Public Sector Renewal

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.

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“.

Borders to Cross – a working conference on democratic innovation and civic driven change

22 January 2014

[General], Co-creating Europe, Innovation, Public Sector Renewal, Societal Innovation

Borders to Cross – a working conference on democratic innovation and civic driven change – took place in Amsterdam on 29 – 31 October 2013. See: http://borderstocross.com/about/

Borders to Cross came into being out of a cross over of disciplines and generations and has evolved into an alliance of partners from various backgrounds. It was itself an experiment in co-creation between different sectors, professional backgrounds (government, society, academia).

The initiative for a learning conference on bottom up change by citizens and the necessary shift in responsibilities between government, society and market was taken by five Dutch professionals (Rense Bos, Hank Kune, Stefanie Schuddebeurs, Jan Schrijver and Ton van der Wiel) who recognized the need to learn from international practice and between sectors about democratic innovation and civic driven change. They saw that people throughout Europe are seeking a new balance between the responsibilities of government and an active society.

Government can no longer take sole responsibility for dealing with societal problems; citizens and NGO’s can no longer simply question or complain about what their governments do or don’t do. The role of social media and social entrepreneurship, the empowerment of stakeholders and the changing set of competencies for government professionals are vital issues. The idea of an intensive learning conference where social entrepreneurs, citizens, government professionals and market parties from all over Europe would gather and discuss innovative practice of democratic and social innovation was born.

The initiative was embraced by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under the condition that it would be organized in partnership. Support was soon gained from a diverse group of organisations, leading to partnerships in the financial and/or content-related sense with the City of Amsterdam, Network Democracy, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Leuven, G1000, European Cultural Foundation, European Alternatives, Agentschap NL, the ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport (VWS), and the ministry of Infrastructure & Environment (I&M). European Civic Forum, the European Year of the Citizen Alliance, the Erasmus Prize and Kracht in NL were also supporters of the conference.

This timely alliance was able to realize Borders to Cross in the European Year of the Citizen.

Thirteen years ago in Maastricht (October 5-7th, 2000), policy-makers, practitioners and social scientists from all over Europe came together in order to share new insights and good practices about citizen participation. The event was also called Borders to Cross. In 2013, 13 years later, it was once again time to cross borders in order to learn with and from each other – citizens, policy-makers, public sector professionals and social scientists – about how to innovate both civic society and the the public sector.

Filed under: [General], Co-creating Europe, Innovation, Public Sector Renewal, Societal Innovation

Design to reshape local public policies

17 September 2012

[General], Public Sector Renewal

The two-day creative seminar Local Public Design will take place at L’Imaginarium in Tourcoing, on 19-20 September 2012. It brings together around 100 French officials and civil servants from national and local government, as well as expert practitioners and innovation pioneers from France and all over the world: Mindlab (DK), SITRA (FR), Nesta (GB), SILK (GB), Think Place (AUS), User Studio (FR), Plausible Possible (FR), Talking Things (FR), Desis Parsons (USA), Educore (NL), Aalto University (FI), University of la Manouba (TUN), and Strategic Design Scenarios (BEL) among others.

Together, participants will work actively with new ideas in the area of local public design, exchanging methods to innovate within the public sector, inspired by design thinking, ethnography, social innovation, and open source culture. The program of hands-on workshops will explore how state-of-the-art tools and concepts can contribute to rethinking traditional practices and lead to radical new ways to innovate in the public sector.

The event is organized by The 27th Region, the French “public transformation lab,” in partnership with Region North Pas de Calais, State Modernization, General Department, the European Commission, Caisse des Dépôts and the National Association of the French Regions. The 27th Region is a non-profit organization funded by the National Association of the French Regions, Caisse des Dépôts and the European Union. It aims to help local governments and administrations to innovate in the way they conceive and implement public policies. The 27th Region won the Design Management Europe Award and the French “Victoires des Acteurs Publics” in 2011.

More information in French and English is available from the 27^th Region: http://www.la27eregion.fr/

Twitter : #designpubliclocal

Filed under: [General], Public Sector Renewal

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