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1. From Territories to Europe and
Back
Fabio Pianesi
Vice-Director for Research – Trento RISE
Trento Node Co-Location Manager – EIT ICT Labs Italy

2. Overview
Network of Territorial Ecosystems
EIT ICT Labs Italy
Trento RISE
Territorial Ecosystems
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology

3. Thinking Global, Acting Local
 EIT ICT Labs
 Focus on Territory and
Leveraging ICT for Quality of Life
 Strong Academia and Industry
participation

4. Trento RISE
Trento as an ideal Region for innovation
• First class research centres and university
• Governance committed to support and stimulatre
ERB initiatives
• Legislative Capacity to support ERB initiatives
• Short chain decision process
• Territorial Labs as main drivers of innovation

5. Territories are Key Players for innovation
Public Bodies
Tourism
Sport
Culture iGov
Energy
Mobility
Health
Security
Heath Care Transport
Companies Research

6. Territories for innovation
• Demand for innovative services enabled by ICT
• Participate actively in the process stimulating service innovation enabled by
ICT
• Act as first “buyers” and “consumers” of service innovation
Tourism
Sport
Culture iGov
Energy
Mobility
Health
Security
Heath Care Transport
Companies Research

7. Territorial Ecosystems
• the territory (local government and public bodies) – demanding
and buying service innovation
• people in the territory (as end users) – demanding and buying
service innovation
• companies - delivering service innovation enabled by technical
innovation
• research centers and universities - delivering technological
innovation
All these actors systematically work together to set up, nurture
and advance the Territorial Ecosystem for Innovation

8. Territorial Labs
• Living labs extended to the whole territory as means to push
service innovation enabled by technological innovation
• Stable pool of users and infrastructure
• where the service provider can be close to the service
consumer
• aiming at validating the applicability of innovative technology,
organizational, business, market aspects, actual adoption by
end-users
• as means to merge service innovation demand and
technological innovation supply
• as the fundamental means to merge research, companies,
public bodies, and people

9. Territorial Labs and ERB
• Research: results tested in realistic settings
• Education: hands-on experience for students in Masters and
PhD courses and/or during summer/winter schools
• Business: market tests, comparison among alternative
business models, assessment of the impact on organizations

10. Trento Rise’s Territorial Lab
• Active aging
• Mobile Territorial Lab
• Tunnels for smart mobility and energy savings
• …….
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11. EIT ICT Labs Italy
Projecting and networking
outwardly

12. Vision: Innovation at the Regional Level
Regions: The right places for innovation …
• where innovation meets society: policy makers, organizations, SMEs, people
• “Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative – Innovation Union”
• “External Evaluation of the EIT: Final Report, May 2011”
EIT ICT Labs @Italy
• involves through its partners some of
the most active Italian regions:
Emilia Romagna, Lombardia,
Piemonte, Toscana, Trentino …
• realizes its vision through Territorial
Labs, as an evolution and extension of
the Experience and Living Labs

13. Vision: ICT for Quality of Life
• Quality of life as a broad concept, beyond the economical richness & available
resources, embracing, e.g., health/social welfare, environmental conditions,
education, culture, etc.
• Quality of Life is a European Brand, a competitive advantage w.r.t. both highly
developed areas (e.g., USA, Japan) and emerging economies
• ICT is not only the KEY enabler of Quality of Life
• because it provides the tools, infrastructures and services to turn concepts
and potentials into reality
• It is what IS AND WILL BE SHAPING our understanding of QoL
• through new-generation
• through emerging research areas, e.g., Future Internet, Embedded
Intelligence, Social & Human Computation, ...

14. Vision: ICT for Quality of Life (cont.)
• “Person Centric Quality of Life” along two dimensions:
• individual dimension (personal needs, individual life styles, etc.)
• social dimension (person “embedded” in a social environment)
• A “data driven” approach to Interconnection of services through
• massive individual and territorial data sets (available thanks to agreements
with regional authorities and industrial partners)
• Territorial Labs where new services are experimented

15. The Node: Three Core Partners
• One Scientific Core Partner:
• Trento RISE: Research centers + University
• Two Key European ICT Companies as core partners
• Telecom Italia spa: The major Italian Telco
• Engineering spa: The major Italian IT company
EIT ICT Labs @Italy
Core Partners

16. The Node: Industrial Affiliated Partners
• STMicroelectronics: Sensors, Microsystems, Embedded Systems
• FIAT Research: ICT for the Automotive Sector
EIT ICT Labs @Italy Affiliated Partners

17. The Node: Scientific Affiliated Partners
• Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino:
knowledge transfer capabilities, business incubators, connection with
large companies
• University of Bologna:
wide spectrum of scientific areas and humanities, connection with SMEs
• Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa:
special excellence graduate school (ICT + business + innovation)
• CNR: The National Research Council (8 research centers in Italy)
EIT ICT Labs @Italy Affiliated Partners

18. The Node: Excellence
data limited to ICT and updated to mid 2011

19. Trento Co-location Centre
• 500+ researchers involved in EIT ICT Labs @Italy
• Co-location Center available in Trento ICT campus with 3000+ square
meters available for co-located activities
• Telecom Italia Research Lab
• Engineering lab
• Other major companies (Poste Italiane, IBM, …)
• Co-located SMEs (e.g., GPI) , spin offs
• Space available for affiliated partners

20. Trento Co-location Centre

21. Trento Co-Location Center

22. Trento Co-Location Center

23. Co-locatio center
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24. Co-locatio center

25. Activities Trento CLC – 2011-2012
Past activities
 Telecom Italia SKIL Lab Opening Event, April 8th, 2011 (Franco Bernabé,
CEO Telecom Italia)
 Doctoral training on IPR, May 2nd , 2011
 GPI (local SME, ~800 employees) R&D Labs launch event, July 6th, 2011
 Entrepreneurs IT @ Italy (Entrepreneurs Club event), July 7th 2011,
 Italian Future Affiliate Partners meeting, September 19th , 2011
 Business Circle bi-monthly face-to-face meeting, November 17-18th, 2011
• Experience and Living Lab Catalyst Builder Kick off workshops for 2012
activities, February 12th – 13th , 2012
• CLC visit – TIMS - Christian Müller, Action Line Leader di TIMS
(Intellingent Mobility and Transportation Systems), February 22nd, 2012
• CLC visit – Education - Carl-Gustaf Jansson, Activity Lead EIT
Master; Christian Queinnec, Activity Lead EIT Doctoral Training Center,
February, 27th-29th, 2012
• Working Group, Doctoral Training Centre, February 28th, 2012
• Workshop, Future Media and Content Delivery, March, 15th-16th, 2012

26. Activities Trento CLC – 2011-2012
Current and planned activities
 Mind the Bridge Italy Tour, April 2012
 MC, April, 17
 Inauguration of Trento Node, April, 18
 Roadshow, April, 19
 Research Entrepreneurial Day, May 2 2012
 SAT/SMT Summer School, June 2012
 Conference on Big Data Management, July, 2012