Entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in the management of a major corporate restructuring - case Nokia and the Tampere Region
Petri Räsänen
Director, Innovation and Foresight
Council of Tampere Region (Pirkanmaa)
• Nokia – driven activities to manage thechange: Bridge Program
• City and region – driven activities to managethe change: Innovation platform policy
• Lessons and future outlook
Agenda
Pirkanmaa (Tampere Region) - growing
and the most attractive region in
Finland
People 500,000 + inhabitants – the most desired place to live in Finland
R&D&I Centre for leading edge research and education, 4-7 % of GDP
in R&D , ~ 40,000 students, new (united) Tampere University to be
operational in 2019
Business About 30,500 places of business. Companies in the region
include Nokia, Huawei, Intel, Cargotec, Glaston, John Deere, Agco Sisu
Power, Metso, Valmet, Saab, Fastems, Sandvik, Nokian Tyres, Santen…
Leisure Positive flow of high level congresses, museums, theatre,
music, sport…
The role of Nokia Mobile in Finland
Bridge program’s five paths
New job outside Nokia Learn something new
Create your own pathStart a new business A new job in Nokia
Values and Priorities of Bridge Program
Innovation profile of Pirkanmaa / Finland in 2009
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Tampere Region
Finland
Tekes RDI funding* / GDP
Personnel in R&D, % of emplyees (2009)
R&D funding / GDP (2009)
* Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
R&D funding of corporations, %
Doctoral gratuates, % of population aged over 15 yrs
Foreign students, % of all students
Fast growingenterprises(2010)
Applications for patents /1000 inhabitants
Pathway to smart specialization in Tampere Region –
regional cluster policy programmes 1994 - 2013
• Tampere Centre of Expertise I 1994-1998
• Tampere Centre of Expertise II 1999-2006
• eTampere 2001-2005
• BioNext 2003-2010
• Creative Tampere 2006-2011
• Tampere Centre of Expertise III 2007-2013
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We have to rethink and ”open up” the Finnish
paradigm of innovation policy
• There are no ”safe bets” anymore within the existing clusters
• Collaborative innovation is becoming more and more important for businessesand societies
• Expectations on return on investment in innovation (policy) are getting higher
Focus on new emerging ecosystems and global co-creation
New innovation (policy) tools to replace inefficient ones, more dynamic rolefor the public sector
Exceptional capabilities for collaborative innovation can provide competitiveedge for the regional innovation ecosystem
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Alarming weak signals and some conclusions
- already in 2009
Towards more resilient innovation profile
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Tampere Region
Finland
Tekes RDI funding* / GDP
Personnel in R&D, % of emplyees (2009)
R&D funding / GDP (2009)
* Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
R&D funding of corporations, %
Doctoral gratuates, % of population aged over 15 yrs
Foreign students, % of all students
Fast growingenterprises(2010)
Applications for patents /1000 inhabitants
Tampere RegionTarget 2020
Jobs
Wealth creation
Commercialization
New products & services
New markets
Companies
Education / Human resources
Human networks
Networks of funds
Regional clusters
University – business collaboration
IP strategies
Co-creation processes
Cluster policy = Sectoral pipes of innovation flow
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Knowledge
creation
Basic research
Translational
research
Proof of concept
Proof of relevance
INPUT INTERACTION FIELDS OUTPUT
ICT
Meachanical engineering
Meditech
Jobs
Wealth creation
Commercialization
New products & services
New markets
Companies
Education / Human resources
Human networks
Networks of funds
Regional clusters
University – business collaboration
IP strategies
Co-creation processes
Open innovation platforms – novel funneling of the
innovation flow since 2009
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Knowledge
creation
Basic research
Translational
research
Proof of concept
Proof of relevance
INPUT INTERACTION FIELDS OUTPUT
Platform = ” a set of stable components that supports variety
and evolvability in a system by constraining the
linkages among the other components”
”Open Platform”
”Open Platform””Open Platform”
Principle 1:
Create new combinations of
knowledge
Chinese are cranking out a device much faster than the time that it takes
us to polish a PowerPoint presentation”
(Mr Stephen Elop, ex-CEO of Nokia)
Idea → Demonstration → Prototype → Market entry
Principle 2:
Move faster in value creation
Not But €
Principle 3:
Make it very affordable to try
Our first (self-made) platform elements
Agile multidisciplinary co-creation of
demonstrations by students & companies
Lean startup creation by professionals, researchers,
companies
Testing and co-creation with user communities and living
lab environments
Co-innovation of startups
and their potential
customers and partners
= Included in the case study
Smart city
solutions
TALENT GENERATION AND SMART SOLUTIONS
SCIENCE, KET’S…
Capability building in networks
SPECIALIZATION
SM
AR
T
Digital
manufacturingHealth and
well-being
Circular economy
Innovation Acceleration & Orhestration
INFRASTRUCTURES
INNOVATION
PLATFORMS &
GROWTH SERVICES
GLOBAL CO-
LEARNING & -
INVESTMENT
SYSTEM TRIALS &
DEMONSTRATIONS
Photonics Biomedical
Signal
processingSystems
MaterialsComputing
Advanced
manufacturing
TALENT &
HUMAN
CAPITAL
SMART SPECIALIZATION STRATEGY:
KETS, CAPABILITIES AND OPPORTUNITY SPACES
Summary of the Regional Situational Picture of Innovation: Development directions of the innovation environment 2013-2018
Export
capability
UniversitiesGrowth
Companies
Innovation
Platforms
International
Co-operation
R&D&I
Investment
Decoupling of regional RDI investment and growth
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
Ind
ex
GDP and R&D expenditures Tampere region, index series, year 2000=100
R&D expenditure
GDP
• The importance of collaborative, multisectornetwork of partners
• The importance of entrepreneurship
• The importance of flexibility and learning by doing in policy making
Some lessons learnt
Thank you.
Contact:
Petri Räsänen
Council of Tampere Region
”It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but
the most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin