The Digital Ecosystem: Concept

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The Digital Ecosystem Concept Framework
EISCO 2008FIRST SESSION INNOVATION MODELS AND
ECOSYSTEMSTO BOOST MODERNISATION ECONOMIC
GROWTH IN THE TERRITORY

• An integrated bottom-up approach forbuilding
  digital capacity and endogenous local development

Francesco NachiraEuropean Commission - DG
INFSO francesco.nachira_at_ec.europa.eu
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Digital Business Ecosystemstemmed from

• The Lisbon Strategy role of knowledge and ICT,
  partnership for growth and jobs
• The Endogenous Development strategy building
  local knowledge and capacities, knowledge sharing
  
• The Digital Local Agenda enabling role of
  communities and local authorities
• Common Basic Concepts
• ICT and Digital Services as enabling instrument
  for growth
• Clusters of innovation SMEs , regions
• Knowledge, reuse and Capacity Building, exchange
  of best practices
• Role of PA and need of cooperation among the
  players

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Ecosystem Metaphors and lessons

• Biological Ecosystems
• Economy as an Ecosystem
• Rothschild, 1990
• The basic mechanisms of economic change are
  remarkably similar with those found in nature
  main difference is speed.
• Organisms and organisations are nodes in
  networks of relationships.
• Social Ecosystem
• Mitleton-Kelly, 2003
• Organisations are co-evolving within a social
  ecosystem
• Digital Ecosystem
• EC Discussion Paper, 2002
• ICT services and knowledge are digital
  organisms.
• Services and knowledge should be able to
  (self)evolve and to differentiate adapting to the
  environment.
• Focused on the peculiarities of the EU culture
  and economy presence of a diffuse network of
  SMEs (industrial districts, growth nodes) and
  local innovation systems, diversity of cultural
  and economic models.

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Stages in ICT adoption

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Business Ecosystem Digital Ecosystem
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The Layers of the Digital Business Ecosystem

• Digital ecosystem
• digital common infrastructure
• ecosystem of knowledge services (with multiple
  business models)
• Collectively built representation of the economy
• Issue of Governance of the digital common
  infrastructure(s)running debate how to
  transform it in ecosystems (made by components in
  evolution), how move from the prototypes

Derivative work from Salzburg Technical University
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The Digital Ecosystems A support for
local development and capacity building

• to reduce the digital divides
• among regions
• among SME and LE
• Provide digitalservices
• to foster local economic growth and innovation
  new formsof businessinteractions,
• enabled bynew paradigms and ICT technologies
• Local developmentof Services as capacity
  building tool

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Cluster of EU Digital Ecosystems Research
Projects
Research Pilots Support Actions
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Link between FP7, CIP and Structural fundsICT
activities in all three programmes

• I2010
• ICT policy framework under renewed Lisbon agenda
• I2010 Financial support
• ICT in FP7 To strengthen position of EU industry
  and research centers in shaping new research and
  development of ICTs
• ICT part of CIP (ICT PSP) To drive innovation
  through the best use and wider adoption of ICTs
• ICT in Structural funds mainly infrastructure
  projects in the past, now also ICT innovation/
  services projects
• Local government support
• ICT in Pre-commercial procurement fostering
  endogenous development (capacity building,
  strengthening SMEs), open policies allowing reuse
  and adaptation

• call for more structured and strategic mix of
  Community, national and regional policies in
  order to strengthen innovation
• Research Innovation Structural Funds
  Pre-commercial procurementas means for more
  capacity, growth and more and better jobs

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EU innovation research funding instruments
Multi-country research projects joint actions
(JTI, 169) Scholarships Policy coordination Capaci
ty building
Multi-country Innovation networks Cluster,
Monitoring Support services Policy
development Financial instruments
Nat / regional programmes Research, capacity,
SME, Cluster, TT, services ... Entrepreneurship In
novative ICT Human Capital
2. EU RTD Innovation Policy
Not EU research and innovation initiatives
Erasmus Erasmus Mundus Univ.EducScholarships
e-learning Programme ICT in schools Leonardo
vocational training
Rural development
pre-commercial procurement
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The Practical Guide

