Ingela Lindahl, Ph.D.
Director Business development
Innovation at Tekniska Verken
To be discussed
• Innovation management
• Strategic partnerships
• Research and development
Our Vision
We will build the world’s most resource-efficient region.
Mission
Our innovations should provide value in three dimensions - Business
- Environment
- Society/regional interest Environment
Society/
region Business
Change of perspective –
waste is our resource!
Change of perspective –
from climate agony to pleasure
Value creation through
strategic partnerships
Strategic partnership agreement with Linköping University
- Strategic partnership agreement with Linköping University
- Tekniska verken finances a university chair in
Environmental Technology and Management at LiU and a number of research projects
- Regular strategic meetings and a common steering group
Strategic partnership with Linköping University
Kunskap
• Vi ska skapa förutsättningar för att bygga kunskap inom ramen för vår gemensamma intressesfär. Vi ska också uppmärksamma och lyfta fram andras goda initiativ inom kunskapsuppbyggnad och innovation.
Lärande
• Vi ska skapa förutsättningar för ömsesidigt lärande genom att öppna upp och i ökad utsträckning verka i varandras miljöer.
Samhällsbyggande
• Vi ska bidra till samhällsutveckling och –byggande genom att gemensamt verka på utvalda påverkansarenor.
Innovation
• Vi ska skapa synergier och mervärde runt innovation. Detta innebär samarbete i olika faser av värdeskapandet – från idégenerering till etablering av gemensamma lösningar
Student innovation competition
Intellectual Property Rights/licensing
• As a municipal enterprise we are restricted by law to only provide most of our services within the region.
• Commercialisation of intellectual property by licensing rights is a way to spread our knowledge outside this area.
• Today we have around ten international pending and licensed patents (biogas production, lightning, energy)
Partnership with Uponor – infra culvert
Tekniska verken Samarbete
Uponor
Avtal Utveckling
Marknadsföring Styrgrupp
• Process additive to optimize the biogas production, developed by Tekniska verken.
• The additive is patent protected and is used by many biogas plants around Europe.
Partnership with Kemira – Process
additive
Examples of on-going R&D projects
Research and development
Biogas research center (BRC)
• The aim of BRC is to create strong, national competencies leading to industrially and socially motivated research on and development of biogas solutions.
• Main emphasis is on process and technology, supplemented with systems research and social science for analyzing resource efficiency and social and business conditions as
this knowledge is central for resource-efficient biogas solutions to be implemented.
• BRC is financed to one third by the Swedish Energy Agency, to one third by
Linköpings University, and to one third by praticipatingpartnersfrom business and society.
Hefaistos – large scale heat storage
• ”To go where no man has gone before…”
• Unique characteristics of HT-BTES Hefaistos - Largest in Europe
- Warmest in the world
• Goal
• Capture 70 GWh heat in the summer and use it in winter.
• Feed temperature 107,5 °C, 50 MW output
• 1000 – 2000 drill holes, 200-300 m deep.
• Prestudy partly financed by the Swedish Energy Agency/Vinnova (RE:source)
• Projects in cooperation with Avfall Sverige – the Swedish Waste Management Association
• Hot Remote – Project with Ericsson, LiU, Stångåstaden, MSP on more efficient monitoring and provisioning of heat with IoT solutions. Smart city – Vallastaden, Linköping.
• Clear Waters from Pharmaceuticals (CWPharma) - The aim of the main project idea is to support the control of priority and emerging substances, especially pharmaceuticals, and to reduce their impact in the Baltic Sea environment. Fullscale facility with ozonation at Linköping's largest sewage treatment plant.
Some other R&D projects
Digitalisering och automation av processer och arbetssätt
Utveckling av nya erbjudanden och affärsmodeller
Självservice och kundinformation via digitala plattformar
Försäljning och marknadsföring i
digitala kanaler
Ökat värde och tillväxt Minskade
kostnader (produktivitet)
En omfattande projektportfölj har skapats för att möta koncernens strategiska utmaningar genom digital transformation av verksamheten. Projekten i portföljen organiseras i ett antal program som tillsammans täcker följande områden:
• Digital affärs- och tjänsteutveckling
• Digital marknadsföring och försäljning
• Digital kundinvolvering (typiskt självbetjäning)
• Digitalisering för inre effektivitet.
Digital Transformation
Management of innovation
at Tekniska Verken
• The over-all focus for innovation efforts is based on group level strategy and our view on our future business environment.
• Regular monitoring and evaluation of
• The project portfolio’s strategic balance
• The efficiency of the innovation process
The innovation management system at Tekniska verken
Koncernens strategiska utmaningar
Tekniska verken ska vara en drivande aktör i
en omvandlad energibransch
Tekniska verkens verksamhet
måste vara långsiktigt lönsam, effektiv
och säker
Tekniska verken ska vara en drivande part i regionens arbete med att etablera framtidssäkra, resurseffektiva lösningar
Tekniska verken ska erbjuda kunden ett intressant och
relevant erbjudande i
varje kundsituation
Tekniska verken ska nyttja digitaliseringens
fulla potential
Tekniska verken ska vara ett dynamiskt och
nyskapande företag med kompetenta och
engagerade medarbetare
• Broad product portfolio
• Several organisational units
• Our three value dimensions
Challenges for innovation management
Environment
Society/
region Business
Avfallstjänster Biogas
Bredband
Bränslebaserad Energi Elhandel
Elnät
Flödande Energi Vatten och Avlopp
Portfolio of innovation projects
Organisation
Board of innovation
Board of directors
Business units
Business development
Internal R&D Research programs
Strategic cooperations Professional organisations
Patent portfolio
…
Group level projects
Business unit projects
Yearly plan for systematic innovation
Report Q2 Board of
directors
Status div./
daughter companies Board of
Innovation Meeting Meeting
Report Q3
Scanning Q2
Scanning Q3
Q2 Q4
Report Q4
Meeting Meeting
Report Q1
Scanning Q4
Scanning Q1
Q4 Q1
Business plan Budget
Yearly bonus to all employees based on strategic goal fulfillment, including innovation goals.
Analysis of the business environment
Strategy
Business plan Budget
Strategic balance
• Business/environment/society
• Configuration/offering customer society
• Radicalness
Process efficiency
• Input – new projects
• Output – launches
Indicators Innovation
Innovation type
Where is value created?
• Important to broaden the view on innovation
• Innovations are categorised according to their main focus.
(Keeley, 2013)
