Future challenges and recommendations Tom Togsverd, Digital Europe Director General, Ph.D., Danish ICT and Electronics Federation
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Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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European ICT industry strenghts • Advanced users • Combining ICT with strong domain knowledge in automotive, health, energy, efficiency etc. • Strong academic environment • Creativity - many new ideas
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Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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European ICT industry weaknesses • Fragmentation - language - markets • Lack of high skills - research capacity • Cost structure - compared to Asia • Poor ability to commercialize ideas • Poor venture capital market
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Global ICT Industry
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Opportunities • Developing smart solutions with customers/users • Utilizing growth layer in innovative SME's • Joining European efforts • Take advantage of globalization - East - West • Manage the IPR challenges
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Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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Threats • Europeans become implementors of others products and services • IPR's, value creation and all future platforms are created outside EU • Europe as a looser region!
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Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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Closing the innovation gap? • Better interaction with universities • Political focus on strengths/potential - EU - national bold programs • Better commercialization of ideas • Creating European venture capital market
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Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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Technology strongholds and growth areas Examples of technologies - The Danish Case • Energy Efficiency
• Future Network Technologies
• eHealth
• Cognitive Systems and Robotics
• Embedded Systems
• Sound Technology
• ICT in Manufacturing
• ICT Finance
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Energy Efficiency
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Global ICT Industry
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Lower cost Lower material use/sustainability Reliability Efficiency Low operational and maintenance cost Intelligence and integrated design
Challenges in technology
Appliances
E-mobility
Buildings
Industry
Key growth areas
Renewable generation/ Smart Grid
Communication
Power Electronics & Automation – 60% of electricity in the modern world is consumed by electrical motors - application of solid-state electronics for the control and conversion of electric power
Core disciplines
ICT – enables the modern society
- teleinfrastructure, mobile and software, green ICT
Eco-design – towards a sustainable world
- More goods and services while using fewer ressources and creating less waste and pollution 8
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Global ICT Industry
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eHealth research and innovation areas Examples of research areas: • Self-care and patient empowerment • Medical Image Analysis • Biotechnology Approach: User-driven innovation; participatory design and co-creation involving patients and clinicians Room for small-scale “bottom-up” eHealth research and partnerships based on open concept
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Global ICT Industry
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Embedded Systems Maintain Europes leadership in embedded computing technologies Why:
How:
• Smart systems: every where, every product, every market
• System-of-systems approach • Radical system development framework • Design and methodology - New paradigm for programming
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Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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ICT for Competitive Manufacturing Challenges •Welfare and growth rests upon Europes Manufacturing base •Innovation emerges with, rather than independently from, manufacturing •Our manufacturing competences and innovation ability are at risk of being eroded as manufacturing is globalised
ICT enabled answers •Cost neutrality i.e low-volume flexible manufacturing as efficient as highvolume standardised production •Carbon footprint by 2025 must be zero and cost efficient •Product lifetime must be doubled, and customers continually offered new facilities 11
Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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Future Network Technologies - fundamental for a smart and sustainable economy • Telecom operators and equipment manufacturers withdraw and entrance of Non-european players • Internet,IP based infrastructure, Sensors, Cloud Computing and technology driven Convergence • Focus on content and new business models Cloud computing and “Intercloud” Sensors for short range networks ICT technology
Convergence
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Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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Some Danish challenges • Few and small ICT research environments • If ICT shall enable other industries, we
need a stronger ICT R&D base • Lack of critical mass • Motivation of SME's to participate in EU research projects
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Tom Togsverd
Global ICT Industry
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Summing up • Public investments in ICT research should be doubled in 2020 on all levels • ICT in itself must have its own priority budget in Horizon 2020 and in national programs. • Collaboration inside EU is key • Cooperation with Asia and USA is important • More intensive cooperation with and within universities
