SHAPES the web platform Viterbo Open Forum Patrizia Grifoni CNR.

SHAPES the web platform

ViterboOpen Forum

Patrizia GrifoniCNR

•Innovation and creativity are your priorities?

•Are you an entrepreneur or do you represent an organization?

Please register yourself and your organization to the SHAPES community and use the toolbox to share information and tools

Shapes: why the web platform

•It will contains the capitalized tools of Shapes from the different projects and communities which share methodologies and guidelines.

•The platform has capitlised the KnowIng Resource Centre.

Shapes: the web platform

Are companies aware of all available financial supports (at local, national and international)?

Can companies easily find and choose better partners for their business?

Can companies easily know if a research institution can provide the scientific support they need?

Shapes: why the web platform

•To facilitate the access and sharing of information and services to enterprises, research centres, universities, public and local administrations and people involved in creative and knowledge production processes in order to support innovation and creativity.

•To engage the “crowd” in the co-creation and assimilation of resources (methodologie, models, services...).

Shapes: why the web platform

•Each user:

•is mainly a member of a community by sharing resources;

•can play both the role of problem and solution provider.

•The platform integrates some functionalities offered by Knowledge Management Systems with those offered by crowdsourcing systems.

•allows knowledge creation, acquisition, storage and refinement.

•Allows to share all capitalised results of previous projects

Shapes: why the web platform

The Shapes web platform consists of:

•The on-line community

•The toolbox

Shapes: the web platform

The community organizes actors of creativity and innovation (companies, research centers, universities, ....., as well as decision-makers.

This community allows to collect and share information on creative and innovative activities, events…, their localization (at territorial level.

The on-line community

In the on-line community, each member can:

•Add……resources

•Social Networking activities

The Shapes community

Each member can add:

1)Links and information of already existing web sites

2)files (Uploading) that contain information to be shared in the community (pdf files) or galleries of images (Jpeg)

Each added resource can be made public and shared as a tool in the toolbox

The Shapes community:Add

Each member can:

1)Receive/send e-mail messages

2)Manage activities in a unified manner from the different social networks s/he belongs to (facebook, twitter, linkedin)

3)Searching for the other members of the Shapes community

The Shapes community:SN activities