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Open Innovation 2.0 – A New Paradigm and Foundation for a Sustainable Europe

15 May 2014 [General], Innovation, Opportunity Enrichment, Public Sector Renewal, Societal Innovation

This is a new approach to driving forward innovation in Europe; and the ideas themselves have been created in a more open and participative way than is usual, delivering in direct consequence better ideas, faster and at lower cost.

[Text adopted from the European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe website: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/]: Report/Study: 06/06/2013: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/node/66731


Marking the successful conclusion of the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference held at Dublin Castle the EU Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) have released a paper entitled ‘Open Innovation 2.0 – A New Paradigm’ which outlines the key emerging characteristics and practices of Open Innovation 2.0 (OI2) and how it can practically help address key European challenges.

Marking the successful conclusion of the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference held at Dublin Castle the EU Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) have released a paper entitled ‘Open Innovation 2.0 – A New Paradigm’ which outlines the key emerging characteristics and practices of Open Innovation 2.0 (OI2) and how it can practically help address key European challenges.

The OI2 paper and the Dublin Innovation Declaration were the key outputs from the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference co-organized by the OISPG, Intel Labs Europe, The European Commission – DG Communications Networks, Media and Technology (DG CONNECT), Dublin City and Trinity College Dublin.  The OI2 paper outlines key emerging characteristics of the new Open Innovation 2.0 paradigm whilst the Declaration outlines 10 key actions to advance progress in the EU towards achieving the Europe 2020 goals of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth.

Releasing the OI2 paper, Prof Martin Curley, Vice President of Intel and Chair of the EU OISPG said “We now have a framework and action items which can help catalyse a European recovery through Innovation- the new Open Innovation 2.0 paradigm shines a  strong beacon of light towards our collective better future”.

Welcoming the publication of the OI2 paper and the Dublin Innovation Declaration, Director General of DG CONNECT Robert Madelin said ”This is a new approach to driving forward innovation in Europe; and the ideas themselves have been created in a more open and participative way than is usual, delivering in direct consequence better ideas, faster and at lower cost. As Commissioner Neelie Kroes has made clear in the past year, innovation needs a deeper embrace of riskier policies by public leaders: with this Dublin event, we have some of the tools we need to do just that”.

Addressing the Dublin Digital Leadership Forum Dublin on Tuesday June 4 Lord Mayor Naoise O’Muiri affirmed the Dublin Innovation Declaration saying “Dublin is committed to the principles embedded in the Dublin Innovation Declaration and we are using Open Innovation 2.0 as a core vehicle for co-creating the future of Dublin”.

Open Innovation 2.0 Conference and The Dublin Innovation Declaration:
The Dublin Innovation Declaration was co-created at the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference and it was overwhelmingly ratified and endorsed through vote by participants during the concluding session of the two day international conference. The Declaration was formed as the challenges faced in Europe and beyond are too large to tackle in isolation and thus a new approach to innovation is required. Better solutions are needed globally in domains such as healthcare, transportation, climate change, youth unemployment, financial stability, prosperity, sustainability, and growth. These challenges provide a significant opportunity to create new shared value through innovation.  Society’s challenges may well reflect the transition to innovative solutions and today’s challenges are perhaps best seen as examples of Joseph Schumpeter’s creative destruction model where the failure of old approaches fuels the motivation for change and shapes the future. The challenges also call attention to the quadruple helix model of innovation where civil society joins with business, academia, and government sectors to drive changes far beyond the scope of what any one organization can do on their own.

Irish Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock TD said: “We welcome the fact that this seminal conference took place in Ireland and during the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU. I believe many of the actions identified in the declaration have merit and hold promise in terms of their potential to further strengthen our Innovation eco-system within the EU  – to the extent that they are not already being addressed, I think many of these actions deserve active consideration by the EU ”.

Bror Salmelin, Advisor for Innovation systems in DG CONNECT said: “Open Innovation 2.0 brings together the strengths of Europe in a new way, to increase seamless co-creation of innovative products and services to match the challenges we see in our economy and society“.

