THE EIT - DELIVERING NEW
SOLUTIONS TO THE EUROPEAN
INNOVATION LANDSCAPE
Szabolcs BORDA, EIT
Finance Officer
FINAL CONFERENCE of the FIDIBE PROJECT
1 December 2011, Székesfehérvár
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
General Introduction
I.
II.
III.
IV.
EIT Mission and Governance
KIC Basics + Updates
Cross-KIC Agendas
EIT Strategy (2014-2020)
GENERAL
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT DISCOVERY, INVENTION, TRANSLATION
& INNOVATION
1
3
Discovery:
Finding out something
not yet known
Translation:
processing discoveries and/or
invention into innovation
2
4
Invention:
creating or designing
something not existing
before
Innovation:
making changes with societal
impact, based on discoveries
and/or invention
Science & Research are necessary,
but not sufficient for innovation
AGE DISTRIBUTION OF COMPANIES’ CONTRIBUTION TO
INNOVATION: EUROPE V. US AND OTHERS
US: approx.
21%
EU: approx.
2%
Bruegel policy brief
2009 Reinhilde
Veugelers
BEHRING, NOBEL, CITROEN, SIEMENS, REUTER =
= EUROPEAN HISTORY
BOYER, GATES AND ZUCKERBERG
= U.S. REALITY!
HOW
to motivate kids
to set up garage
companies in
Europe?
WANTED
wanted
EARLY PUBLIC SEED MONEY
TO LEVERAGE HIGH IMPACT INNOVATION INVESTMENTS
I. EIT MISSION AND
GOVERNANCE
EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF
INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY (EIT)
• EIT to unlock the European
innovation landscape through a
new agenda at EU level
• EIT is the first initiative of the EU
bringing together the three
corners of the knowledge
triangle with the entrepreneur in
the driver’s seat to form the
necessary links between
education, business and research
MISSION:
“To become the catalyst
for a step change in the
European Union’s
innovation capacity and
impact”
THE CORE OF INNOVATION IS THE
KNOWLEDGE TRIANGLE (KT)
Actors in the knowledge triangle are at the core of the innovation web
Business
Higher
Education
ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
Driver of KT
Research &
Technology
EIT CURRENT STRATEGIC STRANDS
1. Further development of each KIC co-location centre as a
hotspot driving innovation effectiveness, results and impact;
2. Consolidation of EIT Budapest as a knowledge pull driving
simplification, result orientation and good practice
3. Further development of entrepreneurship education within
KIC higher education institutions, branded by an EIT label;
4. Continued focus on world-class new business creation.
EIT STRUCTURE
• Governing Board
• Executive Committee
• EIT Director
• Corporate Forum for
KICs
• KICs
• EIT Foundation
• EIT Roundtable of
Top Entrepreneurs
• EIT Annual Innovation &
Entrepreneurship Summit
(Stakeholders Platform)
EIT FOUNDING GOVERNING BOARD
(in alphabetical order):
João CARAÇA , Manuel CASTELLS, Bertrand COLLOMB, Giovanni COLOMBO (Member of the Executive Committee),
Ellen DE BRABANDER, Anders FLODSTRÖM (Vice-Chairman of the Board), Wolfgang HERRMANN , Julia KING, Morten
LOKTU, Karen MAEX, Bálint MAGYAR, Erna MÖLLER, Yrjö NEUVO (Member of the Executive Committee), Martin
SCHUURMANS, Daria TATAJ (Member of the Executive Committee), Peter TROPSCHUH Peter, Linnar VIIK, Alexander
VON GABAIN (Chairman of the Board)
EIT GOVERNANCE
1. EIT GOVERNING BOARD
•
Chairperson: Alexander von
Gabain
•
Governing Board of 22 Members
(18 appointed, 4 representative)
2. EIT HEADQUARTERS
•
Director: Jose Manuel Leceta
•
EIT Headquarters in Budapest,
currently 40 members of staff
KICs GOVERNANCE
1. Climate-KIC
2. KIC InnoEnergy
3. EIT ICT Labs
Chairman:
Chairman:
Chairman:
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber
Karl-Friedrich Ziegahn
Henning Kagermann
CEO:
CEO:
CEO:
Mary A. Ritter
Diego Pavia
Willem Jonker
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS DRIVEN BY THE
EIT DIRECTOR’S TEAM
• Showcase Success Stories emerging from the three KICs
First evidence presented to support institutional dialogue between the
Commission and the Parliament through the ‘Friends of EIT’
• Corporate Forum for KICs : 3 KIC CEOs + EIT Director
Develop a strong EIT / KIC corporate identity and culture, including
common policies (finance, monitoring, communication management)
• Service oriented HQ increasing accountability and added value
Beyond corporate services, Units are aligned with the three Director’s
roles: Build an effective team, energize KICs results and implement GB
strategies.
