Az Európai Bizottság új Európai Innovációs Terv előkészítésén dolgozik. Ennek keretében független üzleti csoportok képviselői egy külön e célra létrehozott weboldalon (http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/innovationunlimited/) fejtik ki véleményüket a téma különböző aspektusairól.

Az e fórumon zajló vita eredményeként az egyes témakörökben 2009 őszére egységes állásfoglalás elkészítését tervezik, melyek a tervek szerint az új Európai Innovációs Terv alapját fogják képezni. A vita jelenleg az alábbi főbb témakörökben folyik:

• A jövő infrastruktúrájába történő befektetés.

Európa még mindíg úgy tervezi az infrastrukturális beruházásait, mint a 19. és a 20. században.

• Innovatív pénzügyi modellek

A jelenlegi pénzügyi rendszer nem segíti az innovációt.

• Új együttműködésre alapozott modellek és helyszínek létrehozása

Az innováció igényli a közös munkát, a különböző vélemények kombinációját és konfrontációját

• Sebesség és szinkronizáció.

A jelenlegi európai intézményrendszer csak lassan és részlegesen reagál az innovative ötletek kivitelezésére. Ez különösen szembetünő, ha az egyéb országok hasonló gyakorlatával szembesítjük.

• Tágítsuk ki az innováció fogalomkörét.

Az üzleti elsősorban a befektetés megtérülésében érdeklelt, a társadalomnak viszont a társadalom számára térülő eredményt kell figyelembe vennie.

• Miért kell Európát újból kitalálnunk az innováció segítségével?

A tudás alapú társadalomból az innováció alapú társadalomba való átmenet

 

Az egyes témakörök vitaindító cikkeit angolul az alábbiakban közöljük:

 

 

 

Invest in future infrastructure. From bridges to fibre optic, from control to open access

 

Europe is still putting its infrastructure investments as it did in the 19th and 20th centuries.

This fails to realise the disruptive nature of new technologies or how emerging technologies interact with and enable wider economic and social change.

For instance: broadband is not simply a new communication line but a new social infrastructure that is a pre-requisite for future innovation.

High speed broadband is not just for faster content transmission, it will enable next generation internet, radical new services (e.g. for work, care or social interaction) and business models. It will transform how people work and live by increasing both location independence (allowing people to see work as an activity rather than a place) and the importance of specific places for face to face interaction (albeit more fleeting).

Europe needs to do more to unlock the potential of the new digital infrastructure, encouraging the creativity and innovation of consumers and entrepreneurs to create new social and business models and new consumption patterns.

Similarly, smart electricity grids and not simply more efficient networks.

The 20th century electricity grid needs to be transformed for the green economy, for large-scale renewable energy generation, for mass electric transport, for zero emission homes, for intelligent energy management.

But simply investing in hardware (lines, cables, transformers etc.) is not enough. The potential of smart grids must be unlocked with new applications, solutions, markets and activities through a comprehensive redesign of electricity systems.

The EU has a Technology Platform and R&D on smart grids, but no clear policy roadmap to implement smart grids and on key areas such as demand response, cross-border retail competition or smart metering standardisation.

Current economic stimulus packages are still too focused on buildings rather than other types of infrastructure, on concrete rather than fibre, and on old industries not new ones.

This risks the EU falling behind the USA and Asia in critical digital infrastructure and knowledge flows. Fragmented, quasi-monopolistic markets block change and EU level solutions.

We propose:

• Every household, business and public building to be fibre enabled, with ambitious EU targets for speed and completion dates for universal access.
• Every household, business and public building to communicate with their energy suppliers through bi-directional smart meters.
• The EU to be the first region to implement an integrated, cross-border smart grid with every household connected and common standards and interoperability.
• Combine infrastructure projects with innovation activities that exploit the infrastructure, including in the Structural Funds and recovery packages.
• Stimulate infrastructure for emerging technologies and services, with more world class hubs in Europe that are based on multi-disciplinarity, multiple partners and open access.

 

Professor Ruediger Iden, Senior Vice President, BASF Aktiengesellschaft

 

 

 

Innovative financing models. - From incumbents to new entrants; from public vs private to public private partnerships

 

The finance system is not fit for innovation.

Both public and private financing is directed to incumbents in mature industries. Yet these are precisely the companies that block radical innovations that could undermine their current business.

The existing support for smaller or innovative companies (grants, seed, venture capital, loan guarantees) is fragmented and fails to mobilise private sector investment efficiently or consistently.

