competition 2011
•Hybrid solar panel providing electricity and hot water
•Combined Photo Voltaic and thermal energy system
•PV inside the tube with water flowing though
•PV provides electricity
•Water keeps PV at optimal temperature and provides source of hot water
•Unprecedented efficiency; cheaper renewable energy
•Climate-KIC SME partner
•Support from Climate-KIC UK CLC for measuring and
characterising performance
Improved
business case

26. Our young entrepreneurs -
training and support via the
Climate-KIC ‘Journey’
An intensive 5 week
programme for all
Masters and PhDs
that creates a
community of
climate innovators
Some start-ups from and entrepreneurs.
the Journey
•DeCo!
•ElectricFeel “there is nothing
•Arboreal comparable to Climate-
•Small World Carbon KIC...it is unique”
“there is no other
opportunity like this”

27. Greenhouse and sponsored
Start-Ups: DeCo!
•Decentralised composting for
sustainable farming and development
•SEED Award 2010
•Registered as NGO in Ghana
•Decentralised composting service to local
farmers (Franchise system in long term)
•Buy local biowaste, convert to organic fertiliser
•Reduces soil degradation and erosion
•Improves food security
•Creates new jobs
•Reduces GHG emissions
•Improves waste management
•Participatory approach

28. Greenhouse and sponsored
Start-Ups: Arboreal
A social business for people and forests
•Business concept: to set up self-contained mechanical processing centres to
allow cooperatives in tropical forests to process Non Timber Forest Products
(NTFP) such as cosmetics, medicinal and edible products.
•Processing centre contains the machinery to create higher value product from raw
NTFP, and storage and packages facilities
•Arboreal also provides training, coaching and networking services to enable
cooperative to run effective business and to access distribution channels for their
products
•Small scale industry helps communities move up the value chain and preserves
the forest
•Forest regions of Madhya Pradesh in India selected as location for the first
processing centre (64 million people of working age in Indian forest areas).

29. Alumni experience of the Climate-
KIC Journey
• The physical science of Climate Change
• The set-up process of a business
• Ambitious people from different scientific and
cultural backgrounds
Entrepreneurial Mindset & Confidence
“The most important thing I gain from Climate-KIC, apart from friends of
course, it was the entrepreneurial spirit that will always remain with me....”

30. The market place and climate
market acceleration
Community tool
• Member profiles
• Substantive issues
• Working groups
Climate-KIC Radar Market accelerator
• Overview existing • Demand
activities/strengths identification
• Innovation • Supply identification
opportunities • Interface / Brokerage
•Bringing partners Climate
Zero-Carbon
•Demonstration cities
Production
together around “demand project
side” challenges
•Leadership: NL, UK.
•Accelerating market ES
delivery via the pipeline Cities Water
•With the RIC regions’
BASIC ‘Pioneer Cities’
RESEARCH

31. Business challenge-driven
innovation
• Sainsbury’s supermarket
– Reduced carbon footprint of stores
– Carbon neutral products at low prices
– Want innovators to work with Sainsbury’s and their
suppliers, e.g. farmers
– Will also offer stores as a test bed
• E.g. Naked Energy!
– Student masters and PhD projects
• Large innovation cascade via suppliers
– sheltered innovation
• Model for other businesses

32. Schiphol: Airports as low carbon
cities
•the ‘airport city’ concept
•Proposed and led by
Schiphol Airports (Climate-
KIC core partner)
•Round table:January 2012
•Conference June 2012
•Cross sectorial scoping
“Schiphol gave up being just an airport a long time ago”

33. Schiphol: What output from
Climate-KIC?
Strengthening sustainability and innovation
• Thought leadership
• New ideas/insights
• Challenging current activities
• Academic support in new services & new products
• Resources (€ & FTE) for sustainability / innovation
efforts
• Promising start-ups

34. What does Schiphol bring to
Climate-KIC?
Network, challenges, business spirit & resource
support
• Network
• Business input on sustainability
• Seed capital Fund (Mainport Innovation Fund)
• Sustainability challenges (“Green Terminal”, “transport”
etc)
• New services & new products
• Resources for sustainability / innovation

35. CLC and RIC: our essential
ecosystem for innovation across
sectors
• Hub of connectivity
Ideas Market
• Centre of knowledge Place, German
Innovation
• Launch pads, landing CLC, Berlin
Festival,
June 2011
pads, pipeline Hungarian
RIC,
• Structuring Budapest
mechanism September
2011

36. Co-location Centre
Regional
Innovation and
Implementation
Community
..Connect, create, transform..
Government &
Public Bodies
Innovation
Research domain Business
Education
Gràcies