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This is the radical outset for this session in which Stefan Lindegaard challenges common beliefs on innovation, explain why most companies fail with their efforts to become more “innovative” and share insights on how to build the capabilities that can help companies and organizations survive and prosper in these times of fast change and strong disruption.
The key messages:
- Focus on corporate transformation and digitalization – or die!
- Link your efforts to the challenges of your stakeholders to increase ROI
- Work with the unusual suspects; internally as well as externally
- Focus on people, people and people – and upgrade their mindset and skills
- Learn to communicate better and differently – or fail!
Marit Holter Sørensen_Nordic Health and Welfare Innovation ArenaNordic Innovation
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- A white paper on public procurement was published in 2008 and the government released a strategy on innovation in March.
- Pilot projects in Oslo, NAV, and Lyngdal municipalities used public procurement of innovation (PPI) methods including market dialogue and challenges to develop new solutions for issues like assisted living and hearing aids to address needs like aging populations.
- The PPI process provided insights into user needs and opportunities for both public and private entities and secured increased competition compared to traditional procurement.
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Program of Speakers - European Parliament on EU Innovation Policy - Brussels ...Burton Lee
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People are fed up with innovation so we need to tone down the use of the word and the term “innovation” - and we need to ban the term “innovation culture” entirely.
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The key messages:
- Focus on corporate transformation and digitalization – or die!
- Link your efforts to the challenges of your stakeholders to increase ROI
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- Learn to communicate better and differently – or fail!
Marit Holter Sørensen_Nordic Health and Welfare Innovation ArenaNordic Innovation
- Public procurement accounts for about 380 billion NOK annually (about 15% of GDP) in Norway and involves several government agencies and private entities working together.
- A white paper on public procurement was published in 2008 and the government released a strategy on innovation in March.
- Pilot projects in Oslo, NAV, and Lyngdal municipalities used public procurement of innovation (PPI) methods including market dialogue and challenges to develop new solutions for issues like assisted living and hearing aids to address needs like aging populations.
- The PPI process provided insights into user needs and opportunities for both public and private entities and secured increased competition compared to traditional procurement.
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http://www.goodpaper.sg/study-on-social-innovation/
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The R&D projects funded by the European Union. The recent experience of Web-...Wikiprogress_slides
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The document summarizes the Joint Programming Initiative on Neurodegenerative Diseases (JPND). It discusses (1) the increasing societal and economic burden of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, (2) JPND's goals of developing new treatments and improving care approaches, and (3) JPND's governance structure and initial research investments exceeding 100 million Euros from 2011-2014 across multiple countries.
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The document discusses the growth of project management as a field and the need to develop the international project management community. It notes that 20% of global GDP, or $12 trillion annually, is spent on capital projects worldwide. However, an increasing skills gap exists as the number of project-oriented jobs is expected to grow significantly in projectized industries by 2016. The document explores questions around where priority for developing project managers should lie, how industry and governments can address the supply-demand gap, and where project management organizations should focus resources to mitigate the gap.
The document discusses the growth of project management as a field and the need to develop the international project management community. It notes that 20% of global GDP, or $12 trillion annually, is spent on capital projects worldwide. It also discusses the aging populations in major countries and the resulting skills gap in project-oriented industries, which is expected to result in over 1 million new project management jobs per year. The document explores questions around where priority for developing project managers should lie, how industry and governments can address the increasing supply-demand gap for project managers, and where organizations like PMI should focus resources to mitigate the skills gap.
Mr Đuro KUTLAČA - "Mihajlo Pupin" Institute, Science and Technology Policy R...UNESCO Venice Office
This document summarizes statistics related to science, technology, and innovation in South East Europe and Western Balkan countries from 2008 to 2012. It includes data on research and development inputs like public R&D expenditure and human resources, firm activities like business R&D expenditure and intellectual property outputs, and economic outputs such as employment in knowledge industries and innovation among small and medium enterprises. The statistics are clustered by country and compare the regions to EU averages. Challenges for improving R&D data quality and statistical capabilities in the regions are also summarized.
