Máster Internacionalización Empresa 25 Abril 2012
Andreu Campos Candel
RIC Project Manager / FCVRE
Innovating for low-carbon
prosperity and climate
resilience
Climate-KIC: Europe’s engine for
climate change innovation
The innovation pipeline
Ecosystem:
The research and
knowledge base
Pathfinder:
Market
identification
Innovation
Product and
service
development
Delivery:
Marketable
products and
services
Education – entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship – incubation and support
CLC and RIC are the crucial hubs
for integration of these actors and
activities
CLC and RIC are a key dimension of
Climate-KIC matrix management
• We form a network of ~100 partners
across Europe
• We come together at 5 Co-locations
• We reach out right across Europe
via our Regional Innovation &
Implementation Community (RIC)
• We are run like a business – CEO,
Executive, Governing Board,
Assembly
• We identify and respond to the
challenges of Climate Change
• Our activities cross boundaries:
discipline, sector, geography
•Europe’s engine for innovation in climate change mitigation and adaptation
Our Innovation Community and
European ‘interconnectivity’ Co-location Centre
Regional
Innovation and
Implementation
Community
Partners in the Valencian Region
• AIDICO
• Asociación de Industrias del Mármol
• Ayuntamiento de Castellón
• CEU-Cardenal Herrera
• DG Obras Públicas (Conselleria Infraestructuras, Territorio y Medio Ambiente)
• Edinn
• FCVRE
• Federación Valenciana de Empresarios Construcción (FEVEC)
• FVMP
• IMPIVA
• Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación (IVE)
• Instituto Tecnológico Cerámico
• Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía
• MIDEME
• Universidad de Alicante
• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Our Core Partners: 7 universities; 5 business; 5 Research
institutes; 3 RTO
Innovative companies
across several industries
Leading academic and
research institutes
7 and 17/83 Affiliate partners are universities
Integration of FOUR sectors for
innovation
Innovation
domain
Government &
Public Bodies
Research Business
Education
Excellence is paramount
Our partners span top:
•universities and research institutes
(35)
•business (19), SMEs (21)
•regional and local government (13)
•Not-for-Profit organisations and
networks (13)
Climate-KIC therefore brings together
all the actors of the innovation
pyramid .....
...and integrates these with our three pillars:
•Innovation & Pathfinder
•Entrepreneurship
•Education
Innovation: initially 4 themes across 5 CLC to
avoid silos
Source: IPCC AR4 WGII
•Cross-CLC/RIC
Innovation &
Pathfinder projects
•Evolving CLC/RIC
leadership in high
impact innovation
areas
Land, Water &
Ecosystem
management
Agricultural
Production
ASSESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND
MANAGING ITS DRIVERS
WATER &
ENERGY
SPATIAL AND LAND
MANAGEMENT PRODUCTION AND
CONSUMPTION
CITIES AND BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
Developing thematic areas
Entrepreneurship support
Support for students, project teams, start ups and SMEs
Incubation & Support, Business Creation, Events & Competitions e.g. – Climate-KIC Incubator network
– Climate-KIC Master Class Programme
– Climate-KIC Venture competition
– Open Innovation Slams
– SME Climate Innovation Vouchers
– Climate-KIC Market Accelerator
More climate starters, more starters & SMEs on fast growth trajectory, business acceleration for innovations
Climate-KIC
Entrepreneurship programme 2012
Clear ambition:
More climate starters
More starters & SMEs on fast growth trajectory
Business acceleration for innovations
1. Incubation & Support
2. Business Creation
3. Events & Competitions
4. Pioneers into Practice
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Pioneers into Practice:
What‘s involved
13
A placement programme will allow participants to be placed in a range of low
carbon projects (e.g. Climate-KIC innovation and pathfinder project)
An organised mentored programme: Participants will be supported by
leading European experts on transition thinking and systems innovation
through a structured programme of learning by doing.
Venture Support: The best practice ideas developed during the Pioneers
programme will be eligible for further support to explore the potential for
innovation in practice
Pioneers into Practice:
Experiences and Outlook
14
Two pilot editions:
2010: domestic placement and crucibles; more than 50 Pioneers
2011: innovation festival in Budapest, foreign placement and joint crucible;
more than 50 Pioneers
Current edition in 2012: two placements (regional and international) and
innovation festival in Bologna, around 150 Pioneers
http://www.climate-kic.org/entrepreneurs/networks/pioneers-programme/
Link
Valencia, October 2010 Brussels, November 2011
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/documentation/roadmap/docs/com_2011_112_en.pdf
Climate-KIC
Entrepreneurship programme 2012
Clear ambition:
More climate starters
More starters & SMEs on fast growth trajectory
Business acceleration for innovations
1. Incubation & Support
2. Business Creation
3. Events & Competitions
4. Pioneers into Practice
20
Master classes for most
promising starters and ventures
Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship 21-22 May 2012, Utrecht
Open Innovation framework where, through collaboration with a variety of partners, new improved ventures can be created faster than their current corporate or start-up environment by Henry Chesbrough
‘real beef’, entrepreneurial experience, startup organization
July: Master class Customer Development by Steve Blank
September: Masterclass on Finance
November: Masterclass on Business Modelling http://www.climate-kic.org/entrepreneurs/masterclasses-events/masterclass-
open-innovation/
Education: The Academy for
Climate Innovation
theJourney: An
intensive 5 week
programme for all
Masters and PhDs
that creates a
community of
climate innovators
and entrepreneurs.
