iMinds & SME Innovation

iMinds & SME InnovationBringing FIWARE to you

30 Sept 2014

Prof Dr Pieter Ballon - Director Living Labs, iMinds

Living Lab?°360 business innovation

• Capturing real-life users’ interactions with new products and services

• Iterative, agile co-creation and prototyping process

• Designing business models and go-to-market definition

Living Labs - 360° Business Innovation with iMinds

3 Phases of Living Labs

Time-to-market

Idea MarketPrototype Minimum Viable Product

Exploration Experimentation Evaluation

4 Types of iMinds Living Labs

Living Lab

Lab in Residence

Open Innovation Lab

Smart City Lab

Accelerator Lab

For Value Chain Innovation

In and With Cities

For SMEs and Starters

For Large Enterprises

iMinds Living Labs for SMEs & Starters

Living Lab

Lab in Residence

Open Innovation Lab

Smart City Lab

Accelerator Lab

For Value Chain Innovation

In and With Cities

For SMEs and Starters

For Large Enterprises

iMinds & FIWAREiMinds, a FIWARE

accelerator

FIWARE explained

Watch this video on vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/111646348

Who should Participate?

ICT companies & developers

Who should Participate?

SMEs & (Web) Entrepreneurs

Who should Participate?

Creative & Open Minds

What makes our Future Internet Accelerator Program unique?

Direct Funding

Business Model Clinics

RapidPrototypin

g

Living Lab

Validation

Networking

Services adapted to Maturity levels

Individuals & teams with an

idea

buildPROTOTYPE

1Startups with a

team & prototype

buildPRODUCT

2More mature

startups & SMEs

accelerateBUSINESS

3

Transport / Logistics

/Supply chainSmart

Manufacturing / 3D

Printing

4 Domain-related Calls

Smart Cities & Well-being

Media & Creative

Industries

First wave of Calls will close Nov 30th!

– Come to matchmaking days– Join the regular Q&A phone calls– Submit your idea (e.g. mock-up

and prototype plan)– Get open source technology +

innovation support + up to 150k

– All info on iminds.be/fiwareJan 2015Start of selected

projects!

Dec 2014Projects selected

Oct-Nov 2014 Open Call 1

Sept 2014 Open calls

announcements

Submit your business idea!fiware@iminds.bewww.iminds.be/fiware