TCI 2014 Clusters and open innovation: A well performing team

Clusters and open innovation: A well performing teamChristoph Beer

Parallel 2.1 Clusters as a tool to create global innovation winners and increase competitiveness

11 November 2014

CLUSTERS AND OPENINNOVATION:A WELL PERFORMING TEAM

CHRISTOPH BEER, CLUSTER-MANAGER, ICT CLUSTER BERN, SWITZERLAND

AND CEO MUNDI CONSULTING AG, SWITEZRLAND

Will openInnovation be

a benefit for clusters?

MY QUESTION FOR TODAY

17 TH TCI GLOBAL CONFERENCE | CREATING SHARED VALUE THROUGH CLUSTERS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

WHERE ARE WE?

Zurich

Berne

Basel

Geneva

Konstanz

WinterthurSt.Gallen

Vaduz

ChurZernez

St.Moritz

Lugano

BellinzonaLocarno

Montreux

Martigny

SionBrig

Lausanne

Neuenburg

Freiburg

Gstaad

Thun

Interlaken

Biel ZugLuzern

AUSTRIA

ITALY

FRANCE

GERMANY

by car/train within 1 hour

Population: 8,014,000 (2012)Density: 176 inhabitants/km2Federal State since 184823 Cantons

Founded: 13.12.1996

The tcbe.ch is a non-commercial association (Article 60 of the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB)).

Target:ICT Cluster Bern is a collaboration between companies, training institutions, trade associations and local authorities with the aim of strengthening the telecommunications and IT sector in our economic region

220 members including companies (suppliers and users), Government, Education, ICT-organisations

FACTS ICT CLUSTER BERN

ORGANISATION OF THE CLUSTER

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tcbe.ch is organized as a PPP (Public Private Partnership)

General Assembly

Cluster Board

ClusterManagement

WorkingGroup 1

Working Group 2

WorkingGroup 3

• Networking

• Go international

(Import and Export-Promotion)

• Innovation support

• Knowledge and technology

transfer

• Education

• Experience exchange

(RFID/eGov)

• Communication / focus

• Promotion of the region

• Inter-/cross-clustering

MAIN ACTIVITIES

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INNOVATION PROCESS

Idea Generation

Realisation

Market Integration

CLOSED INNOVATION

Source: Henry W. Chesbrough

OPENINNOVATION

Source: Henry W. Chesbrough

REALITY

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Idea GenerationOpen Source Implemen-

tation

Market Integration

Crowd Sourcing Implemen-tation

Market Integration

openInnovation

Closed Innovation

Time to Market

Cost reduction

Communication

Globalization

Social media

Mass customization / 3D-Printing

Partnering

Focus on value chain

CHALLENGES IN INNOVATION

…is shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making. The term appears in sociobiology, political science and in context of mass peer review and crowdsourcing applications.

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

CROWD-SOURCING

Social Innovation Crowd = more

than 20'000

creative thinkers

Web 2.0

Software

• You don’t know

• Behavior of a swarm / Collective Intelligence

• Fully open Crowd / Public Crowd

• Closed Crowd / Known Team

• a cluster is Half- public Crowd

ONE STOP SHOP FOR E-MOBILITY

CLUSTER-CROWD

PARKEON

COMPETITION WITH DURATION OF 3 WEEKS GENERATED 479 IDEAS

RESULTS

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EXAMPLE

CROSS BORDER PROJECT

• New Method – New results

• New ideas, which not before where known

• “Inspiration”

• A helpful Tool

FEEDBACK PARKEON

You generate a lot of ideas

You can not implement all of them

What about the not implemented ideas?

CHALLENGES

A trading place for ideas will be launched at January 1st 2015

FINDIDEAS.ORG

ADDITIONAL METHODS

CROSS-INNOVATION

LIVING-LABS

CROWD-FINANCING

INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES

LEAD USER METHOD

Description of existing methods and experience in openInnovation

A guideline and collection of best practice from practitioners for practitioners

http://www.mundiconsulting.ch/pdf/Open%20Innovation.pdf

OPEN INNOVATION GUIDE

openInnovation is a challenge

openInnovation needs a culture shift

openInnovation not means “for free innovation”

REVIEW

Will openInnovation be

a benefit for clusters?

Yes, it’s a

winning

team!!!

MY QUESTION FOR TODAY

ICT Cluster Bern

Christoph Beer

Cluster-Manager / CEO

Phone: +41 31 326 76 76

Mobile: +41 79 608 18 13

Christoph.Beer@mundiconsulting.com

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