• Draft guide officially presented in March 2008
• Public Consultation
• Published on Internet on
• the 8th of September 2008
• Next steps
• Translations in 23 languages
• Paper version
• Web-tool

Practical guide to EU funding

• More can be done at national and regional levels
• Coordinate use of all instruments
• Improve information / communication among actors
• Stimulation of target groups (researchers,
  entrepreneurs, )
• Active role of local authorities (policy, reuse,
  procurement, )
• From synergies of design to synergies of action

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Content of the Practical Guide

• Content
• Description of EU Instruments and Funding Options
  
• Suggestions how to structure RTDI project ideas
• Checklist Scorecard
• Rules and examples for how to combine the
  different instruments
• Role of national and regional authorities
• Sources of advice information

Practical guide to EU funding
See http//cordis.europa.eu/EU-funding-guide/home
_en.html
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A missing link in the
EU innovation cycle
Phase 2 Applied RD up to prototype
Phase 1 Solution Design
Phase 4 Production of product/service
Phase 0 Curiosity Driven Research
Phase 3 Applied RD up to first test product
Innovation no mans land
Market pull
Research push

• Public sector expenditure represents almost 50
  of EU GDP
• A better balance between supply and (public)
  demand side measures to stimulate innovation
  could help bridge this gap
• ICT is a good area to start about 20 of public
  procurement is ICT related, ICT is key to
  stimulate productivity growth
• Example services for citizens and enterprises
  related to Administration (e.g. MinFinFR)

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Some facts and figuresWhere we can do better

• Europe represents 32 of the world ICT market
  (demand) but only supplies 22 of the world
  market
• Relatively few world-recognised ICT poles of
  excellence in EU
• In Europe, businesses created after 1985
  represent only 15 of total RD expenditure
• Only 5 of the European companies which are now
  in the world top-1000 in terms of market
  capitalization were created after 1980
• In Europe, private investments in RD is 35
  B/year, 60 lower than the US
• Yearly investments by venture capital and
  business angels is 5 B, against 30 B in the
  US
• In the EU, lt2 B/year is spent on pre-commercial
  procurement of ICT RD (US 50 B/year)

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Europes regions can make the difference

• Lack of RD procurement
• in Europe is responsible for half of the EU-US
  RD investment gap
• Public procurement in Europe happens
  predominantly at local and regional level
  stimulating innovation through modernization of
  public services policy

YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
Thanks tothe pre-commercial procurement Project
Officer Lieve Bos lieve.bos_at_ec.europa.eu
Regional Innovation Performance2006
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More link and info on http//www.digital-ecosystem
s.org
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Relevant Links
Digital Business Ecosystem website http//www.digi
tal-ecosystems.org/ PEARDROP Project and
Synthesis Guide Planning the Deployment of
Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) at regional
level (in 8 languages) http//www.peardrop.eu/Page
s/index.aspx DEN4DEK European Thematic Network
on DE http//www.den4dek.org/Sitio_web/Welcome.htm
l Debate on the Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
Implementation(s) "How to overcome the Bus
Syndrome" http//www.den4dek.org/Sitio_web/Blog/En
tradas/2008/9/8_Infrastructures_for_digital_busine
ss_ecosystems3A_the_wrong_question.html Public
Consultation on shaping the ICT Research and
Innovation agenda for the next decade
http//ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?
formICTRDI EU funding guide http//cordis.europa.
eu/eu-funding-guide/home_en.html Regions of
Knowledge Calls FP7-REGIONS-2009-1
http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseacti
onUserSite.FP7DetailsCallPagecall_id167 http//
www.euresearch.ch/fileadmin/documents/PdfDocuments
/Callfiches/Call-fiche_ROK_080903.pdf
Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) website
http//ec.europa.eu/information_society/tl/researc
h/priv_invest/pcp/index_en.htm