II. KICs –
BASICS
EIT’s INNOVATION FACTORIES: ITS
KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION COMMUNITIES (KICs)
• KICs
highly integrated, creative and excellence-driven autonomous
partnerships under the leadership of a CEO; internationally distributed
but thematically convergent partners  driven by societal challenges
• KIC partners
key actors from the knowledge triangle: research, higher education and
business
• First three KICs
– Climate KIC (Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation)
– EIT ICT Labs (Future Information and Communication Society)
– KIC InnoEnergy (Sustainable Energy)
KICs EUROPEAN IMPACT AND GOOD
PRACTICE
Climate KIC:
Co-location centre
RIC (Regional Implementation and
Innovation Centre)
EIT ICT Labs:
Co-location centre
Associate Partner
KIC InnoEnergy
Co-location centre
INNOVATION FACTORY (KIC) MODEL (1/2)
• High degree of integration: each KIC is an independent legal entity,
gathering world-class KIC partners from the knowledge triangle.
• Effective governance: run by a CEO, supported by a lean management
team at central and co-location level.
• Long-term strategic approach: each KIC is set up for a minimum of 7
years.
• Annual Business Plans presented, evaluated and approved by EIT HQ.
INNOVATION FACTORY (KIC) MODEL (2/2)
• Culture: KICs are shaped by strong entrepreneurial mindsets and cultures
of their partners, pulling together for common visions and goals.
• High degree of commitment of partners/smart funding: EIT funding
to KICs is 25% of their total budget over time (75% to be attracted from
other sources, public and private).
• The co-location model: each KIC consists of typically 5-6 world class
innovation hotspots building and leveraging on existing European capacities.
• Results/High-Impact-oriented activities: KICs implement a Business
Plan with measurable deliverables, clear targets, results and high-impactoriented activities.
THE FIRST 3 KICs
Designated in December 2009 by the EIT Governing Board
EIT AND KICs MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS
•
With a trial and error approach and an ‘can do’
attitude, the EIT selected and signed ground
breaking agreements with its first 3 KICs in
less than 2 years following the Call for What
What
the the
EITEIT
andand
KICs
KICs
Proposals.
have
have
achieved
achieved
so far
so far
hashas
never
never
been
been
achieved
achieved
on a
onEuropean
a European
• Meanwhile, KICs are producing evidence on
scale
scale
before!
before!
entrepreneurship education and business
creation (Success Stories).
•
EIT HQ will foster simplification, results and
good practice.
SOME EARLY RESULTS FROM THE KICs
• Climate-KIC: As a result of a business plan competition, two Climate KIC
projects have been awarded seed funding. One group,
DeCo! won the International SEED Award 2010
through a business plan competition
• EIT ICT Labs: InterneT of ThiNGs (FITTING) project has received € 5.8
million funding from the French national research agency (ANR) to develop
new internet technology
• KIC InnoEnergy: Its postgraduate degree programmes are hugely
popular already in their first year: 850 students applied for
220 available places
KIC PARTNERS UP TO 2011
KIC InnoEnergy
67 KIC Partners
35
Climate-KIC
87 KIC Partners
31
30
30
28
25
23
EIT ICT Labs
41 KIC Partners
21
20
17
16
14
15
13
12
10
10
8
10
7
5
6
4
7
7
4
2
0
EIT ICT Labs 2010
EIT ICT Labs 2011
KIC InnoEnergy 2010
Business
KIC InnoEnergy 2011
Research
University
Climate KIC 2010
Other
In 2011, there are over 200 KIC Partners and 3 KIC LEs.
