Overcoming the innovation gap − a bridge from lab to fab

Jussi Tuovinen, Vice President, R&D VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

COBIK 2012, Ljubljana

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Outline

Setting the scene Valley of death Value chain and value creation Open innovation

VTT Innovation organisation and our approach to SMEs Tools for innovations - overcoming the gab

Innovation environments and ecosystems: Micronova, PrintoCent, MemsCat Innovation alliance: Heterogeneous Technology Alliance (HTA) EU: Research for the benefit of SMEs

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The scene and trends

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EC has set-up High Level Group (HLG) for Key Enabling Technologies (KET)

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Be local – be global

Local ecosystems & clusters

Collaboration Networks Alliances

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Building value-chains – providing solutions

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Open innovation paradigm

Research Development

New Market

Current Market

Boundary of the Firm

Research Projects

By Chesbrough 2003

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The value creation

Service business has increasing importance in global markets. What is value and role of key enabling technologies in the value chain? Does the hardware have anymore primary importance for the business? Is

only service business key to value creation?

Services

It appears that the ends of the value chain are most know-how and research intensive. To create unique solutions, very close collaboration between service

providers and key enabling technology & components supplier and creators are necessary.

Com- ponents Sensors

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Should an advanced country care about manufacturing?

Gross margin $ 76

Retailer $ 45

Distributor $ 30 Manufacturing $ 7 (assembly)

Parts: Storage $ 74

Parts: Display $ 24 Parts: Chips $ 18

Parts: Others $ 25

Breakdown of $299 retail price of a 30Gb Video iPod® in 2005

Data source: Dedrick, Kraemer, Linden, UC Irvine (PCIC), mimeo, Sep. 2007.

Rouvinen, ETLA

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VTT innovation organisation

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Customer sectors - Biotechnology,

pharmaceutical and food industries

- Chemical industry and environment

- Electronics - Energy - Forest industry - ICT - Machine, vehicle and

metal industries - Real estate and

construction - Services and logistics

Focus areas of research - Applied materials - Bio- and chemical

processes - Energy - Information and

communication technologies

- Industrial systems management

- Microtechnologies and electronics

- Services and the built environment

- Business research

VTT’s operations - Research and

Development - Strategic Research - Business Solutions - Business Development - Group Services

VTT’s companies - VTT Expert Services Ltd

(incl. Labtium Ltd, Enas Ltd)

- VTT Ventures Ltd - VTT International Ltd

(incl. VTT Brasil LTDA) - VTT Memsfab Ltd

VTT Group in brief

Turnover 307 M€ (2011) • Personnel 3,187 (31.12.2011)

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Basic

research

Development

VTT

Applied research

VTT’s status as performer of R&D work

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• Discovery of new biomarker

VTT’s one-stop shop for diagnostics solutions

•Recombinant antibody development

•Probe and primer engineering

•Large-scale production

• Immunoassays • Microarrays

•Lab on chip: Silicon and polymer based microfluidics

•Unique manufacturing •Optical readers &

devices •Wireless data transfer

Reagent development

Assay development

Solutions for analytics

Computational tools and data

mining

• Early diagnostics of complex diseases

Biomarkers

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VTT Group on the map

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Tampere

Oulu

Jyväskylä

Helsinki • • Turku Rajamäki

• Raahe • Kajaani

Kuopio •

Finland

Lappeenranta

• Sodankylä

• Rovaniemi

Outokumpu • Espoo •

Australia

VTT research units

Sales & marketing Offices

Assessment of new opportunities

Shanghai China

Seoul South Korea Tokyo

Japan

Brussels Belgium

St. Petersburg Russia

Germany

Berkeley USA (VTT/MSI)

