role of cdec in academic - industry collaborations - 12 nov 2013

Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme

The Role of CDE Catapult in Academic/Industry Collaborations (CDEC)

'Academia and Industry Working Together”Cambridge12 December 2013

Dr. Maurizio PiluPartnerships Director

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@Maurizio_Pilu @cdecatapult

It all started in Cambridge ….


Catapults

• Part of a world-leading network of technology and innovation centres

• Bridge the gap between businesses, academia, research and government

• Long-term investment to transform the UK’s ability to create new products and services

• Open up global opportunities for the UK and generate sustained economic growth for the future

• Being established and overseen by the Technology Strategy Board

7 Catapults

£1bnPrivate & public

sector investment

2013 All Catapults up

and running

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The Catapult networkS

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Research base > Catapults > IndustryS

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General catapult activities (TSB slide)

Helping business toidentify, adopt and exploit innovative technologies

Core ProjectsKey challenges and barriers

A unique technical capability

Demonstration projects

Disseminate to industry

CR&D

Innovation in collaborations

Bring together customers, SME’s & blue-chip companies

Technical & management resource

Partners in Projects (TSB & EU)

Expertise at unlocking funding

Industry R&D

Access to unique facilities & expertise

Develop & demonstrate at scale

Reduce risk of implementation

Direct contracts for projects

Easy access for SMEs

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Connected Digital Economy Catapult 7

• Set up by the Technology Strategy Board• Applied technology & innovation centre in the digital

economy focussed on the data value chain• Non-for-profit, based in London, national remit• Centre with critical mass to help UK innovators,

especially SMEs• Overtime 100+ technologists

• £10m p.a. of core investment from TSB


The digital economy

FAST MOVING

CONSTANTLY CHANGING

BUILD IT & THEY WILL COME

WONT WORK

GLOBAL

BEINGFAST

IS KEY

‘a few years ago a cloud was something in the sky, a tweet was something you heard in the garden, Skype was a typo and 4G was a parking spot’

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CDEC in 4 bullet points 9

• Connect > Unlock > Accelerate

• Develop a portfolio of openly accessible platforms & capabilities which address clearly identified industry challenges in the data value chain for the benefit of digital innovators

• Bring unique value by combining our neutral convening power, the agile and focussed way we build platforms & capabilities with the centre’s high density of critical skills

• Align our efforts to enhance existing TSB (& RCs) activity

• Demonstrate the transformative impact of digital to UK leaders


The data value chain – our ‘field of play' 10

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Focussing on the innovators’ challenges

Realising the potential value of

data

Early access to next generation

connectivity

Being heard ina crowded

marketplace

Building diverse dataand content sets

Reducing licensing friction

Address trust and privacy

Labs and demonstrators

Innovator CentreLondon based – UK reach

Media, content, creative

Cities as a context

Health

Key innovator challenges in

DVC

…CDEC will address by…

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• M2MInternet of Things

• Device to User• User to Cloud

• Facilitation• Demonstration• Consulting• Business models

• Data sciences• Security• Digital exchanges• IP and licensing


CDEC Innovator Centre …. 12


… connected across the UK …. 13

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….and the stakeholders base

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Some projects already active…

Open Data Health Platform – pre integrate diverse data

Copyright Hub – reducing copyright “friction”

Trusted Data Accelerator – reducing privacy decelerators

Urban Transport and weather - pre integrate diverse data


Catapult & research baseS

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CDEC-research base: Collaboration mechanisms

• Collaboration Framework Agreements

• Project-based collaborations (e.g. Core projects, CR&D)

• Sharing & pooling capabilities & resources

• Test-beds, demonstrators, living labs

• Reaching out to innovators (especially SMEs)

• Advisory / roadmapping / scoping

• Secondments & fellowships

• Pathway to exploitation & acceleration

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Examples of engagement with research base (1)

• Main Board• Professor Dame Wendy Hall (Univ. Southampton)• Professor Chris Van Der Kuyl (Univ. Albertay)

• Key Placements• Professor Derek McAuley (Nottingham) as Chief Innovation Officer• Oxford University appointed full-time CDEC liaison

• Advisors Group • Being formed now; ~10 senior academics

• Live Projects• Partner to Surrey University 5G centre (>£25m consortium)• Joint project with Lancaster University / Oxford / Southampton / Nottingham

(Trusted Data Accelerator)

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Examples of engagement with research base (2)• RCs

• AHRC, EPSRC, ESRC, STFC, HEFCE, MRC• Example: ESRC call including CDEC in recent BigData Call

• 1:1 meetings with Universities• 18 universities

• Collaboration Agreements (CAs)• Broad CAs being discussed with 5 universities• Collaborations on Centres for Doctoral Training See later

• CDEC Fellow/Secondment program• Aiming to launch in early 2015

• Projects being discussed• Example: IP catalyst/accelerator

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Centres for Doctoral Training

• Collaborations with three new Centres for Doctoral Training

• Edinburgh - Data Science • York – Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence• Nottingham – “My life in data”

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Working on: Fellowships programme

• In initial discussions with EPSRC about a fellowship programme similar to that announced for the HVM catapult

• http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/2013/Pages/manufacturingcatapultfellowships.aspx

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http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/2013/Pages/manufacturingcatapultfellowships.aspx




Only the beginning…

• CDEC has been operational for a few months• Huge appetite in research base to work with CDEC• Our demand-led approach + focus on

testbed/demonstrators for the benefit of innovators seen as highly complementary

• Open to collaborations:• [email protected]

• Twitter: @Maurizio_Pilu & @cdecatapult

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mailto:[email protected]

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