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1. The EU Innovation Policy
Ambitions and Realities
Frans van Vught
VentureLab Twente Venture Class
Enschede, 16 February 2012
2. Overview
Globalisation
Innovation and Innovation Policies
The EU ‘Lisbon Agenda’ (2010)
Ambitions and Realities
The ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’ (2020)
Issues and Actions
3. Globalisation
• Economic: process of increasing economic openness,
growing economic interdepence and
deepening economic integration in the
world economy
• Political: process of institutionalisation of
international consultation and decision-
making, and of relative reduction of the
power of national governments
• Socio-cultural: process of global cultural exchange and
integration and of potential weakening of
traditional social norms and institutions
4. Globalisation
Effect of:
Decreasing costs of communication and transportation
Leveling barriers for cross-border activities
6. Globalisation and innovation
Globalisation triggers national innovation policies
National innovation policies focus increasingly on
stimulating the creation, transfer and application of
knowledge
National innovation policies are influenced by the “National
Innovation System” (NIS) perspective
7. The perspective of National Innovation Systems
(NIS)
Emerged during 1980s as a new approach to the economics of
innovation
Emphasizes interactions between scientific knowledge and new
products and services
Takes an explicit policy orientation
Identifies academic institutions as playing a critical role
Distinguishes two crucial outputs of these institutions:
research outputs (publications, patents)
highly skilled human capital
Focuses on linkages between actors in innovation processes:
hard linkages (science parks, incubators)
soft linkages (internships, conferences)
Addresses institutional framework conditions of innovation processes
(regulations, incentives)
8. International comparative study of national innovation
policies
Australia, Canada, Europe (EU and several Member
States), Japan, US (Federal and several States)
David D. Dill & Frans A. van Vught (eds). “National
Innovation and the Academic Research Enterprise:
Public Policy in Global Perspective” , Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2010
9. National Innovation Policy Strategies
Clearly influenced by the NIS perspective
Relate policy instruments to policy objectives regarding innovation
Consist of some combination of the basic notions of market
coordination and central planning
Two large categories:
prioritisation strategies
competition strategies
10. Prioritization strategies
Reflects notions of central planning
Characteristics like: foresight analyses, priority
allocation, concentration of resources, quality
assessment of outputs
Examples:
Australia’s research priority setting
Canada’s centers of excellence
Finland’s TEKES agency
UK’s foresight assessments and RAEs
Netherlands’ innovation priority areas
11. Competition Strategies
Reflects notion of market coordination
Characteristics like: competitive allocation of resources,
encouraging entrepreneurial academic behaviour,
deregulation, diversifying funding base
Examples:
US federal science policy
Japan’s competitive grants scheme for doctoral
training
Canada’s competitive research matching funding
Germany’s excellence policy
UK’s competitive ‘third sector’ funding
12. EU Innovation Strategy
Example of prioritisation strategy
But with elements of competition strategy
20 Years of EU innovation policy:
The ‘Lisbon Agenda’ (2000 – 2010): ‘to become the
most competitive knowledge economy in the world’
The ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’ (2010 – 2020): ‘to build
the European Innovation Union’
13. The Lisbon Agenda on Innovation
Cohesion Policy Funds:
• European Regional Development Fund
• European Social Fund
Research • European Cohesion Fund
Policy
Structural
Funds
ERC
CPF
Higher Knowl.
Education Transfer
Policy policy
EIT
14. ‘Lisbon Agenda’: Research policy
Fully developed since 1980’s
Framework Programmes: medium term planning instrument
But only 5% of the total EU research investments
European Research Area (ERA):
Launched in 2000
Barcelona target: 3% GDP
FP7: Technology Platforms; Joint Technology Initiatives;
European Research Council; joint programming.
