Societal Innovation

Open Innovation 2.0

15 May 2014

[General], Innovation, Public Sector Renewal, Societal Innovation

Open Innovation is the use of internal and other companies’ ideas to develop new businesses. Open Innovation 2.0 is an exciting new approach, a mash-up of ideas into action to make things happen.

Illustration by Peti Buchel of Beeldleveranciers, 2012.

Open Innovation

Open Innovation is one of the important components of the foreseen European Innovation System, where all stakeholders need to be involved in a Quadruple helix innovation model. This model outlines user-oriented innovation models. In addition, Open innovation can create the seamless interaction and mash-up for ideas needed in such innovation ecosystems.

See Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, 2003 and the Center for Open Innovation from the Berkeley University.

Open Innovation 2.0

Open Innovation 2.0 takes full advantage of cross-fertilisation of ideas and drives for experimentation and prototyping in real world, to speed up and increase the potential for innovation. It is a catalytic, positive approach for innovation which helps solving key European challenges by embracing change, not resisting it!

We drive the Open Innovation 2.0 paradigm towards recognition and adoption in Europe, in all sectors. The Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) works on increasing knowledge and ICT intense sectors to respond to highly open and competitive ecosystems needed to create new markets and ICT and knowledge based products and services.

There are 5 key elements in the new innovation process:

Networking
Collaboration involving partners, competitors, universities, and users;
Corporate Entrepreneurship, enhancing corporate venturing, start-ups and spin-offs;
Proactive Intellectual Property Management: to create markets for technology;
Research and Development (R&D): to achieve competitive advantages in the market.

Quadruple Helix Model

We base our thinking on Quadruple Helix innovation models – involving institutional bodies, research sphere, business sector, and citizens in the process. This new generation of open innovation leads to stronger economic impact and better user experience in Europe.

[Text adopted from the European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe website: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/]

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

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“.

EURIS Project

26 February 2014

[General], Co-creating Europe, Innovation, Societal Innovation

EURIS is an inter-regional cooperation programme. European Collaborative and Open Regional Innovation Strategies.

EURIS project is happy to announce the launch of the “Open Innovation Toolbox”, a practical booklet proposing a handful of guides and tools targeting the main players on the Open Innovation game, companies and SMEs, and their main allies on such efforts, like networks and clusters organisations and knowledge and research centers.

The guides and tools disseminated through the toolbox are the main results of the 6 inter-regional sub-projects co-financed by EURIS, representing the concerted effort of more than 70 experts on the R&I field from the participant organisations.

The toolbox aims to support companies and their allies on better grasping the Open Innovation concept and to guide their first steps towards a more open and collaborative R&I. To that end, the guides and tools are keyed following their main target groups: copmanies; networks, clusters and intermediaries; research and knwledge institutes; and regional authorities and development and innovation agencies.

Following the needs of companies and potential practitioners of Open Innovation, the toolbox proposes 10 guides and tools, providing guidance and responses to the key O.I. topics.

via EURIS Project.

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

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