1) The document discusses new approaches towards RTDI (Research Technological Development and Innovation) programmes, specifically focusing on enabling SMEs (small and medium enterprises) to test and enter new markets through EU Living Labs.
2) Living Labs are presented as open innovation ecosystems where stakeholders collaborate to create, prototype and validate new services/products in real-life contexts. They empower users to drive innovation for ICT services addressing socio-economic issues.
3) The document outlines how Living Labs and their networks can provide benefits to SMEs, including access to new markets, reality checks on ideas, and opportunities to complement capabilities through collaboration.
Making Progress for SMEs through New RTDI Approaches
1. Making Progress and Economic
Enhancement a Reality for SMEs:
New Approaches towards RTDI Programmes
EU Living Labs: mechanisms for
enabling SMEs to test and enter
new markets with their innovations
Author: Roberto Santoro
ESoCE Net President
MaPEeR: New Approaches Towards RTDI Programmes
Brussels 06/10/2011
2. ESoCE Net contributions to the
LLAB Community
2005 Roberto Santoro, ESoCE Net president,
elected Chair of the AMI Communities,
constituting Living Lab task force as flagship
initiative
2006 key player in the management team
supporting the launch of ENoLL, and
subsequent new members waves, conceptual
framework for Concurrent Innovation
2007 Governance Task Force Chair, building
the organizational foundation of ENoLL
2009 elected acting Chair of ENoLL,
constituting the ENoLL AISBL legal entity
2010 Launching the First Living Lab Summer
School, within ICE, AMI and LLAB community
and Launching First Living Lab Prize
2011 Setting the foundations for Business
Oriented Innovation Platforms at ICE 2011
(Living Lab Thematic Network)
3. European Society of Concurrent Engineering
Established in 1994 as Non-profit-making Over 500 members
organisation 50% Academic 50% Industrial
Sustainable knowledge community for
Concurrent Enterprising 35 Countries worldwide
ESoCE Industrial Forum
Innovating
USER DRIVEN Product-Services
INNOVATION « OPEN » For Collaborative
for BUSINESS Networks
Rome, December 2011 2011 Aachen, 20-22 June,
Concurrent Engineering-Enterprising-
Innovation WWW.ESOCE.NET
Community based Living Labs Rsantoro@esoce.net
Collaborative Networks
4. Concurrent Innovation: Vision 2020
80,0% 72,3%
From Vision to Action
70,0%
55,3%
60,0%
43,5%
50,0% 38,3%
30,4% Probably
40,0% 26,1% Uncertain
30,0% 19,2% Not-Likely
20,0% 8,5%
6,4%
10,0%
0,0%
Networking Living Labbibg Viving Labbing
CI area Roadmapping process
Projects
Vision Research Need
Policy & Harmonized legal Address regulatory
Regulation framework for open needs for
innovation & networked
collaborative business organizations and
Service/Produ at EU level individuals
Engineeringof
Islands Develop models for
ct automation
collaborative work open collaborative
development supporting new
place fully support
collaborative & concurrent
participation of all
technologies workspace CRESCENDO
Business: stakeholders Elaborate inclusive
Consumers,
User driven suppliers and business models for
demand creation partners are fully LLabs, Clusters and
involved in the value networked
and demand creation organizations,
Organization: Companies and
People interactions Study, design &
Networked develop an open, self-
professionals & will be supported by
extensive IT services adaptive, generic ICT
organizations & platforms as integrated solution and
business utility services
Human: People creativty Approaches for
Creativity and productivity augmenting
benefits form effectiveness of
Experience
multicultural human interaction
interaction based on diversity
5. Living Labs and User Driven Open
Innovation
Living Labs are User Driven Open Innovation Ecosystems
where stakeholders have formed a Public-Private-People-
Partnership (PPPP) of firms, public agencies, universities,
institutes and users all collaborating for creating, prototyping,
and validating new service-products and societal infrastructures in
real-life contexts. Such contexts are cities, villages and rural
areas as well as industrial plants.”
