Stephan Gutzeit - Stiftung Charite - Stanford Engineering - Feb 6 2012 - V2

„Edelweiss“ vs. „Thomanerchor“Innovation in GermanyInnovation in Germany

Stephan Gutzeit, Executive Director, Stiftung Charité

Stanford School of EngineeringEuropean Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Speakers Series

February 6, 2012

A Tale Of Two Innovation Systems

To Boldly Go Where No One has Gone BeforeTo Boldly Go Where No One has Gone Before

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Kinds Of Innovation Compared

• MIELE: Shallow, continuous, low but steady growth, close to customers;moats: tradition, loyalty, cohesion, craftsmanship, family ownership.

• APPLE: Deep, discontinuous, fast but unsteady growth, surprise customers;moats: vision, creative A+ culture, conflict-friendly, congenial + anticyclical GPs,innovator-ownershipinnovator ownership.

• E-COMMERCE: Shallow, semi-continuous, fast and steady growth, close to customers;moats: speed, lo-risk „industrialized innovation“, first-rate execution, procyclical GPs,build-to-sell serial entrepreneurs, „accelerators“. Derivative: CLONES.

• DEEP TECHNOLOGY: Deep, discontinuous, slow growth/ hi potential, solve problem;moats: mastered complexity relations with KOLs first mover IPmoats: mastered complexity, relations with KOLs, first mover IP.

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Innovators Compared

Edelweiss Thomaner Choir

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German Innovators Then… (in the long 19th century)

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G I t N (i hi t l h i l )German Innovators Now … (in cars, machine tools, chemicals):World-Beating Companies

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German Innovators Now … (everywhere else): Copying the US

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Berlin is #1 – in Clones

Source: Klaus Hommels Presentation at DLD 2012 Munich

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Source: Klaus Hommels, Presentation at DLD 2012, Munich

Phil th i t All i t Ill Of Th P t B t Th C AlPhilanthropists Alleviate Ills Of The Past, But They Can Also Build The Future …

• Christian tradition: Charity.

• Graeco-Roman tradition: Innovation.

• Prometheus: The forward thinker ( Vordenker“)• Prometheus: The forward thinker („Vordenker“).

Also the first innovateur, and venture philanthropist, of mankind?

• And yet: No good deed goes unpunished …

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… And Do They Pay For It!

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The Testing Ground For Our Ideas: Stiftung Charité

• Benefactress: Johanna Quandt

• Founded December 2005Founded December 2005

• Enables innovation in medicine (entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship)

P t Ch ité U i ität di i B li• Partner: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

• Target group: Academic entrepreneurs

• Hybrid structure: Non-profit foundation and venturecapital fund (Charité Biomedical Fund)

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Meet Innovateur Ivo Buschmann

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… And The Procedures He‘ll Displace in Creative Destruction

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Truly Original People Are Rare And Often Embattled …

Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature.

Compare Peter Drucker: „Monomaniacs with a Mission“ (Adventures of a Bystander).

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… Even In Universities!

Meet Innovateur Friedrich KoehlerMeet Innovateur Friedrich Koehler

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Inventions vs. Innovations at Universities

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Systems Thinking Helps Us Understand Creativity

Creative IndividualMihaly Csikszentmihalyi: C ti it Fl d th P h l

Domain Field

Creativity – Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.

Domain Field

• No one can make rules by himself (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations).

• If you think about it: No one can break rules (productively) by himself either.

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Meet Innovateurs Martin Stockmann And Karsten Heyne

For all of us with human,not titanic livers!not titanic livers!

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Next Iteration: Schumpeter Stiftung

• Healthcare Innovation System:- Business Development Company- Business Angel SyndicateBusiness Angel Syndicate- Digital Health Hub- Exchange (2-way) with Silicon Valley and Boston- …

• Renew the Bauhaus:

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Stephan Gutzeit,Stephan Gutzeit,

Executive Director

Stiftung Charité | Charitéplatz 1 | 10117 Berlin

Telefon: 030 450570-509 | Telefax: 030 450570-959|

E-Mail: [email protected]

www.charite-summit.de

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