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BUILDING A GLOBAL LEADING EDGE COMMUNITY
Konica Minolta Business Innovation CentresV1.8 [email protected] Manager of the Leading Edge Community in Europe
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WE‘RE BUILDING AN INNOVATION COMMUNITY
JOIN US IN EUROPE AND CONNECT WORLDWIDE
What is a leading edge community?
Who is Konica Minolta?
How is the Konica Minolta programme
different?
Q&A
How do you participate?
Recent examples of activity and outcome
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WHAT IS A LEADING EDGE COMMUNITY?
• Ideas are shared and developed together:
– Incubation-specific to Konica Minolta and
– Community proposals emerging from shared
ideas and connected insight
• Blend of skills, insight and assets
• Owned and run by the Konica Minolta Business
Innovation Centres – across the world
• Includes academics, startups, more established
companies and R&D functions of global enterprises
• Interlinked networks of value
• Seeks trial clients to test and feedback on incubations
• Ideas management platform provided in secure
environment
• Runs community events to build and maintain
connections
Incubation
Apps
Svcs
H/WBIC
You
Academics
Clients
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AN ASSEMBLY OF DIVERSE PEOPLE AROUND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY THEMES AND TOPICS
Konica Minolta Innovation
• Inspiration
• Influence
•Real network
•Client base
Academic
Research projects
Laboratory assets
Global specialists
Graduate network
Leading Edge Partners
Startup energy
Speed
Own networks
B2B Imagination
Alliance
Complementary technology
Go-to-market access
Scale and long-term view
Vertical
Specialist needs
Aligned partners
Industry innovation
LEADING EDGE COMMUNITY SPANS EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL GROUPS
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CLEAR STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The purpose of a leading edge partner community is to
discover and build working business prototypes in short
timescales for the commercial benefit of the community
and the wider world
It will achieve this by clustering activity around technical
platforms, business themes or specific clients defined or
agreed by Konica Minolta
The community must also feel free to propose technical
platforms, business themes or specific clients to members of
the group – there is no obligation to pursue all or part of these
Business prototypes may be derived from exploiting to-be
tested technologies, assembling existing technologies in new
ways, or facilitating commercial models in new ways.
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WHO IS KONICA MINOLTA?
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HOW IS THE KONICA MINOLTA COMMUNITY DIFFERENT? WE PROPOSE THREE SCENARIOS
Konica Minolta defines an emerging incubation field such as Augmented Reality – you add to and share value from the field
The Community discovers the incubation and collaborates on a Konica-Minolta co-funded project – you initiate or join a collaboration
+Community extends an existing product / service based on end-user feedback and capacity to contribute – add your technology and help strengthen value propositions
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STRUCTURE OF LEADING EDGE ACTIVITY –EXAMPLES WE AIM TO BUILD OUT IN 2016
Incubation Hook-ups
– Share Konica Minolta Leading Edge Commmunity strategy at European seed and tech events – 2 minute pitch and/or networking
Incubation Workshops
– For a specific technology platform, industry solution or technology field, disover and focus group capabilities in a 1 or 2 day workshop
– Facilitated by third party to a pre-agreed agenda with the objective of an collaborative action plan to be deployed within an agreed period of months
Big Challenge
– For example – “Build an operational digital workplace demonstrating advanced technologies in a human context in 10 days. And make it mobile”.
Little Challenge
– We,the community, have built this thing, or found this thing already which may be hardware, middleware, apps or services and need help understanding its potential or decision to stop. 1 day workshop, 1 day prep. Costs are shared by contributors.
