Open Innovation in the UK - Digital Catapult

1. Open Innovation in the UK
Internet of Things Meetup
Guildford, September 15th
Michele Nati
Privacy and Trust Technical Leader
@digitalcatapult, @michelenati

2. Catapults structure and mission
• Catapults are not-for-profit
• Government-initiated start-ups (for five years)
• Collaborative Research and Development funding (now and in the future)
• Commercial stream (now and in the future)
• Mission
• Connect business and research
• Providing collaboration and working spaces
• Helping in identifying problems and solutions, commercialize academic research
• Turning commercial ideas into reality
• Providing technical, legal and commercial in-house expertise
• Attracting inward investment
• Support access to global market
• Engage with SMEs and Scale-ups* business
• How?
• Understand and define the Catapult core business
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* 20% of year growth in turnover (or headcount) in the last 3 years

3. The journey so far…
• 9 Catapults
• Cell Therapy
• Digital
• Energy Systems
• Future Cities
• High Value Manufacturing
• Offshore Renewable Energy
• Precision Medicine
• Satellite Applications
• Transport Systems
• Get in touch
• https://www.catapult.org.uk/contact-us
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4. The Digital Catapult

5. A national centre to rapidly
advance the UK’s best
digital ideas
Completely
neutral
Not for profit,
private limited
company
Who are we?

6. Some of our partners and supporters

7. We are NOT a funder, incubator
or accelerator!
Our aim is to work with these
organisations, not duplicate
To unlock proprietary data in
faster, better and more trusted ways
Our Mission

8. Our focus is on the Data Value Chain
How We Do This

9. Data From
Internet of
Things devices
Personal Data
Data with
ownership
rights
Closed
Organizational
Data
Where “our” data come from? 9

10. Pit Stops
Hands-on help with specific issues around growth and scaling from
our network of high-calibre experts
Intense experience over two days
10-30 growing companies, deep technical experts, academics and
students, larger corporates
Co-creation workshop
Bring together relevant stakeholders to identify
problems, better scope them, design solutions

11. Digital Catapult –
Platform PortfolioOpen Innovation
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12. What Open Innovation is?
• Advance internal technology by
• Using internal and external ideas, paths to market
• Sharing risk and reward
• Buying external invention
• Licensing inventions not being used
• Advantages
• Reduced cost of R&D
• Potential improvement in development
• Early-stage incorporation of customers
• Disadvantages
• Potential to lose competiveness by revealing intellectual property
• Increased complexity in controlling innovation
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13. Models for Open Innovation
• Product platforming
• Developing and introducing a partially completed product
• Call for contributors to extend the platform and its value (SDK, APIs)
• Collaborative product design and development
• Incorporates contributors into the development cycle (e.g., co-creation workshop)
• Controlling and maintaining the product development
• Customer immersion
• Advance product presentation to customers
• Collection of customer inputs and their involvement in the design process
• Ideas competitions
• Access innovative ideas and understand customers and contributors needs
• Rewards to encourage competiveness among contributors (e.g., hackathon)
• Innovation networks
• Leverage networks of experts to develop solutions to identified problems
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14. Data Catalyser
http://datacatalyser.org.uk

15. Why Closed Data?
80%
Closed data has huge potential value
The challenge is how to unlock it
of data is closed corporate or
personal data

16. Convene Data Providers
Data Catalyser: The Approach
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17. Convene Data Providers
Provide project framework
Data Catalyser: The Approach
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18. Convene Data Providers
Provide project framework
Data Catalyser: The Approach
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Security is made available through a
set of specific controls
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19. Convene Data Providers
Provide project framework
Data Catalyser: The Approach
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Security is made available through a
set of specific controls
A set of legal contracts defines the
rules for all participants of the platform
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20. Convene Data Providers
Provide project framework
Data Catalyser: The Approach
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Security is made available through a
set of specific controls
A set of legal contracts defines the
rules for all participants of the platform
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Access to best of breed Insight
Producers through a selection process
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21. Convene Data Providers
Provide project framework
Data Catalyser: The Approach
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Security is made available through a
set of specific controls
A set of legal contracts defines the
rules for all participants of the platform
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Access to best of breed Insight
Producers through a selection process
Overall, a data science solution built on
enterprise grade tech
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22. Data Catalyser: The Architecture 22

23. Trust Framework Initiative

24. Personal Data sharing: The Opportunities 24
• Data are currently silo’d – Generated and exploited vertically
• More horizontal opportunities are possible
For example:
• Mobile phone data to alert social
care if patient is unexpectedly idle
• Shopping data maybe used to
inform healthcare advice
• Band data to inform of retail
offers e.g. “bought broadband 12
months ago… so”

25. Personal Data sharing: The Barriers
Building Trust: Need to empower the customer:
Ethics: Recognize & respect the consumer’s
whishes
Control: Give tools/dashboards to enable real control
Compliance: Verify orgs are sticking to rules
Communication: Kitemark to show whose in the
ethical sharing club
Remove Friction: Need to solve three sources of friction:
Technical: How to define and physically
transfer the data
Legal: How to establish the users identity and assert
permission within each silo’d system
Commercial: How to agree the price of access/
transfer

26. TFI: The “Collaborative” Approach 26
Trust Framework
development (phase 1):
(Align to existing models
and base development)
Customer stream
BSI process
User experience stream
Commercial stream
Legal stream
Technical stream
UseCase1:
Social&Health
UseCase2:
Marketing
UseCase3:
PortableKYC
UseCase4:
Valuewith
policy
The steps:
• Identify work stream
leaders
• I d e n t i f y i n v o l v e d
stakeholders
• Build the network and
co-create the solution

27. The Attributes Exchange Network 27
Scheme Operator
Customers digital
broker
The relying partyThe Attribute provider
The Scheme Certification

28. Personal Data and Trust Network
http://www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk/personal-data-and-trust-network/

29. PDTN: The Community
PDTN
SMEs
CorporatesUniversities
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30. PDTN: The Benefits
• Corporate benefits:
• Access to potential innovation partners
• Supports corporate open innovation programmes
• Gain insight to evolving market trends, capabilities and opportunities
• Visibility of academic research & innovation
• SME benefits
• Opportunity to meet and work with potential customers
• Opportunities to meet other innovation partners to further differentiate your product
• Visibility of and contribution to, cutting edge thinking
• Identification of commercially important problems
• Academic benefits
• Problem definition of commercially important problems
• Build research roadmap
• Partners to commercialise capabilities
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31. PDTN: The Structure
• Over 500 members so far
• 9 core groups
• Oxford Area
• Health and Social Care
• Design
• Legal and Regulation
• Social Innovation
• Digital ID
• Corporate Transformation
• PIM
• Economics
• We raise questions, trigger discussions, organize round-table, make
impact
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