The programmes
•Masters
•PhD
•Postdoctoral
•Professional
Some examples of our
successes....
Pioneer Cities – led by Climate-KIC
regions
Buildings
• Retrofit of housing stock
• Energy Demand Management
Energy Networks
• Bio-waste into energy
• Combined heat and power
Mobility
• Low Emission Vehicle Systems
• Integrated Mobility Services
Pioneer
Cities
Outcomes = New
Place-based
Business Models
Cities:
• Birmingham
• Frankfurt
• Bologna /
Modena
• Budapest
• Wroclaw
• Castellon /
Valencia
Innovations – new financing models, forms of user engagement
Our young enterprises:
Naked Energy – EIT Award 2012
and joint winner of Climate-KIC Venture competition 2011
•Climate-KIC SME partner
•Support from Climate-KIC UK CLC for measuring and
characterising performance
Improved
business case
•Hybrid solar panel providing electricity and hot water
•Combined Photo Voltaic and thermal energy system
•PV inside the tube with water flowing though
•PV provides electricity
•Water keeps PV at optimal temperature and provides source of hot water
•Unprecedented efficiency; cheaper renewable energy
Our young entrepreneurs -
training and support via the
Climate-KIC ‘Journey’
“there is nothing
comparable to Climate-
KIC...it is unique”
“there is no other
opportunity like this”
An intensive 5 week
programme for all
Masters and PhDs
that creates a
community of
climate innovators
and entrepreneurs. Some start-ups from
the Journey
•DeCo!
•ElectricFeel
•Arboreal
•Small World Carbon
Greenhouse and sponsored
Start-Ups: DeCo!
•Decentralised composting for
sustainable farming and development
•SEED Award 2010
•Registered as NGO in Ghana
•Decentralised composting service to local
farmers (Franchise system in long term)
•Buy local biowaste, convert to organic fertiliser
•Reduces soil degradation and erosion
•Improves food security
•Creates new jobs
•Reduces GHG emissions
•Improves waste management
•Participatory approach
Greenhouse and sponsored
Start-Ups: Arboreal
A social business for people and forests
•Business concept: to set up self-contained mechanical processing centres to
allow cooperatives in tropical forests to process Non Timber Forest Products
(NTFP) such as cosmetics, medicinal and edible products.
•Processing centre contains the machinery to create higher value product from raw
NTFP, and storage and packages facilities
•Arboreal also provides training, coaching and networking services to enable
cooperative to run effective business and to access distribution channels for their
products
•Small scale industry helps communities move up the value chain and preserves
the forest
•Forest regions of Madhya Pradesh in India selected as location for the first
processing centre (64 million people of working age in Indian forest areas).
Alumni experience of the Climate-
KIC Journey
• The physical science of Climate Change
• The set-up process of a business
• Ambitious people from different scientific and
cultural backgrounds
Entrepreneurial Mindset & Confidence
“The most important thing I gain from Climate-KIC, apart from friends of
course, it was the entrepreneurial spirit that will always remain with me....”
BASIC
RESEARCH
Water
ClimateZero-Carbon
Production
Cities
The market place and climate
market acceleration
Market accelerator • Demand identification • Supply identification • Interface / Brokerage
Community tool • Member profiles • Substantive issues • Working groups
Climate-KIC Radar • Overview existing activities/strengths • Innovation opportunities
•Demonstration cities
project
•Leadership: NL, UK.
ES
•With the RIC regions’
‘Pioneer Cities’
•Bringing partners
together around “demand
side” challenges
•Accelerating market
delivery via the pipeline
Business challenge-driven
innovation
• Sainsbury’s supermarket – Reduced carbon footprint of stores
– Carbon neutral products at low prices
– Want innovators to work with Sainsbury’s and their suppliers, e.g. farmers
– Will also offer stores as a test bed • E.g. Naked Energy!
– Student masters and PhD projects
• Large innovation cascade via suppliers – sheltered innovation
• Model for other businesses
Schiphol: Airports as low carbon
cities
•the ‘airport city’ concept
•Proposed and led by
Schiphol Airports (Climate-
KIC core partner)
•Round table:January 2012
•Conference June 2012
•Cross sectorial scoping
“Schiphol gave up being just an airport a long time ago”
Schiphol: What output from
Climate-KIC?
Strengthening sustainability and innovation
• Thought leadership
• New ideas/insights
• Challenging current activities
• Academic support in new services & new products
• Resources (€ & FTE) for sustainability / innovation
efforts
• Promising start-ups
What does Schiphol bring to
Climate-KIC?
Network, challenges, business spirit & resource
support
• Network
• Business input on sustainability
• Seed capital Fund (Mainport Innovation Fund)
• Sustainability challenges (“Green Terminal”, “transport”
etc)
• New services & new products
• Resources for sustainability / innovation
CLC and RIC: our essential
ecosystem for innovation across
sectors
Innovation
Festival,
Hungarian
RIC,
Budapest
September
2011
Ideas Market
Place, German
CLC, Berlin
June 2011
• Hub of connectivity
• Centre of knowledge
• Launch pads, landing
pads, pipeline
• Structuring
mechanism
Gràcies
Co-location Centre
Regional
Innovation and
Implementation
Community
Government &
Public Bodies
Research Business
Education
Innovation
domain
..Connect, create, transform..