Settembre 2000 F. Nachira European Commission DG-INFSO - Unit “ICT for Enterprise Networking” Head of Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems“ F. Nachira

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F. NachiraEuropean Commission DG-INFSO - Unit “ICT for Enterprise Networking”

Head of Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems“

F. NachiraEuropean Commission DG-INFSO - Unit “ICT for Enterprise Networking”

Head of Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems“

La Società dell’informazione

per le PMI

Visita Studio

Delegazione CNA - Emilia Romagna

Bruxelles, 19-20 Settembre 2005

Visita Studio

Delegazione CNA - Emilia Romagna

Bruxelles, 19-20 Settembre 2005

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European Commission Directorate-General Information Society and Media

Unit D5 : ICT for Enterprise NEtworking F.Nachira Bruxelles - Settembre 2005

A new horizon for SMEs and terrioriessupported by ICT• Policy [LISBON AGENDA]

• put SMEs & local development at the forefront of the agenda

• At EU level, every policy has a SME dimension,i2010 Communication

• ICT Research to empower SMEs• FP5 with ‘Innovation and SME

Programme”• 15% of the FP6 budget dedicated to

SMEs

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A new horizon for SMEs

• Policy [Lisbon agenda - i2010] • The renewed Lisbon objectives put SMEs at the

forefront of the agenda

• At Community level, every policy has an SME dimension, so is our i2010 Communication

• ICT Research to empower SMEs• FP5 with ‘Innovation and SME Programme”

• 15% of the FP6 budget dedicated to SMEs

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DG-INFSO strategy to support SME

•Mission• To contribute to their sustainable

competitiveness through the timely introduction of meaningful technological and organisational innovations in business and business environments.

•Strategy• To creatine favourable conditions

To provide ICT applications & services for improving their efficiency and for extending their business

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DG-INFSO past contribution

• From ESPRIT to FP5• eEurope 2002 and

2005: GO DIGITAL initiative

• About 70 SMEs Projects funded under IST FP5

• Many isolatedsuccess stories

• > But it’s not enough!

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How to improve• To liaise research with policy • Synergies with MS and Regions• To have a bigger impact at research

level• FP6 : Integrated Projects, Cluster of Projects

• FP7 : ETP , DBE concept

• Projects providing links between policy and research

• To act at policy level• i2010

• EISCO’s final declaration: local agenda i2010• Giving more emphasis to SME clusters and territories

• To address the needs of SMEs• Digital Business Ecosystems

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Why should we care about the ICT uptake by EU SMEs ?

• Basic ICT infrastructure and access to the Internet are no longer considered major barriers to e-business uptake in Europe

• Recent studies have shown that in intensive ICT using sectors, productivity growth in the EU is dramatically lagging behind the one in the US in the period 1995-2000. This shows a deficit of th EU firms, in particular SMEs, in terms of productive application of ICT in all other sectors of the economy

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Why should we care about the ICT uptake by EU SMEs ? (2)

• SMEs face particular difficulties in integrating new technologies and re-organising their business processes;

• less than 10% of SMEs that sell on-line have fully integrated the ordering process into the internal business organisation (compared with 1/3 of large enterprises);

• less than 10% of SMEs have implemented an electronic Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system (compared with 1/3 of large enterprises);

• only 3% of SMEs are users of an electronic Supply Chain Management (SCM) system (compared with 13% of large enterprises)

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Why should we care about the ICT uptake by EU SMEs ? (2)

• The e-maturity of SMEs differ across countries, regions and sectors:

• the divide between Northern and Southern Member States with respect to e-commerce activities still exists and is even widening (45% / 10%)

• the percentage of companies making e-purchases generally exceeds that of those engaging in e-selling activities by more than 2:

• for B2B transactions, the emergence of e- marketplaces seems to be of growing importance for both large companies and SMEs

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How EC supports SMEs eBusiness• Peculiarities of EU (SMEs, diversity, territories)

• -> how to turn this into competitive advantages? • -> which role of ICT , which infrastructure ?