São Paulo Brazil

East Coast USA

Singapore

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VTT and SMEs

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VTT with SMEs today

SME invoicing of VTT is ~20% of company invoicing

This is increasing ~10 – 20% annually

Today ~1000 SME customers

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Challenges

SMEs are challenging target group they are so numerous and spread all

over cash flow should be generated

immediately – this set challenges to research and development projects they have hands on approach they spent quite modest sums for

development “language difference” compared to

LEs

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VTT’s objectives with SMEs Help to internationalize Finnish SME companies

Participation in EU SME projects Introduce Finnish SMEs to the network of international

companies (as contractors, customers) Build more complete value chains

VTT as a strategic R&D partner for selected SME companies and entrepreneurs

Connect SMEs better to national innovation structures

New collaboration projects with SHOKs (EU funding)

VTT’s role towards regional SMEs: More efficient usage of VTT’s regional agents

The buying of VTT services should be made easy Nominate responsible contacts for SMEs Advice on technologies and funding structures Lean projects with minimum bureaucracy Promote the most mature technologies

Focus on innovative and growth-oriented companies

More emphasis on VTT spin-offs License VTT technologies as new products to existing

companies

SHOK Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation

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Target group

SMEs in Finland ~ 250 000

Over 50 employee, ~ 1 800 comp.

SMEs

Large enterprises: 620

How to find most interesting SMEs

Partnership

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Profiles of interesting SME segments

Growth oriented SMEs, expanding to foreign markets TEM customer strategy segment

First target group is SMEs with over 50 employees

SMEs that are part of the value chain of the big brand owners

VTT’s own spin-off companies

Innovative, technology developers (R&D intensive) which have own product(s) Start ups, small companies etc.

TEM Ministry of Employment and the Economy

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Tools for innovations – overcoming the gap

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VTT has two major facilities on micro- and nanofabrication These facilities are: - Micronova, innovation environment - PrintoCent, roll-to-roll printing pilot factory

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PrintoCent Pilot Factory

• Table-top printers • Research and development • Proof of concept

demonstrators

Laboratory infrastructure R2R up-scaling R2R pilot manufacturing

• Room-sized R2R lines • Trasfer from lab to R2R • Process development

• Hall-sized R2R pilot lines • Towards pilot

manufacturing • Towards market trials

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PrintoCent Pilot Factory

R2R pilot manufacturing

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Micronova CENTRE FOR MICRO AND NANOTECHNOLOGY Espoo, Finland

National Research Infrastructure VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) Aalto University School of Science and Technology 350 persons 2600 m2 clean room, class 10 - 1000 Technology Park for startups Companies with focus on microelectronics

Technologies MEMS CMOS Thin film (FBAR,

SQUIDs, SAW) Nanoelectronics Microphotonics, optics Printed electronics Circuits and antenna

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Basic

research

Development

VTT

Applied research

VTT’s status as performer of R&D work

Micronova

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Microsystems and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

MEMS is fabricated like integrated circuits but with one difference: MEMS has movable structures, for example a spring and a mass. Microsystems and MEMS are often used almost as synonyms.

Nintendo Wii game console was a forerunner in consumer MEMS.

Photo: SensorDynamics (Maxim)

MEMS spring and mass:

Classical spring and mass:

Main motivation

To expand and lower the threshold the use of microsystems within the industry.

To lower the cost for start-ups to use microsystems and the threshold level for creating MEMS/Microsystems start–ups.

To attract and create new talents and businesses

To ensure competitiveness of ecosystem’s members and partners

Impact/Value

Raw silicon Silicon wafers Sensor Elements: Sensor with ASIC/electronics

Sensor fitted on application Final system utilizing the MEMS

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Sensor with ASIC/electronics

Weather station Airport weather service enabled business

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Impact/Value

Polysilicon (SOI) wafer Sensor:

2 3 1

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4.0 4.5 λ (µm)

TFPI

Carbocap® CO2 gas sensing

CO2 absorps IR light at λ = 4.2 µm MEMS Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) tuned at 4.2 µm ⇒ Thermopile voltage is a function of CO2 concentration in air

