The document discusses the Connected Digital Economy Catapult, a UK organization that aims to accelerate digital innovation. It outlines four challenges the Catapult addresses: reducing licensing friction for content reuse, developing open data platforms, ensuring personal data privacy and trust, and creating living labs and demonstrators. The Catapult engages with universities, small companies, and corporations through collaborative R&D projects, fellowships, and innovation spaces like a proposed Connected Products Studio to help innovators develop proof-of-concept connected products.
5. TECHNOLOGY LIFE CYCLE
FERMENT
Highly differentiated niche markets, high uncertainty
DOMINANT DESIGN
Reduced uncertainty, head-on competition
INCREMENTAL CHANGE
Product extensions, rivalry, improving processes
DISCONTINUITY
Scrambling for new solutions
Technological Discontinuities and Dominant Designs:
A Cyclical Model of Technological Change
Philip Anderson and Michael L. Tushman
Photo:
David Sykes
7. OWNED BY THING-MAKERS
DEVICE
APP CLOUDTHING
• Thing-App data connection via device
(Bluetooth, etc)
• Jawbone Up, Nike Fuelband, Fitbit Flex
InternetShort-range
8. BAL ANCI NG PER SON AL
D ATA A N D I N N O VAT I O N
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1. ACCESS
2. CONTROL
3. MINIMISATION
4. TRANSPARENCY
5. CORRECTNESS
6. SIMPLICITY
7. COMPLIANCE
15. C O N N E C T E D D I G I TA L
E CO NOM Y CATA PULT
• A national centre to rapidly
advance the UK’s best digital ideas
to market
• Began operations last year with
initial funding from the UK
government’s Technology Strategy
Board
“We create collaborations with
business, universities and other
not-for-profits to jointly invest in
projects that build shared
platforms and capabilities to
unlock some of the main
challenges in data innovation, in
order to accelerate large numbers
of businesses to market.”
Neil Crockett, CEO
Connected Digital Economy
Catapult
16. WIDESPREAD ENGAGEMENT
Seven (soon to be nine)
catapults around the UK
Universities
• Collaborative R&D projects
• Doctoral students and fellowships
18. OUR FOUR CHALLENGES
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CONTENT REUSE
Reducing licensing friction
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DIVERSE DATA AND
CONTENT SETS
OPEN
HEALTH
DATA
PLATFORM
19. OUR FOUR CHALLENGES
!
CONTENT REUSE
Reducing licensing friction
!
DIVERSE DATA AND
CONTENT SETS
OPEN
HEALTH
DATA
PLATFORM
!
PERSONAL DATA,
PRIVACY AND TRUST
20. OUR FOUR CHALLENGES
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CONTENT REUSE
Reducing licensing friction
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DIVERSE DATA AND
CONTENT SETS
OPEN
HEALTH
DATA
PLATFORM
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PERSONAL DATA,
PRIVACY AND TRUST
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LIVING LABS AND
DEMONSTRATORS
21. C I T Y- S C A L E I o T
D E M O N S T R ATO R
• Using unlicensed spectrum (TV
whitespace)
• City-scale in Milton Keynes
• 1000s of sensors
• Disruptive: low cost, low energy,
large scale
• Open access for innovators
• Open competition for additional uses
23. C H A L L E N G E S I N D E V E L O P I N G
C O N N E C T E D P R O D U C T S
connecting hardware and software
developing proof of concept
validation with customers & user research
finding corporate partners
27. PIT STOP
A CC ELERATE D PRO DU CT DEVELOPMENT
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Jianjun Xu
• Cohort of small
companies and
innovators
• Larger corporations
• Catapult expertise
• Specific theme
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• Collaborative
• Open
• Learning
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