VOLVO CARS OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2013
Jonas Ekmark
Volvo Cars
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2013-03-12
Volvo Cars Open Innovation Challenge opens today!
The Volvo Cars Challenge event is arranged by Volvo
Cars and sponsored and hosted by Vehicle ICT Arena.
The event aims at creating active safety innovations
using the open innovation methodology.
The innovative ideas shall aim at new functions within
the area Active/Integrated Safety and Driver Support
that can be implemented in a VCC vehicle project
2015/2016.
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A CONTEST in IDEA GENERATION, WHY?
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Varför tävling
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16 dec 2012
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PARTICIPATING teamS
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First stage
Mars 2013
Consat
2 bidrag
Cybercom
2 bidrag
HiQ
2 bidrag
Semcon
2 bidrag
Viktoria Swedish ICT
1 bidrag
ÅF
3 bidrag
Second stage
April 2013
Semcon
Team OA
Viktoria Swedish ICT
Team CP
ÅF
Team TS
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JURY - REFLECTIONS
Jury: Mikael Edvardsson, Erik Coelingh, Jonas Ekmark, Anders
Ödblom, Marcus Rothoff
Criteria: idea originality, customer benefits, cost, feasibility
• Strong push and committment from participants
• Well elaborated ideas. Focus at customer benefit.
• Several proposals from first stage were deselected because
1. Already known within VCC
2. Similar to each other
• The contest confirms that there is an opportunity for
companies that develop functions in the Gothenburg area.
• “Tävlingsformen har skapat ett oerhört engagemang i vår
organisation och jag tycker att resultatet har varit lyckat på
många sätt. Det kommer att skapa rubriker, det är jag
övertygad om”
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JURY’S MOTIVATION FOR THE WINNER
… har skapat en ny kundfunktion som är originell, har tydligt
kundvärde, är okomplicerad och kan implementeras relativt enkelt.
Under den korta tävlingstiden har teamet åstadkommit en konceptuellt
färdig lösning som presenterades med simulinkmodell, dokumentation,
patentundersökning, utkast till patentansökan och en övertygande
videopresentation.
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THE WINNER
Semcons team :
Magnus Carlsson, Jonas Berg, Linus Helgesson, Johan
Alminger, Stig Ursing, Bo Liu och Nils Finnstedt
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VCC INTERNAL REFLECTIONS
1.
Vehicle prototyping versus simulation: Better with hands on
– “learning by doing”, “seeing is believing”
2.
Needed internal VCC efforts to support the teams – more
than expected and different needs
3.
Why did not all members participate? Could we have been
more encouraging? Was the challenge too vague? Our aim
was to explore “no directions (but keep it simple)”. Are
thoughts different externally? We need feedback!
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WHAT NOW?
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Patent application to protect IP
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Ongoing activities within VCC and Semcon to industrialize
the invention
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It is possible that the winning invention will be offered
globally to our customers in 2016…
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