Innovation week, Research and innovation priorities of MPC-MED horizon

Research and Innovation Priorities of MPC

related to the HORIZON 2020 Societal

Challenges,

INNOVATION WEEK Casablanca 3 March 2015

Raphael Koumeri,

PLANET SA Greece

The Strategic Research Agenda - SRA

The expected outcomes of the consultation

process to identify strategic ICT research

priorities include

• Clear and up-to-date picture of the ICT research

capacities of each participating MPC in the

terms of H2020

• Identification of key future challenges to be

faced by each MPC

• List of ICT priorities for each country

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Identification of Stakeholders

Direct MPC ICT research stakeholders

• RTD policy-makers, advisors & administrative (governmental)

• ICT research administrators and actors (e.g. universities, non-profit

research institutions, etc).

• ICT business and industry actors - representatives of key ICT

companies, ICT SME and other business associations, ICT-related

professional bodies, etc.

• Representatives of national and international ICT and ICT R&D-

related programmes, networks and initiatives (clusters, Technology

Platforms (TPs), etc).

Indirect MPC ICT research stakeholders

• Broader business community - e.g. Chambers of Commerce,

representatives of SME organisations, etc.

• Public sector agencies and departments.

• Representatives of the civil society.


The Consultation Process

• Gathering

Knowledge

• Planning the

Process

• Identifying

stakeholders

• Developing

consultation

material

Preparatory

Phase

Consultation

Survey

Consultation

WorkshopsFinal Phase

• Mobilizing

stakeholders

• Administering

the

consultation

process

• Analyzing

survey results

• Recruiting

expert panel

• Organizing the

consultation

workshops in

each MPC

• Developing the

individual

countries’

SRAs

• Developing the

bi-regional one

• Developing the

SRA of the

MPC

Phases

Activities

Outputs

Consultation

Plan & Questionnaire

Stakeholder

List

First Analysis

Final

consultation

results

Final SRAs

Consultation Phase


ICT Focus

“Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

(LEIT)”:

• Information and communication technologies

“Societal challenges”:

• SC1: Health, demographic change and wellbeing,

• SC3: Secure, clean and efficient energy,

• SC4: Smart, green and integrated transport,

• SC5: Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and

raw materials,

• SC6: Europe in a changing world - Innovative, inclusive and

reflective societies,

• SC7: Secure societies – Protecting freedom and security of

Europe and its citizens.


Current status

Consultation process finalised.

235 questionnaires were collected:


“Activities currently being carried out”“Research Priorities over the next 7 years”


0%

10%

20%

30%

A new generation of comp.& systems

Advanced Computing

Future Internet

Content tech & infomanagement

Robotics

Micro- & Nano, Photonics

ICT Cross-Cutting Activities

ICT Topics - all MPC

Activities currently being carried out Research Priorities over the next 7 years

ICT Topics

Cross-cutting:

•Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects

•Human-centric Digital Age

•Cybersecurity, Trustworthy ICT


0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

A new generation ofcomp. & systems

Advanced Computing

Future Internet


Robotics

Micro- & Nano, Photonics

ICT Cross-CuttingActivities

ICT Topics - Maghreb


ICT Topics


0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

A new generation ofcomp. & systems

Advanced Computing

Future Internet


Robotics

Micro- & Nano,Photonics

ICT Cross-CuttingActivities

ICT Topics - Mashrek


Cross-cutting:

•Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects

•Human-centric Digital Age

•Cybersecurity, Trustworthy ICT

Societal Challenges


0%

20%

40%

Health

Energy

Transport

Environment

Refl. Societies

Secure societies

Societal Challenges (ICT related, but without ICT) - all MPC


Future ICT Research Drivers Maghreb

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Research and Innovation relation in the MPC

INNOVATION WEEK CASABLANCA March 2015

69%

26%

5%FP7 - All MPCs

Higher education,Research

Public Institutions

SME

An ‘ecosystem’ does not

really exist!

“Bringing innovation to

market”: there is very little in the

MPC that could be brought

to a market

UNESCO Science Report:

Problems in developing an S&T Sector


• the absence of an S&T governance mechanism at state

level;

• low gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD);

• a lack of co-operation between scientific organizations

and productive sectors;

• a low technology component, leading to few

manufactured exports and a limited number of high-

tech exports;

• a poor capacity to innovate according to society’s

needs;

• a lack of databases providing information on S&T;

• challenges facing organizations involved in science.

Patents granted – a brief view


Egypt



Jordan



Greece

Overview: Patents granted to residents

www.MED-Dialogue.eu

Summary


Appreciation for S&T is also an almost alien concept in

the mindset of the Arab private sector, which has

always been strong in trading goods and services

rather than manufacturing.

The private sector has been unable to produce a

critical mass of knowledge workers to utilize these

resources to meet national objectives, add to the

national and global pool of knowledge or produce

patents leading to products and services.

High-tech exports from Arab countries are negligible.

The acquisition and application of technology is a

function of an enabling environment, yet this

environment is almost non-existent in many parts of

the Arab world.

Summary


There is very little linkage between universities and

industry when it comes to research output and thus

little wealth generation via the commercialization of

R&D. In the majority of Arab states, intellectual

property regimes are very weak, providing little

protection for the output of scientists.