Presentation at the Smart Data Meet-up in Vienna, September 2015

1. Elena Simperl, University of Southampton, UK
@ODincubator

2. Open data is the new oil
• Not consumed through
use
• Enables data sets to be
joined together
• Great platform for
collaboration
• Can cross geographic
boundaries
• Not just public sector
Business models
• Cleaning and presenting open
data based insight
• Combining open data with
closed to create better service
• Using open data to kick start a
new market
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3. • up to €100 000 equity-free funding per
company
• expert advice from business mentors
• peer-networking and support
• high-quality exposure in The Guardian and
other media outlets
• introductions to investors
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4. • Call open until end of August 2016
• Submissions reviewed by external experts every 2 months
• Projects of 6 months
• Online submission
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5. • Things that matter
• Business ideas using open data*
– Possibly in combination with proprietary data, if relevant
• Funds for
– Salaries
– Equipment, consumables, travels
– Subcontracting to other parties (e.g., marketing, training, legal support)
– Indirect expenditure (office space, office infrastructure etc.)
– See also Horizon 2020 guidelines
*‘data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone -
subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike’
Open Data Handbook
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6. • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)*
building a business around open data
• Established in EU28 countries or Horizon 2020
associated countries**
*EU Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC & SME
user guide
**See Horizon 2020 guidelines
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7. • Online application
– About the applicant: basic information about the SME,
including full legal name, address, and company
registration number or VAT number.
– Short proposal (4 pages)
• Idea
• Impact
• Team and requested funding
– Declaration of honor, signed/stamped by the legal
representative of the SME
– Confirmation of SME registration with the EC
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8. • Process
– Two external experts
– Shortlisted applicants
invited to online
interview
– Feedback for all
applications
– Notifications within one
month from submission
• Criteria
– Idea
• Strength and novelty of the idea
• Usage and/or creation of open
data
– Impact
• Value proposition and potential
scale
• Market opportunity and timing
• Triple bottom line impact (social,
environmental, economic)
– Team and budget
• Knowledge and skills of the team
• Capacity to realize the idea
• Appropriateness of the budget to
realize the idea
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9. Negotiations
Successful
applicants sign
contract with
ODINE, including
milestones and
deliverables
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11. • Subscribe to our mailing list: opendataincubator.eu
• Follow us on Twitter @Odincubator
• Call documentation: opendataincubator.eu/odine-call-announcement/
• Questions about the call: call@opendataincubator.eu
• Online submissions: apply.opendataincubator.eu
• Visit our exhibition stand @Semantics2015 on September 16th
• Join us tonight @SmartDataSolutions Meetup
• Next Information Day: November 2015 @ODI Summit, London , UK
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