Connecting innovators across the value chain ICT for Manufacturing - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Dr Max Lemke Deputy Head of Unit CNECT A3 max.lemke at ec.europa.eu

Connecting innovators across the value chain

ICT for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) June 2013

• High tech SMEs want to/must innovate
• SMEs need a market window of opportunity
• SMEs must be connected along the value chain
• SMEs often operate in the wake of the big ones
• SME schemes must be quick and dynamic
• SMEs need much more than €s:

access to technology & competences access to infrastructures access to new markets

• n an EU-scale across sectors and regions

through networks of competence centres

Some Reflections

I4MS

Focus: Fast adoption of four groups of ICT technologies expected to have

particularly high impact on modernising Europe's manufacturing capabilities

Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs

I4MS

Strong SME Focus

SMEs in Manufacturing

• Key role of SMEs in value

chains: users and suppliers

• SME need more than €s:

access to competences and networks across Europe

I4MS

• 2 customised measures:

Application experiments Assessment experiments

• Clustered around networks
• f competence centres
• Collaboration in a network
• f innovation multipliers

I4MS

Structured use of FP7 Instruments

I4MS

Open Calls to dynamically expand consortium

Structure of the Initiative

~ 77 M€

I4MS

EuRoc (IP) Fortissimo (IP) CloudSME (IP)

Advanced robot solutions HPC Cloud-based simulation services

INTEFIX (IP) LASHARE (IP) APPOLO (IP)

Intelligent sensor based equipment Innovative laser applications

I4MS-Gate

~ 100 Application Experiments (7.1) ~ 50 Assessment Experiments (7.2) Network of innovation multipliers (7.2)

Projects/Programmes of similar nature:

ECHORD (Robotics, FP7) BEINGRID (Grid technologies, FP6) FUSE (Microelectronics, FP5) HPCN-TTN (HPCN, FP5) EUROPORT (HPCN, FP4) SEA (Semiconductor Equipment Assessment, FP4-6)

Cutting across CNECT A domains

CloudFlow (IP)

An example

I4MS

HPC-Cloud-based simulation services (Fortissimo, CloudFlow, CloudSME)

Analysis of Participation

• Totals include management and service SMEs
• Data is extrapolated to full expansion after open Calls
• New stakeholder communities: 2/3 newcomers
• Open calls: 35% of budget
• ~70% industrial, ~50% SME participation (~39% of funding)
• Broadly covering Europe (~25 countries)

Detailed SME participation analysis:

I4MS

SMEs (funds) Supply-side SMEs Demand-side SMEs

20 SMEs (2 M€) Robotics supplier (12 %) Robotics users (88 %) 110 SMEs (14 M€) Simulation codes/services (47 %) Simulation users (42 %) 20 SMEs (4 M€) Sensor-based control systems suppliers (65 %) Machine tools industry (35 %) 50 SMEs (10 M€) Laser suppliers (70 %) Manufacturing equipment suppliers (22 %) 200 SMEs (30 M€) 50 % 45 %

• Piloting experiments must be innovative beyond what

is available on the market:

Novel use of emerging technologies and/or provisioning of novel technologies

• Rules for participation apply:

multi-nationality is applied across IP consortia and NOT by experiment Funding regime: SMEs 75%, large industry 50%

• Infrastructure and equipment: case by case basis, e.g.

Laser and sensor equipment: EC pays for the assessement and the set-up of the experiment, but not for the equipment Cloud-based simulation:

• SW tools: free licenses by vendors limited to project, effort for customisation paid
• Compute resources: built on existing infrastructures, experiments pay for resources
• r get a limited quota within the project arrangement

Implementation Issues

I4MS

• •• 10

Competitive Calls

• Available in IPs/NoEs under FP6 and FP7 to expand consortia
• Funding reserved at proposal stage with profile of activities

and actors defined (WP 2013 Challenge 7: up to 50% of project budget)

• Original project partners cannot apply
• Basic rules defined by EC
• Model Contract Article II.35 and Guidance Note
• In the spirit of EC processes - but lighter:

Wide call announcement Same basic evaluation criteria Reporting and EC approval after preparatory and after selection phase

• Implemented through (normally one) amendment per Call
• Timeline: 3-6 months from planning to contract

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/le ad/fippp/Guidance_note_for_project_coordinators_plann ing_a_competitive_call.doc ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-ga-annex2- v6_en.pdf

Future

• I4MS is part of the PPP Factory of the Future

and the EFFRA vision

• Open, SME-friendly
• SMEs benefit along

multiple dimensions

• A model for innovation

measures in H2020

• I4MS continued in

WP 14/15 (CP 70%)

• Further to explore:
• Access to venture capital: H2020 finance instruments
• Integrated use of features of the H2020 SME instrument

I4MS