By Lars Horsholt Jensen, Aalborg Municipality, Denmark, presented at the 16th TCI Global Conference, Kolding 2013.

1. Transforming hospital logistics
- an interactive, cross-innovation ”fairytale”
Lars Horsholt Jensen
Cluster Lab: Cross innovation
4 September 2013

2. Transforming hospital logistics
- an interactive,
cross-innovation ”fairytale”
Cluster Lab 8: Cross-innovation
TCI 2013, Designing the Future
Lars Horsholt Jensen
Consultant, City of Aalborg
Business development, clusters &
networks

3. Me, clusters and networks
• Lars Horsholt Jensen,
Commercial Consultant, City of Aalborg
– Master in Public Administration, 2003
– Developing and managing international projects for 5 years
– BrainsBusiness – ICT North DK - Cluster Manager for 5 years
Developing clusters, networks & innovation
partnerships for 10 years

4. What is cross-innovation?
…collaborative and user-driven innovation that
happens across sectoral, organisational,
technological and geographic boundaries…

5. Showcasing innovation opportunity
Danish Hospital Investment
38 projects - 10-15 years
Investment: DKK 42.7 billion
“…building for a future which is as
yet unknown…”
“…supported by technology and
innovative solutions that have not
yet been discovered…”
“…automation of work processes in
order to free up resources for
treatment and care…”

6. Cluster core potentials
Strong existing subcommunity on intelligent logistics
• Warehouse management systems
• Tracking
• Automation
• Controls
• Robotics
Markets in e.g.
• Manufacturing industry
• Airports
• Storage and distribution

7. How would you proceed?

8. Strategic roadmapping
• 8 companies
• 5 workshop
iterations
• Visible, tangible
products in every
iteration
Where are
we?
On the
way?
Where to
go?
Whyact?
Whatto
do?
Howto
act?
Drivers and demands
Products & projects,
Solutions and technology
Time

9. The sparks are flying…
• Small ICT company – delivering software solutions for industrial
logistics
• Under 10 employees
Partnering with..
• Larger automation and robotics company
• +200 employees
On…
• Potentially unique idea combining and applying existing technology
in a entirely new way.
• No track record or references
• Limited funds for development
• Huge scale projects

10. Main components

11. How would you proceed?

12. The role of the facilitator
• Opening the doors
• Paving the way
• Keeping the pace
• Getting out alive

13. Solution
• System gates every
25 m
• No central storage
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Intelligent Systems A/S 17
September 2013

14. Results
• The solution is regarded as ”a very promising example of
innovation and new thinking in hospital logistics…” by the
expert group on transport technologies
• Largest single grant for an innovation project under the danish
market development fund
• Created a multipartner consortium including all major new
hospital projects in DK
• The new university hospital in Odense has drawn the solution
into the blueprints

15. Now what to do?

16. Perspectives on cross-innovation
• Adapt to the changing role of the cluster facilitator
• Long-term perspective
• Potential to completely transform a small SME
• Potential to transform hospital logistics