5. Nesta’s CITIE studie (2015)
City Leadership
Creating conditions for
experiments, innovation and
entrepreneurship to flourish
Break down silo’s and supporting
citywide innovation projects
Encouraging civil servants to
become changemakers, learning
new skills
Ambition to reinvent how city hall
delivers services and engages with
its residents
7. 7
It’s going well in our region!
European Capital of Innovation 2016/2017
2700 foreign companies
140 new foreign companies in 2015
#2 best city in Europe for digital startups
#4 sustainable city
Home to 2,600 international meetings a
year
10. Why Amsterdam?
•"Amsterdam fully deserves to be our European Capital of
Innovation for its holistic vision of innovation in and for the
city.”
Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and
Innovation
•"This Award is all about speeding up change: we must
encourage cities and regions to tackle burning societal
challenges by jumping on the innovation train and spreading
bottom-up experiences. We need pioneering cities and
regions like Amsterdam, to lead the way.”
Markku Markkula, President of the European Committee of the Regions
11. Amsterdam European Capital of
Innovation
For embracing a bottom-up approach based
on smart growth, startups (>1000)
livability and digital social innovation
12. Society in Transition
Closed hierarchical
organized groups
Command & Control
Top Down
Static
Competition
Offline
Planning
Open networks
(communities)
Open & Distributed
Bottom Up
Fluid & Dynamic
Collaboration
Online & Offline
Experimentation
13.
14. Key Elements Innovation Strategy
• The city is a platform for everyone with an open government
• A new way of guiding renewal
• Radical shift from centrally organized to distributed networking
• Innovation is co-creating and co-making
• Focus on technological and societal innovation
• Very active ‘smart citizens' and city makers
• Knowledge institutions
23. How Does it Create and
Support a Startup Culture?
24. Everything starts with Ambition
• Changes in the economy and jobs are rapid and intense.
• We have to identify fast growing sectors to keep enough
jobs for the people in Amsterdam
• We believe that a dynamic economy offers opportunities
to entrepreneurs, thinkers and inventors who feel they are
Amsterdammer but think Globally
So our ambition is …..
To be in the top 3 in Europe as a
startup-city (next to London and Berlin)
26. Goals & Strategy
create a sustainable
culture for startups
Attract talent and
relevant expertise,
nationaly and
internationaly
Attract capital
More international
startups choose
Amsterdam as their
home to kickstart further
growth
32. Startup in Residence Programma
Looking for expanding
startups into public sector
Finding new solutions for
societal challenges
Combining accelerator
programmes with support
of government and
corporate partners
44. 44Amsterdam innovation ecosystem
Go with the flow
• We have great partners, and we like to cooperate on initiative that they have
already developed.This ensures we work on initiatives that already have
momentum
• No large companies who dominate the innovation value chain
Organize
serendipity
• We create and support initiatives where people meet, exchange ideas and
create new products and services
Take a holistic
approach
• We are ok in technical innovation, which is really difficult.We are great in social
innovation, which is also difficult, but just as important
• We dare to combine private and public parties in our approach
Be open for
experiments
• We dare to try something new, even when the stakes are high
• We dare to embrace (disruptive) changes, such as sharing economy or new
technology
• Not invented here, but tested : we like living labs
Editor's Notes
Next to the big corporates there is this vibrant rapidly growing start-up ecosystem which is one of the reasons why the City of Amsterdam won the European Capital of Innovation award from the European Commission. There are over 1000 startups here and this number is increasing as we speak.