1. Dutch
Incuba+on
Forum
12/11/14
Bart Nieuwenhuis
Services Valley
Province of Limburg
The Netherlands
BUSINESS PROCESSES
Incubator for
information services
CHEMISTRY
Bio-­‐based
materials
HEALTH
Preven+on,
Heart,
Brain
AGRO FOOD
Logistics, Health
BIG DATA
Data intensive services
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Research, education, and entrepreneurship in the five clusters is
tightly linked with the local knowledge providers
CROSS CLUSTER KNOWLEDGE INPUT
Business Intelligence, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Service Innovation
Important
Reach SME which are not part of the cluster community
What is Services Valley?
Open Innovation Environment
around Canon-Océ
• Business Incubator
– attract new entrepreneurs and
(start-up) business
• Corporate Incubator
– open innovation of business
units of Canon-Océ
• Business Services School
– Diploma Program UM and RSM
Incubation Programme
• Intake
• Stage-gate process
• Investor Day
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Open Innovation Environment
Universities
of applied
sciences
Academic Customers
Universities
~5 year revolving funds
from participations
6% share in start-ups
Foundation
Incubator
Corporate
Incubators
Canon / Océ
Domain
Projects
Business Services School
Co-creation
projects
Supporting infrastructure (housing, workspace, event space, IT)
Corporate
Incubators
Others
Domain
Projects
Subsidies
Province of
Limburg
Investors
Rabobank &
LIOF
Corporate
Companies
Canon-Océ
Corporate
Investors
Private
Investors
Formal
Investors
Rabobank /
LIOF
BUSINESS
IDEA
Services Valley in 1st and 2nd phase
SV 1.0 (2012-2013) SV 2.0 (2014)
• 19 companies in programme
– 5 companies in phase #1
– 8 companies in phase #2
– 6 companies in phase #3
• 3 companies completed
– 2 looking for funding now
– 1 company received funding
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Services Valley’s startups
Province of Limburg as a Large
Scale Demonstrator Region
• “The Province of Limburg is one
of the few regions in the EU
with advanced policy thinking
in terms of developing its
manufacturing industry
through the transformative
power of service innovation.”
• Policy brief for the Province of
Limburg, European Service
Innovation Centre, 2014
• ESIC Recommendations
1. Governance structure
2. Create more synergies
3. Meeting platform
4. Branding strategy
5. Include rest of economy
6. Cross border policies
7. Design KPI framework
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Incuba+on
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12/11/14
Service Innovation for
Manufacturing SMEs
Short term strategy
• Pilot program
– Training and Education
– Service innovation tool
– Promotion tour
– SME symposium
– “Best Practices”
Long term strategy
• The transformative power of
service innovation in
manufacturing industry
• Contributions to program for
new coalition 2015-2019
• Depending on elections and
political decision making
Transformative Power of Service
Innovation for Economic Growth
• It’s all about services…
– production related services
– product related services
• Province of Limburg supports Services Valley (Océ, Venlo),
Service Science Factory (University of Maastricht), and Smart
Services Hub (APG, Heerlen), to co-operate in stimulating
economic growth in strong SME sectors: manufacturing, agro-food
and logistics.
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