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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 Digital

European 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
• f 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)

Digital Finance

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)

PR O VE N RE S UL TS WO R K ING WITH HUNDRE DS O F VE NTURE S

since 2012

260+ 17 €90m+ 91% €400m+

total supported sc aleups

investment fac ilitated by the A c c elerator A lumni in operation total investment raised by the sc aleups

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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 School Doctoral 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 CLC Milan 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
• f 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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DeepHack

Results-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
• 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
• 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
• 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