Frank Salliau (iMinds): Flanders’ digital Research & Incubation Institute @ NEM Summit 2014, TISP workshop

Flanders’ digital Research & Incubation Institute Frank Salliau

Sept 30th 2014 – NEM Summit / TISP Workshop

iMinds wants to create

a lasting and positive impact

on society through

ICT innovation

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iMinds’ vision

Employment Urbanization Ageing

Society Globalization Public health Environment

Internet

of Things Big Data

Cloud

Security

High Tech

Visualization

Connectivity

& Sensor

systems

Social

& context

based IT

Societal challenges

Markets

Technologies

The required ecosystem

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Entrepreneurs

Venture

Capital

Investors

Professions

Government

Management

Large pools

of private

capital

Public Stock

Markets

Major

Corporations

Strategic Investors

R&D Centers

Potential Acquirers

Universities

From idea to business: our innovation toolbox

5+ years …1 year Time-to-market

Strategic

research

Incubation &

Entrepreneurship

Applied

Research

Pre-competitive

testing

Knowledge-

driven

Explorative

Basics for

applied research

Training &

coaching

Financing

Facilities

Networking

Internationali-

zation

Business-driven

Interdisciplinary

Demand-driven

Cooperative

Proof of Concept

Large-scale user

trials & living

labs

Evaluate

technical

feasibility

Simulations

From idea to business: our innovation toolbox

5+ years …1 year Time-to-market

Strategic

research

Incubation &

Entrepreneurship

Pre-competitive

testing

Strategic

Partnerships

Strategic

Research

Agenda

ISBO projects

EU Programs

iBoot

iStart

iCubes

Go Global

Living Labs

iLab.o

Technical

Testbed

iLab.t

EU Programs

Applied

Research

Cooperative

research

ICON program

MiX-ICON

Art&D

Bilateral

research

The ICON program

iMinds value creation methodology

ICON research program

Interdisciplinary

Exploration of new products

& markets

Exploration of new business

models

Customer & partner consortia

Proof of Concept

demonstrator

Market

Enable companies

to address

new markets

Product

Absorb new

technologies

& launch

new products

Spin-off

Create new

spin-offs

& start-ups

2 y

+

Cooperative research Socio-economic value

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Media Innovation Center (MIX-ICON)

11 Calls 2005-2013

121 Projects 2005-2013

>300 Partners 2005-2013

ICON since 2005

Over 300 partners and counting

0

5

10

15

20

25

2010 2011 2012

Smart Cities

Manufacturing

Media

ICT

Health

Energy

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ICO

N a

nd M

iX p

roje

cts

appro

ved

Growing & differentiating our ICON portfolio

From idea to business: our innovation toolbox

5+ years …1 year Time-to-market

Strategic

research

Pre-competitive

testing

Strategic

Partnerships

Strategic

Research

Agenda

ISBO projects

EU Programs

Living Labs

iLab.o

Technical

Testbed

iLab.t

EU Programs

Applied

Research

Cooperative

research

ICON program

MiX-ICON

Art&D

Bilateral

research

EU Programs

Incubation &

Entrepreneurship

iBoot

iStart

iCubes

Go Global

Research to entrepreneurship: instruments

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(ICON) Research

Opportunity

recognition

iStart

iBoot

Discover business

opportunities

Launch a startup

company

Grow a company

Draft business

proposition

1

2

3

4

Business

Acceleration &

Internationalization

iMinds created 12 new companies in 2012

54

32

12

APPLICATIONS

& FIRST ROUND

INTERVIEWS

SECOND ROUND

INTERVIEWS

TokenPKI

12 NEW

COMPANIES

In the context of publishing…

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Publisher of the future

4 year project funded by IWT

Collaboration with sector federation Boek.be

Research focusing on:

New types of e-books & new ways of reading

New business models for the book publishing

industry

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Kweetet.be

Educational online gaming platform

In cooperation with educational publisher Die

Keure

Focused on primary school (6-12), involving

pupils, teachers & parents

Resulting from ICON project Games@School

More info: www.kweetet.be

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E-Strips

Development of a digital platform for comic books

New standard for digital representation of comics

Enrichments with textual and audiovisual elements

MIX-ICON project

Collaboration with 2 Flemish publishing

companies

Introductory movie: http://vimeo.com/81792939

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40 m

380+

1,000+ 800+

TOTAL REVENUE

RESEARCHERS

START-UPS from the iMinds incubation programs

PARTNERS in the iMinds ecosystem

PROJECTS with the industry

50+

1,000+ PUBLICATIONS on a yearly basis

Thank you for your attention!

Frank Salliau

Senior Researcher

[email protected]

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