1. Coen de Graaf October 9th 2018
Co-creating strategic interregional collaboration: European Photonics Alliance (EPA)
Coen de Graaf
October 9th 2018

2. From ‘supply chain’, to ‘supply network’
Collaboration is changing…
From ‘supply chain’, to ‘supply network’

3. Our strategy: Integrated approach
Modernising our society and industry, adressing the societal challenges, translation into innovation roadmaps based on our smart specialisation strategy.
Economic Program Brabant 2020
High Tech Innovation Program
agrofood meets HTSM
data value center
Factory of the Future (BIC)
fotonica
smart solutions
smart industry
smart cross-overs
smart data

4. Interregional collaboration
Projects between companies and knowledge institutes to support and speed up the modernisation of the (European) industry
Based on – smart specialisation
Between – regions, clusters
Through – bottom-up initiatives - multi-level approaches - enabling local clusters

5. Collaboration; European Photonics Alliances - EPA
21 Partner Regions

6. The development of EPA
Why: great potential
current fragmentation
Goal: Goal is to accelerate the deployment and volume manufacture
How: The Alliance is setting up a one-stop shop network
Successes:
The people’s enthusiasm
Structured way of working
(European Photonics Alliance Portal or ‘EPAP’)
4 proactive priority ‘Pilots’.

7. Operational principles
Efficient workflow
One-stop-shop
Serve the goals of the partnership.
Communication should be short, clear and effective.

8. Further developments
Raise awareness across the network
Need to map the capabilities at the network level.
Create market awareness
Faster validation of innovative/disruptive solutions
Success comes when driven by validated market need
Dissimination of success stories