Open Innovation 2.0 Yearbook 2013 - European Commission - Europa

Table 2: Possible 1-year work process to realise pioneering innovation regions in practice
Engaging
stakeholders
90 day start-up process to create the societal innovation ramp 9 month
Mapping the
context
Exploring the
context to
understand the
challenges
Reframing issues
and problems
Creating the
ramp
follow-through
Harvesting ideas
and energy for fast
prototyping, rapid
realisation and early
results
Weeks 1–2 Weeks 2–4 Weeks 5–6 Weeks 7–9 Weeks 9–12 Weeks 13–52
Focused
conversations
Issues & ideas Navigational
markers: where
we come from,
where are we
going
Regional and
external actors
and stakeholders
IC mapping Round table ACSI Societal
Innovation Labs
Preparing the
agenda
Key decision
makers and
entrepreneurs
A renewal process for regions
In a 12-month process to pioneer regional innovation
in practice, regions could consider the following.
• Create focused conversations to stimulate
‘thinking beyond’ and energise entrepreneurial
spirit.
The focused conversation is being used in
the Skåne Region of Sweden to address
issues of the innovation economy in such
a way that Skåne can better focus on the
opportunities and challenges in its work,
and ask and explore the questions required
to help realise its ambitious vision. The conversation
is aimed at moving participants
beyond their usual ways of looking at innovative
regions, the knowledge economy,
their own aims and ambitions, and what
may be needed to achieve the region’s
goals. It is a process of pre-thinking issues,
objectives and challenges: not simply talking
about the next brain park or innovation
centre one could establish, but looking
beyond today’s dominant logic, yesterday’s
decisions and participants’ personal beliefs
into what different futures may hold.
• Change the narrative through enhanced awareness
of context and issues, based on intellectual
capital mapping and forecasting.
The National Intellectual Capital (NIC 40)
index and books, researched and written by
NCP members, use IC metrics and mapping
Energise people
& reframe the
challenges
Local and external
experts
Future Centre
sessions
Preparing for
enacting the
decisions
Regional and
external actors
and stakeholders
Diverse followthrough
activities
and many fast prototypes:
ACSI camps
& SI Labs, Future
Centres / Living Labs
Prototyping and
testing promising
solutions, working in
innovation networks
and communities
Directly involving all
regional stakeholders
in the RIE
to understand the dynamics of change
that regions undergo. Intellectual capital
describes the source of the competencies
and capabilities deemed essential for
national economic growth, human development,
and quality of life. The results of
national level intellectual capital studies
and ranking provide a direction for nations
— and clusters of nations — to benchmark
and to make wise decisions for the effective
investment of intangible assets and
their development in the era of the knowledge
economy. The index gives statistically
validated reports on intellectual capital indicators
for 40 countries, based on research
findings of 14 years: it identifies intellectual
growth patterns and details about the
impact and implications of these patterns
for innovation, business creation, competitiveness,
growth, and development [9].
• Organise regional round tables to help decisionmakers
and key stakeholders to interpret the
maps and metrics, and more clearly understand
the potential impact of policies, technologies,
and strategic choices.
The round table process consists of a dialogue
between local and international
experts in knowledge policies and decisionmakers.
Experience shows that this kind of
dialogue enables relevant issues for the
continuing transformation of a region into
a knowledge society to be identified and
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