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D1.4 Final report on Marketplace

Grant Agreement number: 761.448

Project acronym: Smart4Europe

Project title: Catalysing Digitisation throughout Europe

Project co-ordinator name, title and organisation:

Dr. Rainer Günzler, Hahn-Schickard

Tel: +49 7721 943-188

Fax: +49 7721 943-210

E-mail: [email protected]

Project website address: http://www.smart4europe.eu

Responsible: fortiss

Contributor(s): P. Elahidoost, H. Pfeifer

Reviewer: S. Karmann

Submission Date: M24

Due: M24

Nature1: R

Dissemination level2: PU

1 R = Report, P = Prototype, D = Demonstrator, O = Other)

2 PU = Public, PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services), RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services), CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)

Smart4Europe

Catalysing Digitisation throughout Europe

Ref. Ares(2019)5481193 - 30/08/2019

D 1.4 © Smart4Europe Consortium

Short description of the content of the deliverable

In this document, we present the final report on the Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) Marketplace. The SAE Marketplace demonstrates the overall offerings of the SAE initiates in one place, to give all stakeholders, including potential customers a complete overview of expertise, tools, and services including:

Information on available platforms, tools, products, expertise, training

Links to already available marketplaces

Data on SAE projects, participants and cascading funding experiments (Success Stories)

This is the final formal deliverable after the second year of the project, which explains the different

parts of the implemented SAE Marketplace (offerings section) which has been developed as part of

the Smart Anything Everywhere innovation portal (website).

Version history

Version Date Changes made by Sent to purpose

0.1 28.08.2019 First draft FOR All Internal Review

1.0 29.08.2019 Submission FOR HS Submission

Statement

This deliverable is part of the achievement of the project Smart 4 Europe.

The author is solely responsible for its content. The deliverable does not represent the opinion of the

European Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of

information or data appearing therein.

The deliverable contains original, formerly unpublished work except where indicated by reference,

quotation or by other appropriate acknowledgement.

If parts of this document will be published before the submission and acceptance of the document as

deliverable of the Smart 4 Europe project, they must be indicated as “preliminary results”.


Table of Contents

Short description of the content of the deliverable ................................................................................ 2

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 4

1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5

2. Vision and Goals of Smart Anything Everywhere Marketplace....................................................... 6

2.1. Why another Marketplace? .................................................................................................... 6

2.2. What is the Purpose of the SAE Marketplace? ....................................................................... 6

3. SAE Marketplace (Offerings) ........................................................................................................... 7

3.1. What is in the Marketplace? ................................................................................................... 7

3.1.1 Competence Centers ....................................................................................................... 8

3.1.2 Innovation Technologies ................................................................................................. 9

3.1.3 Success Stories............................................................................................................... 10

3.1.4 Marketplaces ................................................................................................................. 11

3.1.5 Funding Opportunities................................................................................................... 14

3.2. Who can join and How? ........................................................................................................ 14

3.3. Benefits of Being Part of ........................................................................................................ 15

4. Discussion ...................................................................................................................................... 15


Executive Summary

This document reports on the up and running implemented Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE)

Marketplace in the second year of the Smart4Europe project. The report presents different sections

and the offered services and functionalities that are included in the SAE Marketplace. The aim of the

Marketplace is to provide an overall picture of the SAE offerings and to build a bridge between

suppliers and end-users (SMEs). Deskwork research was performed for data gathering via

investigating the SAE cluster projects: CPSE Labs, Diatomic, EuroCPS, FED4SAE, Gateone, SmartEEs,

Smarter–SI and, Tetramax. Moreover, the already existing marketplaces of four of the above-

mentioned projects were reviewed to collect the overall offering of the SAE community.

Categories that are implemented in the SAE Marketplace (offerings) are:

Access to a list of Digital Innovation Hubs and Competence Centers3

Information about the products, technologies, and tools offered by SAE initiative

Links to the already available marketplaces in the SAE community

Best practices and success stories

Information about funding and other financial opportunities (open calls) The developed features and functionalities are based on the objectives of the SAE initiative and the

investigations, which were reported on the first report on SAE Marketplace.

All partners of the Smart4Europe consortium involved in the organization of the SAE Marketplace

agreed in keeping it running after the end of the project to bridge the time4 until the upcoming SAE

aligned CSA is taking over and will continue the work initiated now.

3 When the SAE initiative was launched, its activities and especially the funded Innovation Actions aligned to

the initiative were driven by institutions addressed as „Competence Centers“ (CC). During the further development of the initiative the term „Digital Innovation Hub“ (DIH) was established for an institution that might comprise inter alia a Competence Center (or even several). The term DIH is commonly used nowadays (and will be for the foreseeable future) to address the drivers of the SAE initiative and its actions. But since not all Competence Centers emerged to DIHs up to now, this document uses both phrases where both kinds of institutions are addressed.

