Open Innovation 2.0 Yearbook 2013 - European Commission - Europa

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3.7. FI-WARE Open Innovation Lab: innovation-enabling capabilities for third
parties on the Future Internet
Overall context
Over the last years, the European Commission has
funded a myriad of R & D projects that fall under
multiple areas. Within the specific domain of ICT,
projects have traditionally focused either on very
specific technological fields or on sectorial aspects.
In both cases, the success of these initiatives has
been poor if we measure them on the basis of
bringing value to the market. And it is true … it is not
easy to bridge the gap between research and innovation.
Many consortia have come up with particularly
good protocols, hardware or software systems,
and new paradigms … to name just some categories
of possible results. Nevertheless, very few of these
groups have made a real impact outside the papers.
This impact factor has become crucial in order to
assess the performance of research projects. This
is not only important in order to show evidence of
an appropriate way of spending public money in
research activities, which can be a need for public
institutions, but also to demonstrate that organisations
involved in those projects make good use of
those resources to become more competitive.
Figure 1: Structure and timing of the FI PPP [1]
CALL 1 CALL 2 CALL 3
USE CASES
2010
CONCORD: Programme Facilitation & Support
INFINITY: Capacity Building & Infrastructure
FINEST
INSTANT MOBILITY
SMART AGRIFOOD
FINSENY
SAFECITY
OUTSMART
FICONTENT
ENVIROFI
Future Internet PPP: an opportunity to
reinforce European competitiveness
Precisely because of the crisis and the increasing
importance of gaining competitiveness, the EC
launched, at the end of 2008, several initiatives
known as PPPs (public–private partnerships). One
of these relates to Future Internet technologies.
Its main goal is to improve the competitiveness
of European companies in two ways: make Europe
a leader in the technology as such (more information
about specific technical domains follows) and
significantly improve the positioning of EU companies
in sectors such as transport, urban security,
environment, logistics, media, agri-food and energy
by adopting such technologies and maximising the
use of the Internet as a new framework in which to
do business.
The FI PPP programme [1] will run for 5 years with
projects selected through three calls for proposals
that establish the major phases of the initiative.
Figure 1 shows the structure of the projects and
their execution in this context.
Obj 1.9 Capacity Building
Obj 1.8 Use Case Trials
Up to 5 trials
Obj 1.8 Use Case Trials
SME Innovation
3 RD CALL
USE CASE
EXPANSION
PHASE
FI-WARE: Technology Foundation TF Continuation
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
PHASE 1 PHASE 2
PHASE 3