EIT Digital – Italy

EuroPM - 21 Sept. 2018

Gian Mario MAGGIO

EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology)

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EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology)

• EIT is an independent EU body that empowers innovators and entrepreneurs to develop world-class solutions to societal challenges and creates growth and skilled jobs

• The EIT is an integral part of Horizon 2020

• KICs (Knowledge and Innovation Communities) are long-term strategic partnerships bringing together businesses, research centres and universities

EIT Digital

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EIT DigitalEuropean digital innovation and

entrepreneurial education organisation driving Europe’s digital transformation

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Pan-European Ecosystem

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Education

EIT Digital – Strategy

Ecosystem

• 184 partners

• 9 Nodes + Silicon Valley Hub

• 14 European locations

• Serving the whole of Europe through ARISE

Pan-European Ecosystem

Innovation Action Lines

• Incubation, market uptake and growth of top European research results

• 5 Innovation Action Lines

• 50+ Innovation Activities per year

• 80+ new products and services commercialy launched every year

• 10+ new ventures created per year

Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1/2)

DigitalFinance

EIT Digital Accelerator

• Growth support for European tech scaleups

• Services to secure customers (Access to Market) and raise capital (Access to Finance)

• Network of 500+ corporate customers and 300+ investors

• 60+ scaleups supported per year

Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2/2)

PROVEN RESULTS WORKING WITH HUNDREDS OF VENTURES

since 2012

260+

17€90m+

91%

€400m+total supported scaleups

investment facilitated by the Accelerator

Alumni in operation

total investmentraised by the scaleups

scaleup origin countries

EIT Digital Academy

3 Schools delivering technical digital skills and entrepreneurial education at all stages of career:

• Master School: two-year Masters programme with 8 technical Majors and a Minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

• Industrial Doctoral School: PhD program co-funded by Industry Partners

• Professional School: blended learning to keep European professionals at the forefront in today's fast-paced digital world

Entrepreneurial Education

Partners Co-Location Centres Online learning

Blended Education

Master School Professional SchoolDoctoral School

Summer Schools

EIT Digital – Achievements

INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• 9 startups created• 96 products & services commercially launched• 33+ scaleups supported by the EIT Digital

Accelerator• € 90M raised for scaleups• EIT Digital Accelerator ranked 8th worldwide in

Global Accelerator Report by Gust

ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION

• 1,350+ Master students – 273 new students in 2017

• 156 PhD students in the Doctoral School in 5 countries

• 20 courses launched for professional learners• 70,000+ learners have taken EIT Digital’s 18

MOOCs

PAN-EUROPEAN ECOSYSTEM

• 2 Nodes created in Budapest & Madrid• 25 new Partners – 15 industrial• New Satellite location in Amsterdam

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EIT Digital – Italy

• Physical locations:- Trento Co-Location Centre [FBK]- Milan Satellite [CEFRIEL]

• Common strategy, leveraging on complementarities and synergies: Trento

- Innovation: Digital Cities, Digital Finance- Education: Master School / Doctoral School /

/ Summer Schools (U. of Trento)- Autonomous Province / stakeholders engagement

Milan - Innovation: Digital Industry, Digital Infrastructure- Education: Master/Doctoral School (Poli MI) - Large-scale events (e.g. EXPO)

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EIT Digital Italy – Organisation

Trento CLCMilan Satellite

Italian Node

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EIT Digital Italy – Partnership (2018)

Business/SMEs Higher Education

Research Ecosystem

EIT Digital Italy – Partnership profile

21%

7%

47%

18%

7%

Breakdown per partner category

Higher Education

Research

Business

SMEs

Ecosystem

#28 partners:#6 Higher Education#2 Research#13 Industries#5 SMEs#2 Ecosystem

EIT Digital Italy – Evolution of investment

Investment (KAVA) evolution per Area

Highlights:- Ending of 2 HIIs in 2017 –Investment decrease: -5M€

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EIT Digital Italy – Investment per Action Line (2018)

Highlights:- Dominant Action Lines: Digital Industry, Digital Cities- Growing interest on Digital Finance

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Innovation Activities – Highlights (2018)

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EIT Digital – Opportunities

How to become partner?

