CEWP Research & Innovation Session Thursday, 21 September 2017, Dr. Markus Starkl, BOKU, Vienna Competence Centre for Decision Aid in Environmental Management, BOKU University, Vienna

1. PIANO project: Policies, Innovation And
Networks for enhancing Opportunities for China
Europe water cooperation
Drivers and barriers for promoting European water
innovations in China
Dr. Markus Starkl, BOKU, Vienna
Competence Centre for Decision Aid in Environmental
Management, BOKU University, Vienna
Turku, 21 September 2017

2. Content presentation
• Brief overview PIANO project
• Results of TWI survey
• Drivers and barriers for EU TWIs in China
• General drivers and barriers
• Barriers for technology categories
• Barriers specific to sectors and TWIs (work in
progress)
• Outlook

3. Background
PIANO addresses the work programme topic Water-5a-2014
“Strengthening international R&I cooperation in the field of
water” and specifically the scope “Strategic cooperation
partnerships”
•for water research and innovation between Europe and the rest
of the world
•promoting the creation of networks of companies,
entrepreneurs, not for profit organisations, policy makers,
regulators and funding bodies
•to create business and social opportunities
•Support of CEWP (China Europe Water Platform)
•Project Start: 01.03.2015
•Project End: 28.02.2018

4. Project Objectives

5. EU partners
Participant
No *
Participant organisation name Short name Country
1 University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences Vienna
BOKU Austria
2 Technical University of Denmark DTU Denmark
3 International Office for Water OIEAU France
4 Italian National Institute for Environmental
Protection and Research
ISPRA Italy
5 National Laboratory for Civil Engineering LNEC Portugal
6 Stockholm International Water Institute SIWI Sweden
7 W.S. Atkins International Limited ATKINS UK
8 European Water Association EWA Germany
(pan-
European)
9 European Union Chamber of Commerce
China
EUCCC China

6. Chinese partnersParticipant
No *
Participant organisation name Short Name Location
1 Chinese Secretariat of the China Europe
Water Platform hosted by the Ministry of
Water Resources
CEWP-
MWR
Beijing
2 Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of
the Ministry of Environmental Protection
FECO-MEP Beijing
3 Development Research Centre of the
Ministry of Water Resources
DRC-MWR Beijing
4 Chinese Academy of Environmental
Planning
CAEP Beijing
5 Research Center for Eco-Environmental
Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
RCEES -
CAS
Beijing
6 China Institute of Water Resources and
Hydropower Research, Ministry of Water
Resources
IWRH -
MWR
Beijing
7 Peking University, Center for Water
Research
PKU-CWR Beijing
8 Tongji University, College of
Environmental Engineering and Science
TU-CEES Shanghai
9 Wuhan University, School of Water
Resources and Hydropower Engineering
WHU-
MOST
Wuhan
10 Institute of Hydroecology, Ministry of
Water Resources & Chinese Academy of
Sciences
IHE-CAS Wuhan
11 Institute of Soil and Water Conservation ,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
ISWC-CAS Yangling
12 Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
CCAP- CAS Beijing
13 University of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Sino-Danish Center for
Education and Research
UCAS-SDC Beijing

7. Results of TWI survey
Systematic approach to identify EU Technological Water
Innovations (TWIs) with potential for China
• Water challenges in China specified (in consultation with CEWP)
• Landscaping of existing TWIs in EU to solve those water
challenges
• Agricultural water management
• Municipal water management
• Industrial water management
• River Basin Management
• Water for energy
• Landscaping of existing TWIs in China
• Survey including consultation and online survey of various
stakeholders in EU and China (e.g. EWA, IWA)
• Comparative analysis of EU and China TWIs

8. Results of TWI survey
Deliverable D2.1: European technological water innovations in a
Europe-China context

9. Comparative analysis: Selection of up to 20 TWIs for each
are/domain and assigning to one of following 6 categories
(example):

10. Drivers and barriers
Drivers and barriers most important for
successful technology
implementation/replication
“European Innovation Partnership Water has
stated that Europe is very strong on research
but fails to turn knowledge into added value for
society and markets” European Innovation
Partnership Water (2012). Strategic
Implementation Plan, Brussels.