Related Documents:

OISPG Open Innovation 2.0 A New Paradigm – White Paper

Filed under: [General], Innovation, Opportunity Enrichment, Public Sector Renewal, Societal Innovation

ACSI 2014: E-18 The Northern Bridge

22 January 2014 [General], Dialogue, Opportunity Enrichment, Societal Innovation

Kotka in Finland will host 2014’s first ACSI. An international and multi-disciplinary group will spend three days working with diverse issues around the development of the E-18 Northern Bridge from St Petersburg to Stockholm during a three-day ACSI camp in February 2014. They will develop new perspectives on how to address these issues, take away promising ideas to prototype with important stakeholders, and think about how to move from prototypes to practice. Approximately 30 participants will take part.

This edition of ACSI – the Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation – is part of a process aimed at enhancing the cooperation between three cities in Southern Finland – Helsinki, Turku, and Kotka – along the Stockholm – St. Petersburg development corridor, the “Northern Bridge”, while involving Stockholm and St Petersburg more directly in the process of thinking through opportunities for cross-border cooperation. It is coordinated by Cursor Oy, the regional development company of the Kotka-Hamina Region in Finland.

ACSI is a new generation innovation instrument co-developed by the New Club of Paris. It is a global platform for societal innovation that brings together innovators, field practitioners, researchers, entrepreneurs and students from diverse backgrounds and countries to co-create and test new perspectives and promising ideas that address societal challenges.

This Camp’s challenges are each sponsored by a different city:

  • Kotka Challenge: “How can the E-18 Northern Bridge become an environment for facilitating the flow of opportunities from St Petersburg to Stockholm?”
  • Helsinki Challenge: “How can the E-18 cooperation area become the most attractive investment zone in Northern Europe?”
  • Turku Challenge: “How can we discover, define and develop new markets for maritime companies (technologies, products and services that can be used in many other markets besides the maritime industry)?”

ACSI E-18 Northern Bridge is organized by Cursor Oy in collaboration with Aalto University and the New Club of Paris. The world´s first ACSI camp was initiated by New Club of Paris and Aalto University and prototyped in Finland (2010-2012). ACSI camps have been run in Sweden (2013) and South Africa (2012-13).

Information about ACSI 2013 hosted by Malmö University is available at http://socialinnovation.se/en/news/acsi2013/

Information over ACSI 2010-12 hosted by Aalto University can be found at http://acsi.aalto.fi/en/

For more information about ACSI E-18 Northern Bridge, please contact:

erika.vanhala@cursor.fi , Telephone: +358 40 190 2511

Filed under: [General], Dialogue, Opportunity Enrichment, Societal Innovation

Open Days 2013 in Brussels

22 January 2014 [General], Co-creating Europe, Opportunity Enrichment

During the 11th edition of the OPEN DAYS: European Week of Regions and Cities in October 2013, the Committee of the Regions and the European Commission called on the European Council and Parliament to urgently finalise the adoption of the EU budget 2014-2020 and the new rules for structural funds. Regions and cities were also able to present the results of their 2007-2013 EU-funded programmes and projects, showcasing the impact these have on regional development, such as contributing to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. More than 6000 participants attended the diverse events during the week.

One of these events was the CoR/EPP workshop on “Citizen and business mobility across regions and cities” on Wednesday, 9th October 2013. This workshop highlighted the importance of mental mobility as well as physical mobility, and the need for the free movement of ideas as well as people, goods and services to co-create a truly innovative Europe.

Free movement across borders is at the very basis of a single market and one of the foundations of the European Union. The workshop signalled that. despite the many benefits of the EU single market, more can be done. To reach this potential, participants called for a 5th freedom: the freedom for the movement of ideas. Europe needs to look beyond a sense of urgency; a sense of opportunity – and a culture of opportunities – is needed.

For the press release with more information: A new sense of opportunity: cooperating for mobility across regions and cities, see:

http://web.cor.europa.eu/epp/News/Pages/09-October-2013.aspx#.Ut_PK_bb_u6

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Filed under: [General], Co-creating Europe, Opportunity Enrichment
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