Clean Tech Innovation Ecosystems

Clean TechInnovation Ecosystems

September 16th, 2013MaRS, Toronto@fnauta

Innovation EcosystemConstruction Worker

Political Assistant Deputy Mayor AmsterdamPolicy maker EPA Amsterdam & MinistryCinemaICT TrendwatcherKnowledge Land FoundationPrime Minister's Innovation PlatformConsultantProfessor Government InnovationClimate-KIC

1. The mother of all clusters

2. Mini cluster

3. The Clean Tech Wave

4. Surfing the Clean Tech Wave

5. Collaboration MaRS - Climate-KIC

1The mother

of all clusters

Talent&

Knowledge

Business SmartMoney

GovernmentPolicy

Interaction

Talent&

Knowledge

Business SmartMoney

GovernmentPolicy

Interaction

1891 1941

1951

1939 1958

Fred Terman @ Stanford

2Mini Cluster

Clusters

• Enough resources and competences amass and reach a critical threshold;

• Giving it a key position in a given economic branch of activity;

• With a decisive sustainable competitive advantage over other places, or even a world supremacy in that field.

"There are no low-tech industries,only low-tech firms"

SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE DI LIUTERIA A. STRADIVARI

• 1938 founded

• 1950: 6 students

• 2008: 150 students

- 30 South-Korea

- 26 Japan

- 6 China

- 3 Taiwan

3Clean Tech Wave

Trend:100 GW PV per year

4Surfing the

Clean Tech Wave

Climate-KIC surf board:Entrepreneurship

• Acceleration Programme

• Masterclasses

• Venture Competition

• Startup Tour

• Summer School

Acceleration Programme

By 2015:

• 300-400 startups py in Acceleration Programme, 60-80 per country

• Expanding to other EU incubators

• Largest Clean Tech accelerator program in the world

5Collaboration

MaRS - Climate-KIC

Market access for startups

Build global network

• Exchange best practices in Incubator Network

• Global competition with Cleantech Open

• Challenge touch policy issues together

• Exchange talent

Thank you foryour attention

@fnauta