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Opportunities in Europe for innovation
and nurturing entrepreneurial talent:
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities
(KICs)
Endika Bengoetxea, EIT
7th December, San Francisco
THE EIT’s ENGINE: ITS KNOWLEDGE & INNOVATION COMMUNITIES (KICs)
• Highly integrated, creative, excellence-driven and autonomous long-term partnerships
• Driven by societal challenges: climate change mitigation and adaptation, future information and communication society and sustainable energy
• Fostering the emergence of entrepreneurs
Innovation hubs working across borders and with multidisciplinary approach.
KIC PARTNERS 2012
EIT ICT Labs 75 KIC Partners
Climate-KIC 86 KIC
Partners
KIC InnoEnergy 104 KIC Partners
In 2012, the three KIC brought together over 260 KIC Partners
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EIT & “CROSS-KIC AGENDAS”
EDUCATIONPromoting excellent
education for creativity, innovation and
entrepreneurship by high quality EIT labelled degree programmes, fostering a
vibrant EIT student & alumni community.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Promoting an entrepreneurial mindset and culture,
including risk taking, by creating more favourable
environments for passionate entrepreneurial talent and entrepreneurship-driven innovation to flourish.
WORLD-CLASS INNOVATIONDeveloping innovative ecosystems to create and grow world-class,
breakthrough innovations by exploiting KIC synergies and complementarities.
EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY (EIT)
Facilitating the following transitions:
from idea to product
from lab to market
from student to entrepreneur
in areas of high societal need.
EIT’s ENTREPRENEURSHIP VISION AND MISSION
Vision: To establish the EIT as a
recognised role model and an impact-
oriented game-shifter for entrepreneurship
in Europe. Mission: To promote an entrepreneurial mindset and
culture by creating more favourable environments for passionate entrepreneurial talent and entrepreneurship-driven innovation
to flourish.
EIT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARDS
• 1st edition of the Awards Ceremony: Feb. 2012, Brussels• 3 Award winners selected among 9 innovative business
ventures nominated by the KICs• EIT support for training and promotional activities,
access to the EIT’s network of contacts and EIT events, business coaching/mentoring to be integrated into the Awards scheme
Spotlighting entrepreneurial ventures & promoting the risk-taking culture in KICs and beyond
www.eitawards.eu
What do KICs offer to entrepreneurs?
• Access to the KIC infrastructure and network• Mentoring and business coaching to prepare and implement
business plans• Meeting potential business partners and new customers• Raising company’s own profile through KIC’s partners• Access to new technologies• Exploring markets beyond the home market• Thematic specialisation
• Comparative advantages• The market-orientation• Shorter time to market• Bridging the gap between academia and
business• Proximity to finance sources: seed funding,
VC…
EIT’s WORLD-CLASS INNOVATION VISION AND MISSION Vision: To produce world-leading
innovations in KICs’ thematic fields,
currently sustainable energy, ICT and
climate-change.
Mission: To encourage the exploration of a wide-range of new innovation models of world-class standard through KICs.
IMPLEMENTING THE VISION AND MISSION: Fostering world-class innovation by KICs
Developing an integrated EIT strategy for enhancing world-class innovation by KICs
Innovation panel: Structured collaboration with the KICs to support on world-class innovation models and projects
Seeding promising innovation eco-systems through the KICs.Funding for innovation projects: demonstrators, new products and services
Support on intellectual property aspects: use of patents, licensing…
EIT’s EDUCATIONAL VISION AND MISSION
Vision: To create entrepreneurially
and innovation minded people in
Europe. Mission: To deliver a unique brand of excellent education responsive to both business and societal demands, focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity distinguished by an EIT label .
Overview of main education activities
Master and doctoral programmesInternational cooperation, Industry involvement
Master and doctoral schoolsTraining on specific skills and competencesMobility, Internships and Scholarships/fellowships
Executive training and post-doctoral courses
Continuous professional development
courses/modules
Learning modules and OER
Alumni and Outreach activities
EIT LABEL for excellent educational programmes at Master and
PhD levels implemented by the KICs
EIT overarching
learning outcomes
&
4 Quality criteria 1. Robust entrepreneurship
education
2. Highly integrated,
innovative "learning-by-
doing" curricula
3. Mobility, European
dimension and openness to
the world
4. Outreach strategy and
access policy
EIT Overarching Learning Outcomes: Knowledge Forms
Creativity skills and competences
Innovation skills and competences Entrepreneurship skills and competences
Research skills and competences
Leadership skills and competences
Intellectual transforming skills and competences
Making value judgements
Opportunities for PhD candidates, post-docs & experienced
researchers
Participation in Innovation projects e.g. Experience & Living Labs (EIT ICT Labs) - researchers
and engineers test and modify products in close collaboration with end-users in a real-life or a real-as-life setting
Training - Intensive courses/modules e.g. climate innovation school “the journey” - explore the
potential for launching start-up business ventures, support from Climate-KIC business coaches, business plan writing and presentation, access to network of international fellow innovators
Business creation services - support in developing business in the different phases of business creation and funding
e.g. KIC InnoEnergy Highway - business creation services; a European network and the first customer for start ups/spin ups; open for entries any time
More information at: www.eit.europa.eu
www.climate-kic.org www.eitictlabs.eu
www.kic-innoenergy.com
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