Linking business to knowledge: new challenges

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Linking business to knowledge new challenges

• Dr Kastytis Gecas,
• Lithuanian Innovation Centre

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Innovation Policies why innovation
If the GDP volume in Lithuania grows in the
current speed, it will overtake the average EU
level only by the year 2040

• Jump to a knowledge-driven economy
• national consensus
• Innovation is essential for business development
• a key component in enterprise policy
• innovation strategy vs. growth strategy
• Towards support for innovation
• financial support/grant schemes for SMEs
• advisory services and networking

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• If science is the transformation of money into
  knowledge, innovation is the transformation of
  knowledge into money
• EUREKA

Innovation is related to a process connecting
knowledge and technology with the exploitation
of market opportunities for new or improved
products, services and business processes
compared to those already available on the common
market, and encompassing a certain degree of
risk. Community Framework for State Aid for
Research and Development and Innovation, 2006
Innovation is a business process connected with
exploiting market opportunities for new products,
services and business processes. EC
Communication COM(2005) 121 final, 06/04/2005,
Proposal for a DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
Programme (2007-2013)
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Structure of Lithuanian industry
Source Science and technology, Eurostat/ 2005
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Innovative companies and turnover (23.4 of total
number)
Source Innovation Activity Development, Dept. of
Statistics of Lithuania, 2006
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Source European Innovation Scoreboard 2004
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Knowledge-based competitiveness. Two
complementary paradigms

• To increase (innovation) supply Technology push
  
• Links between science and industry bridging
• Exploitation of research results, (technology)
  absorptive capacity,
• Technological innovation (and may be
  non-technological innovation)
• Technology transfer exploitation of research
  results
• Support services research - exploitation-orient
  ed (industry liaison, technology transfer,
  technology information, etc.)
• Science and technology parks, spin-offs
• Risk capital
• Global competitiveness
• Prioritty-based policies high-tech business
  development (e.g. bio, IT, etc.)
• Financial support to pioritised sectors
• Linear model (creation, tranfer support,
  companies)

• To increaase innovation demand Market pull
• Company as a focal point higher added value by
  innovation
• Innovation diffusion, exploitation of knowledge,
  innovation capacity, innovation culture
• Non-technological innovation (and may be
  technological innovation)
• Technology transfer technology partnerships
• Support services specialised infrastructure (to
  access knowledge, partners, finances, )
• Clusters, platforms, and other network-type
  activities, transnational networks
• Public and private consultancy services
• Innovation everywhere as a means for
  competitiveness
• Financial support as (innovation) risk decreasing
  tool (industrial RD, innovation, networking, )
• Non-linerar, multifacet model (partnerships,
  diffusion, innovation transfer, innovation
  management and content, etc.)

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RD-based innovation vs. innovation diffusion
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Source European Innovation Scoreboard 2003
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Innovative companies and turnover (23.4 of total
number)
Source Innovation Activity Development, Dept. of
Statistics of Lithuania, 2006
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Non-technological innovation
Source Innovation Development, Dept. Statistics
Lithuania, 2006
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Innovation cooperation partners
Source Innovation Activity Development, Dept. of
Statistics of Lithuania, 2006
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Innovation Sources
Source Innovation Activity Development, Dept. of
Statistics of Lithuania, 2006
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Corporate innovation financing soft vs.hard
Source Innovation Activity Development, Dept. of
Statistics of Lithuania, 2006
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Innovation partnerships
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Obstacles to innovation
HR risk
Market risk
Financial risk
Source Innovation Development, Dept. Statistics
Lithuania, 2006
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Decreasing risks fostering inovation in business

• State policies favourable conditions
• Programme for Innovation in Business (2000, 2003)
• National Lisbon Strategy
• Public Support (national, EU Structural Funds)
• Linking business to knowledge
• Specialised infrastructure and services
• Domestic and international networking

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Innovation support services at universities

• Research as knowledge production
• Labs as knowledge centres intellectual assets
• Knowledge transfer centres (industry liaison,
  technology information and technology transfer,
  management techniques, IP management)
• Professionalism, competence and skills
• Preconditions
• Favourable Institutional set-up
• Intellectual property set-up and proper
  management
• Focusing on market (industry and services)
  demands
• Research as service
• Contractual RD towards instu
• Consultancy technological/non-technological
  innovation capacity building
• Precondition
• Institutional set-up
• Focusing on market needs
• Research as networking activity
• Acting for ( on behalf of) companies
  internationally, e.g. FP projects, partnering,
  etc.
• Facilitators?

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Dr Kastytis Gecas, Director, Lithuanian
Innovation Centre,k.gecas_at_lic.ltwww.lic.lt,
www.inovacijos.lt
innovation does not wait