A Living Lab empowers users to drive research, development
and innovation for ICT based services addressing major socio-
economic issues (energy and environment; well being, e-health and
inclusion; media and creativity; logistics and manufacturing, regional
development…)
6. Living LAB Open
Communities
100s of public
bodies,
1.000s of LL-
companies, Open
LL-
100.000s of final users
LL- Policy
Partner
s
LL-
Partners
ENoL
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cities
regio
Individuals register at any energy
media
time at http://www.ami- health
communities.eu
manufacturing
ENoLL 5th Wave launch, 16 May 2011!
http://www.openlivinglabs.eu
274 ENoLL Members and Growing…6° WAVE
7. SMEs Innovation Barriers
Lack of mechanisms and processes for the commercial
evaluation of ideas (what is the commercial potential
value of my ideas)
Need for vertical integration of complementary
competencies and combination of ideas especially at
international level – SMEs need to access collaborative
networks
8. Policies for Innovation
Current Policies are biased toward technology push
Focus on technology development and transfer
Tend to support individual enterprise ventures rather than the
emergence of networked market opportunities
Need to support the demand side and culture of
innovation
You Can Learn to Innovate” experiencial educational programs
fostering an innovation culture for all
Ideas competition and “Reality Checks” within Open
Innovation Ecosystems, such as Living Labs
Innovation Demand Vouchers to SMEs and User Communities
within Living Labs
Collaborative Public Procurement of Innovation Creative
Commons (Service Development Platforms)
Leverage existing regional business infrastructures (clusters,
incubators..) by integrating them trough Living Labs into an
innovation breeding environment
9. LLAB Concurrent Innovation Vortex for Reality
Breeding: From Promising Ideas to solve user needs
to validated opportunities for the ICT service market
Ideas Competition
Developing
Conceiving
Improved capacities User Driven
LLab Demand
for SMEs, including Creation
Innovation
micro-entrepreneurs, Vortex
to develop, validate Evaluating
and integrate new Experiencing
ideas and rapidly
scale-up their
services and products
from their local
region to other Validated Opportunity
regions with different • Service/Product
characteristics • Market demand
• Collaborative Enterprise
11. LLAB Prize 2010
Successful Ideas and Living Lab
match making!
• 57 ideas, 10 Finalists, 3 winners getting 10.000 euro each and 6 months
reality check!
• 15 Living Labs submitted proposals, 3 selected Living Labs receive a co-funding
for the pilot activities of 20,000 euro each
1. Stef Kolman for Real-World Vehicle Emission Profiles – The Netherlands
2. Volker Tank for Cardiac Power Monitoring - Germany
3. Dylan Seychell for DINOS for Smart Cities – Digital
Information,Navigation and Orientation System - Malta
• Match Making event in Roma (6th and 7th December
2010), in which physical bilateral meetings were
organised between ideas’ holders and interested Living
Labs
1. Mobility Living Lab - Spain
2. New Homes for Health Living Lab - Sweden
3. Ideaact Living Lab - Italy
12. LLAB Prize 2011
Finalists
4 finalist innovative service ideas for the GNSS
LLAB Prize 2011 have been selected
the living labs interested into the open call for
conducting a reality check pilot will receive a description
of the ideas:
1. new social networks paradigm
2. smart CO2 savings in hybrid vehicles
3. Geolocolized coupons deals
4. Real time sport fun
Send me a message to get the expression of interest form
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3182438&trk=hb_si
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13. APOLLON:
Advanced Pilots of Living Labs Operating in Networks
SMEs can use Living Lab networks to test What is needed for cross-
and enter new markets! border Living Lab
Networks?
Common
Homecare & ILS Energy Efficiency
methodology
Common ecosystem
approach
Common research
benchmark
eManufacturing eParticipation
Common platform
guidelines
Common integration
framework
Demonstrate the value for SMEs of a European network of local open innovation platforms
Set up thematic networks of Living Labs across Europe
Develop a common approach for cross-border Living Lab experiments
14. Impact Creation Strategy
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Domain
APOLLON Networks
and Services LLABs
Methodolog Scale-up cross-
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and
Guidelines health
Cross-border
thematic energy media
domain
Networks
manufacturing
15. Innovators, SMEs and
Living Labs
New Benefits for SMEs
Access Living Labs community
Living Labs are your new market
“Reality check” and Commercial viability
Access network of clusters
Complement your capabilities with new partners
Set up Collaborative developments for new
products/services
engage with Living Labs and
ESoCE Industrial Forum
Innovation experts
Access and Share knowledge by USER DRIVEN INNOVATION
contributing to LL thematic « OPEN » for BUSINESS
domains http://www.apollon-
pilot.eu Rome, 5 December 2011
be actively involved in Living Lab
Prize
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?
mostPopular=&gid=3182438
16. Thank you
for your attention!
MaPEeR: New Approaches Towards RTDI Programmes
Brussels 06/10/2011