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Open Innovation Workshop
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Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation
29 November 2012 09h30 – 16h00
Facilitated by: Hosted by:
Christian Holstein, Danish Agency for
Ron Donaldson Science, Technology and Innovation.
Argenta Europ Ltd
Annie Joan Olesen
Ability Europe Ltd

2. Overview
This workshop was set up to engage the Aerospace SME and
Primes community in and around Copenhagen with the
intention of stimulating communication, knowledge sharing,
collaboration and the co-creation of creative ideas while
building awareness of our SME-AERO-POWER project and the
approach we are taking.
We ran the event on a Thursday from 09:30 – 16:00 which proved
quite a hurdle to get attendees to give up their time, and trust
that the experience would be worthwhile.
The event was advertised on Eventbrite, Twitter, Facebook and
across various related LinkedIn Groups together with many
personal approaches to individuals we thought should attend.
What follows is a brief summary of the event...

3. OBJECTIVES OF THIS WORKSHOP
The workshop objectives are for you to experience . .
1 NETWORKING
To show how exchanging “stories” is a quick and
effective way to understand the main themes within a
complex situation.
2 COLLABORATING
To provide a ‘taste’ of some of the techniques we use
with companies in our project and so help them to
innovate by working more effectively with others.
. . CONSIDER JOINING SME-AERO-POWER
To interest you in joining the SME Aero-Power project
(not just for those already in the Aerospace supply
3 chain).

4. WORKSHOP TIMETABLE
09:30 Welcome and coffee
09:45 Introductions
10:00 Overview of Horizon 20/20 and the role of the Danish National Contact
Christian
10:45 Anecdote Circles Ron
Experiences of Partnering/Collaborating
12:30 Lunch
13:30 SME-Aero-Power Annie
Information about our European Project
14:00 SpeedStorming Ron
Collaborating for Innovative Thinking
15:30 Next Steps Ron
Innovation Boosting
15:50 Review & Feedback
4 16:00 close

5. Networking part 1, At your table, take 5 minutes
to discuss this question - then I will collect
some answers . .
What is
Open Innovation?
Asked as a question for brief discussion in pairs, then ideas collected and
written down by facilitator, to illustrate a more traditional approach to
facilitation.
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6. What is Open Innovation?
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7. ANECDOTE CIRCLE - This is another way to
network with people at your table, to answer
this question . .
What has been your experience
when trying to cooperate or
partner with another company?
7 Anecdote Circles are a Cognitive Edge method http://cognitive-edge.com/library/methods/anecdote-circles/

8. Two groups of six share their stories
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9. Title (blue) and each individual's perspective
on that story (white) are captured
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10. An example of one story
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11. Titles are removed. Cards are shuffled. Patterns
emerge as themes, which are then named.
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12. Examples of themes – contextualised by the
white perspectives.
pectives.
These themes are emergent and contextualised by the white pers
g explored
They help define and make sense of the Innovation Ecosystem bein
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13. Emergent Themes – River Diagram
Using the emergent themes from the
anecdote circle the group plotted where
they thought Denmark/Copenhagen was
today for each on a scale of 0 – 10.
More on Chris Collison River Diagrams can be found at:
http://chriscollison.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/km-tools-creating-a-river-diagram/
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14. COLLABORATING
COLLABORATION &
INNOVATIVE THINKING
- collaborating is more than networking: it involves doing
something together and demands a degree of trust
- this first technique is called SpeedStorming: how to find a
number of opportunities for innovation in a short time by
sharing ideas with other people
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15. 2 x twenty five minute sessions in pairs,
looking for collaborative opportunities
ested in
Each person briefly explains what they bring and what they are inter
reate'
then the pair look to combine these interests and expertise to 'co-c
something new.
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16. COLLABORATING
INNOVATION
BOOSTING
- takes a good idea and accelerates the process of finding
out how to turn it into reality
- Innovation Boosting takes some time, so today we can only
start the process by using a small number of techniques
More about Argenta Boosters: http://www.argenta-europ.com/default.asp?pageid=215
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17. The collaborative opportunities plotted by the
participants on a Benefit vs Cost/Harm matrix
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18. Feedback [obtained by scoring sessions 1-4]
Round Table 3.0
Anecdote Circle 3.3
Speed Storming 2.6
Booster 3.0
SME AERO POWER 3.0
“I think the event was rather interesting and a new way of swapping ideas
that I as an industrial designer was quite inspired by.
I have participated in quite a lot of workshops , but this was one of the
better.”
Jacob Brahe-Pedersen President, Industrial Designer, MFA
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19. WANT TO LEARN MORE?
Join SME Aero Power by registering on the website
www.sme-aero-power.eu
Join our LinkedIn group and SIGs
SME-AERO-POWER Group
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20. Thank you for
participating and
sharing
Ron Donaldson Annie Joan Olesen
knowledge ecologist Managing Director
Argenta-Europ
Ability Europe
ron@argenta_europ.com
annie.olesen@abilityeurope.com
Twitter: @rondon
Blog: rondon.wordpress.com
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21. Wouldn't it be great if we could run this event with
your organisation, partners and customers...
Ron Donaldson
Argenta Europ Ltd
Email: ron@argenta-europ.com