Post on 28-Dec-2015
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What is European Concept?
European Concept is a community of companies, people and research organizations who want to be (pro-) active in innovating products/services and process design in today’s sustainability focused environment and globalized markets.
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Premises and assumptions• Successful companies are able to identify and fulfill new users’ needs:
– Creating solutions at the cutting edge of technology– Integrating existing value propositions with new innovative opportunities
• Innovation is the key– To drive market segmentation and face market polarization– To face cost-based competition from emerging countries
• Successful companies place users at the center– The ultimate aim is to satisfy the final customer / consumer– Offer innovative and articulated value propositions that integrate advanced
services and tangible goods.– Involve suppliers and customers in the product design process to achieve
sustainable competitive advantage
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Focus: Customer needs• New business models for detecting and
managing new, undiscovered customer needs– Enabling structured methodologies versus intuitive
and creative– Integrated networked design versus individual design
• Make the classical product offering approach evolve into a modern product/service vision – product/service integrated design– product/service lifecycle management– sustainability
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• Innovating along the entire life-cycle of products based on users’ needs
Sustainable Product/Service
• New Product/service Innovation approach, focusing on Value propositions:
– Moving from a collective approach to product/service design based on real (individual) user needs (explicit, non explicit, indirectly connected)
– Application of new technologies and innovative services throughout the entire value added chain, identifying new modalities to satisfy users expectations.
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Adding to existing• European industrial and entrepreneurial
network:– In relation to existing platforms (e.g. Manufuture) – In relation to initiatives having a European
relevance.• Link and make available existing data sources
and best practices on (sustainable) product/services development
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Building blocks / topics1) Innovation through new business models2) Sustainable production best practices3) Development of intelligent knowledge-based systems4) Creation of specific data bases to be used by collaborative
networks of enterprises5) Integration of existing sources of information6) Management systems for collaborative networks aimed to
classify, store and share useful information7) Training and dissemination of the above listed results and
outputs within the European business community.
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Interesting for whom?• Those who are interested in the topic of
continuous innovation of products and services.
• Those who are willing to contribute to the activities of the group (e.g. participation in meetings and workshops, where you present your ideas and needs etc).
• Those who are open for international collaboration, which may for instance include participation in EU-funded research and development projects.
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Current SupportersADIRA Portugal
AKERS France France
ANGELANTONI INDUSTRIE S.P.A. Italy
AREVA France
ARJOWIGGINS FranceARTENGO (Groupe OXYLANE-DECATHLON) FranceASSOKNOWLEDGE ItalyBARILLA G. E R. FRATELLI S.P.A. ItalyBONDUELLE FranceBOSCH PortugalBREMBO SPA ItalyBTICINO SPA ItalyCAETANOBUS PortugalCARTIF SpainCEI PortugalCENTRO RICERCHE FIAT ItalyCLAAS GermanyCONFINDUSTRIA BERGAMO ItalyCONFINDUSTRIA SIT ItalyCONTINENTAL GermanyCOSBERG SPA ItalyDALLARA AUTOMOBILI S.P.A. ItalyDATALOGIC AUTOMATION S.R.L. ItalyDeutsche Bahn GermanyECOLE POLITECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE SwitzerlandEFACEC Portugal
ENI CORPORATE UNIVERSITY ItalyERPC GmbH GermanyESSILOR FranceEUROVIA FranceFAMO PortugalFAURECIA FranceFIAT Group s.p.a. ItalyFIR, RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY GermanyFREZITE PortugalFROMAGERIES BEL FranceGESCO – GRUPPO AMADORI ItalyGROSFILLEX FranceIBM ITALIA S.P.A. ItalyILLY CAFFE’ S.P.A. ItalyINDESIT COMPANY S.P.A. ItalyINDO SpainINESC PORTO - IBEROMOLDES PortugalITIA - CNR ItalyKONE FinlandKONECRANES FinlandKPS ADVISING SRL ItalyKufferath GermanyLAFARGE FranceLIEBHERR AEROSPACE TOULOUSE (LTS) FranceMARTINI & ROSSI S.p.A. ItalyMECAPLAST FranceMV AGUSTA S.P.A. Italy
PERSICO SPA Italy
Philips Germany
PI3C France
POLITECNICO DI MILANO Italy
POMEC S.C.A.R.L. Italy
PSI Germany
RENAULT France
SAINT GOBAIN France
SAME DEUTZ-FAHR GROUP SPA Italy
SCAGLIA INDEVA SPA Italy
Siemens Germany
SILAMPOS Portugal
SKF Germany
SKYLOGIC SPA Italy
SOLETANCHE BACHY France
TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Finland
Telekom Germany
TMG Portugal
TNO Netherlands
TNT Germany
UNIVERSITA‘ DI BERGAMO Italy
VALEO France
VINCI-CONSTRUCTION France
VISTA ALEGRE ATLANTIS Portugal
Voith Germany
VOLKSWAGEN AG Germany
VTT Finland
Winergy Germany
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Benefits?• To have the opportunity to exchange ideas and
best practice with Academic and Industrial leaders
• To develop your professional network and build collaborations with other innovative companies in the sustainable product/service industry in Europe
• To be given the means to influence the relevant R&D agenda of the EU
• To be continuously informed on actual opportunities for collaboration on innovative & sustainable product/service design opportunities