Dr. Markus Eisenhauer from Fraunhofer presented Going Global: The International Dimension of FInES Research and International Cooperation Task Force (FInES Cluster Meeting, March 2012)

1. Going Global: The International
Dimension of FInES Research and
International Cooperation Task Force
Dr. Markus Eisenhauer
Brussels,
2011/11/30

2. Why going global?
• Highlight Europes position in the area of Future
Internet and enterprise systems at international
level
• Improve international visibility of FInES
• Exchange information and experience
• Establish networks in special technology or
application fields with the access to new market
knowledge and know-how
• Competitives requires enterprises to benchmark
themselves at global level.
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3. Cooperation is based on shared interests
Topics as e.g.
• Enterprise Interoperability
• Collaboration in Networked Enterprises
• Virtual enterprises
• Consensus on standards
• business value innovation
will be key features for innovation and exchange.
Emphasis should be on topics relevant for SME needs
for technology to drive cooperation bottom up
instead of top-down
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4. Going international
exchange of the FinES Cluster with activities in
• the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China)
• with the US,
• with Japan
• with South Korea
• Asian-Pacific
• Africa
• South America
will be of outmost importance and will stimulate and
facilitate the global outreach of the FInES cluster
and enhance its awareness.
Of course reciprocity is key
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5. Report: International Collaboration
• Regions:
• US & Canada
• Latin America (Brazil)
• Asian Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan,
but as well Australia and New Zealand)
• India
• Strong interest from Africa
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6. Highlights International Collaboration
• Keynote on IoT and report on FInES activities at
Rio-Info, 2010_08_31-09_02
• Contacts with several Brazilian Universities ,
Research Institutes and Industry
• IST Africa in May 2011 with great success
• Kick-off of BEMO-COFRA in September 2011 in
Recife, Brasil (ICT EU-Brazil Coordinated call)
• COIN-China Workshop on Oct 20th
• EURASIA Workshop on Nov 30th - Panel with
Asia-Pacific (Korea, New Zealand, etc.).
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7. International Collaboration
• Use of ICT for socio-economic progress and the
role of Digital Ecosystems enabling Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to compete on
the global stage
• Cooperation topics e.g. with China focused on
topics like networks connectivity, high-
performance computing, cloud computing,
Internet of Things, and IPv6
• IoT is of general interest
• Emerging Business models where intensively
discussed at a workshop in Stanford, US.
– Will be in Princeton 2012
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8. Future collaboration with EFFRA
• Mutual contributions to Roadmap activities
• Consultation and contributions to ActionPlanT –
Vision on manufacturing
• Joint session on manufacture at the next FIA in
Aalborg
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9. Topics of interest
• Internet of Things is of outmost interest for US,
Japan, China, South Korea, Brazil
• Business needs (specifically for SMEs)
• Future Internet (emerging future enterprises)
• Security & Trust
• Ecological responsibility (‚green‘ topics)
• Intelligent Logistics
• Energy efficiency
• smart cities
• e-health
• Digital Ecosystems...
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10. Strategy for FInES
• Diversification or concentration?
• FInES is a cluster consisting of more than 25 FP7
projects (plus FP6 projects)
• Projects will follow their own agenda
• FInES can create added-value based on the
Roadmap
• To create momentum we need concrete actions
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11. FInES Research Roadmap
1. Socio-economic Space – the larger context in which
enterprises operate.
– social responsibility of enterprises,
– impact on the environment and their carbon footprint,
– Values beyond the pure financial dimension.
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12. FInES Research Roadmap
2. Enterprise Space – geared towards a continuous
innovation paradigm
– key characteristics of future enterprises
– emerging business and production models,
– new governance and organization paradigms,
– new forms of cooperation:
– including the investigation on new styles for the
relationships with customers, yielding new market forms
and logics.
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13. FInES Research Roadmap
3. Enterprise Systems, Platforms, and Applications
Space
– ICT solutions and socio-technical systems aimed at
supporting the emerging future enterprises that will largely
operate over the Future Internet.
– issues need to be aligned with business needs and the
rationale identified for the future enterprises.
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14. FInES Research Roadmap
4. Enabling Technology Space – knowledge space for
ICT solutions necessary for the development of
FInES
– Future Internet solutions,
– knowledge representation,
– cooperation and interoperability,
– trust and security advanced services, etc
– Certain ICT enabling solutions will be available ‘by default’
– Other solutions will need to be ‘solicited’ for the purpose of
FInES.
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15. Roadmap Research challenges
Out of the nine challenges specifically
•Unified Digital Enterprise (RC5),
•Cooperation and collaboration platforms (RC6)
•and as well Flexible Execution platforms (RC9)
are strongly affected by international activities and
have great potential of taking advantage of
strategic international collaboration.
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