ICT for manufacturing and enterprises is a relatively minor part of the "Advanced manufacturing systems" section of the Horizon 2020 programme "Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies". In this context, the FInES cluster is trying to position the need for more research and innovation in ICT for enterprise systems and the concept of the Sensing Enterprise based on the Internet of Everything.

The main view is that the European way to the Internet of the Future, based on open platforms, web entrepreneurship and collective innovation, represents now an unprecedented opportunity for European enterprises to obtain multi-faceted business innovation, socio-economic competitive advantage and human-centric sustainable growth.

The Position Paper has been produced in open collaboration between several key organisations across Europe. It thus represents the FInES community's perspective of "Digital BusiNet Innovation" and shares insights from an Enterprise perspective on Future Internet Capabilities. To this end, five themes, in alignment with the focus and interest areas of the European Commission Unit E3, are proposed: Future Internet (in the context of the Future Internet Public Private Partnership), Web Entrepreneurship, Sensing Enterprise, Digital Enterprise, and Collaborative Awareness Platforms (CAPS).

The position paper results in 28 concrete recommendations for research topics and policy actions. On 30th June 2013, the FInES Final Position Paper entitled "Embarking on New Research Orientations towards Horizon 2020" was released.

It will be presented in detail to European Commission officials in September 2013. The position paper can be found here