The document discusses the need for a new research and innovation program called "The Lab" as part of the next EU framework program FP9. It argues that while The Net has connected people, it has also increased inequalities and centralized surveillance. The Lab is proposed as a new decentralized innovation system that empowers all citizens, not just an elite minority, by creating a network of local and specialized labs across Europe inspired by models like universal healthcare. Examples mentioned include the Digital Social Innovation project and Catlabs program in Catalonia. The goal is to develop a "universal innovation system" accessible to everyone through these networked physical and digital labs.

1. The Net
and the Lab:
Contribution to FP9
Artur Serra,
Deputy director
Barcelona, 7 de juliol 2017.

2. I. The Net:
The major ICT program of the EU.

3. In 2020 the research for connecting everything (at
5G) will conclude. Everything will be smart also
Then what?

4. A new digital infrastructure
will connect at 5G speed
old economic ,social,political
structures and superestructures

5. Old structures remain…
• Trustification of the Net. (Google,
Amazon, Facebook, Apple….)
• Increasing the centralized surveillance
(NSA,…)
• Repeting monopolies of the past ….
• Social inequalities increase.
• Results: Social crash, Brexits, Trumps…

7. We are here!

9. 9
But new digital infrastructures
also allow the emergence of
new economic ,social,
political structures.

10. © Fundació I2CAT 201202/04/17
The Lab:
An urgent new program for
FP9 (2021-2027)

11. “Labs”: The new structure

12. “Empowering everyone to
innovate”
(Amsterdam, 2014)
More than 170 living labs in 5 continents.

13. Fablabs: More than 1.000 in
97 countries

16. The Lab:
Moedas’ Vision for 2030.
“The year is 2030. Open Science has become a reality
and is offering a whole range of new, unlimited
opportunities for research and Discovery worldwide.
Scientists, citizens, publishers, research institutions,
public and private research funders, students and
education professionals as well as companies from
around the globe are sharing an open, virtual
environment called The Lab”.
(Carlos Moedas, Open Innovation, Open Science and
Open to the World. 2016 : 22.)

17. A cultural systemic approach:
combination of different structures
a
S
Infra
structuresThe NET
THE LAB Structures
Super
structures

18. The new research
and innovation program

19. The Lab:
Is it possible to create a universal
innovation system for every citizen,
upon Internet?

20. The Lab today:
The current Innovation Systems
(The Triple Helix elit)
Universities,
company labs,
national labs. ….
?
A minority
system.
The majority of
population simply
buy its products or
services

21. European
universal healtcare systems
Covering 100% of population
Intermediate
Clinics
Primary Health Centers
Speciallized
Hospitals

22. Quadruple Helix:
“Democratizing innovation”.
Universities Governments
Companies Citizens
Les RIS3 s’han de desenvolupar mitjançant models de Quadruple Helix

23. The opportunity.

24. From The Net
To the Lab
ICT
Paradigm
Electronics, Computers
(Physicists+engineers)
Computer Software
(Mathematicians+engineering)
(Internet, AI…
Telcom engin,
Cog Psy,+Math,+engineering)
(Triple Helix,… )
Social networks
(CS+social scientists)
Industry 4.0
(CS+industrial engin…)
Digital Social Innovation
(CS+social scientists
Digital arts and humanities.
Quadruple Helix,
Living Labs, Fablabs, Policy
labs, Xlabs…
1971-
2008
2008
2030
Internet
The Lab
The Net 1980-
2008
Crack
2008

25. The Lab:
a “new technology”

26. Labs,
Labs Science and
Technologies
Industrial Machines
Natural sciences and
industrial engineering
Factories
Industrial Management
Computer/Net
Computer Science &
t Technology
Industrial cycle
Digital cycle
One cycle, two technologies.

27. Some exemples of
Innovation projects with
Lab technology

28. “Digital Social Innovation…is a type of
social and col.laborative innovation in which
innovators, users and communities co-
create knowledge and solutions for a wide
range of social needs and at a scale that
was unimaginable before the rise of ICT
and the Internet”.
Digital Social Innovation:
A CAPS Project, Horizon 2020
https://digitalsocial.eu/

29. Àrees
Francesca Bria. Final Report. DSI Project. 2015
https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/dsireport.pdf

30. Systemic innovation

31. Responsible Research and Innovation, a new
approach to Science and Society.

32. The Catlabs program:
A case funded by the regional
S3 strategy (2016-2020)

34. Building a joint network of labs
i2cat
Citilab
Neapolis
Tecnocampus
Guifi.net
Volpelleres
FABlab BCN
MOB
Ateneus Fab.
Xarxa Cat.FabLabs
Tinkerers Fablab

35. Including InnnovaFP.
62 Vocationa training institutes
Involving 248 vocational training
Institut professors and 624 students.
Developing 315 innovative projects
with 180 companies and
Institutions around the territory
of Catalonia, invoicing 223.700 euros
A new model of vocational training
Institutes, different from
German “dual system”.

36. Catlabs: a prototype of universal
innovation system
Xarxa de Labs d’Innovació locals.
(Majoria Punts TiC, Telecentres, Fablabs,)
Xarxa de Labs de Segon Nivell
(Labs avançats de servei comarcal
o per territori)
Xarxa Labs
altament
Especialitzats
(Labs en Univ., CERCA, …

37. Artur.serra@i2cat.net