The document summarizes Televic Group, an innovation-focused company operating in healthcare, rail, conference, and education markets. It provides an overview of Televic's global presence and emphasizes the importance of innovation for corporate survival. The document then describes TRACK, a two-year European project involving 11 partners to develop train applications over an advanced communication network, with work packages focused on use cases, network platforms, and applications. It stresses that distributed innovation through collaboration is important for generating new ideas and accessing resources.

1. TRACK
Dirk Van Den Wouwer – Televic
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2. Televic group
Televic Group
Healthcare Rail Conference Education
IP-based network On-board systems Digital conference, Innovative
for nurse call, for passengers simultaneous technology for
building information, interpretation and your learning
management, multimedia voting systems. environment.
intercom and care entertainment and
registration. control.
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3. Televic Global Presence
Televic nv Belgium Televic Ltd Bulgaria
Izegem Plovdiv
220 FTE 105 FTE
Televic SA France
KAT Televic JV
Lille
China Changzhou
20 FTE
130 FTE
Televic UK Ltd
Manchester
5 FTE PTC Televic JV India
New Delhi
10 FTE
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4. Innovation !?
My
Product
Corporate survival is dependent on the firm's ability to
adapt in times of change, that is, they need to learn in
order to "retain and improve competitiveness, productivity
and innovativeness”. (Dodgson, 1996)
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5. How ?
 Watch trends and evolutions
 Competitors, suppliers, other markets,
patents, internally (TIFANI=stage gate)
 Central lab
 Thesis (master and bachelor)
 Projects (alone or within consortium)
 TETRA,
 SME innovation projects,
 European projects,
 ICON projects
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6. From individual to distributed innovation
interaction between participants
Distributed Innovation
Corporate Innovation
Individual Innovation
19th Century 20th Century 21st Century
Gann & Salter, 2003
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7. Why ?
 Creates awareness inside company
 Collaborative project : academic partners,
government and industrial partners. (no restrictions)
 Multidisciplinary : different views on problems
 Demand driven
 Alignment with IWT O&O process
 Funding, but contribution by partners !
 Access to important resources
 Splendid support from IBBT (e.g. legal, locations,…)
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8. TRACK – in a nutshell
 TRain Applications over an
advanced Communication networK
 Some figures
 2 years
 11 partners
 340 man months of effort spent
 38 deliverables (Demonstrators, Software, Reports)
 End of project : 27 october 2011
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9. TRACK - What
 TRain Applications over an advanced
Communication networK
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10. TRACK – WP1
 Definition of the Use Cases and User
requirements
 Design of the general architecture and interfaces
 Study of the economic viability
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11. TRACK – WP2
 Development of network platform
 Analysis of dynamic wireless behaviour
(sWP2.1)
 Optimization of throughput (sWP2.2)
 Development of IPv6 strategies (sWP2.3)
 Integrated lab PoC demonstrator (sWP2.4)
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12. TRACK – WP3
 Addressing different application and
management related challenges.
 Remote train applications (sWP3.1)
 Low Latency codecs (sWP3.2)
 Remote application config & version
management (sWP3.3)
 Application-support platform architecture
(sWP3.4)
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13. ICON – Project Initiation
 Small team of industrial partners.
 Complementarity, no competitors.
 Ideally ; add (potential) customers.
 Start brainstorming on possible topics.
 Quantity more important then quality
 Demand driven
 Converge towards ‘a story’
 Invite academic partners to the table
 They bring different views, bring expertise in certain
domains, they help the team breaking out of the box, etc.
 Invite more industrial partners if they are
required/add value to the project
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14. TRACK – The team
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15. ICON – My best practices
 At start, clearly define milestones and goals
 At start, make sure there is enough to win for
each partner
 During project, evaluate goals and path
forward
 Regular WP meetings to keep the fire going
(LAT)
 Regular plenary meetings
 Balance goals of the industrial partners and
academic partners
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16. ICON – My best practices
 Active management involvement of
partners
 Stimulate ‘real’ co-operation on milestones
 People are It is onlyexample and experience” that firmsand learning
very by “working closely with experts are able to
through important
acquire tacit knowledge. (Senker and Senker, 1994)
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17. Thank you for your attention
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18. TRACK
Dirk Van Den Wouwer – Televic
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