Six ERA Features:
Adequate flow of mobile researchers
World-class research infrastructures
Excellent research institutions
Effective knowledge-sharing
Well-coordinated research programmes
Opening up to the world
15. ‘Lisbon Agenda’: Higher Education policy
Taboo until 2000
First programmes: Erasmus (mobility), Socrates I&II (cooperation)
Alignment with Bologna Process (1999)
Lifelong Learning programme (2007-2013)
Hampton court target: 2% GDP
Major Bottlenecks:
Tendency to uniformity and egalitarianism
Too much emphasis on traditional monodisciplinarity
Too little world-class excellence
Too much emphasis on traditional learning and learners
Too little transparency
Too much fragmentation
Too insulated from industry
Over-regulated; state dependent; underfunded
Modernisation agenda (since 2005)
Mobility
Governance
(Regional) innovation
Internationalisation (Erasmus Mundus)
Higher education – Business fora
European Institute of Technology (EIT) and Knowledge & Innovation
Communities (KICS)
16. ‘Lisbon Agenda’: Knowledge Exchange policy
Only addressed since late 1990’s
Focus on decreasing barriers:
cultural differences between academic and business communities
legal barriers
fragmented markets
lack of incentives
Facilitate creation and marketing of new products and services (the
‘lead markets’)
Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP, 2007-2013)
Several measures:
Workforce of skilled knowledge transfer staff
Entrepreneurial mindset in universities
Staff exchanges between research organisations and industry
Voluntary guidelines to improve intellectual property
management
Innovation Relay Centers, Network of Innovating Regions. IPR
helpdesk, on –line information SMEs
17. The Lisbon Agenda: ambitions and realities
R&D expenditure as % GDP (2008)
R&D Business Public
intensity expenditure expenditure
EU 2.01 1.27 0.74
US 2.77 2.12 0.65
Japan 3.44 2.75 0.69
S.Korea 3.21 2.59 0.78
China 1.54 1.12 0.41
Source: Innovation Union Competitiveness report, 2011, European Commission
18. The Lisbon Agenda: ambitions and realities
Expenditure on higher education as % GDP (2007)
Total Public Private
expenditure expenditure expenditure
EU 1.2 1.12 0.08
US 2.6 1.25 1.35
Japan 1.3 0.63 0.67
Source: Innovation Union Competitiveness report, 2011, European Commission
19. The Lisbon Agenda: ambitions and realities
% researchers in business & industry (2008)
EU 54
US 80
Japan 73
S. Korea 69
Source: Innovation Union Competitiveness report, 2011, European Commission
20. The Lisbon Agenda: ambitions and realities
World shares of scientific peer-reviewed publications
2000 2009
EU 37.7 33.4
US 31.8 25.9
China 6.4 18.5
Japan 9.4 6.3
S. Korea 1.7 2.8
Brasil 1.4 2.3
Russia 3.1 2.0
Israel 1.1 0.9
Source: Innovation Union Competitivess report, 2011, European Commission
21. The Lisbon Agenda: ambitions and realities
% of scientific publications within 10% most cited
scientific publications worldwide as % of total
number of scientific publications of the country
(2001-2007)
US 15.3
EU 11.6
S. Korea 8.5
Japan 8.3
China 7.0
Source: Innovation Union Competitivess report, 2011, European Commission
22. Shanghai ARWU university ranking, 2011
Top 100 Top 500
US 53 EU 190
EU 28 US 151
Germany 39
United Kingdom 10
United Kingdom 37
Germany 6
China 35
Japan 5
Japan 23
Australia 4 Canada 22
Switzerland 4 Italy 22
France 3 France 21
Sweden 3 Australia 19
Netherlands 13
Denmark 2
S. Korea 11
Netherlands 2
Spain 11
Belgium 1
Sweden 11
Finland 1 Austria 7
Israel 1 Belgium 7
Norway 1 Brasil 7
Russia 1 Israel 7
Switzerland 7
Finland 5
New Zealand 5
23. The Lisbon Agenda: ambitions and realities
Number of public-private scientific co-publications per
million population (2008)
US 70.2
Japan 56.3
EU 36.2
China 1.2
Source: Innovation Union Competitiveness report, 2011, European Commission
24. The Lisbon Agenda: ambitions and realities
Number of patent applications per billion GDP (2007)
(as defined under Patent Cooperation Treaty)
Japan 8.3
S. Korea 7.0
US 4.3
EU 4.0
China 1.1
Source: Innovation Union Competitiveness report, 2011, European Commission
25. The Lisbon Agenda: ambitions and realities
Number of patent applications with at least one foreign co-
inventor as % of total number of patent applications (2001-2008)
China 11.7
US 11.2
EU 10.7
S. Korea 4.2
Japan 2.7
Source: Innovation Union Competitiveness report, 2011, European Commission
26. EU’s innovation performance in a
globalizing world, 2006-2010
Composite score on 12 innovation indicators, EU=100
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
US 146 145 146 148 149
Japan 132 136 140 139 140
EU 100 100 100 100 100
Russia 69 65 63 63 63
India 48 49 48 48 47
China 39 40 41 43 45
Brasil 39 40 40 42 42
Source: Innovation Union Scoreboard, 2010, European Commission
27. EU’s innovation performance compared to six other
countries, 2006-2010, EU=0
Russi
Innovation performance indicator US Japan India China Brasil
a
New doctorate graduates per 1000 population aged 25-37 + - + n.a. n.a. --
% population aged 24-64 having completed tertiary education ++ ++ ++ -- -- --
International scientific co-publications per million people + - n.a. n.a. -- n.a.
