Markku Markkula HEI & SS Open Days 9 Oct 2013

Open Days 2013 Workshop: “Higher Educa<on Ins<tu<ons and

Smart Specialisa<on”

Markku Markkula •  Member of the EU Commi/ee of the

Regions, Rapporteur on “Horizon 2020” and

“Closing the InnovaBon Divide”

•  Espoo, Chair of the City Planning Board

•  Advisor to the Aalto Presidents at Aalto

University

[email protected]

Smart SpecialisaBon refers not only to regional policy, it needs to have a strong role in acBviBes throughout the whole European innovaBon system. Also each university should know and dare specialize and collaborate openly, much more than before. In the new programme period in using structural funds, there are four new “guiding requirements” which strengthen the role of universiBes:

1.  The use of funds is based on Regional Smart SpecialisaBon Strategies

2.  The focus is on innovaBon 3.  MulBfinancing and synergic collaboraBon between

projects 4.  Projects should collaborate on a European scale:

European partnerships

To implement the Barroso State of the Union message on innovaBon Europe needs its own “Blue Ocean Strategy”

PIONEERING REGIONAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

MulB-‐level Governance Pla\orm: Regional InnovaBon Ecosystems, Local Digital Agendas, Knowledge Triangle, Living Labs, Modernising Triple Helix,

InnovaBon Partnerships, Shared Ownership, MulB-‐financing

High-‐level University Research

CreaBng New InnovaBve SoluBons To Grand Societal Challenges

Markku Markkula

José Manuel Durão Barroso President of the European Commission

State of the Union address 11 September 2013

“We are also adapting to a dynamic transformation

on a global scale, so we must encourage this innovative dynamism at a European scale.

That is why we must also invest more in innovation, in technology and the role of science.

I have great faith in science, in the capacity of the human mind and a creative society to solve its problems.

The world is changing dramatically. And I believe many of the solutions are going to come, in Europe and outside Europe,

from new science studies, from new technologies. And I would like Europe to be leading that effort globally.”

Modernizing Triple Helix: Co-‐crea<ng Regional Innova<on Ecosystems

Open Days 9 October 2013 Markku Markkula

DigiBsaBon and globalisaBon drive change, and convergence towards digital services is speeding up. For regions and ciBes together this means new kind of collaboraBon with universiBes and industry to create new innovaBon ecosystems based on the following:

1) InnovaBon communiBes operate as ecosystems through systemic value networking in a world without borders. 2) InnovaBon processes are strongly based on demand-‐driven user orienta<on and customers as crucial players in innovaBons. 3) InnovaBon strategies focus on catalysing open innova<on and encouraging individuals and communiBes towards an entrepreneurial discovery and effecBve use digitalised services. 4) InnovaBon is ocen based on experimen<ng and implemen<ng demonstra<on projects by partnerships, using the best internaBonal knowledge and creaBng new innovaBve concepts.

UniversiBes are the key drivers of this development.

Regional Innova<on Ecosystem Aalto University Campus 2020

According to the plans, by 2020, there will be new investments of 4-5 billion €: metro, tunnel construction of ring road, other infra, housing, office and business buildings, public services, university buildings, sports and cultural facilities…

Aalto University

Nokia

Rovio Tapiola

Garden City

EIT ICT Lab Laurea

Energizing Urban Ecosystems (20

million € research program) 2012-‐2016

Young entrepreneurial mindset

Aalto Innova<on Garden

CoR Opinion on “Closing the Innova<on Divide” (30 May 2013)

The recent development has throughout the world led to new operaBonal units with flexible enBBes characterized by a strong collaboraBve approach in all their acBviBes. As the Commi/ee of the Regions defined in its opinion “Closing the InnovaBon Divide”, the examples include: Incubators and Accelerators, Living Labs, Entrepreneurial Hubs, Development Labs, Social Innova<on Labs, Fab Labs, Societal Innova<on Learning Camps and Future Centers. They usually operate as associated collaboraBve enBBes of universiBes, municipaliBes and businesses. Other points in the opinion include:

1.   “As many phenomena of the digital society have already demonstrated, significant transforma<on takes place from the bo]om up, and a pervasive mindset of "entrepreneurial discovery" is cri<cal. The CoR encourages the Commission to set up "entrepreneurial discovery" programmes to work at different levels and discover what is most effecBve for local needs and European scaling.”

2.  “InnovaBon communiBes operate as ecosystems through systemic value networking in a world without borders. Regions need new arenas as hotspots for innova<on co-‐crea<on. These could be described as "innovaBon gardens" and "challenge pla\orms", which together form prototype workspaces for invenBng the future.”

3.  “The best pioneers for developing and running Europe-‐wide projects should be financed through Horizon 2020 and cohesion funding – the aim being also to test effecBve methodologies and tools in real life collaboraBon and cross-‐border learning.”


Regional Innova<on Ecosystems: Case T3 Espoo / Aalto University Campus

IntegraBng real and virtual worlds within the Energizing Urban Ecosystems EUE research program (for the whole EUE the budget is totally 20 m€ for 4 years) adopts cuing-‐edge techniques for spaBal data acquisiBon. These are applied to, and combined with, concepts for a digital ubiquitous ecosystem in Espoo City T3 area (Otaniemi – Keilaniemi – Tapiola). The target applicaBon will be a mobile and virtual smart city model with geospaBal virtual knowledge elements. Specific a/enBon will be paid to aspects of usability and innovaBve visualisaBon for various user needs. By capturing the city’s geometry and characterisBcs through laser scanning, the resulBng model can be applied in an informaBon modelling process to conduct different kinds of analysis. The virtual — possibly, photorealisBc — models used as the basis for the regional informaBon model create a virtual city, geometrically accurate and visually close-‐to-‐idenBcal with the real one. This enables city planning, built environment and real estate management professionals, as well as decision-‐makers and ciBzens, to use the model for diverse purposes.

The resulBng regional informaBon models become shared knowledge resources to support decision-‐making about a facility from earliest conceptual stages, through design and construcBon through its operaBonal life and eventual demoliBon.

The starBng point for the regional informaBon modeling is the integraBon of exisBng building informaBon models, different spaBal informaBon systems, and state-‐of-‐the-‐art measuring techniques such as Mobile Laser Scanning, with virtual environments. This, in effect, creates a combinaBon of the physical and virtual worlds. Within the EUE program, we have used these instruments in creaBng our virtual collaboraBon pla\orms. Online virtual reality hosBng systems, like Meshmoon, are sBll fairly new technologies, but the potenBal is high.

Based on the text by the research team of professor Hannu Hyyppä, Aalto University

Knowledge Triangle: Create Synergy between Research, Educa<on and Innova<on

Innova<on

Educa<on Research

Plaborm for Blended Learning

Orchestra<on

Special need to focus on: A.   Value crea<on based on be]er use of intangible assets B.   New processes and methods for university-‐industry collabora<on C.   Systemic change and societal innova<ons


The Concept: Implemen<ng Knowledge Triangle by the Help of an Orchestrated Concept for Crea<ng Regional Innova<on Ecosystems


Markku Markkula HEI & SS Open Days 9 Oct 2013

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