This document summarizes innovation initiatives in Turin, Italy that have helped it earn the second prize in the 2016 European Capital of Innovation Award. It describes how Turin has increased its creative community hubs and addressed social challenges through initiatives like a national smart communities call that funded 40 projects. Turin's Torino Social Innovation approach has created an innovation ecosystem with public and private partners to support social startups through facilities, funding, mentoring and other services. Examples highlighted include FaciliTO Barriera di Milano, which supports businesses in struggling neighborhoods, and Innova.To, which funds ideas from public employees.

1. OPEN INNOVATION
in Turin
THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF INNOVATION AWARD –
ICAPITAL – Second prize 2016

2. MAIN
CREATIVE
COMMUNITY
HUBS
TORINO 2012

3. MAIN
CREATIVE
COMMUNITY
HUBS
TORINO 2016

4. What’s happened
in the meantime?
Why this increase?

5. How to face new Social Challenges ?
Cities have an enormous potential as innovation collectors because of the
strong concentration of competences, high-educated people, resources,
networks
Almost 100.000 university
students of around 900.000
inhabitants CONTEST ANALYSIS

6. SMART COMMUNITIES
NATIONAL CALL(2012)
SMART COMMUNITIES
NATIONAL CALL(2012)

7. Turin as a landmark in Italy
500 young people/ 3 thematic seminars/70 projects
Support of PUBLIC and PRIVATE players
400 projects nationally submitted
40 awarded
11 won the grant for un amount of 7 million euros
SMART COMMUNITIES
NATIONAL CALL (2012)
Results:

8. TOOLOBOX COWORKING HOSTS
FABLAB TORINO
OFFICINE ARDUINO

9. SOCIAL CHALLENGES
How to turn
OPEN INNOVATION'S model
into a PUBLIC POLICY?
How a medium city with limited resources can
attract INVESTMENT for
INNOVATION?

10. Stimulating Innovation
inside&ouside PA

11. ...not
alone!

13. New/complementary/ integrated
By now 40 partner
THE ECOSYSTEM - the added value of TSI’s strategy
FACILITIES

14. A multi-stakeholders system, with different competences in research,
entrepreneurship, policies
THE ECOSYSTEM - the added value of TSI’s strategy

15. INTEGRATION
EQUITY
SMALL
GRANTS
TO TEST IDEA
HOUSING
SPACES GRANT FOR
JOB CREATION
MENTORING
SEED FOR
STARTUPS
(Tsi case)
PRIVATEPUBLIC

16. INSPIRING ECOSYSTEM FOR
TALENTS TALENTS
Single entry
point
Help
people
bring ideas
to life
Territorial
marketing
approach

17. INNOVATION
Lean
approac
h
Trust

18. Torino Social Innovation
LEAN
APPROACH
PARTICIPATION/
MULTIPLE FUNDING REQUEST/
COMPLEMENTARY SERVICES BY PRIVATE PARTNERS
TRUST
SHARING OF INNOVATION RISKS
WITH NEW ENTERPRENEURS
ECOSYSTEM & SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL STARTUPS

19. FaciliTO BARRIERA is a model that the Municipality of Turin adopted to tackle
the difficulties that small enterprises encounter in struggling urban areas. It won
the Improving the Business Environment category of the 2012 European
Enterprise Promotion Awards.
FaciliTO Barriera di Milano

20. FaciliTO Barriera di Milano – social business

21. FACILITO - TSI
Service supplied by the Municipality of Turin to sustain entrepreneurial
projects targeted to solving social needs.

22. 255 submitted
68 incubation phase
32 funded
STARTUP/SOCIAL BUSINESS by FACILITO
_TSI

23. INNOVATION HAPPENS IN PERIPHERY
STIMULATING GENERATION OF NEW IDEAS

24. BROKER TO STIMULATE CROSS FERTILIZATION
AMONG INSTITUTIONS/INNOVATORS TO
DELIVER NEW SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN
CHALLENGES.
CENTRE ENDORSED BY THE CITY – PRIVATE
OPERATION SELECTED THROIGH A PUBLIC CALL.
Open Incet
OPEN INNOVATION CENTER
RESULTS INAUGURATED IN OCTOBER 2015
LEAN
APPROACH
TRUST

25. 10.000 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, 10.000 POTENTIAL
INNOVATORS

26. LEAN
APPROACH
EXECUTIVE NOT ALLOWED TO APPLY/
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE USER FRIENDLY
TRUST EXTERNAL COMMITTEE FOR THE EVALUATION/
ANONIMITY TO INCREASE PARTECIPATION
Innova.ToCALL FOR IDEAS RESERVED TO PUBLIC
EMPLOYEES
RESULTS
71 SUBMITTED PROJECTS
20 PROJECTS EVALUATED FEASIBLE
10 PROJECTS AWARDED

27. WEGOVNOW – TOWARDS WE-GOVERNMENT
COLLECTIVE AND PARTICIPATIVE APPROACHES FOR
ADDRESS LOCAL POLICY CHALLENGES

30. Torino City Council has issued a public regulation on collaboration for
the Care and Regeneration of the urban commons . The aim is to
encourage and sustain new collaborative forms of dialogue with civil
society related to the management of public good/services and
provision of collective public services
http://www.comune.torino.it/benicomuni/cosa_sono/index.shtml

31. Thank you!
Fabrizio Barbiero
fabrizio.barbiero@comune.torino.it
0039 011 4425983
twitter @Babun73