There is no pan-European risk capital market, meaning European funds lack size and expertise, and companies lack growth financing. Ideas, knowledge and intellectual property developed by small companies and universities typically remain undervalued and underutilised.

The venture capital and stock market models have shown their limitations, and investments made using these models in Europe risk being lost unless the models can be rapidly reinvented. Without this, the pipeline of innovative companies and talent will be dry for the coming economic upturn.

Europe needs a radical new approach to financing innovation, which transforms the fragmented short-term approach of governments, private finance and long-established companies.

This means new partnerships to share risk, better harnessing the knowledge and skills of entrepreneurs and companies, and more intelligent ways to combine funding between instruments (e.g. grants, equity, loans, fiscal incentives) and where needed on a transnational basis.

Innovation should be core to financial institutions, with the European Investment Bank (EIB) becoming a European Innovation Bank.

We propose:

• A major development of the European Investment Fund (EIF), in partnership with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Commission with a mandate to create new models to fund trans-national partnerships, corporate venturing and societal innovation funds.
• Accelerate pan-European venture capital funds, as a new role for the expanded EIF, to create and facilitate funds with the critical mass of resources and expertise to operate on a trans-national basis funds and specialise in future growth markets. Such funds must attract sustainable co-investment from the private sector across Europe and may necessitate incentives to channel private investment from government bonds and real estate to smaller companies and innovation.
• Incentivise an EU wide activity and market for trading and sharing Intellectual Property, allowing universities, public research organisations and small companies to find better partners, investors and fairer prices for their IP, skills and knowledge and to access to unused IP of large players.
• Broker bolder investment readiness initiatives that support knowledge and creative businesses to reduce their risk profiles to investors and accelerate deal flow – engaging existing investment communities to recognise value in the innovation economy.

 

Jan Lamser, Member of Board of Directors and Senior Executive Officer, CSOB Bank (member of KBC Group)

 

 

 

New places for new types of collaborations. - From closed processes to the power of networks

 

Innovation feeds on collaboration, the combination and confrontation of different ideas, perspectives and experiences.

Closed innovation systems of laboratories, universities, research institutes, art schools, corporations, public administrations, professions are no longer a viable approach for future innovation.

Information technologies and web 2.0 tools are transforming how people interact, notwithstanding the necessity of physical space and meetings for the exchange of ideas and collaboration.

Europe has made great strides in building science parks, incubators, research networks and educational exchanges in specific research areas. But innovation goes much wider, and requires new players, configurations and combinations.

New roles and skills are needed to sensor and bring together the right actors globally and broker collaboration. Open innovation is based on the power of networks and access to knowledge across Europe and globally.

Some places are showing the way forward.

A Helsinki Design Lab is being established between the city, the innovation agency, companies and citizen groups to bring together design, technology and users in innovation projects. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bristol, London, Rotterdam and others are developing similar innovation labs and networks for new types of collaboration.

To accelerate this process we propose:

• Create and network innovation labs, with localities creating spaces to enable interaction between large and small, low tech and high tech, arts and technology, public and private and not-for profit, supported by recognition and networking at European level.
• Fund collaborations between innovation labs, to develop, test and scale up solutions to implement the new orientations of EU innovation policy.
• Invest in cultural and creative institutions, organisations and networks as the interdisciplinary brokers for innovation, creative content and new knowledge, including through creative exchange initiatives such as innovation commissions, exhibitions, and digital channels with a strong public service element.
• Reinforce the role of intermediaries, to act as change agents, facilitators and brokers between disciplines, sectors, regions and countries.
• Develop a major prize for innovative localities, to showcase social and open innovation and provide an incentive for regions to go further in their renewal.
• Stimulate universities and public research centres to be more open and international, reforming incentive and performance systems, and supporting (including through EU programmes and the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology) the development of strategic competences and collaborations between business, research, education and training.

 

Dr Anne Stenros, Vice President, Design Director, KONE Corporation

 

 

 

Speed and synchronization. - From fragmented bureaucracies to flexible partnerships, from better regulation to pro-innovation regulation

Speed and scale are everything in innovation. Europe’s current structures and institutions respond too slowly and in a fragmented way, meaning that ideas generated here are developed more successfully by others elsewhere.

This is even more essential for the social innovations to address climate change, ageing and other major challenges, which require coherent policy and actions across countries and actors in different generations and sectors.

The creation of a single market was a driving force for European integration over the last 20 years.

This must be extended to innovation, with EU regulations – for products, services, public procurement and intellectual property - that both drive innovation and are synchronised with the innovation cycle. This also means synchronising funding programmes and innovation support, with development of standards, public procurement and regulations.

