• Strong SME’s, hackers’, coders • Business Accelerators • Innovation Intermediaries

• EU Projects • Open minded City Government • Participatory citizens

• Grassroots organizations

Amsterdam Rich Civic Innovation Ecosystem

Ecosystem Amsterdam I

Culture Creative Industries driven, organic small medieval city, collaborating is easy. Players are to-the-point, direct, mostly non-political Short lines between stakeholders

Policy Feedback loops from civil society & companies do exist. Keen eye for bottom-up development, and connecting to bottom-up developers

• Policy mindset is favourable to novelty and innovation. International outlook: competing all the time to be on lists…

Knowledge institutes

Developer hubs

Accelerators

Innovation labs

Ecosystem Amsterdam II

Support Available: Non-governmental institutions Foundations Funding agencies Accelerators Civil society groups Over 60 innovation hubs

Informal culture, which makes professionals easy to access The internet, business & financial support structures are well developed

Markets Vibrant creative design hub Lots of startups, large companies (Bookking.com, Philips, Shell) Lots of business clubs, networking agencies Openness to disruptive innovation (Uber, AirBNB) No Silicon Valley start-up culture

Enabler1-EU projects, network, real-time experiments, access to novel technologies, ENOLL living labs

Enabler2-Amsterdam Economic Board: PPP’s, business community, experiences from pilots

Ecosystem Amsterdam III

Human Capital Huge pool of local talent, many foreigners. Short ties to educational & research institutions. But formal institutions like their bubbel. Entrepreneurship skills & mindset starting to become better. Not good enough right now.

Finance Government invests in accelerators Crowd-funding available. Models are still untested. Funding for collaborations between universities and companies Tax reduction in innovation and for start-ups

European funding for start-ups and large integrated projects. Bu: red tape is very complicated.

Learnings It is not about hardware or software, it is about people. Identify

them and empower them.

Bind partners with projects and events.

Create simultaneous values for citizens, business, academia & government (quadruple).

It takes time but there is allways a way…

VALUE

• Neutral, non-profit space to gather and think outside of the box

• Human centered co-creation practice • Communities of users and civil society • Design Thinking & Design Doing • Bringing art & culture into innovation • Extensive network / ecosystem • Hands-on technology knowledge • International scouting of new ideas

Health Living Lab

What design can do?

• Retain a focus on the user / citizen • Give a structure for being creative about

problem-solving • Test iterations of possible solutions in

order to learn more about the problem • Identify new, more relevant ideas and

services and steward them through delivery • Engage users (citizens and employees) in

the design of change.

Design Council, UK: Restarting Britain