iMinds Research in Residence – InfosessionNovember 6, 2014

Program overview1.00 - 1.30 p.m. Researchers in Residence

iMinds – Hans De Canck & Sven De Cleyn1.30 - 2.00 p.m. Start-up testimonial

Ontoforce - Hans Constandt2.00 - 2.30 p.m. Baekeland – Innovation mandates

IWT - Els Trouwé2.30 - 3.00 p.m. Presentation by a researcher/employee

AGFA Healthcare/iMinds - Jeroen Cant3.00 - 3.30 p.m. Break 3.30 - 4.00 p.m. MSCA - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action 

EU - Przemyslaw Jankowski4.00 - 5.00 p.m. MSCA and IWT personal mandates: a testimony Siemens Industry Software NV - Stijn Donders5.00 - 6.00 p.m. Networking session

iMINDS OVERVIEW

iMinds Mission

How to make digital technologies a driver for economic and social growth

in Flanders?

iMinds’ vision

Employment UrbanizationAgeing Society

Globalization Public health Environment

Internetof Things

Big DataCloud

SecurityHigh Tech

Visualization

Connectivity & Sensor systems

Social & context based IT

Societal challenges

Markets

Technologies

50 MIO

380+

1100+

1000+

850+

70+

iMinds is truly anINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY Austria

USA

Belgium

France

Netherlands

Greece

Italy

Turkey

China

Sri Lanka

Spain

Japan

Germany

Ecuador

Colombia

Serbia

India

Romania

Iran

United Kingdom

Brazil

Vietnam

Palestine

Pakistan

Croatia

Bulgaria

Sweden

Poland

Mexico

Israel

Hungary

Egypt

Switzerland

Belarus Slovakia

Portugal

Algeria

Czech Republic

Canada

Argentina

Tunisia

,

Syrian Arab Republic

Singapore

Russia

Malaysia

Congo

Hong Kong Myanmar

Ethiopia

Finland

Macedonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Grenada

Côte d'Ivoire

2012

iMinds Research is truly anINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY

USA

Belgium

France

Netherlands

Greece

Italy

Turkey

China

Sri Lanka

Spain

Japan

Germany

Ecuador

Colombia

Serbia

India

Romania

Iran

United Kingdom

Brazil

Vietnam

Palestine

Pakistan

Croatia

Bulgaria

Sweden

Poland

Mexico

Israel

Hungary

Egypt

Switzerland

Belarus Austria

Slovakia

Portugal

Algeria

Czech Republic

Canada

Argentina

Tunisia

,

Syria

Singapore

Russia

Malaysia

Congo

Hong Kong Myanmar

Ethiopia

Finland

Macedonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Grenada

Côte d'Ivoire

2012

50+ nationalities

iMinds over the last decade

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

5,000,000

10,000,000

15,000,000

20,000,000

25,000,000

30,000,000

35,000,000

40,000,000

45,000,000

50,000,000RevenueEvolution

iMinds’ open innovation frameworkFrom Ideation, Validation to Prototyping and Delivery

INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

OPEN COLLABORATION(e.g. ICON Program)

Spaces

METHDOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

BUSINESS INNOVATIONLiving Labs & Prototyping

SOLUTION DELIVERY

ACADEMIA

EU PARTNERS

MULTINATIONALCORPORATIONS SMEs

&NON-PROFIT

ReferenceSolution

Student Entrepreneur ORW iBoot iStart

Tools

Coaching

Delivered Solution

INDEPENDENT ENTREPRENEU

RS

Cooperative models

TT to existing companies

Creating new companies

Digital Research is iMinds’ core

iMinds’ foundations

Strategic Research

Applied Research

• 900+ researchers @ 5 universities• Human Capital: 50+ nationalities• collaboration: identical univ. frame agreements• 50M€ turnover, 25M€ dotation (flat since 2009)• leadership with unique industry & academic track record

• Generate knowledge & technologies → 1000 papers / year• Research excellence in international context

Cloud security, Internet of Things, Visualization, Big Data Member EU advisory commission CAF & EIT KIC ICT 5 European Research Grants (ERC) Hosting HQ of ENoLL (European network of Living Labs)

• Joint technology creation with key Flemish companies

• Strengthen local industry through collaborative projects• Create clusters of digital innovation

Media, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Energy Multi-disciplinary, e.g. 80 researchers in 4 Academic hospitals iMinds Media (MiX) & iMinds Health

• Special programs for Start-ups & SME’s

Topic

Investment ≈10M€

Teams Co-located

Industry Advisory board

Researchers ≈18 FTE ≈13 FTE

New Strategic Programs

Strategic Programs Principles

Moonshots/Grand research

challenges

Builders, multi-disciplinary

geeks

Judged by results, not compliance

Prototypes rather

than reports

Co-location, open office/lab

ICON collaborative research

Market-driven → joint projects with

the Industry

Result-oriented → Proof of Concept

demonstrations

Lower the barriers for SME’s & non-

profit → red tape covered by iMinds

or larger company

Value chain (B2B2C) covered by

project consortium

IP Value creation model

Ingredients of success

Demonstrate credibility to customers and generate

business impact

Launch new product or

improve current products

Launch new spin-off or joint-venture

Many roads to valorization

Activities• 22 submitted & 13 approved ICON-Mix projects• € 14.200.000 project budget € 9.400.000 funding• 43 industry companies

