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Engines for Open Innovation The European Research
Area Andrew DearingEIRMA
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Outline

• Open and Globally Connected
• Ecologies and Infrastructures
• European Research Area
• Challenges facing Europe
• Concentration, Local Strength, Grand Challenges
• Links between Research and Policy

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Open and Globally-ConnectedThe world is spiky
not flat

• Global networks have become a reality
• Addressing complexity increasing speed of
  innovation building common platforms and
  standards improving own performance etc
• Openness offers advantages today, involves
  mindset change, and can have limits
• Limits to knowledge mobility local connections
  matter
• Value of collaboration tool, not purpose
• Cost advantages complex network management is
  not for free
• Capabilities and skill sets people, institutions
  must learn

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Ecologies and Infrastructures

• From Fragmentation to Ecology-based thinking
• Establishing the preferred ecology Being the
  partner of choice
• Campuses of Knowledge and Value Creation as
  leitmotifs
• Ecologies, Qualities and Evolution
• Related Variety as loosely-defined metric
• Geographical uniqueness
• Infrastructure as magnets for these ecologies
• Broad definition of infrastructure, appropriate
  for the problem
• Addressing sub-criticality at level of institute
  and its environment

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European Research AreaPurpose, Meaning,
Relevance

• Achieving compelling case for real shift in
  resources
• More meaningful to citizens and political leaders
• More relevant to all research actors
• Better articulation of balance of demand and
  supply
• Institution in its setting, reinforced by related
  variety
• Promoting networked specialisation and localised
  concentration
• Linking complementary capabilities
• Competing for larger and longer term units of
  funding
• Placing more responsibility on competent regional
  authorities

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European Research Area Continuity and Change

• Continued focus
• Innovation-friendly markets Conditions for value
  creation in Europe
• Universities strategic space/autonomy, engaged
  with local context
• Active steps to develop a true European market
  for applied research services in the RTO sector
• New balance between competition and cooperation
• Common peer review offers more potential than
  common pots
• Pathways between actors
• Elimination of barriers to cross-sectoral
  mobility
• Clearer responsibilities

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European Research Area Engaging Research in
Grand Challenges

• Dependent upon research and upon actions to
  ensure innovation in markets and public service
  environments
• Economic driven by business
• Social/environmental driven by governments
• Collective ability to respond to opportunities in
  frontier research
• Core criteria
• Contribution to European added value, feasible
  and viable pathways
• Buy-in of research community potential to induce
  improvements in efficiency and effectiveness
• High level political commitment and stakeholder
  engagement

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