Open Innovation for the Future Internet, 14 December 2010, Ghent (Belgium)

1. LivingLabs and the
Danube Region
Gábor András
agabor@corvinno.hu

2. Old / new idea of region
• Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy
• Kossuth: Danube Federation
• European Union
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3. Problems
• One big city (> 1M) / many small (<500 K)
• Bad infrastructure / transport
• Capital investment:
– less knowledge transfer
– more wagetransfer
• No big infra project (EXPO, Football WC, Olympic Games)
• Competition of countries and/or cities
– Rivalry
– Sales -> Production -> Development
– SCM - buyer - vendor position
• Structural problems of employment/unemployment
– Growing # of young people with diploma
– Development potential / attractivity
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4. Innovation Region
• Environment & energy
• Connectivity (transport & communication)
• Socio-Economic development
• Seggregation / minorities
• Poverty
• Smart cities
– Resources
– Resorce allocation vs re-allocation
– Restricitions in PA -> own fund
• Time horizon
– Conflict of short term - long term
– Smart = good to live there (> election cycle)
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5. Preconditions
• Mobility
• Language skills
• Flexible training
• Control climate
• Business model(s)
– Sharing complementer competencies vs.
– Sharing competitive advantage
• Transborder character
• Risk taking attitude
• What happens after the honeymoon?
– Sustainability?
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6. Development vehicles
• Transformation to an open innovation system in the eRegion
• New business-administration-academia partnerships with special focus on cross-
border partnerships in the macro regions
• Creation of innovative eServices for SMEs and inter-organisational eServices in a
cross-border context
• Increasing cooperation and collaboration capacity of SMEs
• Developing a universal, utility-like software service infrastructure to enable value-
added innovation at the application level, taking into account new business models
as well as new forms of businesses enabled by the Internet
• Fostering knowledge sharing through new eTechnologies that can assist in expanded
eLearning and eCollaboration improving connectivity of cross-border eRegions, with
border cities as cases
• Stimulating Living Labs creation in the Danube Region and their involvement in the
European Network of Living Labs
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