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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SmartEEs (SMART Emerging Electronics Servicing DIH)

Teaser

Summary

Despite significant recent progress made by the EU industry, the level of digitalisation of industry remains uneven, depending on the sector, country and company size. Facing at the same time a scattered landscape of Research, Industry and Institutional stakeholders, the efficient adoption and transformation of enabling technologies into business visions & concrete market cases remain limited. This slow diffusion of digital technologies poses a risk to the EUâ€™s ability to compete in the global economy.
This is particularly true for Organic Large Area Electronics (OLAE) enabling technologies whose industry made significant progress recently and has established itself as a competitive growth industry. Despite proving that more and more products have matured onto the global market, the actual diffusion and efficient adoption of OLAE technologies remain limited.
Underlying reasons and key challenges are identified (cost, processes, encapsulation, scalability, yield, standards & regulations), for which major breakthroughs are needed on use, production and cost rather than on basic technology, which reflects the growing market orientation of OLAE.
To address both market & technology specific challenges, SmartEEs plays a key role to link technology promises with real use cases. These are implemented through a unique digitalisation experience providing direct and concrete experimentation of OLAE technologies, valorizing the uniqueness of these technologies through disruptive product & service ideas.

Overall objectives of SmartEEs are to,
- increase awareness of and interest in the possibilities of OLAE within European industry, European investors, governments and other important stakeholders;
- increase the efficiency & effectiveness of the EU innovation ecosystem for OLAE, incl. research organisations and application-oriented companies, as well as supporting organisations, investors and governments;
- demonstrate actual business opportunities by taking on actual business development of OLAE based innovations;
- identify and make operational approaches for boosting the use of OLAE by the EU industry, involving the most important stakeholders in actual OLAE based business developments;
- create an open and sustainable network of partners that will consolidate the further awareness creation, development of the ecosystem and demonstration of OLAE.

Work performed

SmartEEs is operating a 1-stop shop that,
- provides wider access for the innovative companies (ICs) to technology & services and supports the identification of market trends and emergence of new ideas;
- promotes a collaborative environment to bring together experts and innovation stakeholders to maximize cross domain and cross regional opportunities;
- matches suppliers, technology users and investors;
- gives an overview of sectors and emerging markets with high potential and short-term expectations for novel OLAE enabled products;
- has an Open Call for selecting and supporting ICs in experimenting OLAE on disruptive product & service ideas.

SmartEEs is growing a community and a pan-EU collaboration,
- establishing a repository of OLAE stakeholders, mapping initiatives of importance and connecting with other DIHs launched under the SAE/I4MS initiatives;
- mapping public funding and ESIF opportunities by regions;
- building a private investment community to raise interest in OLAE and create investment opportunities;
- building the OLAE value chains and identifying critical roadblocks towards wide commercialization.

SmartEEs runs a competitive evaluation process of innovation ideas from ICs and supports selected ICs to overcome their specific technological barriers, business challenges and financial needs. Eight companies have been engaged so far in their digital transformation, thanks to SmartEEs.

SmartEEs manages a portfolio of 20 IC projects, which includes direct service delivery from the consortium (both technical and business services) and a Voucher support (cascade funding) to each IC to cover its own cost or to subcontract complemntary services.

SmartEEs id outreaching ICs across Europe and has widely disseminated the project opportunities through a large panel of events, as well as IC projects results beign generated.

Finally and importantly, SmartEEs has set the basement for a continuity plan to make the 1-stop shop operating beyond the project in a sustainable manner.

Final results

\"Main SmartEEs achievements are:

- A user-friendly web portal with nice visuals;
- A fully operational Open Call interface;
- A Versatile Marketplace, including Showroom, Community and Brokerage pages, for ICs to understand the scope of OLAE
- Financial rules of participation in the SmartEEs Open Call, including conditions for the direct services, the Voucher and the in-kind contribution of the company have been clearly stated and integrated in the Open Call package, to support the easy understanding of the potential applicants;
- Community database with 186 individual qualified contacts;
- Capacity of the consortium to leverage local, regional, National funds further supported by EU structural funds;
- Raised awareness of first private investors on business opportunities provided by OLAEs and nucleation of an investment community behind SmartEEs;
- Anchoring the sustainability of Application Experiment cases in the OE-A Working Group on Sustainability;
- A comprehensive Open Call for Application Experiments package;
- An operational Helpdesk managing enquiries and submission of proposals;
- 3 cut-off dates evaluation processes were completed / 62 received AEs proposals were evaluated / 3 ranking lists were made / 10 AEs proposals were selected / 8 were eventually engaged;
- The Voucher process has been created, implemented and has been taken in use in cut-off #1-3;
- A healthy portfolio of 8 out of 10 AEs granted, 1 AE cancelled due to the IC folding and 1 AE is on hold due to IC needing to secure private funding to prevent them from double funding their AE with other EC funds and to match the SmartEEs funds.
- Comprehensive dissemination & communication strategy;
- Outreach and dissemination through more than 60 individual actions (conferences, workshops, DIH events,â€¦);

SmartEEs project and its Call for Application Experiment have been widely promoted through several communication channels. The awareness of the SAE initiative and its opportunities for innovative companies to experiment OLAE technologies is now established inside the OLAE European community. Furthermore, these channels have proven to be efficient enough to outreach a relevant number of applicants and to select the expected level of high-quality proposals.

Eight Application Experiments are currently running in the SmartEEs portfolio. On-demand management assistance is being provided, and monthly portfolio meetings are being organised between all Servive Delievry Managers (SDM) to keep the portfolio up-to-date and to build a common ground of good practices in Application Experiments management. To facilitate that process, project management tools have been created and are now use by all SDMs

SmartEEs has been monitoring the value creation for each individual Application Experiment and is integrating this value at the portfolio level to capture the business and economic impact of the overall innovation service provided. Which overall value will be stated at the completion of all twenty Application Experiments.
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