This document discusses open innovation and the need for startups, scaleups, and SMEs to connect within ecosystems to help them start, grow, and transform economies. It describes how organizations like business incubators, accelerators, and clusters provide support for innovators and entrepreneurs. Open innovation is key, allowing for partnerships between small businesses and larger corporations to help both sides access new technologies, customers, and ideas. The role of ecosystems is also discussed in connecting and supporting various organizations and innovation.

1. Start-up, Scale-up, Surf-across
wild wide wired ecosystems
PHILIPPE VANRIE, EBN
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2. An international community of smart and specialised organisations
that connect and coach innovators, entrepreneurs and SMEs
to start, grow, and transform our economies

3. With BICs (business & innovation centres), Tech-
Incubators, Accelerators, Clusters, Entrepreneurship
Centres, inside

4. With JIC inside !
With South Moravia on board !

5. EBN, a services & connecting platform

6. A wild, wide, wired (www) ecosystem !

7. An ecosystem in disruption

8. With complex sociology & target groups

9. Driven by new concepts, new methods

10. With traditionnal players in vertuous transformation
or being pushed out of the roadmap

11. A complex public financial support system

12. New innovative businesses being core or
niche responses to grand societal challenges

13. Find your place on the planet-ecosystem!
Positionning + characterization

14. Open Innovation, the new frontier for win-win
smallbizz/corporates partnerships

15. Understanding entrepreneurs’ needs
Access to potential clients/distributors
Access to technology partners and infrastructure
Improving financial robustness
Projecting business trend & sales with longer time scale
Optimizing margins & reducing potential bad debts
Ensuring quality, compliance & customer satisfaction
Building reputation, skilled team, & differentiated USPs
Innovation, validation, coaching & mentoring
Partnering with Business & Innovation champions
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16. Understanding what Corporates want
Identify new trends, new ideas
Find unique concepts, new hot designs
Acquire & Integrate new IPs, Technos, Apps
Help (& control) champions in the growing
Invest in hot start-ups & SMEs
Increase adoption of proprietary standards
Co-llaborate, Co-design, Co-innovate
Partner with out-of-the-box selected stakeholders

17. Open Innovation means
Investing in interactions
Stimulate creativity at the periphery of the core business
Take an active part in your ecosystem’s life
Develop an acute sense of advanced services
Capture capabilities held by small firms
Open your non core-business IP (licensing + spin-off)
Let others develop your non strategic initiatives
Sponsor communities of young talents & of apps developers

18. How does open innovation works ?
Integrate innovation & partnerships at the core of the strategy
Move from optimizing business to creating business
Develop innovation scouts teams
Stimulate participative management
An « inside-out » open process interacting with
Balance supply-pushed with demand-led
Design systems for ideas assesment & prioritization

19. Differentiate yourself, be the smartiest
specialist in your segment !

20. Believe in (open innovation)
collaborative (EU) projects

21. Quality & excellence, your label
Become best-in-class

22. This is a very serious … business!

23. A serious game with serious players

24. Scaling, fighting, growing, exiting, merging,
impacting, educating Smart Success Stories-S3 !

25. Thank you !
Philippe.Vanrie@ebn.eu
www.ebn.eu