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INSPIRE as a businesscase for European geo-ICT SMEs…?

Jitka Faugnerová CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency

GI2014 – GI/GIS/GDI – Forum

Dresden, 30.4.2014

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Basic project information

15 partners 12 EU member states 05/2012- 05/2014

COUNTRY

BELGIUM

BULGARIA

CYPRUS

CZECH REPUBLIC

GERMANY

GREECE

ITALY

LITHUANIA

MALTA

SLOVAKIA

SPAIN

UNITED KINGDOM

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Basic project information

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Why a project aimed to SMEs?

• Assessment of market potential for geo-ICT SMEs in relation to INSPIRE

• Identification of reasons of limited involvement in INSPIRE implementation

• Development of tools supporting SMEs in their possible INSPIRE business

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What has been done in the project?

• Report for the European Commission describing SMEs participation in INSPIRE implemenation

• Set of tools available on project website • Dissemination activities – smeSpire workshops,

smeSpire day

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European network of geo-ICT SMEs

Surveyed SMES – inputs from project members (start of the project)

smeSpire network – input from SMEs (web questionnaire/adhesion form)

smeSpire network non SMEs – (public authorities, universities, NGOs…)

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How to join the network of SMEs?

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Compilation of the report

Short web questionnaires (joining the SME database after filling in)

Depth interviews: 5 SMEs 3 LMOs 1 INSPIRE national contact point 1 national geoinformation association

REPORT for EU

Report available: http://www.smespire.eu/publications_publikacie-media_sk/?did=32

Country reports

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Size of SMEs – number of employees

More than half of the European SMEs is a size of „micro“

Employees Year turnover

Medium <250 ≤ € 50 mil Small < 50 ≤ € 10 mil Micro < 10 ≤ € 2 mil

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MAIN ACTIVITIES • 82 % interviewed SMEs define themselves as "ICT„ • 18 % is focused on “Architectural and engineering”

(8.5%), “Scientific and technical activities” (6.3%) and “Construction and civil engineering” (1.4%)

YEAR OF FOUNDATION • 34 % between 1990-1999 • 41 % between 2000 - 2009 • 12 % after year 2010

Main activities and year of foundation

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Customers of SMEs

Half of the SMEs‘ customers are regional and local authorities

60 % of SMEs base their revenue on public sector (mainly local or national governments)

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MAIN ACTIVITIES • 40 % ‘users’ of spatial information • 20% data modeling or data transformation • 27% developing client applications • 6% develop network service solutions

ISO CERTIFICATION • 30% of companies are ISO9000 certified: this is tightly coupled to

public procurement procedures, seen as obstacle by ‘micro’ and ‘small’ companies due to costs and bureaucracy

OPEN SOURCE • 60% of companies are very competent on Open Source Software;

SOA is well known, while Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) is not; mobile applications are still a challenge

Activities, ISO certification, open source

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INSPIRE INVOLVEMENT • Just one-third of companies are already involved in some

INSPIRE-related activities

KNOWLEDGE OF INSPIRE • General objectives and principles are well known;

regulations about “Data” and “Network services” are less known.

• Competences needed to implement INSPIRE are available at private sector level, covering the whole range of activities.

SMEs & INSPIRE

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SMEs & INSPIRE

INVOLVEMENT IN INSPIRE – IN DETAIL • More than 25% in development of view services • More than 25% in development data modeling • More than 20% metadata catalogues • Less than 12% test suits • Less than 10% schema/data transformation

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INSPIRE THEME PERCENTAGE

III.4 LAND USE 57%

I.6 CADASTRAL PARCELS 50%

II.2 LAND COVER 47%

III.2 BUILDINGS 46%

II.3 ORTHOIMAGINERY 45%

II.1 ELEVATION 44%

I.6 TRANSPORT NETWORKS 43%

I.5 ADDRESSES 42%

III.6 UTILITY AND GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES 42%

Main INSPIRE themes for business

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BARRIERS TO INOVATION DEFINED BY SMEs • limited access to data: the licenses for re-use spatial

data and the costs curb innovation • difficulties in entering or participating in EU co-funded

projects (due to the complexity of bureaucracy and time requested to prepare administrative documents)

Main obstacles

MAIN OBSTACLES IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT • Only 14% of the overall EC budget for ICT FP7 projects

was received by SMEs, while 21% went to Large Enterprises (2007-2011)1.

• Almost half of companies see the dominance of the market by established enterprises as the main barrier.

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Importance of INSPIRE

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INSPIRE Coordinating committe

21 members

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Coordinating committe and working groups

CZECH INSPIRE COORDINATING

COMMITTEE

DATA, DATA QUALITY

SERVICES, GEOPORTALS

METADATA, CATALOGUES

DATA SHARING, LEGISLATION

MONITORING

EDUCATION

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Implementation - technical aspects

• METADATA Increase of data and services available (from about 250 metadata records publicly available in 2008 to 1.764 in 2014 (yesterday)) – many data providers started to use metadata after INSPIRE Directive

• SERVICES Massive increase of use of view services (e.g. cadaster data – indicator „use of service“ from 36,5 mil in 2009 to 708 mil in 2012) – many other data providers started to make their data available through services after INSPIRE Directive

• DATA Large involvement in data specs testing (remaining doubts about the feasibility of harmonization – mainly due to the large volume of time and personal needed)

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Implementation non - technical aspects

• Data sharing arrangements – e.g. after massive increase of usage of their data Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadaster changed their licences – usage of basic and specific INSPIRE licences

• Involvement of various stakeholders – Data providers get more involved – nearly 500

contacts in INSPIRE mailing list – 29 responses to the INSPIRE evaluation

questionnaire

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……BUT DO WE HAVE A STRATEGY….?

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INSPIRE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY • 7 years after…. the coordinating

committee agreed on content of this strategy

• Coordinated by Ministry of the Environment

• Preparation 01-10/2014

Czech GIS strategies

STRATEGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SPATIAL INFORMATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC 2020

• Decided by government in 11/2012

• Coordinated by Ministry of interior

• Preparation 11/2012 - 09/2014

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Three groups of goals • To fulfil requirements from the INSPIRE directive • By implementing INSPIRE support other state

strategies • By implementing INSPIRE support mainly the

decision making processes of the Ministry of the Environment

INSPIRE implementation strategy

• Forsees further development and use of INSPIRE geoportal

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GeoInfoStrategy (State strategy)

4 main goals • Providing guaranteed state services in order

to support effective use of spatial information for public administration activities and for general public

• Building a national infrastructure for creating, managing and linking data resources

• Improvement and further development of the data resources for their use by the public administration and general public

• Coordination and development of general arrangements for management and use of spatial data

State services

Building NSDI

State data

Legislation/ coordination

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GeoInfoStrategy (State strategy)

• Forsees creation and update of state required data (required by state = paid by state)

• Uses some of the INSPIRE requirements and supports their implementation where practicable

• Includes INSPIRE as a sub-part of this national spatial data infrastructure

• Might lead to creation of national spatial data

infrastructure law • Might lead to creation of National geoportal

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Conclusions

For most of the Czech SMEs INSPIRE does not create new business opportunities

…or only to a small number of SMEs

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Thank you for your attention

Jitka Faugnerová

jitka.faugnerova@cenia.cz

www.cenia.cz

http://inspire.gov.cz

http://geportal.gov.cz

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