4 Several weeks, maybe a few months


1. Introduction

Smart4Europe addresses the Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) Initiative, with its overall ambition to

contribute to Europe's need in accelerating the design, development, and uptake of advanced digital

technologies by bringing the related Innovation Actions (IAs) together. In order to boost digital

transformation of European Industry Smart4Europe will support European small and medium-sized

enterprises (SMEs) and mid-caps to develop competitive products based on innovative electronic

components, software, and systems. In addition, Smart4Europe will support companies to achieve

competitive advantage by having early technology adoption. It will assist technology suppliers to seek

finance for their product development and make access to early customers.

Smart4Europe will strengthen the evolving digital sector in Europe by reinforcing the collaboration

between key players, competence centers, Digital Innovation Hubs and existing and future actions

supported under the SAE initiative. It will bring together and support the work of existing ETPs that

are creating strategies, roadmaps and research agendas for Europe and will support the existing

ecosystems in the fields of Smart Systems Integration (SSI), Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical

Systems (CPS), Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) and customized low energy computing. It

will help companies in the technical and non-technical sectors gain competitive advantage through

digitization and help them seek finance to achieve this. Finally, it will accelerate the design,

development, and uptake of advanced digital technologies contributing to the digital transformation

of European Industry.

Figure 1.1 Overall objectives of Smart4Europe

As shown in Figure 1.1 the Smart4Europe strategic objectives are threefold:

• Connecting with the community and enhancing SAE growth by bringing on board SMEs

and mid-caps

• Multiplying and creating an SAE ecosystem and achieving growth through collaboration

• Enabling the next generation of SAE and growth in new sectors


2. Vision and Goals of Smart Anything Everywhere Marketplace

As shown in Figure 1.1, one of the Smart4Europe objectives is to multiply and create an SAE

ecosystem. This is addressed via providing brokering services; growth will further be supported

through collaboration and sharing of best practice. Growth for SMEs and mid-caps, growth through

collaboration, and growth in new sectors will be achieved by bringing together existing IA

ecosystems, ETP ecosystems and also via engagement with new Innovation Actions supported by SAE

funding.

The SAE “Marketplace” will be a useful source of information for all interested stakeholders,

particularly newcomers, as it compiles the overall SAE offer of services, information on opportunities

and available funding, as well as platforms, tools, and training.

Thus, the aim of this document is to report the implemented SAE Marketplace whose design

replicates the good practices in success cases.

2.1. Why another Marketplace?

Currently, there exist several marketplace initiatives that cover directly or indirectly one of the four

technology SAE areas, viz. CPS, SSI, OLAE and customized low-energy computing (CLEC) powering CPS

and the IoT. The first report on marketplace has provided an analysis of these existing marketplaces.

The SAE Marketplace will provide an overall picture of the SAE offerings and will build a bridge

between suppliers and end-users (SMEs). It will make it easier for the customer (SMEs) to cut

procurement and administrative costs, as they will:

Find the best solution faster

Find the needed suppliers faster

Get and compare more offers from different suppliers

2.2. What is the Purpose of the SAE Marketplace?

The main goal of the Marketplace is to act as a showroom and give visibility to a wide range of platforms, services, technologies and, solutions with the related training and coaching of the SAE initiates offerings.

The SAE Marketplace gathers the overall offer of the SAE initiates in one place, to give all stakeholders, including potential customers a complete overview on expertise, tools and services including:

• Information on available platforms, tools, products, expertise, training, funding

possibilities

• Links to the already available marketplaces in the SAE community • Data on SAE projects, participants and cascading funding experiments (Success Stories)

The Marketplace brings together the overall offer of the SAE Initiative and related networks.


3. SAE Marketplace (Offerings)

3.1. What is in the Marketplace?

The SAE Marketplace is a meeting point, which eases access to the Industry market for start-ups and

SMEs. The SAE Marketplace is accessible through the “About SAE” section in the SAE innovation

portal (website). Through the Marketplace, users are able to find partners' description and contact

information, a description of products links to websites and, available open calls.

Generally, the Marketplace is a catalog of services offered by the SAE initiates; function as a one-

stop-shop to give access to technology, knowledge, and market.

Figure 3.1 shows the main pillars of the Marketplace. The overall offer/portfolio of the SAE initiative

is presented in an attractive and easy to filter way (products, technologies, services, expertise, and

training). In addition, since the main goal of the Marketplace is to visualize the available tools and

services the success stories are for promoting and marketing the products.

Figure 3.1 SAE Marketplace (Offerings)

The next section provides a more in-depth look in each of the SAE pillars. All the presented

information in the SAE Marketplace are from publicly available websites and portals of the eight SAE

cluster projects: CPSE Labs, Diatomic, EuroCPS, FED4SAE, Gateone, SmartEEs, Smarter–SI and,

Tetramax.

https://smartanythingeverywhere.eu/about-sae/


3.1.1 Competence Centers

Competence Centers page contains the list of the organizations and service providers (DIHs and CCs)

that are part of the SAE community. The list can be filtered based on the domain5 (Agrifood,

Autonomous Systems, Digital Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Smart Health, Sensors and, Low Energy

Computing), the geographical region of the DIH\CC, type of services it is providing (Testbed,

Technology) and the cluster projects it has been part of. Moreover, the list is searchable.

