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RETHINKING OPEN INNOVATION: ACSI 2015 Espoo

ACSI 2015 Espoo will focus on CONNECTING SMART CITIZENS IN OPEN INNOVATION PRACTICE. Challenges posed by the European Commission, the Helsinki-Uusimaa region and the city of Espoo invite you to re-think the impact of innovation systems, strategies and practice, while working on actual real world challenges.

Dates: 5-7th June 2015

Place: Siikaranta, Espoo, Finland

CHALLENGES

ACSI 2015 Espoo will focus on CONNECTING SMART CITIZENS IN OPEN INNOVATION PRACTICE.
There will be three challenges, each addressed by two different working groups:

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Espoo Innovation Garden as an Innovation Implementation Zone

How to develop Espoo Innovation Garden as a European Forerunner region with a special focus on implementing the City’s policy programmes Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development?

Specific Focus:

The Western Metro Corridor as a development zone for innovative urban solutions

• How can this Corridor be used to develop and test innovative solutions for energy, health-care, and citizen services?

Espoo Innovation Garden: What opportunities, roles, and responsibilities exist in innovation gardening? How to translate this ‘gardening’ metaphor into tomorrow’s innovation practice:

• What does it mean for the city government as gardener, the citizen as gardener, the researcher as gardener, the business start-up as gardener?

• How does this translate to sustainability and livability issues?

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From Strategy to Practice – How to create world-class (social) innovations for an era of Smart Citizens?

How to implement the regional innovation strategy (RIS3), with a special focus on the spearhead “Smart Citizen”, working from strategy to practice in sustainable European Partnerships?

Specific Focus:

The role of citizens in a pioneering society for well-being: What will the identity, aspirations and needs of smart citizens be in 2020-2030? What opportunities can be identified to implement these?

Helsinki Region is building its future on digitalization: How will trends and opportunities based strongly on open data, open processes, and open digital platforms impact societal service systems?

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Putting European Policy into Local Practice

Translating the EU High Level Group’s Blueprint on Innovation Ecosystems into actual practice. Realizing the Dublin Declaration’s 11 points in diverse experiments and pilots across Europe.

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How to build functioning Open Innovation Ecosystems in Europe based on the instruments already existing? What is to be reinforced? How to scale up Open Innovation 2.0?

What kind of governance is needed to align goals on innovation policy and actions in the European Commission?

More information is available at: http://impactiglu.org/acsi/

 

Orchestrating Regional Innovation Ecosystems

Orchestrating Regional Innovation Ecosystems is a comprehensive publication documenting the successes, challenges and practices of Finland’s Espoo Innovation Garden. It presents the results of many months of transnational and interdisciplinary teamwork, telling the story of the region’s journey from research to practice, from project to ecosystem, and from ecosystem to innovation.

The Helsinki-Uusimaa Region is among the prosperous and growing metropolitan areas in Northern Europe. Within this region, the Espoo Innovation Garden – an open network of residents, companies and communities – is one of Europe’s pioneering regional innovation ecosystems.Orchestrating Regional Innovation Ecosystems

Editors Pia Lappalainen, Markku Markkula and Hank Kune have brought together 27 articles by more than 40 authors to describe the diverse facets of Espoo Innovation Garden as an orchestrated innovation ecosystem. The Book is divided into five parts: Framing the Regional Innovation Challenge, The Human Perspective on Innovation Ecosystems, Increasing Innovation Capital, Otaniemi in Transition, and Digitalising City Development Processes.

In the words of Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research Science and Innovation: “Regional Innovation Ecosystems – the theme of this book – is one of the key concepts of our time. Societies all around Europe need to get more innovation from research. This requires not just excellent science but also its effective integration with industrial leadership and societal challenges.

“Orchestrating regional innovation ecosystems is an emerging science – and an art. So it is important to research its secrets, learn how they work and why, and thus come to understand how to better maintain and improve them. That is what the many authors of this book – researchers, practitioners, businesspeople and politicians – have done. We must continue to learn how orchestrating these ecosystems creates opportunities for business, universities and local government, and enhances the quality of life of our citizens. The work accomplished here is exemplary and has much to offer to other regions in Europe.”

The book is available for digital downloading on the Urban Mill website (https://urbanmill.org/english/) and at the following link: https://urbanmillblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/eka_updated_hires.pdf

 

Orchestrating an Entrepreneurial Discovery Process

In an article published in the European Commission’s 2014, Open Innovation 2.0 Yearbook, authors Markku Markkula and Hank Kune review the entrepreneurial discovery process as an active driver of open innovation ecosystems, and specifically consider what is required for orchestrating the ecosystem as a set of emerging parallel processes. Their arguments are based on the newly published book Orchestrating Regional Innovation Ecosystems: Espoo Innovation Garden, as well as the on-going work of Finland’s Energizing Urban Ecosystems (EUE) research programme. The focus of the article is exploring how orchestration works in practice. They argue that Open Innovation 2.0, entrepreneurial discovery, and societal innovation are key processes in this work, and need to be orchestrated and supported in diverse ways.

Traditional management is often organised around meetings, planning sessions and workshops. However, when meetings, workshops and other events are organised without a support structure for follow-through, the capacity for the effective realisation of plans and decisions is limited. Orchestration is needed to take ideas, proposals and decisions much further. Ecosystem thinking impacts how we think about and organise our renewal activities. Markkula and Kune argue that interactive activities like workshops, innovation camps, and conferences are discovery learning processes – not simply events – and should be orchestrated as many parallel interactive processes extending well beyond the duration of the events themselves. In June 2015 two major activities will be organised in Espoo, Finland, together with the Energizing Urban Ecosystems (EUE) research programme, local government authorities and the European Commission: the 8th ACSI societal learning camp and the 3rd EU Open Innovation 2.0 Conference. Both are concrete examples of ‘events’ framed as entrepreneurial discovery processes, created in parallel and supported by an orchestrated follow-through. Both Camp and Conference are positioned as part of a larger innovation process that began in 2013 and is conceptualized as continuing through 2016 and 2017.

This article describes the larger context of these events-as-process, and the role entrepreneurial discovery, open innovation ecosystems, orchestration, prototyping and experimenting play in co-creative collaborative innovation. It emphasizes the close integration of Camp and Conference, the interdependence and synergetic working of the diverse concepts, and how open innovation and ecosystem thinking require going beyond ‘events’ to support the realization of good ideas in practice. These are crucial concepts for achieving the mental changes Europe needs to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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