From Territories to Europe and Back

Fabio Pianesi

Vice-Director for Research – Trento RISETrento Node Co-Location Manager – EIT ICT Labs Italy

Overview

Network of Territorial Ecosystems

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Thinking Global, Acting Local

EIT ICT Labs

Focus on Territory and Leveraging ICT for Quality of Life

Strong Academia and Industryparticipation

Trento RISE

Trento as an ideal Region for innovation

• First class research centres and university

• Governance committed to support and stimulatre

ERB initiatives

• Legislative Capacity to support ERB initiatives

• Short chain decision process

• Territorial Labs as main drivers of innovation

Territories are Key Players for innovation

TourismSport

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Energy

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Heath Care Transport

Public Bodies

Companies Research

Territories for innovation

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Culture

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• Demand for innovative services enabled by ICT• Participate actively in the process stimulating service innovation enabled by

ICT• Act as first “buyers” and “consumers” of service innovation

Companies Research

Territorial Ecosystems

• the territory (local government and public bodies) – demanding and buying service innovation

• people in the territory (as end users) – demanding and buying service innovation

• companies - delivering service innovation enabled by technical innovation

• research centers and universities - delivering technological innovation

All these actors systematically work together to set up, nurture and advance the Territorial Ecosystem for Innovation

Territorial Labs

• Living labs extended to the whole territory as means to push service innovation enabled by technological innovation

• Stable pool of users and infrastructure

• where the service provider can be close to the service consumer

• aiming at validating the applicability of innovative technology, organizational, business, market aspects, actual adoption by end-users

• as means to merge service innovation demand and technological innovation supply

• as the fundamental means to merge research, companies, public bodies, and people

Territorial Labs and ERB

• Research: results tested in realistic settings

• Education: hands-on experience for students in Masters and PhD courses and/or during summer/winter schools

• Business: market tests, comparison among alternative business models, assessment of the impact on organizations

• Active aging

• Mobile Territorial Lab

• Tunnels for smart mobility and energy savings

• …….

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Trento Rise’s Territorial Lab

EIT ICT Labs Italy

Projecting and networking outwardly

Vision: Innovation at the Regional Level

Regions: The right places for innovation …• where innovation meets society: policy makers, organizations, SMEs, people•“Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative – Innovation Union”•“External Evaluation of the EIT: Final Report, May 2011”

EIT ICT Labs @Italy

• involves through its partners some of the most active Italian regions:

Emilia Romagna, Lombardia, Piemonte, Toscana, Trentino …

• realizes its vision through Territorial Labs, as an evolution and extension of the Experience and Living Labs

Vision: ICT for Quality of Life

• Quality of life as a broad concept, beyond the economical richness & available

resources, embracing, e.g., health/social welfare, environmental conditions,

education, culture, etc.

• Quality of Life is a European Brand, a competitive advantage w.r.t. both highly

developed areas (e.g., USA, Japan) and emerging economies

• ICT is not only the KEY enabler of Quality of Life

• because it provides the tools, infrastructures and services to turn concepts

and potentials into reality

• It is what IS AND WILL BE SHAPING our understanding of QoL

• through new-generation

• through emerging research areas, e.g., Future Internet, Embedded Intelligence, Social & Human Computation, ...

Vision: ICT for Quality of Life (cont.)

• “Person Centric Quality of Life” along two dimensions:

• individual dimension (personal needs, individual life styles, etc.)

• social dimension (person “embedded” in a social environment)

• A “data driven” approach to Interconnection of services through

• massive individual and territorial data sets (available thanks to agreements

with regional authorities and industrial partners)

• Territorial Labs where new services are experimented

The Node: Three Core Partners

EIT ICT Labs @Italy

Core Partners

• One Scientific Core Partner:

• Trento RISE: Research centers + University

• Two Key European ICT Companies as core partners

• Telecom Italia spa: The major Italian Telco

• Engineering spa: The major Italian IT company

The Node: Industrial Affiliated Partners

EIT ICT Labs @Italy

• STMicroelectronics: Sensors, Microsystems, Embedded Systems

• FIAT Research: ICT for the Automotive Sector

Affiliated Partners

The Node: Scientific Affiliated Partners

EIT ICT Labs @Italy

• Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino:

knowledge transfer capabilities, business incubators, connection with large companies

• University of Bologna:

wide spectrum of scientific areas and humanities, connection with SMEs

• Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa:

special excellence graduate school (ICT + business + innovation)

• CNR: The National Research Council (8 research centers in Italy)

Affiliated Partners

The Node: Excellence

data limited to ICT and updated to mid 2011

Trento Co-location Centre

• 500+ researchers involved in EIT ICT Labs @Italy

• Co-location Center available in Trento ICT campus with 3000+ square

meters available for co-located activities

• Telecom Italia Research Lab

• Engineering lab

• Other major companies (Poste Italiane, IBM, …)

• Co-located SMEs (e.g., GPI) , spin offs

• Space available for affiliated partners

Trento Co-location Centre

Trento Co-Location Center

Trento Co-Location Center

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Co-locatio center

Co-locatio center

Activities Trento CLC – 2011-2012

Past activities Telecom Italia SKIL Lab Opening Event, April 8th, 2011 (Franco Bernabé,

CEO Telecom Italia) Doctoral training on IPR, May 2nd , 2011 GPI (local SME, ~800 employees) R&D Labs launch event, July 6th, 2011 Entrepreneurs IT @ Italy (Entrepreneurs Club event), July 7th 2011, Italian Future Affiliate Partners meeting, September 19th , 2011 Business Circle bi-monthly face-to-face meeting, November 17-18th, 2011 • Experience and Living Lab Catalyst Builder Kick off workshops for 2012

activities, February 12th – 13th , 2012• CLC visit – TIMS - Christian  Müller, Action Line Leader di TIMS

(Intellingent Mobility and Transportation Systems), February 22nd, 2012• CLC visit – Education - Carl-Gustaf Jansson, Activity Lead EIT

Master; Christian Queinnec, Activity Lead EIT Doctoral Training Center, February, 27th-29th, 2012

• Working Group, Doctoral Training Centre, February 28th, 2012• Workshop, Future Media and Content Delivery, March, 15th-16th, 2012

Activities Trento CLC – 2011-2012

Current and planned activities

Mind the Bridge Italy Tour, April 2012 MC, April, 17 Inauguration of Trento Node, April, 18 Roadshow, April, 19 Research Entrepreneurial Day, May 2 2012 SAT/SMT Summer School, June 2012 Conference on Big Data Management, July, 2012