I Entrepreneurship Forum Initiatives in the Mediterranean by Fabio Montagnino,CONSORZIO ARCA

Forum  organized    by:  

A comprehensive approach to promote innovative entrepreneurship in euromediterranean regions Fabio Maria Montagnino Managing Director Consorzio ARCA

NET KITE Cross-border NETwork to foster Knowledge-intensive business incubation and Technology transfer

The Mediterranean Entrepreneurial Challenge Public investment in higher education, training, research, don’t generate - by itself - jobs, social inclusion, employment, territorial development. Do we need further public investments or more incentives for industries to localize in our regions? Should the budgets be remodulated among sectors? We believe we have to nurture ecosystems that helps creativity to boost and move into entrepreneurship, connecting local resources and talents to global networks and markets.

Young companies create jobs for young people in USA, why not in MED?

Key “tiles” of the integrated NETKITE approach

1.  Open Innovation philosophy 2.  Living Labs approach, involvement of

communities through e-participation tools 3.  Empowerment of “soft” interfaces 4.  Focus on generation of spin-off companies as

“living links” of innovation pathways.

The quadruple helix Government, academia, industry and citizens can collaborate together to drive structural changes and sustainable development, going far beyond the scope of any one organization could achieve on it’s own. That’s a way to re-localize value in our regions and to give an opportunity to our young entrepreneurs!

Government  

Academia  

Industry  

Ci9zens  

From 4P to Open Innovation 2.0: an emerging organic paradigm

Firm  

Start-­‐up  

University  RTD  public  lab  

VC  investor  

Nascent    Start-­‐up  

User  

Co-­‐innovator  

Crea<ve  Commons  

Government  Ecosystem  support  

Adapted  from  M.  Curley,  VP  Intel  Corp.  

Community    

NET KITE partners

NET KITE network and sectors

OI ecosystem building tools

q  Recruitment of innovators through meetings door2door, social networks & media

q  Focus groups with sectorial experts q  E-participation community events q  Idea contest q  OI platform q  Training+Mentoring+Coaching q  Transnational mobility scheme q  Qualification & upgrade of TT labs q  Prototyping activities involving SMEs q  Final BP competition

A new methodology to stress participation From ETMs (electronic town meetings) to EMC2 (entrepreneurship meetings for community challenges)

The aim of these e-participation events is to explore the following themes:

q  entrepreneurial growth rate in innovative sectors q  generation of jobs through innovative entrepreneurship q  interactions between public and private organizations in the

technology transfer process q  how associations and local networks may help q  how to improve the entrepreneurial culture in young people q  how innovative entrepreneurship can help to solve problems of the

local communities.    

Promotion of the idea contest

Mentoring in idea generation

Idea feasibility check

Focus Group

Training of MPCs partners on electronic meeting management tool

First EMC2 in Tunisia

OI platform under development Public launch due on 01/01/15

OI platform under development Public launch due on 01/01/15

Open issues q  How to specialize the approach to the

Mediterranean culture? Where do we need to “think different”?

q  How can we stably link of “usual businesses” with creative & innovative young people?

q  Can we manage cross-regional idea contests to generate med-native start-ups?

q  Can we finally generate a “Mediterranean entrepreneurship area” as in Baltic sea region?

Thank you for your attention! for further information and contacts

www.netkite.eu www.facebook.com/netkite www.consorzioarca.it [email protected]