Roma, 12 marzo 2009 Giovanni Colombo EIT Governing Board European Institute of Innovation and Technology Roma, 12 marzo 2009 Sapienza Università di Roma, Facoltà di Economia L’azione comune europea a sostegno dell’innovazione e della ricerca tecnologica

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 EIT is recognized as a key driver of sustainable economic growth and competitiveness across Europe: through stimulation of world-leading innovation EIT Vision and Ambition innovationeducation research Improve European competitiveness by addressing a sustainable economic growth through a stronger innovation capability

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 To be the catalyst for a step change in the European Community’s innovation capacity and impact through the delivery of major new actions. The first of these is the creation of the Knowledge and Innovation Communities, KICs. KICs will:  build innovative ‘webs of excellence’  create new business  educate and develop entrepreneurial people  have societal impact Mission of EIT

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 EIT, Governing Board and KICs Executive Committee chairman 18 nominated members (mandate 6 years, 1/3 substituted every 2 years) 4 representative members (mandate 3 years, 1 renewal) External bodies Commission Parliament Council Knowledge and Innovation Communities Governing Board (mandate 4 years, 1 renewal) designation convention goals and mandate evaluation planning, reporting definition of Strategic Innovation Agenda EIT promotion

Roma, 12 marzo EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) :  ideas / plans 2. KICs with unique impact :  KIC topics, format, selection 3. Sustainable mobilization of additional funding:  including EIT Foundation  tools Strategic Objectives focus of the EIT Governing Board

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 A KIC  is a high-profile, collaborative consortium  a “legally and financially structured and managed entity”  of geographically distributed but thematically convergent stakeholders  open to international participation  climate change and mitigation, sustainable energy and ICT the first KICs to be launched  will become a world leader in its field  encompassing the whole innovation chain from education to economic impact  will deliver a measurable impacts on society  economic, scientific, educational and entrepreneurial  will have a minimum life of 7 years Knowledge and Innovation Communities

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 Network evolution: access-agnostic schemes self-organisation and context-awareness business, openness models societal behaviour and statistics Example - disruptive transformations and the double role of ICT intelligent transport renewable energy production and transport ICT and process-related enablers ICT- endogenous applications (e.g. context- aware and content-based services) processes facing disruptive transformations (examples)

Roma, 12 marzo 2009  Geographically distributed people  across the European Community and linking to centres of excellence in other parts of the world  Working in networks focussed on typically 4 – 6 major nodes  which are “co-location centres” where staff from different stakeholders come to work together, face-to-face  and which link other partners, such as local clusters of SMEs  Each co-location center should encompass a significant part of the innovation chain  Co-location of people is critical  it is the key to achieve knowledge transfer and ‘translation’ between stakeholders and between science, research and business  effective translation is fundamental to delivery of KIC goals  Mobility of people is therefore a pre-condition Ingredients for a KIC with impact

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 An internationally distributed collaborative consortium:  composed of elite centers from business, entrepreneurship, technology, research and education  each with a track record in excellence, international cooperation, knowledge dissemination and translation to business  allows collaborative people to work together in “co-location centers”  legally and financially structured entity with a motivating intellectual property rights policy  has top quality leadership, governance, structure and accountability  attracts public and private funding, tripling the EIT funding over time  can include excellent partners from non-EU countries KIC Selection Criteria 1

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 Compelling, innovative proposals with future potential  Addressing important topics for Europe  With (new) business and societal impact  Making innovation an integral part of Higher Education  A strong research and technology base, all of which is relevant and critical to the success of the KIC (including non-technological research)  Going beyond research and technology: translation to new and existing businesses  Key performance indicators (KPIs), targeted investment returns and drivers identified upfront  Builds up continuous, self-sustaining activities KIC Selection Criteria 2

Roma, 12 marzo 2009  Call for proposals for KICs by April 2009, submission August 2009  Based on KIC format and selection criteria, finalized by end March 2009  Selection of the first 2-3 KICs by January 2010  Strong teams with the best chance of success  Proposals recognized as innovative, ambitious and coherent  Extensive publicity for the selected KICs in order to support them by all appropriate  means  Evaluation and monitoring of KICs starting by August 2010  Recognized as fair, simple and effective  Consistent and clearly derived from the original selection criteria  Rewarding good performance and achievement  Recognizing and communicating the EIT brand Call, Selection and Monitoring

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 Is that possible to reconcile local capabilities with the global, techno-economic machine ? Research, Innovation and Education, global and local dimensions Two major issues are shaping (will shape) perspectives Sustainability Knowledge - based economy strictly interconnected social economic

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 trans-generation vision ethical dimension Vision, long-short term research, product-process innovation sustainability knowledge economy present transformations conditioning future perspectives complex systems behaviour economic discontinuities built-up on top of present technology total service/product economy, innovative production long term technological & scientific research

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 Knowledge cycle and product/service innovation service broker service enablers technological research basic research engineering and product system and network evolution coded knowledge cycle user behaviour context service market user market product

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 Innovation of complex processes sustainability knowledge economy multi disciplinary approach basic disciplines research cycle exploiting basic disciplines through an aggregation approach New co-operative value chains: sustainability-constrained processes social impact new remuneration models regulation criteria reviewed building over technological advances technologies models social behaviour economical random graphs performance innovative business scheme system control algorithms critical performance factors

Roma, 12 marzo 2009 Reconciling global and local knowledge sustainability knowledge economy Non- technological issues: new value chains need to be defined and their sustainability proved economic models able to remunerate the (newly aggregated) stakeholders are to be consolidated social and environmental benefits need to be embedded in the model (e.g. CO 2 trade) New alliances: active role of Public Administration use of Pre-commercial procurement role of Functional Specifications and PA as first adopter Benefits, key system control factors metrics to measure the benefits induced by the (innovated) process in the long run system performance models and sensitivity analysis to disseminate best practices