AACSB @ EUR

Innovation Communities: SmartPort and its ecosystemMichiel Jak

September 5, 2015

Overview

WHY?

Challenges Port of Rotterdam area

University-Business Cooperation

HOW?

SmartPort’s goals and working method

Rotterdam: innovation community (eco-system).

WHAT?

Thematic roadmaps

NEXT?

First results&next steps

Opportunities

Something hás to change…

“USPs”:

• High energy prices

• High labor costs (+battle for talent)

• High land lease costs

Context:

• 80% of the assets are economically (and technically) written off

• 50% activities are fossil-fuel based

• Access to 350 million wealthy consumers

• Biggest port of Europe

• High population density

Sense of urgency Rotterdam

• Global Hub: growth #containers

• Europe’s industrial cluster: energy transition

• Sustainable growth: balanced quality of life and prosperity

• 5 challenges:

• Energy&chemistry (fossil to non-fossil)

• Logistics connectivity (growth vs optimal use)

• World Port City (synergy port and city economies)

• Port Strategies (role and positioning Port Authority)

• Maritime infrastructure and Waterways (lifecycle costs/extension and future-proof design)

• Increased speed of change and complexity require collaboration and integral approach

• Use the Power of the Port/ Dynamics of the City/ Ambition of the Region

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Research and Innovation are key

Scientific research

Use/functionality

Time

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Drivers of UBC

Drivers (33 countries/6000 responses - academia)

1. Existence of mutual trust

2. Having a shared goal

3. Understanding of common interest by different stakeholders

• Siemens – long-term strategic partnerships with outstanding universities

• Danone – collaboration with universities on strategic issues

http://www.ub-cooperation.eu/pdf/netherlands.pdf and file:///C:/Users/gastdelt/Downloads/1403694894_03pavlinemcosuproject%20(1).pdf

The SmartPort concept

community

governments

industry

academia

roadmaps

ecosystem

March 2005: Academic Centre TransPORT

December 2010: SmartPort 1.0

April 2015: SmartPort 2.0

The ambition

Founding partners: Port of Rotterdam, Deltalinqs, Municipality of Rotterdam, Delft University of

Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

• central hub for knowledge development, dissemination and application

• demand-driven by the issue-owners, not being contract research

• face and grasp (future) challenges and have a competitive advantage

• shared roadmaps per challenge as leading principle

• concentrate all investments via SmartPort

“A World Class Port needs a world class knowledge infrastructure in the region”

The organisation

SmartPort is the central organisation that actively invests in port-relevant knowledge development.

• robust organisation with a clear added value and value creation for all partners

• community building per roadmap, incl young potentials and talent exchange

• 10-15 researchers per roadmap community, collaborating with issue-owners

• board represents issue-owners and supporting network

• long-term (>5 years) financial commitment

• director, small staff, own budget of 1,5-2 M€/year (>75% to be invested in roadmaps)

• budget leverage (2-4) via National Science Foundation, Top Sectors, EC and cofinancing

• open innovation community for other universities and ports, both national and international (based on

complimentarity and added value)

• embedded in the port’s innovation ecosystem

• conduct and organize the hand-over to implementation i.e., next steps

• an Executive Education Program incl. masterclasses will be developed by the universities, related to the

roadmap

• knowledge transfer is as important as knowledge development

The working principles

The art of Roadmapping

• It is a compass, not a planning

• It builds coherency

• It is a selection mechanism to bring and keep focus

• It inspires to develop new projects

• It has SMARTI (I=inspiring) impact goals (~challenge)

• 4-5 years time span with sufficient detail

• Define concrete and tangible milestones (1-2 years time span)

• It aligns the dynamics of companies and academics

• Conduct and manage the interfaces and hand-over between projects

• It’s developed together! (pressure cooker – 80% version – 100% version - update)

Roadmap structure

Roadmaps-challenges

• Energy and Chemistry transitions (smart grids):

• towards an optimal effective petrochemical cluster using system integration and maximized integration of sustainable sources

• towards a biobased and circulair cluster using collective infrastructure and selected production methodologies

• Logistics Connectivity (smart logistics):

• Hinterland connectivity: develop synchromodal network with high efficiency, high quality and sustainability

• facilitate step changes: port shift, 20% rail transport in 2020, impact increasing call sizes container vessels, physical internet

• World Port City (smart people):

• support conditions to enhance a vital port-related economy (maritime service providers and industry)

• futureproof port area development (incl next generation waterfronts)

• Maritime infrastructure (smart use):

• optimise the use, lifetime and potential of the current maritime infrastructure and waterways

• futureproof and adaptive design

• Port Strategies (smart support):

• value creation “beyond the landlord”, ambidextrous port

• Effective innovation communities and innovation climate

Port of Rotterdam area

community

roadmaps

Skill development

• Toolkit for fire-starters, accelerators and community leaders

• Best practices and lessons-learned

• Leadership

• Ownership

• Social innovation

• Governance

• Coalition building

• Tooling and serious gaming (gain-sharing, chain analyses, transitions)

• Business Model Innovation

• Living labs

• Valorisation

• Coaching of the community leaders and executives on-the-fly

INDEEP structure

Knowledge development innovation practise

toolbox

Use case

Use case

Use case

Use case

Valorisation and dissemination

roadmap fire starter

accelerator

researcher

coach

knowledge developmentcoalition buildingtooling&gaming

BMIliving lab

First results

• 6 proposals granted on Logistics (3,3 M€ cofunding TKI)

• 3 proposals granted for Port Strategies (0,5 M€ cofunding)

• 3 proposals granted World Port City+3 Sustainable Urban Regions of the Future (1,5M€ cofunding)

• 2 proposals on Energy Smart Grids (1M€ cofunding)

• 1 proposal granted INDEEP (Logistics/general, 0,25M€ cofunding)

• 1 talent exchange (“corporate” PhD Maritime Infrastructure)

• MoU with Singapore Management University International Trading Institute

TOTAL 27 new projects/proposals (11 granted, 16 submitted), all demand-driven, about 25 FTE financed

Majority initiated by or at least (financially) supported by companies

Leverage between 2 and 20

Contact

Dr. Michiel JakManaging Director  Waalhaven Z.Z. 19,Portnumber 2235PortCity II, 4th floorPO Box 542003008 JE Rotterdam

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   +31 (0)88 8660971+31 (0)6 16484338michiel.jak@smart-port.nlwww.smart-port.nl