Catapult is a Technology Strategy Board programme

The Connected Digital Economy Catapult (CDEC)

Higher Education Expo17 October 2013

Dr. Maurizio PiluPartnerships Director

Connected Digital Economy Catapult 2

• Set up by the Technology Strategy Board• Applied R&D&I centre in the digital economy• Non-for-profit, based in London, national

remit• Centre with critical mass to help UK

innovators, especially SMEs• Overtime 100+ technologists

• £10m p.a. of core investment from TSB

The digital economy

FAST MOVING

CONSTANTLY CHANGING

BUILD IT & THEY WILL COME

WONT WORK

GLOBAL

BEINGFAST

IS KEY

‘a few years ago a cloud was something in the sky, a tweet was something you heard in the garden, Skype was a typo and 4G was a parking spot’

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CDEC in 4 bullet points

• Develop a portfolio of openly accessible platforms & capabilities which address clearly identified industry challenges in the data value chain for the benefit of digital innovators

• Bring unique value by combining our neutral convening power, the agile and focussed way we build platforms & capabilities with the centre’s high density of critical skills

• Align our efforts to enhance existing TSB (& RCs) activity

• Demonstrate the transformative impact of digital to UK leaders

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The data value chain – our ‘field of play' 5

Challenges and unrealised opportunities

• Realising the potential of integratedcontent and data

• Exploiting next generation connectivity

• Accessing the skills to develop successful new applications, services and products

• Being heard in a crowded marketplace

‘Data data everywhereand not a

drop to link’

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Initial focus framework

Initial strategic projects Initial quickstart projects

Developing commercially successful new applications, services and products, based on new business models, security and trust, and user

centricity

UK CDEC Innovator Centre

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A high density of critical skills and assets 8

Connected across the UK …. 9

10….and the stakeholders base

Engagement with research base (examples)

• Main Board• Professor Dame Wendy Hall (Univ. Southampton)• Professor Chris Van Der Kuyl (Univ. Albertay)

• Key Placements• Professor Derek McAuley (Nottingham) as Chief Innovation Officer• Oxford University appointed full-time CDEC liaison

• Advisors Group • Being formed now; ~10 senior academics

• Live Projects• Partner to Surrey University 5G centre (>£25m consortium)• Joint project with Lancaster University / Big Innovation Centre

(Trusted Data Accelerator)

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Other interactions with res. base (examples)• RCs

• AHRC, EPSRC, ESRC, STFC, HEFCE• Example: ESRC call including CDEC in recent BigData Call

• 1:1 meetings with Universities• 18 universities

• Collaboration Agreements (CAs)• Broad CAs being discussed with 3 universities• Collaborations on Centres for Doctoral Training

• CDEC Fellow/Secondment program• Aiming to launch in February

• Projects being discussed• Example: IP catalyst/accelerator

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Only the beginning…

• CDEC has been operational for 5 months• Huge appetite in research base to work with CDEC• Our demand-led approach + focus on

testbed/demonstrators for the benefit of innovators seen as highly complementary

• Open to collaborations:• Maurizio.Pilu@cde.catapult.org.uk

• Twitter: @Maurizio_Pilu & @cdecatapult

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