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FPInnovations Challenge Overview
Application Deadline: September 2, 2016
Presentation Date: July 26, 2016
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Presentation Objectives
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General Background Information
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Provide important background Information about ARCTIC and the FPInnovations Challenge
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Discuss opportunities and roles for Innovators and
Innovation Ecosystem Partners to engage in ARCTIC
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Facilitate an upcoming Q&A related to the program and this Challenge
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Started in 2013 as Western Canada’s first Cleantech
Accelerator currently supporting 25 companies
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A Not-for-Profit with Funding from BC Innovation Council and National Research Council IRAP Program
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Services
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BCIC Venture Accelerator Program
Expert Clinics and Cleantech Connect Events
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Office and Lab Space
ARCTIC Program
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Advanced Resource Clean Technology Innovation Centre:
Meeting Market Needs by Linking Innovators to Real Challenges
Innovators
Foresight
ARCTIC
Program
Industry
Needs
• Energy
• Forestry
• Mining
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Industry
Consultation
• Innovation Challenge
Defined
• (3 months)
Innovator Selection
• 2-5 innovators selected
• (3 months)
Innovation Sprint
• 2-5 prototypes developed
• (6 months)
Field Trials
• Prototype Tested by
Industry
• (12 months)
Commercialization
Process
• Proven Products move to market
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$1mm Challenge
} Industry $350,000 cash contribution
} Foresight $350,000 Foresight in-kind Contribution of
Mentorship, Facilities and Lab Equipment
} $50,000 in-kind contribution from each Innovator in Phase 3,
Challenge Sprint
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Program Management
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Challenge Definition Support through consulting teams
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Challenge marketing and Innovation Selection Process
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Project Support through mentorship, training, lab space
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Partnership Development to improve opportunities for innovators and engage other support in the innovation system
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Phase 1 –
• Collaborate to Select and Define Challenge
Phase 2 -
• Assist in Innovator
Selection
Phase 3 –
• Review/Advise
Innovators
Phase 4 –
• Select Innovator,
Conduct Trial
Provide:
• 35% of the project budget
• Technical expertise in Challenge Area
Receive:
• Leveraged funding partner
• Access to novel solution providers
• Access to top-graded opportunities
• Potential supply chain collaborators
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• Distribute the information about the ARCTIC
Challenges to your network
• Recommend to innovators in your network to engage in the application process
• Assist companies in your markets who are participating in the program to increase opportunities for success
• Identify and bring other funding or in-kind to the table for the innovator to prepare them for success
• Volunteer as an expert to top-grade innovators for your programs, for investor and industry success.
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Phase 2 –
• Application process
Phase 3 –
• Refine Technology for Field
Trial Opportunity by meeting technical requirements and proving scaling opportunity
Phase 4 –
• Collaborate with Industry on
Field Trial Opportunity
Receive
• between $87,000-$300,000 (cash and in kind) as a successful participant.
• Access to real market opportunities and expertise to reduce risk
• Leverage current funding and attract new sources of funding
Provide In kind contributions of:
$50,000 in Phase 3 if selected
$100,000 in Phase 4 if selected
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A not-for-profit world leader in creating scientific solutions to support the Canadian forest sector’s global competitiveness
Over 500 dedicated employees across Canada*
Annual budget of approximately $100 million*
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Shared equally between Industry, Federal and Provincial
Governments
Approximately 200 industrial members across Canada
Partners with universities and other R&D institutions
Learn more at fpinnovations.ca
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* Includes the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre
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Vancouver, BC
Pointe-Claire, QC
Québec, QC
A world where products from sustainable forests contribute to every aspect of daily life.
TALL BUILDINGS made of wood?
Engineered
Wood Bridge building
Optimal use of our
RESOURCE
Interior products for trains, planes and automobiles
Drones for forest surveillance
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Strategic
Tactical
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Remote Sensing - Value Proposition
~$100 million/y if trialed savings are implemented
FPI Field Study: Romeo Malette Forest –
LiDAR Savings $1.57/m 3
The MFFP (QC) calculated benefits of
$2.13 m 3 for the forest industry across similar themes.
