WAAS Forum 2013 The role of Technological Innovation in the evolution of the Enterprises and the future of Employment TRIESTE FORUM 2013 Impact of Science and Technology on Society and Economy World Academy of Art & Science Trieste, 5-6 . 3 . 2013 Roberto Siagri
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WAAS Forum 2013
The role of Technological Innovation in the evolution of the Enterprises and the future
of Employment
TRIESTE FORUM 2013Impact of Science and Technology on Society and Economy
World Academy of Art & Science
Trieste, 5-6 . 3 . 2013
Roberto Siagri
WAAS Forum 2013
The presentation will try to answer questions 2, 4, 5
• 1. What should be the role of human capital in a comprehensive approach to human welfare and well-being?
• 2. What should be the role of human capital in assuring sustainable development?
• 3. How to describe and quantify the untapped human capital?
• 4. How to increase human capital - the role of individual and collective activity, education, health: local and global?
• 5. How should global and local political orders be altered in order to adequately harness and develop the potentials of human capital?
• 6. How should global and local legal systems be modified in order to more fully tap the potentials of human capital?
• 7. What should be the broad outlines of a human capital-based development strategy and what essential conditions need to be met to implement such a strategy?
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World Economic Performance
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Less is More
R. Buckminster Fuller1895 - 1983
“The principle of doing ever more with ever less
Space, Time, Matter and Energy
per each given level of functional performance”
Innovation moves from material to abstract
This trend has also been called:“Ephemeralization”, “Virtualization,” “Weightlessness”
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«…. we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century; it will be more like 20,000 yearsof progress - at today's rate.»
Accelerating Returns
Exponential-Appearing Phase
Linear-Appearing Phase
Hyperbolic-Appearing
Phase
EP
Ray Kurzweil
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The Paradigms of the Knowledge Economy
• Knowledge is wealth• Bigger doesn't always mean better• More opportunities• Less certainties• Everything happens faster• Everything is exponential• Demand comes in surges• ReturnOnIdea is the greatest ever
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Start-ups & Innovative-SMEs
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SMEs produce 24 times more innovation than large companies for every invested $.
Source: Doyle, Wong marketing and competitive performance
Large companies need from 3 to 10 times more time thanSMEs to develop the same new products.
Source: National Science Foundation (USA)
SME R&D spending overall has grown 10 times as fast as large-company spending over 24 years (1981-2005).
Source: H. Chesbrough, Haas School of Business, Univ, Berkeley
Photo Credits: Martin Whitmore
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More than one third of new jobs come from new companies.Turmoil and Growth: Young Businesses, Economic Churning, and Productivity Gains, Jun. 2008
From 1980 to 2005, companies born in the previous 5 years generated the whole net job growth in the US.
Business Dynamics Statistics Briefing: Jobs Created from Business Startups in US, Jan. 09
New Entrepreneurs have big Social Role
iiiii ERLKQ The Entrepreneurial Economy:Need Entrepreneurship Policies
• Universities as Engines of Economic Development• Technology Transfer & Commercialization• Private-Public Partnerships
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The Boundaries of the Enterprise are Changing
“workers need to think of their careers as their own small businesses”
JAMES FLANIGAN, New York Times, 14 ottobre 2009
Not only Entrepreneurs have a social role
but also an
Enterpreneurial attitude has a big impact in society
Photo Credits: jairoagua
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Evolution of Enterprise
Traditional Enterprise : full time employees
Virtual Enterprise: core mgt + project team
Enterprise without people
...???.....
Time theseare existingtoday
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The "lights-out" Manufacturing is a Realitywhere Robots do all the Work
C. Null and B. CaulfieldJune 1, 2003 - Business 2.0
Fanuc's 4,000-square-meter factories near Mt. Fuji, robots are building other robots at a rate of about 50 per 24-hour shift and can run unsupervised for as