MissionMission: To contribute to Enterprise sustainable

competitiveness through the timely introduction of meaningful technological and organisational innovations in business and business environments

StrategyProviding infrastructure enabling development for

customised ICT applications & services for improving their efficiency and for extending their business

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Evolution in ICT-adoption: Increased complexity in business networking

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Towards a Global Dynamic Competition : SMEs & local clusters in a knowledge-based global economy• More interrelations • More specialised resources• More R&D / innovation• Access to global value chains • Access to knowledge

Growth Node Business EcosystemIndustrial District

How to reach the critical mass of resources ?How to cope with the increased complexity ?Commission created the ecosystem metaphor

Virtual cluster

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ICTscatalyse

improve

improve

New organizational& business models

Policysupports

The Business Digital Ecosystem:an integrated approach

“Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure”

Derivative work from

P.Dini - London School of Economics

Growth

Competitiveness, market & internal

efficiency

Cooperation &innovation networks

improve

lead to

encourage

provideresources

Open SourceEvolutionary infrastructure

makeviable

shape& foster

supports

supportBiology

enhances

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Which ICT technology for business ecosystems ?

• Scenario:

“… the actual slowly changing network of organizations will be replaced by more fluid, amorphous and often transitory structures based in alliances, partnership and collaborations”...

“…building a community that share business, knowledge and infrastructure”(1)

“To support this scenario of aggregation of services and organizations, is required a further stage in ITC technology adoptions and an infrastructure which exploits the dynamic interaction (cooperation and competition) of several players in order to produce systemic results; innovation and economic development.”

“Towards a Network of digital business ecosystems fostering the local development ” (EC, Discussion paper, 2002)

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The business ecosystem•adoption/use of ICT is one major factor of productivity•SMEs backbone of EC economy; SMEs do not adopt/master ICT•role of knowledge sharing; systemic approach on territorial basis•how to induce a change in how organizations network and cooperate?

How to foster this change of paradigm ?

TechnicalInfrastructure

Business & financial conditions

Human capital, knowledge and

practices

Governance & industrial

policy

How to create a favourable environment for business and people: a socio-economic ecosystem

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The digital ecosystem

Which ICT infrastructure for this new paradigm ?How could ICT support the transition from industrial district to business ecosystem ?

Computingand telecom.Infrastructure

Formalised knowledge

OSservice-oriented

architecture

vision, new

paradigms

How to createan ICT infrastructure

that fits withthe needs of SMEs ?

Paradigm shift : machine model => living organism model make a plan => create structural conditions

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What is a Digital Ecosystem ? •THE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM

•is a pervasive “digital environment”

•that supports the business ecosystems

•that is populated by “digital components”

•that evolves and adapts to local conditions with the evolution of the components

THE “SOFT” SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH MEDIATES

SERVICES & INFORMATION (knowledge)EMPOWERING THE NETWORKING

AND THEIR SHARING

architecture /

structure

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What is a Digital Component ?•DIGITAL COMPONENTS

•could be: software components, applications, services, knowledge, business processes and models, training modules, contractual frameworks, laws ...

•.... and hopefully a mixture of all these

A USEFUL IDEA, EXPRESSED IN A LANGUAGE

(formal or natural), LAUNCHED ON THE NET,

WHICH CAN BE PROCESSED (by computers and/or

humans)

formalised knowledge

©XPLANE

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A systemic approachto enterprises global collaboration

open-source, public, distributed pervasive environment - spontaneous evolution, adaptation and composition of services, digital content and sw components - embedding business rules, revenue models, ontology...

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Knowledge Economy

DBE

Research areas in Digital Business Ecosystems

Business Ecosystems and Regional EconomiesSocial ScienceBusiness models,

FormalisedBasic Models and Services

Execution environment“life support structure”

Digital Ecosystem

Open-source service- and knowldege-oriented infrastructure

Networkingtechnologies

ICT Infrastructure

Researchareas

Semantics ofservices

Syntax of economicbehaviour

Business rulesand

Regulatory Framework

Formalisation ofKnowledge

(Languages)

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Local Business Ecosystemco-funded by DBE project

Local Business Ecosystemjoined as new pilot

Potential future take-uplocal ecosystems

Digital Ecosystem pilot regions (Sept 2005)

Cluster of Projects• DBE (15M€)• Legal-IST• SEAMLESS• …

• Call-5 (~20M€)

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For more Information

http://www.digital-ecosystems.org

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Settembre 2000 F. Nachira European Commission DG-INFSO - Unit “ICT for Enterprise Networking” Head of Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems“ F. Nachira