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RS-based cutting permit
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What remote sensing solutions can dramatically reduce the costs of acquiring and processing inventory data for timber appraisal? Good quality forest inventory data is required to maximize the value of harvested areas while ensuring the sustainability of the forest.
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Reduction in timber inventory costs and associated benefits whilst meeting government requirements
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Reduction in the cost of and improvement in the quality data for landscape level planning,
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Improvements to the design, calibration and verification of models for timber inventory.
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Increase in effectiveness through high certainty species identification with remote sensing technologies.
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• The improved accuracy of remote sensing solutions fully realized would be worth a targeted industry savings of an estimated $100m annually in British
Columbia;
• In the near term, this Challenge is targeting a 60% reduction in cruising costs;
• Be inspired by British Columbia Cruising manual quality indicators but not be constrained by human-centered methods for timber inventory management
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• Provide foresters with the ability to roll up block/stand level data to the landscape level to improve tactical landscape planning;
• Data products created as an outcome of the approach should include but not necessarily be limited to the critical parameters
• FPInnovations is interested in solutions that have secondary benefits, including positive contributions in the areas of:
•(above-ground) carbon sequestration,
•water management,
•wildfire management,
•better fibre utilization in the forest sector, and/or
•the ability to use the data for biodiversity and cumulative effects assessments.
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Specific Deliverables expected from the successful innovator will include:
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A dataset (shapefile, etc.) of timber attributes addressing the stand and tree attributes/metrics usually included in a cruise compilation report
( http://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-andindustry/forestry/docs/timber-pricing/timbercruising/practical_guide_to_timber_measurement_process.pdf
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Incomplete solutions are welcome;
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Resolution of the data set is not pre-defined, but the data set must be aggregable to a higher level (e.g. block or landscape level)
A tool or visualization application for data interpretation, management and aggregation (ArcGIS toolbox for example)
A summary report of the validation procedures and results
Demonstration of scale-up or aggregation of block level into landscape summaries.
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ARCTIC Program Assistance
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For Innovators
} Phase 3 Challenge Sprint
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2-5 participants
$87-305,000 depending on #s
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} $50,000 in kind from innovator
Phase 4 Field Trial
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1 participant
$150,000
} $100,000 in kind from innovator
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FPI ARCTIC Challenge Sprint
Evaluation Criteria
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Performance (30%)
Parameters / attributes (refer to list above in terms of diameter, volume, species, quality) – should be tested against cruise summary outputs
Precision / data quality / frequency
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} Secondary benefits (Water, greenhouse gas emissions, fire management, value-add to other industries, etc.)
Payback (20%)
Cost per M 3 (both cost for participation in the Challenge program and the longer term adoption / end cost for the solution and overall impact on industry) – must be tested for acceptability with forest industry users
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Readiness (30%)
Demonstration, proof-of-concept, experience, sector fit
Delivery time / product readiness
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Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
Landscape scalability
Execution (10%)
Ease of application and adoption by industry
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Capital required by industry to adopt the solution
Data management approach
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Proponent (10%)
Proponent experience, projects, clients, understanding of the challenge
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Phase 4 (Field Trial) evaluation criteria will include these same factors again, with a greater emphasis on the scalability of the technology solution, the business case and proponent.
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Action
Potential applicants/innovators and innovation partners program briefing webinar
Proposal Submission Deadline
Shortlisted proponents contacted for presentations
By Whom
ARCTIC
Proponents
ARCTIC Review Team
Final Sprint Decisions and Start Sprint
(prototype or test, or equivalent)
Proponents and ARCTIC/FPInnovations
Wrap up Sprint, choose Field trial winner
Proponents and ARCTIC/ FPInnovations
Application Details at arctic.foresight.com
Dates
July 26, 2016
September 2, 2016
October 3, 2016
October 17, 2016
May 19, 2017
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Program & General Questions
Stuart Evans
Online arctic.foresightcac.com
Email Arctic.info@foresightcac.com
Phone (604) 245-0042 x101
Technical Questions
Tim Caldecott
Email tim.caldecott@fpinnovations.ca
Phone (778) 868-7735
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