Leading Edge Community Ideas Platform
– Observe, initiate and shape ideas on an open ideas management platform between Konica Minolta employees, clients and partners
– Open 24/7 with monthly Commmunity Calls (free dial-in)
– Invitees come from BIC Website applications bic.konicaminolta.eu
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VALUE TO YOU
Connect your IP to corporate-backed
solution incubations
Embed your IP in Konica Minolta
platforms for volume sales
Collaborate within the community –
adding value to your IP
Raise your profile for potential
Konica Minolta investment
Meet leading-edge thinkers and
doers
Shape near-future technology – to
your needs
Trial prototypes in your enterprise
Find routes to shared funding for
new ideas
To the entrepreneur To our clients To academic institutes
Discover new markets for protoype
ideas
Commercialise your developments
across the world
Open routes for post-gradudate
placements and jobs
Make new links with colleagues working
in related fields
Get the results published
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VALUE TO PARTNER
TECHNICAL PLATFORMS
PROJECT INCUBATIONS
CLIENT & INDUSTRY
EVENTS
ROUTES TO MARKET
COMMUNITY IP MODEL
COLLABORATION COMMUNITY
ROUTE TO EQUITY
DIGITAL WORKPLACE
SENSING & INFORMATION
HEALTHCARE(IT, Sensors, Diagnostics,
Imaging)
WHAT WE OFFER
PARTNER BENEFIT
OUR FOCUS
ROUTES TO R&D
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Q&A – LEADING EDGE PARTNER COMMUNITY
Are you an incubator?
– No. We build project incubations which are co-funded or fully funded by Konica
Minolta with the goal of assembling technologies which will drive new business
revenue. You can join these incubations following initial review processes.
Are you an accelerator?
– No. At least for now. There is no graduation programme nor is there small scale
equity injection. We work with accelators to identify potential leading edge partners.
Are you a VC?
– No. We work occasionally with Venture Capital firms when they have a stake in
leading edge partners we wish to invest in. Investments may be made by Konica
Minolta and are subject to a formal equity route – which may begin with this
community.
So what are you?
– A corporate enterprise with a programme for ‘Leading Edge’ thinking enterprises of
all sizes, which incubates business ideas and technological concepts. Direct
investment or financial support of individual enterprises is possible depending on
strategic alignment. With three types of partnership, we offer an environment in
which collaborative events take place and funded business incubations are formed.
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Apply on LEP site (click in Presentation
Mode)
Email confirmation
as LEP Community
Member
BIC aligns to a project
incubation
BIC aligns to existing sales
channels
BIC links to corporate
R&D
BIC evaluates finance options
Our actionsYour actions
Promote to Partner / Strategic Alliance
Contribute to idea
management platform
Join sub-groups based
on interest
Connect with other LEP members
Put forward your tech for
joint development
Make calls for technology
needs
Run ideas generation
events online
Create small scale, topic-
focussed hacks
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU SIGN UP
Locate client trial sites
We may schedule a 30 minute call in
selected cases
You provide a logo and
agree to its use by us
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WHAT PROGRAMMES WE CAN CONNECT YOU TO
Developer Support Program (DSP) for apps hosted on MFP
Business Development (BD)
Research and Development
– Business Technologies
– Medical Devices
– Industrial Materials
BIC Incubation Manager (BIC)
Leading Edge Partner Community
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A RECENT EXAMPLE FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Konica Minolta invests in Augmented Reality
partner Wikitude October 2014 Google withdraws
Google Glass January 2015
So what’s the business value of augmented
reality?
We turned to the leading edge partner community
– drawing together 5 leading edge partners to
explore the topic January 2015
Outcome : a defined market segment,
collaborative offering and customer RFP within
10 days
See more here Link to Konica Minolta Giving
Shape to Ideas Site
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MORE EXAMPLES FUNDED BY KONICA MINOLTA
Realtime asset tracking and machine data streaming of
Konica Minolta printers
Deep search across multimedia content
Workplace adaptive lighting control systems
And with your help, more to come in 2016
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NEXT STEPS – JOIN OUR COMMUNITY
Register your interest at http://bic.konicaminolta.eu/
and click ‚Apply‘
Subject to reivew, the BIC team will invite you to a
kick-off call and involve you in subsequent
communications and add you as an Associate
Then join our collaboration platform. Join topic-
relevant workshops from our calendar of events
Link to our special European blog
bic.konicaminolta.eu – please offer links for us to
include and communicate more widely
Help us on specific topics – look out for requests for
help on the blog
If we can help, ask for introductions to others in the
community
Incubation workshops
Enterprise client events
Virtual communities for global collaboration
