Title: Closing the Innovation Divide
1Closing the Innovation Divide
- ERRIN - RIM
- Keynote 17 April 2013
- Markku Markkula
- EU Committee of the Regions CoR, Rapporteur on
Closing the Innovation Divide, Rapporteur on
Horizon 2020, Chair EPP-CoR Task Force - on Europe 2020
- 1. CoR statements What are the basic realities?
- From Triple Helix to RIE Regional Innovation
Ecosystems How to address new innovative
solutions on major societal challenges - CoR draft opinion focusing on mindset What are
the preconditions for necessary changes? - A Circular Economy Re-using knowledge How to
develop regional innovation ecosystems to become
laboratories for entrepreneurial discovery? - Smart cities and smart regions need for deeper
understanding the innovation What are the
processes and concepts for implementation? - Smart specialisation What does that mean in
practice? - We are facing the challenge What are the
different activities needed in organizing
synergistic cooperation for the new programming
period 2014-2020?
2Committee of the Regions Towards Smart Regions
and Cities What Are the Basic Obligatory
Realities?
- There is a huge gap between the latest research
knowledge and real life practice. What do we need
to do to fill it? CoR has defined the following
guidelines - Europe needs pioneering regions to be forerunners
in implementing the EU2020 and through that to
invent the desired future. - Lifelong learning and the full use of ICT are
cornerstones for this change of mindset towards
entrepreneurship and innovation. - We need the dynamic understanding of regional
innovation ecosystems where public, private and
third sector learn to operate together. Modernize
Triple Helix. - We need methodologies to mobilize public private
partnerships and encourage especially people
participations user-driven open innovation
living labs. - We need to speed up the change by scalability
implementation. - Source CoR Opinions 2011-2012
3The Development Path of the Regional Innovation
Ecosystem (RIE)
Stage 3 Orchestration for global business
Stage 2 Initiating transformation towards RIE
Stage 1 Creating pre-conditions
Source Jukka Viitanen Markku Markkula Carlos
Ripoll, article in the Knowledge Triangle book,
2013
4The Development Path in More Detail
- Stage 1 Regional pre-conditions
- Potential of existing regional/international
innovation system (audits) - 2. Willingness to utilise this potential (active
participation) - Stage 2 Creating the innovation hub
- 1. Joint RD
- 2. Joint innovation capacity
- 3. Joint commercialization
- 4. Joint platforms
- Stage 3 Orchestrating RIE
- Mindset change
- Implementing Knowledge Triangle
- Integrating innovation activities with research
programs
Source Jukka Viitanen Markku Markkula Carlos
Ripoll, article in the Knowledge Triangle book,
2013
5How to Create Preconditions for Necessary Changes?
- supporting the targets to be achieved on
competitiveness and innovation by 2020,
especially through continued investment in
education and training - stressing the importance of balancing
technological, design and social innovation in
both the public and private sectors, all of which
are influenced by far-reaching digitisation - striving for societal innovation, with living
labs, testbeds and open innovation methods in
regional innovation policy-making, while getting
citizens on board - highlighting the role of a local and regional
environment that supports the integration of
higher education, research and business - implementing the Knowledge Triangle as a key
principle in European university reform (greater
synergies between research, education and
innovation) - underlining the key role of research
infrastructure in knowledge-based innovation
systems - focusing more on the active use of innovative
public procurement, combined with simplification
of procedures - stressing the importance of Europe-wide
collaboration and transnational cooperation
projects between regions, building on innovation
support and smart specialisation strategies - highlighting the potential of cross-border
cooperation, including inward investment to and
outward investment from the EU - improving competences for innovation and
fostering a new innovation mind-set built on
dialogue, collaboration and co-creativity to
learn from best practice.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula
6Closing the Innovation Divide ? Action Points
- In moving towards a circular economy for
knowledge, national funding bodies like Tekes in
Finland and Vinnova in Sweden could revisit and
explore the results of projects completed during
the last 5-10 years, and unlock their treasures
for reuse in new regional and national contexts. - Directorates-General in the Commission could do
the same, making results accessible more broadly
across different domains, in order to address
societal challenges. University research could be
made more directly relevant to policy-makers and
project teams.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula
7Applying Experiences from Industrial Systems
? Interacting Learning Research Innovation
Activities
Three Steps to Understand the System
Identify Societal / Market Needs define
system requirements barriers
Integrate Fundamental Research Innovation
Knowledge into Enabling Technologies
Develop Useful Insights from Fundamental Knowledge
Professor Sir Mike Gregory, 13 Feb 2013
(E OSullivan Adapted from NSF ERC Strategy
Framework)
8Closing the Innovation Divide ? Action Points
- There are many research and innovation focus
areas to support the drivers of change urgently
needed during the 2014-2020 programming period.
The CoR highlights the following ones as the
success factors in inventing the future - Innovation communities operate as ecosystems
through systemic value networking in a world
without borders. - Innovation processes are strongly based on demand
and user orientation and customers as crucial
players in innovations. - Innovation strategies focus on catalysing open
innovation and encouraging individuals and
communities towards an entrepreneurial mindset
and effective use and creation of new digitalised
services.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula
9Globalisation ? Need for Smart Specialisation
- Understanding the dynamics of global industries
- Mapping and managing global value chains
- Configuring production and supply
- Understanding national industrial policies
- Making the right things in the right places
Professor Sir Mike Gregory, 13 Feb 2013
10Closing the Innovation Divide ? Action Points
- Regions and cities should create pioneering
initiatives that are genuinely European in
nature multicultural, human-centred, focused on
societal innovations and capabilities to create
better structures for the welfare society and lay
the groundwork for developing the digital single
market. - Showcases for practical examples of successful
initiatives should be created and made widely
accessible, so other regions and cities can learn
from the practical results and effective
processes of past and on-going programmes.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula
11Deeper Understanding of the Innovation ? The
focus on innovations has been on business models
and technology. Now the cultural levers are the
drivers of change.
