The July meeting of the Technology Strategy Board in the Institute of Civil Engineering included an agenda item for the two pilot Innovation Platforms: ITSS and Network Security. We both presented Action Plans to usefully spend the initial £10M allocation of Technology Programme funding. The plan for the ITSS was to split the funding between activity targetted at the medium and long-term. The Board was pleased that their initial allocation off £10M had been leveraged by a factor of over 3 from other stakeholders/contributors to the Innovation Platform. At that time, £31.5M of Government programmes had been agreed that they would be coordinated by the Innovation Platform (and the totaliser kept rising …)
£3M was allocated to support what later became the Future Intelligent Transport Systems (FITS) Initiative – the longer-term. £7M was allocated to support telematics and road pricing, working in parallel with DfT’s Time Distance Place (TDP) Road Pricing Demonstrations project and SEEDA’s ITS call. The visual presentation in the form of a roadmap helped to support this conclusion.
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The second meeting of the ITSS Innovation Platform Steering Group followed closely after the first meeting and prepared the first draft of the Innovation Platform roadmap, which for the first time placed more than £30m of Government transport programmes into a coherent framework.
The roadmap helped to provide context to the current programmes, such as SEEDA’s forthcoming ITS competition, and after refinement was agreed for communication to industry at Innovate 2006 in November.
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Professor Julia King, then of Imperial College, chaired the first meeting of the ITSS Innovation Platform Steering Group with membership from:
- Department for Transport (DfT) as the Government department owning the “policy challenge”,
- Representation from the research councils, beginning with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Representation from the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), starting with the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA),
- Representation from industry, initially represented by the CEO and a Board Member from InnovITS, plus of course
- Representatives from a number of different parts of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
The Steering Group agreed a set of Terms of Reference and started by providing direction to help the project team in working up a robust Action Plan. Based on the inputs from the Steering Group, a draft “Project Brief” was prepared to ensure that there was a common understanding between the project and the whole of the Steering Group on what the Innovation Platform was trying to achieve. The first draft outlined the project team’s understanding of the issue to be addressed, the mission and objectives for establishment of the Innovation Platform and the desired outcomes and deliverables on a timeline.
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22nd May was my actual start date at what was then called the Department of Trade and Industry.
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The first annual report of the Technology Strategy Board proposes that the Board adopts two broad lines of approach within the Technology Strategy, the second being Innovation Platforms: ……….
- “the development of ‘innovation platforms’; where the integration of a range of technologies and the better coordination of policy and procurement will result in a step change in UK performance, in the quality of public services and the ability of UK business to provide solutions.”
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At their away day in July 2005, the Technology Strategy Board invented the concept of Innovation Platforms. They didn’t only want to advise on the priorities within the Technology Programme, but they also felt that a new mechanism was required for innovation, which was more market-pull and less technology-push.
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