Deliverable D8.2 Second Report on Innovation Management, Dissemination, Standards and Exploitation Plans

With the empowering European Vision of "5G empowering vertical industries" 5G-TOURS reports at the conclusion of its second year of project activities on dissemination, innovation and exploitation planning outcomes. The 5G-TOURS engagement in the vertical industries is shown by the diversity of its project partners drawn from the vertical sectors that provide the focus of the value creation alongside project partners from the wireless industry. The three themes; the Touristic City (hosted by Turin, Italy), the Safe City (hosted by Rennes, France) and the Mobility Efficient City (hosted by Athens, Greece) encompass not only technical platforms and solutions that are under development, but a wider socio-economic and business context. Work Package 8 (WP8) of 5G-TOURS manages the processes necessary to fulfil the project’s objectives of Business validation and exploitation. To this end, WP8 operates four processes of Business Case Analysis, Exploitation and Innovation Management, Standardisation and Industrial Communications and Dissemination. This report provides a summary of the outcomes to date towards dissemination, standardisation and impact assessment in the second year of the project. Each year the project partners take the opportunity to review their exploitation planning and refine their strategy towards exploitation of the outcomes of the project. The refreshing of the strategic thinking of the project partners is essential and exactly maps the approach that would be taken in agile technology sectors where strategic marketing, technology and business model insights will necessitate strategic pivots. Business Case Analysis has focussed in the second year on a refinement of the approach to stakeholder management and ensuring that appropriate contacts are in place for the support of the validation of the project findings when thinking about internal workshop as well as seeking opportunities to promote the project findings at conferences and in publications. Having researched business model views in the first year, the second year has seen the refinement an approach to the cost models as well as joint work with the WP2 on economic value creation. This results in decisions regarding the deployment network models and supporting business cases that will be investigated in the final year of the project for each of the value creating networks and use cases under investigation in 5G-TOURS. Exploitation and Innovation Management has, through the use of the innovation process approach developed in year one (4Ps), established a view on emergent innovations that will be promoted by the project. This now includes an approach that promotes the championing of innovations by the project partners by way of the exploitation planning and statements of the project partners. The project is also steering its activities in terms of standards, IPR and business analysis to help the project partners to realize the commercial potential of the project key innovations. Standardisation shows a positive evolution of the impact, a principally 3GPP focussed view in year1, towards a diversification of the standards that are being contributed to in year two. This diversity of contribution includes industry fora such a 5G Media Action Group (5G-MAG) where members of the project are now in leadership positions. These industry steered organisations influence the priorities and emergence of technical features from standards such as 3GPP, but also stimulate the need for trials and use case testbeds, which the project is well positioned to influence given the testbed capability of 5G-TOURS. Industrial Communication and Dissemination have established the necessary internet presence through website, linkedIn, YouTube and Twitter. In the second year, the emphasis remains on conferences and papers (although to some extent curtailed as a result of COVID-19) but showing some agility to adopt new approaches to dissemination through the use of online webinars for selected use case and technical topics. The volume and quality of media content has substantially increased as testbeds have come online during year two. All inter5G-PPP project working groups have resource from 5G-TOURS allocated. Chair, vice-Chair and founder member positions are credited to various partners of 5G-TOURS, providing substantial evidence of engagement in the wider 5G-PPP community Now over one year into the global crisis that is COVID-19; 5G-TOURS has retained a high level of output to the Standards. Year two was principally involved the deployment of the testbeds and small scale testing activities which, with some restrictions, were able to proceed. The continuation of COVID-19 into year three of the project remains a risk in terms of the WP8 performance metrics; however, a new normal of predominantly online interaction has been established as the norm and had less impact on this activity area than was feared at the end of year one