In 2010, there were 75 KIC partners and 3 KIC LEs.
Climate KIC 2011
KIC FUNDING SOURCES
415,7
Figures in Million Euros
GA 2010 + GA 2011
EIT
Total
330,6
%
301,4
Climate-KIC
21,1
142,0
14,9%
EIT ICT Labs
27,4
116,0
23,6%
KIC InnoEnergy
33,6
154,7
21,7%
82,1
412,7
19,9%
Total
245,7
155.7
143.0
120.9
99.2
114,3
98.6
88.6
84.1
122.0
121.1
117.0
84,9
80.2
63.0
7.0
Non-EIT
55.7
43.8
36.8
15.1
25.6
22.1
EIT
Climate KIC
Total KIC
Budget
Non-EIT
85,1
28.4
11.2 17.2
EIT
36.8
34.6
23.4
22.5
33.7
29,4
11.2
Total KIC
Budget
EIT ICT Labs
PGA+GA 2010
Non-EIT
EIT
KIC InnoEnergy
GA 2011
Total
Total KIC
Budget
Non-EIT
EIT
TOTAL
Total KICs
Budget
CONCLUSIONS EIT–KIC MODEL
3 KICs were set-up (legal, governance, financial, organisational and
operational), are up and running and delivering in record time
Until now, Over 200 KIC partners; total investment exceeding 400
MEUR (EIT contribution of 85 MEUR in 2010 and 2011)
KICs are unique entities in EU/global innovation landscape (see Ernst &
Young/CEPS 2011 report) with huge potential to deliver significant results
EIT HQ acts as a knowledge pool benefitting Europe through
continuous drive in simplification, result orientation (Scoreboard/KPIs) and
good practice dissemination
II.1 CLIMATE KIC
CLIMATE-KIC: EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP
IN CLIMATE CHANGE INNOVATION
Co-location centre
VISION
• Catalyse climate change
innovation
• Create a community for
climate change innovation
• Deliver integrated climate
change innovation
• Transform Europe’s
response to climate change
Regional Innovation
Centre
CLIMATE-KIC: SOME RESULTS IN 2010
• Establish KIC leadership and structures (KIC LE is an Association
based in the Netherlands)
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• Recruit world leading scientists to head up key innovation
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• Launch first innovation projects
centered.
• Set-up of co-locations
• Set up first venture fund
• Recruit first class of students (50 Masters and PhD students; 59
participants in Pioneers into Practice Programme)
• Launched Summer School (Paris, Zurich and Berlin) and 2 spin-outs
www.climate-kic.org
II.2 EIT ICT LABS
EIT ICT LABS
Complete and complementary world class innovation hotspots
Berlin
Eindhoven
Helsinki
Paris
Otaniemi
Science Park
Pôles de
Competitivité
+
Stockholm
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Associate clusters in Budapest, London, Trento
Systematic build-up of innovation hotspots outside initial nodes
Each Co-location features at least:
 One strong research institute
 One major university
 One European-based multinational company
EIT ICT LABS: SOME RESULTS IN 2010
• Establish KIC leadership, governance and structures (KIC LE set as
an Association based in Belgium)
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• Develop the concepts of EIT ICT Labs Master and Doctoral Schools
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• Launch pilot activities in Education, Research and Business
(Digital
cities of the future; Smart spaces; Internet technologies andcentered.