Scientific publications among the top 10% most cited publications
+ - -- - - --
as % of total publications of the country
Public R&D expenditures as % GDP - - - -- - -
Business R&D expenditures as % GDP ++ ++ - -- - --
Public-private co-publications per million population ++ ++ -- -- -- --
PCT patent applications per billion GDP (in PPS €) + ++ -- -- -- --
PCT patent applications in societal challenges per billion GDP (in
+ + -- -- -- --
PPS €)
Medium and high-tech products exports as % total product
+ + + + + +
exports
Knowledge-intensive services exports as % total service exports - - - ++ - +
License and patent revenues from abroad as % GDP ++ ++ -- -- -- --
Source: Innovation Union Scoreboard, 2010, European Commission
29. EU’s weaknesses in innovation
Severe (private) underinvestment in research and
education
Relatively low higher education attainment and
participation levels
Limited scientific and technological excellence
Weak knowledge exchange between academia and
industry
Poor framework conditions in terms of access to
financing costs of patenting, and enhancement of
entrepreneurship
30. Diversity of innovation performance among
EU-member states
Innovation leaders Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany
UK, Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, Ireland,
Innovation followers Luxemburg, France, Cyprus, Slovenia,
Estonia
Portugal, Italy, Czech Rep., Spain, Greece,
Moderate innovators
Malta, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Modest innovators Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia
• 11 countries above EU average
• Switzerland would be overall innovation leader
31. The Europe 2020 Strategy on innovation
Close EU’s innovation gap
Integrate research and innovation, and
focus on societal challenges
Create more knowledge-intensive products
and services
32. The Europe 2020 Strategy on innovation
Issues and Actions in Research:
Costly fragmentation and overlap between national research
systems
Need for a unified European Research Area where actors move
and operate easily
Simplification of complex funding landscape
Urgent need for world-class infrastructures
EC proposal for to remove obstacles to mobility and cross-
border cooperation in research by 2014
EU and Member States to complete 60% of priority European
research infrastructures by 2015
International agreements on world-level infrastructures
Streamlining and simplification of research programmes.
33. The Europe 2020 Strategy on innovation
Issues and Actions in Higher Education:
• Universities to diversify and specialise
• Need to create limited number of world-class European universities
• Attract international top talent
• EU needs at least one million more researchers
• More people to enroll in higher education
• Educational training should better match business needs
• Percentage 30 – 34 year old with tertiary education to 40% in
2020
• National strategies to boost training and career of researchers
• Mobility to be diversified
• New multidimensional ranking instrument
• Modernisation of governance and management in universities
• More entrepreneurial universities
• University-Business alliances
34. The Europe 2020 Strategy on innovation
Issues and Actions in Knowledge Transfer:
• Need to support whole innovation chain, from research to
market
• Address lack of finance as major constraint
• Few European SMEs grow into global companies
• Much IPR remains dormant
• EU patent system is costly
• Public procurement hardly used for innovation
• Rapid agreement on EU patent needed
• New generation of financial instruments with EIB
• Regime of cross border venture capital funds
• Strategic innovation agenda of EIT
• Member States to use procurement budgets for innovation
35. The Europe 2020 Strategy on innovation
Research and Innovation Policy Framework Cohesion Framework
CPF
Research Structural
policy Funds
ERC
Knowledge
Transfer
policy
EIT
Higher
Education
policy
36. EU 2020 Strategy on Innovation
Two complimentary general policy frameworks
Synergies between Innovation policies and
Cohesion policies
Further integration of research and innovation
policies
Combining global and regional innovation ambitions
(global-local connectedness)
Multi-excellence approach
Combining and integrating policies of EU and
Member States
37. The Europe of Knowledge
• Context of global competition: addressing the gap
• Prioritization strategy: societal challenges
• Policy integration: synergies & better framework conditions
• Multi-level cooperation: EU, member states, regions
• Multi-actor investments: governments, industry, households,
individuals
• Performance assessment: multiple excellences
• And a major political challenge!