FPI Thermopile

CO2

Sensor example 3

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

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4.0 4.5

Carbocap® CO2 reference measurement

CO2 does not absorp IR light at λ = 3.9 µm MEMS Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) tuned at 3.9 µm ⇒ Thermopile voltage gives a reference for CO2 measurement

λ (µm)

TFPI

FPI Thermopile

CO2

CO2 absorption

Sensor example 3

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Fuel quality sensor technology

VTT designs the MEMS heart of the sensor, including e.g.: Fabry-Perot interferometer Thermopile detector

The outcome of the VTT’s subproject

is a mini spectrometer for near infrared wavelength region Optical resolution 5…10 nm Tuning range: 25% of the selected

center wavelength

EUREKA/Euripides project IQFUEL, Industrial and research partners: Continental, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, VTI Technoogies, Selmic, Aboard Engineering

Ensiatec, CEA LETI, IFP

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Heterogeneous Technology

Alliance

http://www.hta-online.eu/home/

Heterogeneous Technology Alliance

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Various technologies • Micro & Nanotechnologies • Surface functionalization • Wafer scale integration • Plastics & organics • Packaging • …

Complex functions • Sensing • Acoustic • Photonic • Integrated power sources • µfluidics • Biological • Electromagnetic • …

Various solutions • Automotive • Medical • Telecom • Healtcare • …

Trend

Heterogeneous Technology Alliance

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A global offer from any entry point

Dresden, Berlin, München

Empl. 1’600

Turnover : 220 M€

Clean room : 8450 m2

Division Recherche Technologique

Grenoble

Empl. 1’400

Turnover : 191 M€

Clean room : 8’000 m2

Neuchâtel

Empl. 350

Turnover: 35 M€

Clean room : 1200 m2

Espoo, Oulu

Empl 2’700

Turnover : 217 M€

Clean room : 2450 m2

Heterogeneous Technology Alliance

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Fraunhofer (100, 150 and

200 mm)

Customer2

Market • Mass products • Consumer products

Market • Special needs • Small scale products (SME)

External foundry

HTA

SO

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PLAT

FO

RM

R&D

Prod. HTA production

services

CSEM Neuchâtel

(100 and 150 mm)

VTT Espoo

(150 mm)

CEA LETI Grenoble (200 mm)

Customer needs

Resulting technology

TRL files

HTA MEMS Platform

Tech1 Tech3 Tech5 Tech7

Heterogeneous Technology Alliance

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Berlin

Itzehoe

Duisburg

Erlangen

Freiburg

Grenoble

Munich

Dresden Chemnitz

200 mm

150 mm

MEMS processing

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Participant Portal - FP7 Calls - Capacities – Open Calls – Research for the benefit of SMEs:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/home

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Examples of EU SME projects participated by VTT

ZERO-VOC aims to develop an affordable, reliable tool for the on-line monitoring of harmful and toxic VOC emissions that will be validated for its use in several demanding gas measurements.

VITISPEC aims to develop an affordable and reliable on-line tool for monitoring red wine fermentation for winemaking SMEs. OPTIMALT aims at developing a rapid and reliable on-line tool for assessing the malting quality of barley using automated optical analysis to overcome the limitations of current technologies.

OPTI-CLEAN aims to develop an instrument for cleaning validation of pharmaceutical industry using chemical imaging technique. PARTICLEPRO aims to develop an instrument for simultaneous particle size measurement and chemical imaging.

THIME aims to develop real-time measurement systems for printed intelligence process quality monitoring. NGOPTICS aims to develop high precision glass moulding technology for manufacturing of lenses with diffractive features.

“Research for the Benefit of SMEs”

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Summary

Future is in innovations - open networking - global markets - services based on key enabling technologies.

ICT, electronics, materials and biotechnology are key to innovations in many cases.

We need to focus on the whole value chain, especially how to go from lab demos to fabrication.

Collaboration and co-creation schemes were presented by were introduces to over come the gap.

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