The list was assembled by gathering all the SAE cluster projects information such as: the DIH\CC

name, domain in which they are active in, short description of the organization, type of services they

are offering, contact information, country, link to the organization’s website and the SAE cluster

projects they are part of. In total, the list consists of 68 organizations.

Figure 3.2 SAE Marketplace Competence Centers

After choosing, any DIH\CC there will be a short description of the institution followed by their active

domain with the contact information as it is shown in figure 3.3 exemplary for the German research

institute “fortiss”.

5 These are the domains up to now explicitly addressed by the Open Calls of the cluster projects


Figure 3.3 SAE Marketplace Competence Centers description page

3.1.2 Innovation Technologies

The landing page of the innovation technologies section is the shop with the list of the products and

technological solutions of the SAE initiative. The list can be filtered based on the application domain

(Smart Health, Manufacturing…) and the technology provider. Additionally, the list is searchable.

The list consists of 180 technologies and services offered by the SAE cluster projects. The technology

name, domain, short description, contact information, link to the website of the technology (if

possible links to documents and manuals or Wikis) and the technology provider are the exhibited

information for this page.

Figure 3.4 SAE Marketplace Innovation Technologies


After selecting a solution, a new page will be opened with the name of the provider and a detailed

description of the technology. Moreover, if available the links for the technical documents and

manuals, Wikis or website will be provided.

Figure 3.5 SAE Marketplace Innovation Technologies detailed page

3.1.3 Success Stories

Success stories tab covers examples for successful application experiments in each area (CPS, AC,…).

Figure 3.6 SAE Marketplace Success Stories

After clicking on a chosen success story a new page with a detailed description of the experiment will

be opened.


3.1.4 Marketplaces

The Marketplace page tab will provide fast access to the already available marketplaces of SAE

cluster projects.

Figure 3.7 SAE Marketplace community

From the Smart Anything Everywhere initiative, four of the cluster projects have their own

marketplace:


1 CPSE Labs, which is a consortium of partners with expertise in cyber-physical systems. The CPSE Labs pilot marketplace is offering the assets/products related to results from the experiments within the project.

Figure 3.8 CPSE Labs marketplace

2 Diatomic is for boosting European Microelectronics Industry, which aims to establish a

sustainable ecosystem in health, agrifood and manufacturing sectors via its one-stop-shop portal.

The DIATOMIC platform exhibits the Digital Innovation Hubs' (DIHs) resources and coordinates

connectivity within them.

Figure 3.9 Diatomic marketplace


3 SmartEEs is an acceleration program committed to helping innovative companies to access new

markets and grow their business in the field of adopting flexible electronics. The SmartEEs

marketplace consists of three main parts, a Showroom with more than 35 products and

disruptive technologies, a Community with Business connections and Brokerage activities

services.

Figure 3.10 SmartEEs marketplace

4 TETRAMAX acts in the domain of customized and low-energy computing for cyber-physical

systems and the internet of things. For the Technology Brokerage Network, the 23 TETRAMAX

Competence Centers form a backbone of a European network with competence in all fields of

Customized Low-Energy Computing (CLEC) for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things.

Figure 3.11 Tetramax brokerage network


3.1.5 Funding Opportunities

Funding opportunities section for maximizing the reach of the open calls is provided which has the

list of the available open call Information and financial opportunities within the SAE initiative. For

each entry, there is a short description followed by the link to the open call page.

Figure 3.12 SAE Marketplace funding opportunities

3.2. Who can join and How?

The Marketplace is open to anyone who is interested in the offerings. It has been populated by SAE initiatives' offers (tools, products, expertise, and training). However, as part of the CSA Smart4Europe, we are looking at new applications in non-technical sectors, e.g. agriculture, wearables etc. so in long term the Marketplace can exhibit additional offerings which have been quality checked in these areas.


3.3. Benefits of Being Part of

The design of the Marketplace is based on the needs of two user profiles:

1. SMEs, for them to draw the right scenario regarding their technical challenge, in order to get

tailored both technical and business/innovation support

2. Competence Centers to make themselves and their offers visible.

SMEs:

Access to a wide range of innovative technologies

Access to funding opportunities

Opportunity to find a potential partner or collaborator

Competence Centers:

Showcase their product and have visibility to attract new customers

Access to new networks and business opportunities

4. Discussion

The gathered information in this deliverable (D1.4 "Final Report on Marketplace") is for having a clear idea of the implemented SAE Marketplace.

The Marketplace has been populated by the publicly available information and offerings of the SAE initiates. The Marketplace also acts as a recommender system and points to relevant already existing ones with more detailed information about more specific technological areas.

Particularly, there are some prerequisites and difficulties that need to be addressed for the next steps and iterations of the Marketplace in the future:

• Sustainable plan for the further generation of the Marketplace beyond the duration of the Smart4Europe project.

• Dedicated efforts and resources for the maintenance, and dissemination of the Marketplace.

These issues will be addressed by the upcoming CSA “Smart4Europe2” that is already in the GA-

phase.

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