Business Model Levers Business Model Levers Business Model Levers Technology Levers Technology Levers Technology Levers
Value Proposition Value Chain Target Customer Product and Service Process Technology Enabling Technology
Cultural Levers
Regional Innovation Ecosystem
Space (Ba Flow)
Design
Mindset
Learning
Incremental innovations Semi-radical
innovations Radical innovations
Picture The three levers for the three types on
innovation
Markkula M Pirttivaara M, (2013). Adding the
Cultural Levers. Developed from Davila T, Epstein
MJ and Shelton RD, (2013), Making Innovation
Work, FT Press, New Jersey.
12Closing the Innovation Divide ? Action Points
- The CoR stresses that smart specialisation is a
regional policy framework for innovation-driven
growth. What distinguishes smart specialisation
from traditional industrial and innovation
policies is mainly the process defined as
entrepreneurial discovery - an interactive
process in which market forces and the private
sector discover and produce information about new
activities and government assesses the outcomes
and empowers those players most capable of
realising the potential. Smart specialisation
strategies are much more bottom-up than
traditional industrial policies.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula
13New Elements Model for Research
3. early stage technology development
4. product development
2. concept/ invention
5. production/ marketing
1. research
- Shared RDI programs between mutually committed
- Universities
- Research Institutes
- Industry
- .
Proof of concept
Proof of principle
Demonstration
Jos Leijten, 11 Feb 2013
14Closing the Innovation Divide ? Action Points
- Europe must make major cultural changes and
re-focus funding to ensure active application of
the latest research knowledge at local and
regional level. - The focused translation of research into practice
requires good mutual understanding of what
research there is, what issues there are, and how
relevant research can impact local and regional
issues. A new kind of knowledge triangle is
needed for this, linking the world of research
and science with the world of business and
government through a kind of interactive
translation service.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula
15CoR Conference Plenary 10 April 2013 Conclusion
Prof. Debackere, KU Leuven
16Dynamic Interaction between University and Society
NEW JOINT ARENAS for Co-creation
Competence Development
Scientific Knowledge
Research Focus Areas as Drivers of Development
Industry
Research, Education and Innovation
Society
Lifelong Learners
MINDSET CHANGE
Markkula, M., Pirttivaara, M. Miikki, L., 2009.
Developed by using ideas of Lester Sotarauta,
Tekes report 2007 Innovation, Universities, and
the Competitiveness of Regions.
17Closing the Innovation Divide ? Action Points
- The new innovation institutes focus on the new
mind-set and environment required for
user-centric design, co-creation and rapid
piloting. - These are flexible entities with a collaborative
approach. Examples include Incubators and
Accelerators, Living Labs, Entrepreneurial Hubs,
Development Labs, Social Innovation Labs, Fab
Labs, Societal Innovation Learning Camps and
Future Centers. They usually operate as
associated entities of universities,
municipalities and businesses.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula
18Dynamic Interaction between University and Society
Society Innovations and Well-being (Products,
Processes, Services)
Aalto Research, Education and Innovation Areas
NEW JOINT ARENAS for Integration, Collaboration,
and Co-creation Access to Global Resources and
Talent
Inventingthe Future
Other Impacts
Aalto Factory Park
Lifelong Learning
Competence Development
Mega-Endeavours
Industry and other Organi-zations
Aalto Living Labs
Scientific Knowledge
Aalto Research Focus Areas as Drivers of
Development
Learning by RDI
Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Competent People
MINDSET CHANGE Aalto Values and Aalto Working
Culture Development Processes
Produces
Knowledge
Educates
Other Impacts
Faculty and other Staff
Students
Markkula, M., Pirttivaara, M. Miikki, L., 2009.
Developed by using ideas of Lester Sotarauta,
Tekes report 2007 Innovation, Universities, and
the Competitiveness of Regions.
19The Frame for Implementing Knowledge Triangle
(Synergy between Research, Education and
Innovation)
Source Markku Markkula, article in the Knowledge
Triangle book, 2013
20Closing the Innovation Divide ? Action Points
- The CoR strongly supports the following proposal
of the European Parliaments ITRE Committee on
the Horizon 2020 regulations Instruments for
the connection between Research, Innovation and
the Smart Specialisation Strategies shall be
implemented both in Horizon 2020 and the
Structural Funds in order to create objective
indicators for the stairway of excellence and
building the ERA.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula
21Regional Innovation Ecosystem Aalto University
Campus 2020
Laurea
According to the plans, by 2020, there will be
new investments of 4-5 billion metro, tunnel
construction of ring road, other infra, housing,
office and business buildings, public services,
university buildings, sports and cultural
facilities
22Aalto City Integrating Real and Virtual Worlds
Aalto University campus with its surrounding
business and residence areas is the innovation
hub of the Helsinki Region. This picture is based
on the Energizing Urban Ecosystems research
program. The program with its 20
million multidisciplinary research integrates new
science, art and business developments to working
in a virtual environment. Regional Information
Modeling is the breakthrough dimension in this
research.
23Otaniemi based on Prof. Nonaka Ba Flow (our
Idea Space developments)
24Closing the Innovation Divide ? Action Points
- The CoR strongly believes that the process of
defining how the many suggestions and
recommendations in this Opinion can be realized
in practice, and collaboratively exploring
promising approaches for implementing them within
and across regional boundaries, is the most
effective way to turn excellent intentions into
real results with powerful impact on the streets
of Europe. This is key to closing the innovation
divide.
CoR Draft Opinion Closing the Innovation
Divide Based on the request of the Irish EU
Presidency, Rapporteur Markku Markkula