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Climate-KIC
Climate-KIC’s role in building a
better bioeconomy
Zsolt Gémesi
First Annual BEACON Conference
Llandudno 12 June 2013
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Climate-KIC
Overview
Climate-KIC – the pitch / update since September 2012
Challenge Platforms – the context
Growing our European Bioeconomy Footprint - Flagships
Climate-KIC
EIT supported Innovation Community We provide the people, products and
leadership to address the challenges of
global climate change
Our activities cross discipline, sector,
geographies
From 20 to 160+ partners since 2010
Current hubs: 5 Co-locations; 6 RIC Regions
Knowledge triangle integration, excellence
Co-location centre
Regional Innovation and Implementation Community
Government & Public Bodies
Research Business Education
Climate-KIC
Matrix organisation
Climate-KIC
A start-up past its first round investment M
EU
R
Year
Start up
phase
Ramp-up
phase
Consolidation
phase
Self
sustainability Leveraged
growth
phase
Complementary
activities, i.e. the
Ecosystem
EIT funding
Own resources +
leverage effect
Portfolio build and
integration
2013 2016 2019 2022 2025 2010
30
300
Operating budget: 52.6 MEUR EIT: 44.3 MEUR Co-funding: 8.3 MEUR Partners’ own KCAs: 381 MEUR = Total cost of KIC activities: 433.6 MEUR
Climate-KIC
Our Mission, Vision and Core Values
Mission:
Creating opportunities for innovators to address climate change and shape the world’s next economy
Vision:
Providing the people, products and leadership to address the challenge of global climate change
Core Values:
Climate-challenge driven
Dynamic community
Impact oriented
Nurturing young talent
Transformational creativity
Boundary crossing
Climate-KIC
Climate-KIC Brand position
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What space do we want to own in our customers’/stakeholders’ minds and marketplace?
The European innovation pipeline for
climate adaptation and mitigation Climate-KIC connects ideas, people and partners across
Europe and creates innovative solutions to climate change
Climate-KIC
Our Innovation Engine
Ecosystem The research and knowledge base in CLC and RIC
CMA and
Pathfinder Market identification and acceleration (pull)
Innovation Product and service development (push/pull)
Deliverables (-> Impact): Marketable products and services; social value
Education – create entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship – support business creations
Climate-KIC
Pillars drive our business
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Entrepreneurship
Climate-KIC Education
Climate-KIC Innovation (including Pathfinder)
…provides tools to connect and
support the wider climate
entrepreneurship community.
…attracts and develops future climate
entrepreneurs and change agents.
…creates promising new collaborations
and champions new value-chain
configurations ....& …creates new
pathways to low-carbon prosperity by
fostering the conditions for ongoing
innovation.
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Being smart: a community approach to accelerated innovation
Climate-KIC
Ideation Business Model Startup Fast Growth Transition
Valley of Death
Stage 1 20k
Stage 2 25k
Stage 3 50k
Seed Capital Venture Capital IPO Acquisition
Stages 1-3 (EP)
Innovation Stimulation
Lead through valley of death
Education
Climate-KIC entrepreneurship stimulates climate innovation and shortens the path through the valley of death for startup companies.
