Workshop objectives and agenda Innovation culture

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Workshop objectives and agendaInnovation culture
RIS Focus GroupAcademic-Business Links and
Innovation Culture

• Second meeting
• Riga, 28 March 2007

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Focus Group objectives

• To bring together RIS regions that share interest
  in specific regional innovation topics
• To raise awareness and improve the understanding
  of RIS staff members on strategies and schemes in
  the selected fields
• To exchange experience and build long-lasting
  co-operation among the participating regions
• To help prepare the innovation strategies and
  respective RIS action plans of the member regions

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New RIS projects
Three RIS Focus Groups

• Focus Group 1
• Promotion of innovation in SMEs
• Focus Group 2
• Academic-Business Links and Innovation Culture
• Focus Group 3
• Clusters and Innovation Financing

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New RIS projects
Three RIS Focus Groups

• Focus Group 1
• Promotion of innovation in SMEs
• Focus Group 2
• Academic-Business Links and Innovation Culture
• Focus Group 3
• Clusters and Innovation Financing

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RIS Focus Group 2 Academic-Business Links and
Innovation Culture
Key topics

• Higher Education Institutions key role in
  knowledge-based societies
• Transfer of knowledge/technology between Higher
  Education Institutions and enterprises
• Incubation and growth of high-tech,
  innovation-based enterprises
• Promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship
  cultures in the regions (academia enterprises
  young people)

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Todays focus

• Innovation culture
• What is it?
• How it can be influenced (can it?)?
• What can we do about it?
• What are the experiences of EU regions?
• What kind of actions can we plan in the new RIS
  projects?

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Todays agenda

• What is innovation culture? - brainstorming
  exercise
• West Midlands and 5SHEMES experiences in
  innovation culture
• Innovation and entrepreneurship in youth
  Englands North West
• Innovation culture in academic environment
  Strathclyde example
• Regional action for start-ups KEIMforum in
  Baden-Würtemberg
• Round table How can innovation culture be built,
  encouraged, supported and rewarded in the
  regions?

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What is innovation culture?

• Brainstorming exercise
• Situation and plan of
• Central Switzerland
• Kujawsko-Pomorskie
• Experiences of the IRE Network

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Brainstorming session

• What is your first association with the word
  culture?
• Definition of culture
• What are elements of innovation culture?
• Definition of innovation culture
• What can be done to build innovation culture?

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Culture

• Collective pre-programming of people minds
  through societal influence, passed through
  generations
• Manifested through
• Values
• Symbols
• Rituals
• Intangible
• Unobservable (through manifestations)
• Difficult to influence
• Cultural change is slow

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Innovation culture matters

• Prerequisite of innovation to happen
• Often a bottleneck of regional innovation system
• Not always recognised in policy making

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Innovation culture is about

• Entrepreneurship

Open minds
Trust
Creativity
Experimentation
Collaboration and networking
Right to make mistakes
Risk taking
Imagination
Pro-activity
Change management
Assertiveness
Self-reliance
Learning culture
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How innovation can be influenced

• Motivating
• Creating role models
• Rewarding models
• Promoting models
• Role of education
• Reinforcing by different connected actions
• Anything that promotes innovation adds to the
  culture shaping

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Action for innovation culture in regions

• Innovation culture within companies
• Information campaigns
• Innovation awards
• Trainings (management, innovation culture)
• Audits and mentors
• Innovation culture in academic institutions
• Entrepreneurship education and promotion
• Spin-off support
• Staff and student exchange with companies
• Support for research projects for companies
• Innovation governance
• Involvement of actors into policy making
• Innovation promotion in administration
• Social capital in the region
• General innovation campaigns media
• Awareness events for general public
• Education and innovation promotion among children
  and youth

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Spotlight on

• Kujawy i Pomorze
• Central Switzerland

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Experiences of IRE regions

• Innovation culture diagnosed to be determinant of
  innovation in many RIS projects
• More and more actions in IRE regions (good
  practices)
• Publications and events

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RIS Strathclyde example (1)
In Search of Deep Causes Innovation as-is
Archipelago
Low Business BirthRate
Lack of exploitation of IPR
Visible elements
Islands
Internally Focussed Companies
---- See level
Absence of Strategic planning
Underwater connections
Insufficient use of New technologies
Connections
Static Business Practices
Deep Causes
Sub-structure
Strategic Dynamics
Non-Innovative Culture
Tectonics
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RIS Strathclyde example (2)

• 5 local pilot projects
• Enthusiastic team
• Company orientation and involvement
• Training on innovation management
• Creativity development
• Study visit to Netherlands
• Mentoring of companies

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RIS Strathclyde example (3)

• INNOVATION is new stuff that works
• Campaign to promote innovation culture in
  companies

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RIS Strathclyde example (4)

• Blue-Eyes

• Big-Cheese

Bean-Counter
Whizz-Kid
Head-on-Backwards
The Grimbles
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More information

• IRE Schemes http//www.innovating-regions.org/sc
  hemes/browse.cfm?displaybyTopic
• RIE Magazine Regional competitiveness a
  question of innovation culture
• IRE Good Practice workshop Promoting innovation
  culture in the regions
• Liverpool, 27-28 October 2007
• Info Point
• Study visit

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IRE Schemes

• The Business Woman Centre
• TKK Entrepreneurs Program
• WIN - Women Into the Network
• Démarre la Recherche d'une Entreprise A ta Mesure
  DREAM
• Innovation for young people
• Marketing Innovation in Slovenia
• IMPAT/SPINTA Promotion of High-technology Based
  Firms / Services for the Promotion of New
  Advanced Technology Based Firms
• Fostering knowledge-based entrepreneurship -
  GründerRegio M e. V.
• CIFRE Staff Exchange Programme
• Quasi Enterprise Programme
• Primanager business game for students
• SPINNO - A Programme to Increase the
  Commercialisation of RD Results
• EISS - Entrepreneurs Innovation Summer School
• The City of Sciences and Industry
• Innovation Culture in Western Scotland
• Bolton Technical Innovation Centre
• Venture Cup
• Innovation Culture in Wales
• Research Days and Scientific Adventures Park in
  Wallonia

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IRE Secretariat contact details

• IRE Secretariat
• Elzbieta Ksiazek
• 2b rue Nicolas Bové
• L-1253 Luxembourg
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail e.ksiazek_at_innovating-regions.org
• www.innovating-regions.org