• 60% media companies 40% technology companies

iMinds Media innovation centre = MiX• Launch April 22, 2012• ‘Lichte structuur’ within iMinds with IWT project funds• Goal: stimulate digital innovation in the Media sector

iMinds Health Innovation Centre• Launch February 6, 2014• Goal: stimulate digital innovation in the Health sector• Innovation & Care

Programma Thema’s (Action Lines)

Integrated health systems & process supportDecision support & big data analyticsCitizen Health EmpowermentMulti-disciplinair dossier (EHR)

iMinds’ open innovation frameworkFrom Ideation, Validation to Prototyping and Delivery

INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

OPEN COLLABORATION(e.g. ICON Program)

Spaces

METHDOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

BUSINESS INNOVATIONLiving Labs & Prototyping

SOLUTION DELIVERY

ACADEMIA

EU PARTNERS

MULTINATIONALCORPORATIONS SMEs

&NON-PROFIT

ReferenceSolution

Student Entrepreneur ORW iBoot iStart

Tools

Coaching

Delivered Solution

INDEPENDENT ENTREPRENEU

RS

Cooperative models

TT to existing companies

Creating new companies

Start-ups & SME supportINCUBATION

iMinds programs supporting SME’s

iMinds Program

Description EU leverage

# Flemish SME’s(2012-2014)

Results

Incubation Found a new company, spin-off or joint venture

EIT KIC ICT53

Already 40% got follow-up financing (≥ 500k €)

Living Labs

Support SME’s with New Product Introduction

FI-WAREENoLL 28

50% launches a new product

Go Global Support SME’s expanding geographically

EIT KIC ICTEBN 16

60% opens a new office in the region

IncubationiMinds start-up portfolio overview

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Grand Total

Exit 2 1 3

Normal 1* 1 1 1 1 8 10 18 22 63

Stopped or Inactive

1* 3 1 1 4 2 1 12

Grand Total 2* 1 4 4 2 12 13 18 22 78

Survival rate 50% 100% 25% 75% 50% 67% 85% 95% 100% 84%

* 2 companies created in 2006, 1 active to date and 1 stopped

• > 10 Mio € turnover• > 200 FTE’s • Looking for > 15 Mio € follow-up financing

• Portfolio statistics

iMinds Incubation:The 5 key success factors

1. Early seed financing & Business coaching

2. International mindset : Born Global

companies

3. Matching entrepreneurs & technologists

4. Agile process – fast & flexible

5. Clusters of innovation – local ecosystems

Mature ICT-related idea Technological Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Focus on business (plan) development Training and coaching Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) 6-18 months, max. €50K (+ €50K SOFI)

Incubation of new ideas

3 regular, 1 light Faster decision making Enhanced evaluation

process, intake pitch with external experts

4 calls per

year

iStart

Including ‘light’ version

to stimulate student

entrepreneurship

1. Seed financing & business coaching

2. Internationalisation program – Go Global

USASF, NY, Boston

ASIAASEAN region

12 supported companies• SF: MyGuest, Octopin, Serverscheck,

Graphine, Co-Scale, Yambla• NY: Eyesee, Bubobox, Cubigo, Darwin

Analytics• Boston: Ontoforce, Posios

4 supported companies• Adhese, Comsof, Bubobox, CourierIQ

8 seats in Singapore office• B.U.T, Vivaldi, Escaux, Posios

2 successfull SMU interns• Posios, Bubobox

4 selected for H1 2014• Neoscores (NY), Social Express (NY),

OpenTelly (SF), Playpass (SF)

4 selected for H1 2014• Tinkertouch, Eyesee, Smart Checkups, Network

mining

14 SMU students introduced

2013

2014

EU

EIT ICT Labs

IDE Booth at• Le Web 2013

60% of the supported

companies opens

foreign office(s)

3. Matching entrepreneurs & technologists

- 30% originates from (our) research activities; iMinds adds business coaching & financing- 70% originates from external entrepreneurs; iMinds adds technical knowhow & financing

“Our unique flipped knowledge transfer approach”

2011 2012 2013 2014

Research origin 3 9 12 19

External entrepreneurs 6 8 15 24

Matched with research 0 5 13 19

5%

15%

25%

35%

45%

55%

65%

75%

85%

95%

iStart projects (2011-2014)

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20140

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

# Selected iStart projects# Intakes (2nd round)# Submissions

4. Fast & Flexible Process

Evolution iStart submissions per year

- 4 calls per year- decision time < 1 month

What if… we would even better combine the power of companies and researchers?

Program overview1.00 - 1.30 p.m. Researchers in Residence

iMinds – Hans De Canck & Sven De Cleyn1.30 - 2.00 p.m. Start-up testimonial

Ontoforce - Hans Constandt2.00 - 2.30 p.m. Baekeland – Innovation mandates

IWT - Els Trouwé2.30 - 3.00 p.m. Presentation by a researcher/employee

AGFA Healthcare/iMinds - Jeroen Cant3.00 - 3.30 p.m. Break 3.30 - 4.00 p.m. MSCA - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action 

EU - Przemyslaw Jankowski4.00 - 5.00 p.m. MSCA and IWT personal mandates: a testimony Siemens Industry Software NV - Stijn Donders5.00 - 6.00 p.m. Networking session