climate-kic in the valencian region

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

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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

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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

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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..