More is needed to speed up the uptake of innovative solutions and technologies, especially in the public sector. Information technologies and the future internet provide new tools to achieve this.

We propose:

• The EU to set clear innovation targets focusing on major social challenges of relevance across the EU
• Ambitious European initiatives with synchronised actions around the major challenges, engaging actors across the innovation chain, coordinating supply and demand of innovations, and involving public sector reform.
• Ensure EU directives and regulations are supporting innovation and not constituting barriers to change, through specific assessments of the key legislation.
• Change public procurement to support innovation, including the processes and practice, full roll out of e-procurement, and setting aside a part of public tenders specifically for innovation.
• Open up government owned data requiring data to be published in web-enabled formats, to allow new combinations and empower citizens to co-create new services. This would support the transformation of the public sector by allowing greater public accountability and citizen engagement and encouraging new ways for people to use the web to support one another.

 

Gianfranco Corini, President, NEXT-Ingegneriadei Sistemi S.p.A

 

 

 

Broaden the concept of innovation. - From business to social innovation

 

Business innovate mainly for return on investment, society must innovate for social return.

Europe faces unprecedented challenges – ageing and diversifying population, youth unemployment, sustainable cities; and global challenges – climate change, environmental degradation and poverty.

Incremental change and business innovation alone are not enough. Breaking the mould requires collaborative, cross cutting responses reaching out to business, public policies, research, education and training, public services, finance and NGOs.

It requires experimentation, engaging citizens as co-creators, and the ability to turn promising ideas and new service models to scale at the level of cities, regions, EU Member States, the EU and global markets.

Europe has strong traditions in social innovation but now lags behind as its ability to effect change in society is slower. The next 10 years requires as much attention to developing a social innovation system as in the last 20 years on developing the R&D based innovation system.

A new agenda is needed for public services: moving away from the command and control paradigm towards one capable of delivering public value through collaboration, innovation and participation. Such transformation must also recognise the growing importance of the third sector.

We propose:

• Base EU action around compelling social challenges, such as chronic disease and other implications of our ageing society; interculturalism and hyper-diversity; climate change; environmental protection; and unemployment.
• Finance social innovation funds, through a new partnership between the European Commission and European Investment Bank (EIB).
• Incentivise large scale community level innovations, through the EU structural funds and EU level recognition.
• Transform the public sector, by dedicating at least one percent of all public departmental budgets in every EU country to innovation, and specific EU support for platforms and mechanisms for trans-national transfer and scale up.
• Engage the young and old: in education, training and projects and networks to support innovation, creative entrepreneurship and research, and provide role models for elderpreneurship, establishing new systems to draw on the expertise and experience of senior citizens.

 

Maureen McKelvey, Professor of Industrial Management, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg

 

 

 

Why re-Invent Europe through innovation? - From a knowledge society to an innovation society

 

Innovation has been a central EU priority over the last decade, repeatedly supported by European leaders and backed by numerous strategies, funding programmes and assessments.

But Europe has not achieved its full goal of being the most competitive global knowledge economy and is not investing effectively or appropriately in the infrastructure, competences, creative environments and businesses needed for 21st century innovation.

Public support for innovation is primarily provided through complex, slow and uncoordinated programmes. Private finance mainly backs the same low risk investments. Thus people, entrepreneurs and companies with ambitious and creative ideas find limited support and numerous barriers.

Broader public policy and public services in particular take little advantage of the power of innovation to transform society. Many parts of the enlarged Union are left under-using their innovation potential.

The current economic situation and looming new realities - like Europe’s rapidly ageing, increasingly intercultural society and fast developments in other regions of the world - only amplify these weaknesses and make the need for radical change more urgent.

The European flag needs a new star – ‘The Seastar’ – which symbolises an innovation policy which is decentralised, self renewing, and connected; and which builds on the unique diversity of an enlarged Union in an increasingly competitive and globalised world.

A knowledge society is not enough. Europe must create an innovation society where knowledge is utilised rapidly and powerfully for societal benefit and development. This requires a systematic transformation from fragmented, single issue, closed approaches favouring large incumbents to networked, flexible and open approaches favouring new entrants and ideas.

We will call on European policy makers – the European Institutions, national and regional governments – to support this transformation. But first we are sharing our ideas with you to provoke open debate and ask what is important for you.

 

Diogo Vasconselos, Distinguished Fellow, CISCO Internet Business Solutions Group

 

 

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