LCR Innovation BoardBusiness Briefing

Jonathan Hague

VP Open Innovation, Unilever

The Innovation Plan

VISION

• 12 starting projects

• 4 Sectors

The Innovation Plan – March 2015 View

£12.3 Million of our £15 Million ESIF Allocation committed.

Action Progress

Prioritise innovation plan candidates

for ESIF submissions

- Robustness

- Impact

- Ecosystem build

- COLLABORATIVE / Focus on

Innovation Exchange

4 new projects progressed

- Sensor City (May)

- LCR 4.0 (July)

- Innovate to Succeed (July)

- Health Enterprise Innovation Exchange (July)

Further Develop the Innovation Plan

for use in strategic advocacy

Powerful asset list has been compiled, will now feed

the Science and Innovation audit bid

Very successful UKTI Presentation with innovation

as a focus November 2015

Innovation Plan positioned in core of new LCR

Growth Strategy

Innovation Plan Progress 2015

Innovation Plan ProgressAccelerating Connectedness

IBM / Watson @ Hartree +

Artificial intelligence in the Living Hospital

LCR 4.0Blue/Green Innovation Exchange

Health

Enterpris

e Hub

Digital Innovation Exchange

Liverpool Knowledge Quarter #SciTech Daresbury

Enterprise Zone *

Sensor City #

Materials Innovation Factory #

Marine Knowledge

Hub

LCR2 Energy

Big DataAccelerator

*Digital

Campus/ Sound Stage

AH Living Hospital /

International Centre

Liverpool PRiME #

STFC Hartree Centre

*

Unilever HQ & R&D

UoL Virtual

Engineering Centre *

EU’s largest health tech deployment

Centre for Offshore

Renewable Engineering

National Oceanography

Centre & ISCO #

Precision Medicine& Genomics #

Pancreas BRU #

Life Science

UTC

LJMU/STFC Liverpool Telescope & Schools

Observatory

L2/SUPERPORT

STFC Cockcroft Institute

*

NationalLight-weighting

Technology Centre

Alder HeuNIHR: CRN: Children’s Research

World’s 1st + largest next generation

wind turbines

Stephenson Institute for

Renewable Energy #

Smart Grids

“Hydrogen Town”&

Deployment

Hydrogen Network

UoL Computer Sciences & Informatics

#

School of Tropical

Medicine #

LJMU School of Sport & Exercise

Science #Royal Liverpool MHRA Phase 1 accreditation #

Manufacturing Technology Centre Catapult @ LJMU #

Knauf EU R&D

Centre

Internet of Things

(IoT) expertise /cluster

Bio-manufacturing cluster

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

National MRC

Centre for Drug

Safety Science #

EU reference Site: Active &

Healthy Ageing

Walton Centre

LairdsideMaritime Centre

LCR Living Lab:

Independent Living

MTC @ LJMU 2

Infectious Diseases Centre of

Excellence #

Shop Direct

BAC Mono & Automotive cluster

Bio-Inspire

Microsoft 1st UK

Showcase College #

AIMES

UoL Chemistry

#

LCR Innovation Ecosystem

IdeaTest Feasibility Capability

Build

LCR G3 LCR G4

Operational

LCR G1 LCR G2

Proposal aligns with LCR Plan/Criteria

Project resourced &Implementation plan in place

Launchready

Post Launch Evaluation

Maximise Value

Sensor City

Materials

Innovation

Factory

Innovation

Exchange:

LCR 4.0

Innovation Exchange:

Health Tech.Ventures

Project HA Digital

Accelerator

Marine

Knowledge

Hub

MTC@LJMU 2

LCR2Energy

Digital

Campus/

Soundstage

National

Lightweig

ht-ing

Centre

Smart

Grids

Hydrogen

Town/

Deployment

Bio-

Inspire

Innovation

Exchange:

Health

Enterprise

Innovation Exchange:

Blue/Green

Infectious

Diseases

Centre of

Excellence

Digital

Innovation

Exchange

Liverpool

PRiME

Alder Hey

Living

Hospital

International

Centre

LCR

Independent

Living Lab

Linked

to

Original

Plan

Added in

Updated

Plan

IBM

WATSON

HARTREE

LCR Innovation Pipeline

Materials Innovation Factory

Vision – To be the world leader in computer aided materials science

• £68 Million project

• Highest concentration of robotics for materials science in the world

• Liverpool model for open access

• Open for business Q1 2017

Sensor City

One of the world’s 1st incubators dedicated to the development & exploitation of sensor technology.

300 new companies & 1000 jobs

LCR 4.0Combine physical and digital assets to revolutionise LCR advanced manufacturing base & productivity -

200 company assists

Digital Hub

Hartree

Physical

HubGERI

Sensor City

Virtual Hub

VEC

Test & Demonstration

MIF + Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)

Research Hub

(Materials & Smart Products)

MIF

Hartree

Gro

wth

Hub

(pro

mote

, sig

npost,

dia

gnose)

Gro

wth

Hub

(pro

mote

, sig

npost, d

iagnose)

SME flow & Integrated Journey

Health Enterprise Innovation Exchange

Building on powerful local partnership assets to drive a commercial innovation pipeline of digital / assisted living health technology –

80 company assists

Our Projects Are Exploiting Economically Disruptive Technologies

Project Technology

MIF Advanced materials

Advanced Robotics

Sensor City IoT

Mobile Internet

Cloud Technology

LCR 4.0 Automation of knowledge work

IoT

Mobile Internet

Advanced Materials

Advanced Robotics

Health Enterprise

innovation exchange

Automation of knowledge work

IoT

Mobile Internet

Advanced Robotics

Next Steps for The LCR Innovation Board

ESIF Call April 2016 (£2.5 M left to 2020)

• Preparing Digital and Low Carbon bids

Maximise LCR Innovation Offer

• “LCR+” Science & Innovation Audit bid

• Devo Smart Specialisation workshop

Open new innovation investment horizons

• Translate our unique cluster of world class assets (businesses, infrastructure, science, technology, geographic) into distinct international investment propositions

Thank You