1. Open Innovation – tools and mechanisms
Caribbean Growth Forum – Fostering Innovation Cultures
18.6.2012, Kingston, Jamaica

2. Close ties with Nordic Countries:
Population: 25 Million
GDP per Capita: $63,647
UK
Finlan
d
Poland
Germany
Russia
Longest boarder with Russia
Main channel of EU trade
transport to Russia
n
Swede
Dem
Entry to North Europe: total:
80 million consumers
Norwa
y
Iceland
Close Ties with Baltic
countries:
•Estonia
•Latvia
•Lithuania
GDP per capita doubled
in 10 years

3. Science, technology & innovation
system of Finland

4. Innovation is changing
Entrepreneurs generate growth & new jobs
Innovation is interactive process - empowering
users, consumers, clients, employees etc to
participate in process
Innovation is global and its geography is shifting
Innovation process opens up - new business
models enable parallel competition &
collaboration
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5. New innovation engines enabling more inclusive
innovation process are in need
Co-creating Open Ecosystem for firms, academia and
developers to generate entrepreneurial culture
Co-creating with customers and users
for better products & services
Co-creating added value and better business
models through shared /unused IPR
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6. Co-creating Open Ecosystem for firms, academia and
developers to generate entrepreneurial culture
• Merger of Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics and University
of Art and Design Helsinki in 2010 as one “Innovation University”.
• Aalto University Foundation started with the additional “start-up funding”: Facilities +
200 m€ from industry + 500 m€ from the Government.
• Synergy & Collaboration with student-led entrepreneurial activities at Campus.
 Independent, privately funded
 Independent, privately funded
student and post-graduate led
student and post-graduate led
community initiative
community initiative
 Activities to encourage high-tech,
 Activities to encourage high-tech,
high-growth and scalable
high-growth and scalable
entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship
 Support for interdisciplinary and
 Support for interdisciplinary and
international co-operation in
international co-operation in
design and development
design and development
 Location for several courses,
 Location for several courses,
research projects and start-up
research projects and start-up
companies
companies
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 700 m22 co-working space and
 700 m co-working space and
seed accelerator for hackers and
seed accelerator for hackers and
start-ups.
start-ups.

7. Aalto Entrepreneurship Education Building Blocks
School of
Science
1. Aalto Ventures Program
2. Summer of Startups
Aalto
Venture
3. Startup Life
Garage
4. Startup Sauna
5. Out to the Global Community!

8. Aalto Ventures Program (AVP)
Inspiration, Insight, and Experience to Build Bold Ventures
Aalto Ventures Program (AVP) develops and offers state-of-the-art
education on scalable ventures and conducts scholarly research that has
impact on teaching, research, and practice of venturing. The goal of AVP is to
have a world-class venturing curriculum at Aalto University by 2013.
AALTO UNIVERSITY
Research
and
teaching
Schools and
departments
Outreach,
Tech
Transfer etc.
ACE
Extracurricular
activities
AaltoES
AVG
Aalto
ARTS
Aalto
ECON
Aalto
SCI
AVP core
AVP core
faculty ++
faculty
coordicoordination
nation
Aalto
ELEC
Aalto
ENG
Aalto
CHEM

9. Summer of Startups – ”Intern Substitute”
10 weeks, 40 students, Global.

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11. Start-up Sauna
7 weeks, 400 applicants globally, 20 teams
Coached by Serial Entrepreneurs

13. Co-creating with customers and users
for better products/services
Forum
Virium
Helsinki
New service innovations –
in cooperation with companies,
public sector organizations
and citizens.

14. Opening up
public data
Why?
• Boosts the ecosystem as
a whole by fostering new
business opportunities,
innovations and economic
growth
• Makes city governance more
effective, saves public costs
• Increases transparency

15. CitySDK
• Software toolkit for
developing digital services
for pan-European city :
opening up and harmonizing
city interfaces, processes
and standards.
• To enhance the betweencity transfer of Smart City
Applications in transport,
tourism & citizen feedback.
• Tested with users in reallife environments in
different cities.
“Write app for
Helsinki, run it in
Amsterdam”

16. Use case: Service Map of the city and feedback
channel in a car navigator
Whatever makes developer’s life easier
faster take-up of services
”Whatever is needed to make developers’ life easier and development cycle fa

17. CitySDK
The consortium consists of 23 partners in 9 European states. In
addition to experienced SMEs, large ICT and media companies and
research partners the consortium includes eight cities, five being the
Capital cities/regions.
HELSINKI
MANCHESTER
AMSTERDAM
ROME
LISSABON
ISTANBUL
BARCELONA
LAMIA

18. •
New Factory generates
•
concrete actions
and results.
•
Demonstrations, prototypes, improvements,
experiences, companies and jobs, knowledge,
venture financing…
•
Co-creating added value and better
business models through shared IPR
A tool of experimental industrial
policy and national innovation
strategy
A comprehensive programme for
expediting the innovative activity
Combines the multidisciplinary
know-how in the Tampere region
with agile and market-driven
innovation work
Functional machines: Demola,
Protomo and Suuntaamo, new
machines are prepared and
developed as necessary

20. New Factory
Further development channels
Demola combines fresh ideas of students with needs
and support from project partners to awesome demo
products and services.
Refines ideas and Demola project results to business! In
Protomo you and other experts get a new chance to go
forward in your career as developers of successful
innovation and entrepreneurs.
An open co-creation and user community in
Tampere, providing user-base and user-centric methods
for innovation projects, and a participation channel for
citizens of the region.

23. What’s in it for the
stakeholders?

24. Demola for students
Project team membership is based on
motivation, inspiration and skills!
Demola provides
• Collaboration and real world experience
with leading companies, start-ups and
public organisations
• Inspiring atmosphere and New Factory
facilities
• An opportunity to get credit points and
rewards

25. Demola for universities
Demola is a practical and international learning environment
• Real and current topics for project courses
• Makes it possible to combine talented students from different universities to
same teams!
• 90+ % of students says that Demola project supports studies
• BSc, MSc and PhD students are co-creating together!
Enables agile collaboration between
• Degree programmes
• Competing universities and international partners
• Education, industry, SMEs and start-ups

26. Why companies see Demola
as a valuable tool?
1
Boosting R&D process with demos
2
They find Demola as a way to build sustainable
university-business collaboration
3
They use Demola for ecosystem engagement
4
Attracting the best young talents

27. Demola results 2009 – 2011
• 900+ students
• 30+ % international students
• 72 % consider seriously to become an entrepreneur
• 180+ projects
• 96 % of completed projects licensed by project partners
• 10+ % of students are headhunted
• New start-ups, Protomo teams and co-founders
• 450 000 € rewards to students
• Check experiences from Demola projects on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tX888Qnb2s

28. New engines: common Factors
1) focused on engaging users, consumers, citizens
in a shared innovation process
2) new tools with no previous history
3) relatively inexpensive and quick to establish
4) focused on entrepreneurship
5) build on shared value-creation – win-wins
6) have local impact with view on global scalability
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29. TAKE HOME MESSAGE: Innovation is not anymore
defined solely by financial resources or industrial history
but ability to engage stakeholders in a shared value
development process.
Where and when will you establish your open innovation
platform?
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30. Thank you.
Ilari Patrick Lindy
Senior ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank GICT
E-mail: ilindy@worldbank.org