Laying the foundations for a software-intensive Europe with participation of SMEsEUREKA Conference – European Business Summit, 16 March 2006 Rudolf Haggenmüller - Chairman ITEA 2

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Laying the foundations for a software-intensive Europe with participation of SMEs

EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006ITEA 2 builds on the success of ITEAPrincipal achievements of ITEA

• First ever major initiative of European industry and national authorities to recognise the emerging importance of “embedded and distributed systems”

• Highly successful execution– Shared vision of the future of software-intensive systems (SiS),

underpinned by the ITEA technology roadmap – a landmark;– Solid project portfolio of some 85 projects and 9,500 person-

years, with wealth of results and successes;– Major contributions to European co-operation and cross-

fertilisation, bringing together more than 400 partners from large industry, SMEs, and academia from across Europe;

– Development of an efficient and effective organisation with lean and industrial strength procedures, and with overheads of well under 1%.

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EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006 ITEA 2 vision

‘Europe to maintain leadership in embedded software-intensive systems and services building on key European strengths and industries’

Solutions / services

Differentiation software

Communications infrastructure

Real-time infrastructure

Recognising and responding to:• the move from a product-oriented to a services-oriented world• ‘time-to-market’, i.e. INNOVATION, is make or break• the even more crucial role of SMEs and academia• strong ERA cooperation being mandatory (seizing FP7 opportunity)• digital convergence is the name of the game

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Strategies (1)

• Changing the battleground in ICT primarily to the so-called ‘secondary industries’, building on key European strengths and industries – i.e. to embedded software and services;

• Mounting an industry-driven pre-competitive R&D&D initiative– now even stronger – for a sustained build-up of European capabilities in software-intensive systems and services;

• Maximise and leverage the growing importance of SMEs to increase the momentum of the initiative, from an already high participation level (‘best in class’).

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Strategies (2)

• Foster and leverage the impact of academia/research, first of all in continuing the solid application-oriented grounding of the programme but, in addition, intensifying co-operative research and transfer

• Push the envelope on programme agility aggressively across all levels and all procedures to address better the overarching issue of time-to-market; first and foremost: speed-up CALL process.

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Ambition

ITEA highlights ITEA 2 ambitions

Number of (annual) calls 8 8

Effort in person-years 9,500 20,000

Expenditure (€ billion) 1.2 3+

Number of projects 85 200

Number of participants 400 - 45% SMEs - 28% research institutes and universities

800 - 50% SMEs - 25% research institutes and universities

Exploitation(references to products/results for internal use/licences/open sources)

450 1,000

Standardisation actions 150 250

Dissemination(publications/conferences)

1,650 4,000

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EUREKA Conference – EBS 2006Partners in ITEAHigh participation level of SMEs

23 countries 400+ partners in 85 projects

SMEResearch institutes & universitiesLarge industries

SMEs = 16% of total resources

28% 27%

45%

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Favourable conditions for SMEs

• Favourable contribution rules: first five person-years per year are free of charge

• Major effort to organise and manage ITEA 2 is carried by large industries

• A board seat (European Federation of High-tech SMEs)

• Lean organisation, lean process: starting point is a project outline. After approval the consortium is invited to write a full project proposal.

• Excellent opportunity for SMEs to gain expert-knowledge and to share risks and costs in large high-tech projects, in a trusted legal environment

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