11. Drivers and barriers
Approach
• Identification of drivers in water sector
• Strong policy drivers
• Water Ten regulations (Water Pollution Prevention and Control)
• 13th
Five Year Plan
• More specific drivers to sub-sectors
• Identification of barriers
• General barriers in water sector
• Barriers for specific technology categories
• Barriers for subsectors/domains and specific barriers to selected TWIs

12. Drivers and barriers
General barriers in water sector
• Market understanding / language
• Market/public acceptance of new technologies
• Promoted/closed lists for imports and market access
• Localisation of technology
• Certification and approval of technologies
• Identification of clients
• Procurement routes
• Business registration and banking
• Reliable partners for distribution, installation, training and
operation
• IPR Protection and copying

13. Drivers and barriers
Barriers for specific technology categories
Classification in four main technology categories
• Monitoring
• Type of approval
• Distribution, support and maintenance
• Copying by local competitors
• Modelling
• Data access, lack of data
• Communication of meaning of results
• Hacking, copying of IPR
• Costs
• General preference for local versions of free software (eg EPA)

14. Drivers and barriers
Barriers for specific technology categories
• Integrated management systems / controls
• Local certification requirements
• Import and customs restrictions
• Distribution, support and maintenance
• Costs, IPRs
• Technologies / Products
• Easily copied by local manufacturers
• Advanced treatment technologies struggle on costs
• Standards not high enough yet to drive the market
• Import and costumes

15. Drivers and barriers
• CP score 1,2: No CP, an idea that anyone could copy or no conceivable
market/client
• CP score 3: Little CP, but high chance that collaborative research
might lead to product with reasonable market value
• CP score 4: Good CP: clear needs and patentable technologies, good
market potential, but some risk that could be copied
• CP score 5: Meets a pressing need in China and could be exported or
manufactured locally at premium rate and difficult to copy

16. Drivers and barriers
Drivers in agricultural water sector
• Agriculture in China is gradually moving towards a more
intensive mode of production
• Need to attain higher yields and optimize inputs of water and
nutrients to minimize waste and negative environmental
impacts
• Investment in infrastructure and technology required
• Irrigation and
fertigation efficiency
• Reducing surface and
groundwater pollution
• Reduction in
groundwater
overdraft

17. Drivers and barriers
Drivers and barriers in agricultural water sector
Category 4 TWIs:
Area / Type Monitoring Modelling / DSS Control systems Products
Irrigation and
Nutrients
A8 SCADA remote control
system - 4,
A16 Multi-sensory platforms
for irrigation - 3,
A24 Integrated water
management system for
forestry in arid lands - 3,
A30 Software for crop
nitrogen budgeting - 3
A24
surface and
groundwater water
pollution
A36 A36 Groundwater sampling
system - 4
reduction in
groundwater
overdraft
A16 A16
CP

18. Drivers and barriers
Barriers in agricultural water sector
Irrigation and nutrients: modelling/DSS
• Farmer understanding
• Costs
• Regulations
• Localisation of technology
• Scaling Market
• Public acceptance
• IPR Protection

19. Outlook
• Elaboration of sector / TWI specific drivers and barriers
• Workshops in China in cooperation with EUCCC and Chinese
partners where we invite selected EU companies
• Detailed discussion on market potential, drivers, barriers and
how to overcome barriers
• Elaboration of policy recommendations and general
recommendations for overcoming potential barriers
• Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)
• Further dissemination events

20. Links
www.project.piano.net

21. Acknowledgements
Presentation based on
deliverable D2.1 (Barth et al.)
and internal draft deliverable
D3.1 (Spooner et al.)
Co-funding of the project by
the European Commission
within the Horizon 2020
Programme under Grant
agreement number: 642433 is
kindly acknowledged.