European Forum for Innovation 2011 Defining Innovation

Rome 30 november 2011

Edoardo ColomboAgency for the Promotion of Technologies for Innovation

Agency for the Promotion ofTechnologies for Innovation

The Agency was founded as a catalyst for the transfer of technical-scientific knowledge from the institutional and academic world to the industrial and SMEs sector.

Italy of Innovators“Italy of Innovators” is the project dedicated to the national excellences in innovation technology.

It has the objective of creating a narrative experience of the italian spirit of innovation that testifies its tradition of inventors.

Started during Shanghai World Expo 2010 it has created business opportunities for hundreds of chinese and italian companies.

Innovatori Jam 2011

Innovatori Jam

• Innovatori Jam 2011 has been a social event of collective intelligence where thousands of individuals have shared ideas and best practices.

• A digital Marathon dedicated to innovation in Italy with the participation of professionals and experts from different communities and sectors during 40 hours.

Starting from…the end

The leading role of Institutions and the economy based on financial global markets, not related to the real industrial value of production, is coming to the end of a lifecycle

Ctrl+Alt+Canc

The System needs to be rebooted and we need to restart it on a new collaborative networked model.

A way of sharing knowledge far from the vertical silos, where traditional hierarchy based organizations were comfortable to keep the status quo ante

Collaborative innovation

In a world where innovation is global, multidisciplinary and open, we need to bring different minds and different perspectives together to discover new solutions to long-standing problems.

We government

From e-Government to We-government.

A cultural revolution through which the citizen and the entrepeneur is not more a user, but becomes a co-author and a participant in the process of change, in a more transparent relationship with the state apparatus.

Startups create job

It's well understood that existing companies of all sizes constantly create and destroy jobs.

A Kaufmann Foundation study shows that net job growth occurs more through startups.

As existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs per year, by contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.

From best to good practices

Innovatori Jam is a roadmap that starts from “best practices” and proceed to promote an innovative “good practices” environment

Cloud

Cloud computing services are less expensive, available through the service network are usable with different types of devices: cell phone, laptop computer or palm devices. The services adjust to the device, not vice versa

1990’s Mobile Phone

2000’s Internet

> 2010 Cloud

Computing

Cloud

• Cloud computing can help Public Administrations to cut costs and gain other benefits improving the efficiency and giving better services.

• The Cloud provides the usage of IT resources through network according to the real needs

My dataFrom a number of public data owners to a citizen/enterprise centric approach.An online one-stop personal page that allows to access to personal data stored in public registers and to submit application forms

• Personal certifications• Justice notifications• Health• Pension• Car• School• Properties

Open Data

The economic value of Open data  is related to opportunities of creating jobs and business through new applications and services.

Open Data allow to reduce costs of public administrations as it is possible to cut some activities handling all in a more efficient manners.

Open Innovation

Openness in innovation is the fastest way to create more economic opportunity for start-ups and small business owners.The way to reach global marketing sharing product development give SME’s same capabilities of largest and wealthiest enterprises avoiding costs and structure weight.

Solve & Innovate • A platform that enables

organizations to solve their key problems by connecting to diverse sources of innovation starting from employees and opening to customers, partners, and to the global marketplace.

• A community of problem Solvers, and cloud-based technology platform to transform the economics of innovation and R&D through rapid solution delivery.

Public FundingThe criteria of evaluation of public funding need to be updated.

Age of companies, the enterprise-scale (for the effect of cloud) , years of experience of managers are no more significant.The evaluation committee is often obsolete and companies participating to tenders have much more experiences than experts evaluating theme. Tenders should be published in a wiki way to be shared before to be officially published.It would be useful to involve the same participants in the evaluation promoving networking opportunity between complementary and not competing companies.

Innovation rankingA wide network of experts that could analize innovative companies assigning a score can create a ranking of innovation.

A useful classification that can drive Public funds and Venture Capital to put money where the community suggests to go using this framework:

• Human capital• Intellectual capital• Organizational capital• Relational capital• Open innovation

Crowdfunding

Microfinance for creative projects that have clearly defined goals and expectations, is based on the principle of crowdsourcing.Project creators keep the total ownership and control over their work and loaners don’t earn interests.Borrowers are ranked and microcredit is increasingly gaining credibility in the mainstream finance industry as a form of advisoring

eTourism

Tourism is one of the potentially faster growing economy providing services for people who are travelling for their holiday

The effort has to be done on diversification of products using apps and new channels

See you atInnovators Jam

2012Europe edition!

@edocolombo

e-maile.colombo@governo.it