Cap Digital

Philippe Roy

Deputy Executive Officer

Living Labs in a Digital Content Business Cluster

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Cap Digital: The French Business Cluster for Digital Content

•Accredited in 2005 with strong support from the French government

•Ile de France (Paris Region) is the first European region in ICT

•The Content industry represents +150,000 jobs

•+ 15,000 researchers & PHDs

•70-80% of the French digital market assesed at €12B

Cap Digital : Contents, Services & Knowledge

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SERVICES

CONTENTS KNOWLEDGE

Image, sound & interactivity,

Video games,

Knowledge Engineering,

Digital Heritage,

E-education, e-training

Collaborative Technologies,

Digital lifestyle & services,

Robotics et intelligent objects,

Digital Design.

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Cap Digital: over 350 members

•20 major corporations Lagardère Active Media, France Télécom / Orange, Thomson,

Thales, Motorola, Sony, Editis, Microsoft, UbiSoft, EDF, Alcatel Lucent, Bull, SFR …

•10 SME associations Bureau Export, Capital Game, FICAM, Mobile Alley, Paris Mix,

Pôle audiovisuel nord parisien, Reseau Echangeur, Silicon Sentier, Simavelec, SPFA

•300+ SMEs  

•40 public bodies Universities, public research labs, and higher education

establishments :

140 labs Public companies : IGN, INA, la Cité des Sciences…

•Regional and County Councils

Réf. 06-00109

• Stimulate innovation process Networking events - LA CANTINE (co working space) Workshops, conferences… web-site, newsletters…

• Promote collaborative projects A label to support R&D funding

• Set-up open testbeds GPR LL, Quartier Numérique, CExMP

• Provide services to members Technology/innovation promotion, Business relationship, funders (BAs, VCs)

• Establish international leadership European opportunities Targeted collaborations Involvement in major international events and tradeshows

• Promote this new digital economy NEW INDUSTRIAL WORLD Forum – October 3&4 Futur en Seine – May 29 to June 7 5

How We Operate

Strong innovation and research momentum

• In 3 years: 565 R&D projects received 200 R&D projects selected

232 M€ private funds 167 M€ public funds

Public Funds destination: oSMEs: 51%oLabs: 37%oLEs & VLEs : 12%

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Communicating Objects - Robots

Local authorities – LL and Open Innovation

• Local authorities understand that shared platforms improve: Territory competitiveness SME innovation

• This objective is in line with Business Cluster objectives so their creation / management is given to Clusters or large Research Labs as open platforms

• Among the 11 French LL, most of them are connected to a business cluster (Cap Digital, Media & Networks, SCS, TES)

• Paris Region Council has pushed to the creation of several Living Labs and Open Innovation platforms, with the support of Paris city Council

• Infratructure of several Living Labs funded by local authorities

• Usage experimentations can be funded through regional RFPs using regional, national or European funds

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Cap Digital Usage Labs

• Usage Labs have been one of the key strategies of cap digital Media have gone from rarity to abundance: user vaidation is key to create usage

• Digital Life Lab was an umbrella project created at the cluster birth including three usage labs … but was never funded.

• We had to make it different !

• 4 different usage labs platforms have been created and funded that are being unified and exchange practices

• 4 Research Labs + 1 research platform to bring usage expertise: Paris 6 LIP6 Paris 8 CHART Telecom ParisTech - Digital Economy, Information, exchange and information

Society INRIA Lutin Userlab: CHART + LIP 6 (+ other) usage platform for new services

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Cap digital Usage Labs - Typology

• From 10s of test users in a closed innovation platform ..

• To a Paris Region open innovation platform with 5000 test users

2006

2010

Project Time period Technology UsersAvailable Services

Usage

Gigacom 2006-2008Wireless Broadband (FTTx speed)

10s Few - Closed HD TV, etc.

Mobiles in Town 2006-20082G and 3G Mobile Phones

10s Few - ClosedTV, m-business, m-blogs, new medias, UGC

Quartier Numérique 2007-2009Outdoor WiFi in a Paris neighborhood + 3G mobile services

100s 50 - Open

TV, localion based services, on line music & video, mobile VoIP, chat, blogs, UGC, etc

THD 2008-2010FTTx in the Paris Region

5000 30 - Open30 usages (HD, e-education, Video Games, 3D showrooms, etc)

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Cap Digital Usage Labs – Labs and Enterprises

GigacomWireless

QN3G/WiFi

GPR LLFTTx

Mobilesin Town

ENoLL Living Labs – Open Innovation - Other

• 5 ENoLL Living Labs Quartier Numérique (2nd Wave) GPR LL Issy Les Moulineaux LUTIN Usage Lab 3D Living Lab

• Built by or incorporating Cap Digital members, e.g. Institut Telecom is in Quartier Numérique, 3D Living Lab and GPR LL

• Open Demo centers: Cité des Sciences Centre George Pompidou

• Open Innovation platform La Cantine by Silicon Sentier

• Additional LL: EDF: on office management and ICT use Vision Institute: AAL 12

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Long Term Objective

• We want Paris Region to ease the R&D initiatives and the test of new innovating digital content services

• By providing on a permanent basis a large open usage platform (5000+ test users in the panel)

• Open for: New telecom technologies (Wimax, emerging network technologies

…) New services developed or not in Paris Region

Thank you for your attention

More info at http://www.capdigital.com

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