Climate-KIC Incubation Programme
Master-classes
Pre-Seed Capital
Innovation
Incubator Network
Venture Competitions Pathfinder
Outside of KIC
Climate-KIC
Production
The Challenge Platforms
Making transitions happen
Adaptation Mitigation
Life styles
livelihoods
cities
Land and water engineering for
adaptation
Greenhouse gas monitoring
Climate services
Bioeconomy
Industrial symbiosis
Sustainable city systems
Transforming the built environment
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Platforms - General principles
Platform
• Define and implement strategies that serve Climate-KIC goals
• Ensure flow of high quality and impact project ideas & PhDs
• Contribute to flagships definition and integrate in existing project
portfolio
• Provide strategic guidance to partner and projects before
submission and during project lifetime
• Ensure consistency and synergies between projects/platforms
• Foster collaboration between partners/platforms/pillars
• Manage and develop a living network of partners
• Operate with a sufficient degree of freedom on outreach activities
• Build pool of expert reviewers and platform advisors
• Identify strategic partners at national level
Climate-KIC
Developing the bioeconomy
platform
STRATEGIC FOCUS
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Climate-KIC
The KBioE team
Co-chairs
• Johan Sanders (NL)
• Michael O’Donohue (FR)
Team members
• Jeremy Woods (UK)
• Istvan Kenyeres (H)
• Bernd Uwe Schneider (DE)
Facilitator
• Zsolt Gemesi (UK CLC)
Substitute members
• Lolke Sijtsma (NL)
• Suzanne Reynders (FR)
• Nicole Kalas (UK)
• Miklós Gyalai-Korpos (RIC Hungary)
• Ulrich Schurr (Julich Bioeconomie
zentrum)
Climate-KIC
Strategic focus 1
Account for EU specificities
– Pressure on land resources
– Pressure on biomass
– Tight regulations and high level of stakeholder awareness/criticism
Be complementary, or different, to others
– Bridge 2020 will fund expensive first of a kind demo plants for 2nd
generation fuels
– Current models copy the petrochemical industry
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Climate-KIC
Strategic focus 2
Look for bioeconomy solutions both for CC mitigation and
adaptation
– Insist on efficiency of resource and energy use
Low or no waste and getting more from less
– Increase CO2 capture by photosynthesis
Adapt plants to higher CO2
– Increase biomass yield per unit land and energy consumed
– Tap into non-conventional systems
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Strategic focus 3
Devise ways to derive food and non-food products from
crop systems without negatively affecting food production
– Whole crop valorization
– Getting more from less
Move away from the petrochemical industry model
– Study opportunities to develop smaller, regional-based biorefinery
systems that are close to biomass production
– Overcome the cash crunch challenge
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1. Building into existing industry
2. Regionalizing biorefineries
3. Small-scale biorefineries
Launching a fleet
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Carbon capture through optimized biomass production
Flagship 1
Flagship 2
Flagship 3
Climate-smart industrial value chains Climate-efficient, low
investment biorefinery systems
1. High CO2 capture crops 2. Aquatic photosynthesis 3. Carbon-effective land
management systems 1. Climate-adapted
cereals 2. Redesign of cereal
conversion processes 3. Integration of food and
non-food value chains
IS IS, ICS
LWEA
MTH
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Zsolt Gemesi
Deputy Director UK CLC
Level 1, Faculty Building
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
www.climate-kic.org
No Questions??
Climate-KIC
Climate-KIC
8 Platforms • Focussed cross-KIC innovation
communities
• Demand-side, challenge driven
• Integration of innovation, entrepreneurship and education
• E.g. Built environment; Making transitions happen
5+ CLC • Focus for innovation
• Centre of knowledge
• Launch pads, landing pads
6 Regions • Market demand
• Test beds and implementation
A networked Community • Long-term, stable, portfolio of partners
across 8 climate challenge platforms
• 11 hubs of connectivity across 10 European countries
• Innovation push connected with demand pull
• Sheltered innovation
The innovation pipeline • Innovation, Entrepreneurship and
Education Pillars – toolkit
• Create climate entrepreneurs
• Catalyse innovation – products, services, culture
• Market identification and acceleration
Providing the people, products and leadership to address the challenge of global climate change
Climate-KIC
Entrepreneurship
Climate-KIC
Ideation Business Model Startup Fast Growth Transition
Valley of Death
Stage 1 20k
Stage 2 25k
Stage 3 50k
Seed Capital Venture Capital IPO Acquisition
Stages 1-3
Lead through valley of death
Education
Master- Classes
Pre-Seed Capital
Innovation
Incubator Network
Venture Competitions Pathfinder
Outside of KIC
Climate-KIC Incubation programme
Climate-KIC
KIC Funding Model
Climate-KIC
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