2. Televic group
Televic Group
Healthcare Rail Conference Education
IP-based network On-board systems Digital conference, Innovative
for nurse call, for passengers simultaneous technology for
building information, interpretation and your learning
management, multimedia voting systems. environment.
intercom and care entertainment and
registration. control.
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3. Televic Global Presence
Televic nv Belgium Televic Ltd Bulgaria
Izegem Plovdiv
220 FTE 105 FTE
Televic SA France
KAT Televic JV
Lille
China Changzhou
20 FTE
130 FTE
Televic UK Ltd
Manchester
5 FTE PTC Televic JV India
New Delhi
10 FTE
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4. Innovation !?
My
Product
Corporate survival is dependent on the firm's ability to
adapt in times of change, that is, they need to learn in
order to "retain and improve competitiveness, productivity
and innovativeness”. (Dodgson, 1996)
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5. How ?
Watch trends and evolutions
Competitors, suppliers, other markets,
patents, internally (TIFANI=stage gate)
Central lab
Thesis (master and bachelor)
Projects (alone or within consortium)
TETRA,
SME innovation projects,
European projects,
ICON projects
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6. From individual to distributed innovation
interaction between participants
Distributed Innovation
Corporate Innovation
Individual Innovation
19th Century 20th Century 21st Century
Gann & Salter, 2003
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7. Why ?
Creates awareness inside company
Collaborative project : academic partners,
government and industrial partners. (no restrictions)
Multidisciplinary : different views on problems
Demand driven
Alignment with IWT O&O process
Funding, but contribution by partners !
Access to important resources
Splendid support from IBBT (e.g. legal, locations,…)
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8. TRACK – in a nutshell
TRain Applications over an
advanced Communication networK
Some figures
2 years
11 partners
340 man months of effort spent
38 deliverables (Demonstrators, Software, Reports)
End of project : 27 october 2011
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9. TRACK - What
TRain Applications over an advanced
Communication networK
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10. TRACK – WP1
Definition of the Use Cases and User
requirements
Design of the general architecture and interfaces
Study of the economic viability
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11. TRACK – WP2
Development of network platform
Analysis of dynamic wireless behaviour
(sWP2.1)
Optimization of throughput (sWP2.2)
Development of IPv6 strategies (sWP2.3)
Integrated lab PoC demonstrator (sWP2.4)
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12. TRACK – WP3
Addressing different application and
management related challenges.
Remote train applications (sWP3.1)
Low Latency codecs (sWP3.2)
Remote application config & version
management (sWP3.3)
Application-support platform architecture
(sWP3.4)
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13. ICON – Project Initiation
Small team of industrial partners.
Complementarity, no competitors.
Ideally ; add (potential) customers.
Start brainstorming on possible topics.
Quantity more important then quality
Demand driven
Converge towards ‘a story’
Invite academic partners to the table
They bring different views, bring expertise in certain
domains, they help the team breaking out of the box, etc.
Invite more industrial partners if they are
required/add value to the project
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15. ICON – My best practices
At start, clearly define milestones and goals
At start, make sure there is enough to win for
each partner
During project, evaluate goals and path
forward
Regular WP meetings to keep the fire going
(LAT)
Regular plenary meetings
Balance goals of the industrial partners and
academic partners
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16. ICON – My best practices
Active management involvement of
partners
Stimulate ‘real’ co-operation on milestones
People are It is onlyexample and experience” that firmsand learning
very by “working closely with experts are able to
through important
acquire tacit knowledge. (Senker and Senker, 1994)
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