Giovanni Colombo EIT Governing Board

1. 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

2. research innovation education EIT Vision and Ambition EIT is recognized as a key driver of sustainable economic growth and competitiveness across Europe: through stimulation of world-leading innovation Improve European competitiveness by addressing a sustainable economic growth through a stronger innovation capability

3. Mission of EIT 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

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

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

6. Knowledge and Innovation Communities 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

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

8. Ingredients for a KIC with impact • 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

9. KIC Selection Criteria 1 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

10. KIC Selection Criteria 2 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

11. Call, Selection and Monitoring • 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

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

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

14. market product service broker engineering and product service enablers system and network evolution market user technological research user behaviour context service coded knowledge cycle basic research Knowledge cycleand product/service innovation

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

16. Reconciling global and local knowledge • 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. CO2 trade) sustainability • 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 knowledge economy