• Connect with Node Director

• Approval by Node Strategy Committee

• Documents required by the Supervisory Board:

- Membership criteria

- Letter of Interest expressing possible contribution

- Letter of recommendation by Node Strategy Committee

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Partnership

Membership fees

• Partners / Linked Third Party (with a legal link)

- € 25,000 for large enterprises, research

institutes and universities

- € 10,000 for mid-size SMEs

- € 5,000 for other SMEs

• External Partners

- € 12,500 for large enterprises, research

institutes and universities

- € 5,000 for mid-size SMEs

- € 2,500 for other SMEs

• EIT Digital invests in strategic Action Lines to accelerate the market uptake of digital technologies

• Clear business case, carried out in an agile way of working with an open innovation mindset

• Typically 1-year activity involving 3-5 partners from at least 2 different Nodes

• Create new ventures (startup creation) or launch specific products or services (product/service launch)

• Contribute to the financial sustainability of EIT Digital either through equity (for startup) or financial return mechanisms (for product/service launch)

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Innovation Activities

Proven results working with hundreds of ventures

Accelerator

PhD programme features:

• Ph.D. project aligned to specific industry innovation challenges

• Ph.D. activities carried out together with leading universities and research institutes

• Ph.D. co-funded by EIT Digital (50% partner, 25% non-partner)

• Broader perspective gained in the context of EIT Digital environment international network

Benefits for companies:

• Access to top research expertise on Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)

• Carry out an innovative project and go to the market

• Become more competitive in a worldwide market

• Note: EIT Digital does not claim any Intellectual Property Rights (IPR are exploitable by the company in agreements with doctoral students, Universities and Research Institutes)

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Industrial Doctoral School

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Professional School

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DeepHackResults-driven innovation acceleration

• an EIT Digital branded hackathon, leveraging the Ultrahack methodology and expertise as well as the EIT Digital ecosystem and infrastructure

• a service for corporations and SMEs to solve challenges, meet experts and talent and proliferate their brand, platforms and products • Berlin, 2 - 4 Nov 2018, EIT Digital CLC

o Challenges themed around Mass Customization and Mass Personalization, as the next frontiers of supply chain disruption (AL: Digital Industries).

• Paris, 16 – 18 Nov 2018, EIT Digital CLC

o Challenges themed around the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, improve transportation, safety and information flow with digital disruption technology and methodology (AL: Digital Cities).

• Silicon Valley, 14 – 16 Dec 2018, tba

o Action Line and challenge themes to be announced.

Why DeepHack ?

• Sponsors tap into the EIT Digital ecosystem of students, entrepreneurs and experts

• Leverage the Ultrahack methodology and platform to drive for results that can be developed in sponsors’ products and solutions

• The “hackathon-in-a-box” service allows sponsors to focus on the challenge results, rather than the execution of the hackathon

1. Identify disruptive trends that become relevant for your industry (database scouting – e.g. 50 startups)

2. Gather intelligence or get connected to most promising startups and technology players (expert-driven scouting)

3. Build concrete business proposals for your company (workshop - only in combination with 2.)

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Startup Connector

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SAVE-THE-DATE: Italian Innovation Day (2018)

• When: 29 November 2018• Where: Trento • What: Digital Transformation and the Future of Jobs• Who: Keynote Talk – President F. Profumo (FBK)

• Research & Innovation- Pan-European network - https://www.eitdigital.eu/about-us/locations/- World-class partners - https://www.eitdigital.eu/about-us/partners/- Portfolio of Action Lines - https://www.eitdigital.eu/about-us/action-lines/

• Education Academy- Master School - https://masterschool.eitdigital.eu/- Doctoral School - https://doctoralschool.eitdigital.eu/- Professional School - https://professionalschool.eitdigital.eu/- Summer Schools - https://www.eitdigital.eu/eit-digital-academy/summer-schools/- US-EU Internship programme - https://www.eitdigital.eu/eit-digital-academy/us-eu-

internship-programme/

• Business/Entrepreneurship:- EIT Digital Accelerator - https://www.eitdigital.eu/accelerator/- EIT Digital Challenge - https://www.eitdigital.eu/challenge/- Access to finance - https://www.eitdigital.eu/accelerator/access-to-finance/- DeepHack - https://www.eitdigital.eu/deephack/

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EIT Digital – What’s in it for me?

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Thanks for your attention!

Contact info: gm.maggio@eitdigital.eu