Wim De Waele, Chief Executive Officer IBBT connect, innovate, create

1. Presenting Flanders
ICT Research &
Venturing organisation
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2. IBBT is an independent ICT research
organisation, founded by the Flemish
government in 2004
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3. Blazing Platforms – Economist February 12 2011
‘But, for a full comeback
Europe will have to wait for
an entrepreneurial culture
like Silicon Valley’s. This
may not be as hopeless as it
sounds. The beginnings of
Other bits of Europe’s mobile- such a culture have taken
phone industry are already root in recent years, and
showing signs of revival. The some successful start-ups
revenues of ARM, a British firm, have sprouted’
may only be in the hundreds of
millions, but most microprocessors
found in handsets and other mobile
devices are based on its designs.
Ericsson now generates 40% of its
revenues with services, for
instance by managing wireless
networks around the world.

4. IBBT aims to add economic and social value
through excellent research and the creation of
human capital in the domain of ICT
1000+ 250+ 700+
Researchers Projects Partners
accross 5 universities with the Industry in the IBBT ecosystem
35 & 14
Seeds & Spin-offs
in the IBBT Incubator program
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5. Market-driven & Intercollaborative Research
ICON Program
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6. 720 IBBT Partners
(semi-)
public
industrial
partners
partners
24,90%
- SME‘s
41,38%
industrial
partners –
big
companies
33,72%

7. 720 IBBT partners
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8. 1000 Researchers organised in 5 departments
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9. The IBBT Security department
33 nationalities
Australia Japan
Austria Kenia
Argentina the Netherlands
Armenië Pakistan
Non-EU
Belgium Panama
24%
Brazil Poland
Bulgaria Portugal
Belgium China Russian Federation
52% Croatia Serbia
Other
Estonia Spain
EU
France Syria
24% Germany Turkey
Greece UK
Guatemala USA
Hungary
India
15 professors Iran
40 senior researchers Israel
100 researchers Italy
(Last count: 19/06/2012)

10. Microsoft Academic Research
Ranking Organizations Europe – Last 5 Years

11. From idea to business: our R&D toolbox
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12. Research Infrastructures
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13. Entrepreneurship philosophy
Create a vibrant environment with an international vision that links
entrepreneurs with IBBT know how, provides access to financing
and leverages our industry network
§ Entrepreneurs-in-residence § Public Funding
§ Network of experts (60+) § Angel Investors
§ Building teams & companies § Venture Capital
§ Cross border financing (EU)
Entrepreneurs
Financing
§ Sharing industry know how Industry
§ Market driven
§ Engage in co-development Partner
§ Act as launching customers Network

14. Incubation & Venturing toolbox
iStep • Teaching & learning
iBoot • Create entrepreneurial teams around your idea
• Validate the business opportunity
iStart Light • Student entrepreneurship program
iStart • Coaching and implementing real ventures
iCubes • Provide space, logistic support & operational services
iVenture • Preseed capital fund
© IBBT
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15. Total Actively supported startups
35
Since 2006
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16. § § Cross on
Emphasis fertilization between research,
experience &
technology & care
creativity
§ Exchange & retrieval
of Health care
§ cultural projects
§ Digitization of media efficient
§ Accessible &
production and quality of life
§ Improve
audiovisual control
§ Cost archives
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17. Big challenges
§ Chronic diseases
§ Diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, obesities and
mental health disorders (dementia)
§ 80% of disease burden
§ 70% of total healthcare expenditure
§ Combining medical, social and ADL care needs
§ Spanning different life domains
§ Influenced by lifestyle
§ Put the patient/client in control!!
§ Non-infectious diseases
§ Cancer (personalized treatments needed)
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18. IBBT eCare Research Activities
§ P4 care and cure:
§ Personalized
§ Preventive
§ Predictive
§ Participatory
§ ICT and future internet building blocks
§ Tele-medicine and tele-care
§ Wireless sensor networks and mesh networks
§ Optimized collaboration and cloud computing
§ Support decision making and advanced data mining
§ ….
§ Working at the crossroads of social innovation
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19. IBBT cooperative research
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21. Healthy Society
Living Labs
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22. Patient room of the future (LL-setup)

24. Flemish Care Living Lab (2013)
§ Develop, test and implement new care
processes and care products with focus on
elderly care
§ IBBT appointed as Program Office for overall
coordination of the different Living Lab platforms
and projects
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25. Mobile Health services
§ Will be predominant in view of the chronic
disease management
§ Put care back into the homes and the communities
§ My data, my decisions > specific security measures
for mobile applications providing both easy access but
ensuring the data protection!
§ Connect up everything > connecting digital life
streams! How to connect private data with
professional data? Geo-tagged data very valuable for
public health services. (multi-platform apps)
§ Revolutionise health > remove the demarcation lines
between the health sector and other sectors
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26. Innovation in care cannot be taken for
granted
Change management process Iterative and fast in field
Very dynamic needs
Co-creation, multiple-actors
Vulnerable end users Control user expectations
Towards value network
Payment model ?

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