Dr. Max Lemke, Head of Unit Digitising European Industry Digital Innovation Hubs helping SMEs and Mid-caps in their digital Transformation Manufuture Tallinn 25 October 2017 Technologies & Systems for Digitising Industry, DG CONNECT/A2, European Commission #DigitiseEU
Level of digitisation differs according to size of company, sector and region 56% of companies in computer programming, consultancy and information services are highly digitised. Only around 6% of companies in basic metals & fabricated metal products excluding machines & equipment are highly digitised. Spain 53% of Danish companies are highly digitised vs 8% in Bulgaria and Romania 42% of large companies is highly digitised in the EU vs 16% of SMEs 2
Digitising European Industry: The EU is delivering
What is a Digital Innovation Hub? one-stop-shop specialist expertise awareness creation digital maturity assessment innovation scouting Digital Innovation Hub brokering/ matchmaking multi-partner cooperation visioning and strategy development mentoring Access to Finance Competence Centre Digital Skills training coaching fabrication of new products investor readiness services services for companies infrastructure Digital Transformation Experiments experimentation and testing pilot factories Fab-labs Provide support to start-ups, SMEs, mid-caps in managing their digital transformation Competence Centres are at the core of DIHs Variable geometries: technology applications, sector, SME focus etc. Different service portfolios offers Single organisations to multi-partner cooperation Working Group report on DIHs: https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/report-wg1-digital-innovationhubs-mainstreaming-digital-innovation-across-all-sectors-final 4
Digital Innovation Hubs "Ensure that every business in Europe, whatever its sector of activity, wherever located and whatever its size, can take full advantage of digital innovations and competences" Member States & regions: Build-up/strengthening of national and regional structures of DIHs (national, regional, ESIF) EU-supported DIH schemes example: Commission H2020 (100M /yr): Networking and support activities Innovative Cross-border experiments 140M of EU funding - 15 large projects 125 DIHs/competence centres 450 experiments: 80% cross-border dimension 560 contractors. Out of which 406 industrial: 84% SMEs and mid-caps, 50% users, 65% new in EU R&I Programmes 29 Members States and Ass. Countries
Example EU Initiative I4MS: Fortissimo Cloud-based CFD simulation for hypercars: End-user SME: KOENIGSEGG SE ISV-SME: ICONCFD UK HPC centre: CINECA IT HPC centre: EPCC - UK IoT solutions for the footware ecosystem in PT Norte: End-user + competence centres: PT EU-FITMAN ecosystem 6
Digital Innovation Hubs Catalogue Collaboration between CNECT, REGIO, GROW, JRC First version available: Fact-sheets with profile, contact data, service examples for regional, national, and EU-supported DIHs Map-based search tool by technical competences, market sector, services http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digitalinnovation-hubs-tool Work in progress next steps: For policy makers: Link with other S3 tools such as "Eye@Ris3" regional data on smart specialisation and EIPE (ICT Poles of Excellence) data For DIHs and SMEs/mid caps: Analysis tools supporting collaboration of DIHs JRC-B3-DIH@ec.europa.eu 7
European Network of DIHsfilling the white spots Finished Ongoing Future actions DRAFT 29 DIHs coached so far 14 EU countries 1.45M (up to 50k per participant) in I4MS for most promising regional competence centres for developing their case for becoming a DIH Coordination: I4MS Growth and XS2I4MS 18 coached hubs participated in the latest I4MS call, 8 successfully http://dih.i4ms.eu/ Smart Factories in Central and Eastern Europe (EU13) 1.8M from the European Parliament to support the implementation of DIHs in the selected countries and regions where the divergence in uptake and adoption of digital technologies has been so far limited Call open until 22 October https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/applicationform Final selection of 30 DIHs by early December Coordination: PWC and Oxford University Innovation https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/implementing-digitisingeuropean-industry-actions/digital-innovation-hubs-smart-factoriesnew-eu ± 8M for widening the SAE and I4MS networks towards industrial regions which are so far underrepresented (WP18-20) Tentative opening call date: 16 Oct. 2018 deadline: 2 April 2019 8
Upcoming open "cascading funds" calls Project Technology Area Call 1 Call 2 Call 3 Call 4 Call 5 I4MS (Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs) Initiative HORSE Robotics Nov.17 - - - - ReconCell Robotics Nov.17 - - - - L4MS Logistics for Manufacturing Sep.18 Sep.19 - - - CloudiFacturing HPC cloud-based simulation services Jul.18 Jul.19 - - - MIDIH CPS/IoT for Manufacturing Mar.18 Mar.19 - - - AMABLE Additive Manufacturing Mar.18 Mar.19 Mar.20 - - SAE (Smart Anything Everywhere) Initiative FED4SAE Cyber-Physical and Embedded Systems Nov.17 May18 Nov.18 - - TETRAMAX Bilateral Value chain/ interdisciplinary Low energy computing powering CPS and IoT Nov.17 Oct.18 Sep.19 Apr.20 - Feb.18 Dec.18 Oct.19 Apr.20 - Entrepreneurial Aug.18 Aug.19 Aug.20 - - DIATOMIC SmarTEES Other projects Data Pitch Advanced micro-electronic components and Smart System Integration Organic and large area electronics Data brokerage between public sector organisations and SMEs Mar.18 Sep.18 - - - Mar.18 Jul.18 Nov.18 Apr.19 Sep.19 Jul.17 end of Sep.17 Autumn 18 - - - 9
Work Programme 2018 2020 - ICT Focus area "Digitising and transforming European industry and services" calls for digital innovation hubs (for 300 M ) DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) Initiative Including: "widening" part for industrial regions that are currently underrepresented in I4MS and SAE DT-ICT-02-2018: Robotics Digital Innovation Hubs DT-ICT-03-2020: I4MS (phase 4) - uptake of digital game changers and digital manufacturing platforms DT-ICT-04-2020: Photonics Innovation Hubs DT-ICT-05-2020: Big Data Innovation Hubs In SC2: DT-RUR-12-2018: ICT Innovation agriculture Digital Innovation Hubs for Agriculture 10
Key issues MUST be addressed Consortia should be deeply rooted in regional/national DIH Critical mass of highly innovative, cross border experiments: > 50% of budget to benefit SMEs and mid-caps Long-term sustainability: business plan for DIHs plan to attract investors address training and skills development needs link to established networks and infrastructures, e.g. Enterprise Europe, NCP networks, EIT KICs Contribute to organically growing the network of DIH to broadly cover the EU 11
Artificial Intelligence: The Next Digital Game Changer Make AI accessible "on-demand" Build Europe's technological and industrial capacity in AI - overcome fragmentation WP 2018-20: - AI call 2018 - FoF call 2020 Liability and access to data Build skills and proactively address jobs 12
Digital Innovation Hubs post H2020 The digital transformation is not finished in 2020 investments need to be reinforced in the next MFF SMEs and mid-caps: simpler access to investments for their digital transformation Strategic and simpler pooling of investments across regional, national and EU level across structural, research and innovation, and investment funds Better address digital skills of the future work force Sustainability and EU-wide coverage of DIH infrastructure
Further information ICT Proposers' Day 2017 - Budapest, 9-10 Nov 2017 Digitising European Industry Working Groups on Digital Innovation Hubs: https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/dei-implementation/library Catalogue of Digital Innovation Hubs http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digital-innovation-hubs-tool Mentoring project for Digital Innovation Hubs https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/call-digitalinnovation-hubs-eu13-member-states: Open until end October I4MS brochure of success stories I4ms.eu 14