architectures; Computing in the cloud; etc)
• Organise EIT ICT Labs Summer School and first innovation camp
• Develop and implement EIT Innovation Radar
• Launch Entrepreneurs club
www.ictlabs.eu
II.3 KIC INNOENERGY
KIC INNOENERGY: A WORLD CLASS ALLIANCE OF TOP
EUROPEAN PLAYERS WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD
• 13 companies,
10 research institutes,
13 universities
• ~50% industry partners
(incl. associated
partners)
• >50% of key research
players in Europe
• Covering the whole
energy mix
• Knowledge triangle
balanced along all
dimensions
• Strong connection
with VCs and local
governments
KIC INNOENERGY: SOME RESULTS IN 2010
•
Establish KIC governance and structures (KIC LE set up as a company
based in the Netherlands)
•
Entrepreneurship program “From Science to Business”, with great
impact on the 27 PhD students
•
First Clean Tech Venture Capital Day in Stockholm, with 250 participants
(investors, selected start-ups)
•
Launched 33 innovation projects and 4 Lighthouse Innodrivers
•
Launched Smart Grid PhD (Lead by KTH); MS on Sustainable Energy;
Pilot MS on Nuclear Engineering
•
Launched “KIC InnoEnergy Highway” business creation services
(incubator)
III. CROSS-KIC AGENDAS
EIT FOSTERS ‘CROSS-KIC AGENDAS’
• Education: Promoting entrepreneurship education by high quality EIT
labelled degree programmes and fostering EIT Alumni and risk culture
in Europe
• Entrepreneurship: Recognising the best KIC-driven ventures through an
‘EIT Entrepreneurship Award’ and fostering role models by an ‘Annual
EIT Roundtable of Top Entrepreneurs’
• World-Class Innovation: Developing innovative ecosystems to create
and grow world-class, breakthrough innovation exploiting KIC synergies and
complementarities
EIT’S EDUCATIONAL MISSION AND STRATEGY:
fostering a new generation of entrepreneurially minded Europeans
• create an entrepreneurial mindset in Europe, including the development of
students as the next generation of entrepreneurs
• deliver a unique brand of excellent and relevant education responsive to
both business and societal demands, focused on innovation,
entrepreneurship and creativity
 EIT labelled degrees and diplomas at Master and PhD level, awarded by the
higher education institutions participating in the KICs, based on four main
criteria
EIT LABELLED DEGREES:
a unique brand of excellent education at Master and PhD levels
1. Robust entrepreneurship education
2. Highly integrated, innovative "learning-by-doing" curricula
3. Mobility, European dimension and openness to the world
4. Outreach strategy and access policy
1.ROBUST ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
• Open concept innovation and entrepreneurship
• Facilitate the acquisition of transferable skills, in
particular entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity
skills
EIT
overarching
learning
outcomes
• Entrepreneurship embedded in the curricula to train future entrepreneurs
and the use of the co-location centres to engage students in
entrepreneurship activities
• On-the-job learning and exposure to real life in industry and
business.
2. HIGHLY INTEGRATED, INNOVATIVE,
‘LEARNING BY DOING’ CURRICULA
• Cross-disciplinary approach
• Active collaboration between universities and engagement of business
• Student-centred teaching and learning methods, application of innovative tools
and delivery mechanisms
• Support for knowledge transfer
• Promotion of joint or multiple degrees
3. MOBILITY, EUROPEAN DIMENSION AND
OPENNESS TO THE WORLD
• European transparency tools, Qualifications Framework EHEA
• Integrated “mobility windows” for international and cross-organisational
mobility
• Smooth transitions between academia and industry
• Quality culture
• A strategy for global cooperation – recruitment of international students and
staff, cooperation with global innovation hotspots
4. OUTREACH STRATEGY AND ACCESS POLICY
• Joint strategy for knowledge sharing with
society involving the different KIC
partners
• Joint student selection and admisison
• Structured links with future "EIT"
alumni
KICs EDUCATION – STATE OF PLAY
• KICs – currently starting/preparing their EIT-labelled
Master and Ph.D programmes to start in 2011/2012
•
EIT working together with KICs to implement the quality
criteria
• EIT HQ to update databases / reporistories of all Master and
Ph.D programmes
• EIT HQ to facilitate a virtual Alumni community
FIRST ACTIONS 2010/2011 (1/2)
Climate-KIC Summer School 2010/2011 Young
entrepreneurs find their way into European market for
climate change innovation
KIC InnoEnergy:
• 2011: Start of 4 MSc programmes and 5 tracks in PhD school in Energy,
Executive programme, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Master: 850
students applied for 220 available places
• 2010: From Science to Business Entrepreneurship course
FIRST ACTIONS 2010/2011/2012
Development of EIT ICT Labs Master School
The EIT ICT Labs Master School will combine cross-node cutting edge
technical and entrepreneurial education with strong industry
collaboration. 7 technical majors:
EIT Conferences:
• Leuven, December 2010 – the role of the EIT in the Education
Landscape
• Krakow, October 2011 – Youth and Entrepreneurship
EIT’s ENTREPRENEURSHIP MISSION AND STRATEGY
AGENDA DEVELOPMENT:
• To stimulate, facilitate and oversee the development and
effectiveness of new innovation models and KIC business
creation activities
• To drive and support the development and implementation of the
EIT Entrepreneurial Alumni
• To add value to KIC-own operations
BUILDING THE EIT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AGENDA
EIT Culture
HOW
to motivate kids
“EIT-labelled
to set up garage
Business
companies Accelerator”
in
Europe?
EIT
EIT
Entrepreneur- Entrepreneurship Charter
ship Award
(incl. Venture
Cup, Mentorship
Scheme etc.)
EIT Entrepreneurship
toolbox
EIT Round Table of Top
Entrepreneurs
Community Building
FIRST EIT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARDS
Brussels, February 2012
• To promote a risk taking culture in the KICs and beyond by putting the
spotlight on and encouraging entrepreneurial ventures.
• Three ventures will be selected for the award in 2012 from among the
candidates proposed by the three KICs.
• First EIT Entrepreneurship Award Ceremony is scheduled for February 2012 in
collaboration with Science Business
• The three 2012 Award winners will be granted EIT supported promotional
activities, access to the EIT’s network of contacts, opportunities to expose their
ventures to global experience, joint participation with the EIT in international
trade fairs for a 12-month period. Mentoring with CEOs is also being discussed.
FIRST EIT ROUND TABLE OF TOP ENTREPRENEURS
Budapest, July 2012
• Annual ‘light tower’ event to exchange views and experiences with 15-20
outstanding individuals with a record of excellence in entrepreneurial and
innovative enterprises
• First Roundtable scheduled for July 2012 in Budapest
• To address topical entrepreneurship subjects through a mix of key note
speeches, debates amongst panellists and interactions with the audience
• Forum for mutual inspiration and dialogue in the field of entrepreneurship and
innovation between the EIT, the top level entrepreneurs and other stakeholders
(students, European Commission top officials, MEPs, industry leaders, KIC and
Co-location managers)
EIT FUTURE STRATEGIC
AGENDA (2014 – 2020)
EIT’S GB PROPOSAL FOR A STRATEGIC
INNOVATION AGENDA (SIA) 2014 - 2020
Initial theme ideas proposed by EIT
Governing Board for new KICs (to start in
2014):
1. Human Life and Health
2. Human Learning and Learning
Environments
3. Food4Future
4. Manufacturing by and for Creative
Human Beings
5. Security and Safety
6. Mobility and Smart Cities
Coupled with follow-on support to existing
three KICs
THE EIT’s ROLE IN THE
EUROPEAN INNOVATION LANDSCAPE
The EIT will be part of the Horizon 2020
while maintaining a strong link with the
European Higher Education Area
(EHEA)
However, rules applying to the EIT will
have to remain tailor-made and fully
flexible to fit the EIT’s mission!
EIT’s VISION OF AN “ENTREPRENEURIALLYDRIVEN, IMPACT INVESTMENT INSTITUTE”
•
EIT Deliverables: Breakthrough Innovations & People for Europe!
•
EIT contributes to European excellence, competitiveness and cohesion:
– by leveraging entrepreneurship and innovation, from local to global,
– by wide dissemination of KIC good practice across Europe.
•
•
Further reinforce EIT as an Institute benefiting European citizens:
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EIT Budapest as a knowledge pool and intelligent investor in KICs,
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Innovation Factories structured in CLCs to become world-class innovation
hubs generating Europe-wide benefits.
Scale up EIT in 2014-2020 budget to secure critical mass and macro
impact.
... Talent has no homeland! …
… Innovation powered by EIT! …
… Entrepreneurs in the making! …
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