How ICT research supports Innovation Ecosystems and …€¦ · Brussels, June-1.-2006 Francesco Nachira - European Commission # 2 of 29 Knowledge-base economy: migrating towards

How ICT researchsupports

Innovation Ecosystems and SMEs

Francesco NachiraEuropean Commission

DG Information Society and MediaHead of Sector “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems”

http://www.digital-ecosystems.org

Brussels, 1 . 6 . 2006UEAPME workshop

The place of the SME in the ICT & eBusiness developments

Brussels, June-1.-2006 Francesco Nachira - European Commission # 2 of 29

Knowledge-base economy: migrating towards digital economies mediated by ICT

More interrelationsMore knowledgeMore innovationMore specialised resources

Small companies have limited specialised resources and difficultiesTo access to global value chainsTo access to knowledgeTo access to specific services (e.g. legal)To adopt new technologies (ICT)To adopt new business models

Threshold and Digital Divides (geogr..; SMEs vs. LEs)

SMEs :a weakness or a potential for Europe ?

SMEs

But the only hope for a SMEs is to become BIG?


SMEs in a Dynamic knowledge-based globaleconomy

Growth Node

Business EcosystemIndustrial District

Virtual cluster

• How to reach the critical mass of resources ?• How to cope with the increased complexity ?


Peculiaritiesof EU economical structure

• Cultural diversity (model of business, approaches,practices, …)

• Dimensions of enterprises (SMEs vs. LE)• Historical presence of clusters with diffused tacit

unstructured knowledge, skills and infrastructureHow to turn peculiarities and diversity into

competitive advantagesHow to foster

innovation, creativity and autonomy of SMEs ?Which policies, which paradigms ?Which infrastructures ?


The Business EcosystemCreate a climate conductive to investments, innovation andenterpreneurship:the conditions for

– Attracting biz and entr. direct investments– Attracting enterprises– Attracting skilled and qualified workforce

Service & technicalInfrastructure

Business& financialconditions

Human capital,knowledge and

practices

Governanceregulations &

industrialpolicy

How to create afavourable environmentfor business and people:a socio-economic eco-

system ?


Which Paradigms forInnovation Ecosystems ?

To create favourable environmentEngineers: “problem solving” approach: isolate problem, identify variables, make a plan …Economy as machine

ComplexityEcosystemic approach: economy as machine -> economy as ecosystems (garden)

Processes: Interpretation - Partecipation - Collaboration - Harmonis. of interests

Plurality and richness of: economic actors, subjects, ideas and interaction, aggregation


ICTscatalyse

improve

improve

New organizational& business models

Policysupports

The Innovation Ecosystems:An integrated approach for development

“Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure”

Derivative work from

P.Dini - London School of Economics

to reduce the digital divides- among regions- among SME and LEto foster local economic growthand innovation; new forms ofdynamic businessinteractions,enabled bynewparadigmsanddigitalecosystemtechnologies

Growth

Competitiveness, market & internal

efficiency

Cooperation &innovation networks

improve

lead to

encourage

provideresources

Open SourceEvolutionary infrastructure

makeviable

shape& foster

supports

support Bio-Paradigms

enhances


Which ICT technology for innovation ecosystems ?“… the actual slowly changing network of

organizations will be replaced by more fluid,amorphous and often transitory structures based inalliances, partnership and collaborations”...

“…building a community that share business,knowledge and infrastructure, develop creativity”

“The support to SMEs and innovation requiresa further stage in ITC technology adoptions andan infrastructure which exploitsthe dynamic interaction (cooperation and competition)of several players in order to produce systemic results; innovation and economic development.”

“Towards a Network of digital business ecosystems fostering the localdevelopment ” (EC, Discussion paper, 2002)But one business model fits all ?

But one infrastructure fits all ?


The Digital Ecosystem,the carrier for services and ideas

(+ their integration)

Courtesy from DBE project

Who owns it?What does it contain?What‘s the destination?

Which is the revenue model ?

• Owner• Serial-ID• Check-ID• Country• ISO Ident


The digital ecosystemWhich ICT infrastructure for this new paradigm ?How could ICT support the transition from industrial district toknowledge-based business ecosystem ?

Computingand telecom.Infrastructure

Diffused +Digitalisedknowledge

affordableICT

services

ICTservice-

knowledge-oriented

architecture

How to createICT infrastructurethat allows digital

componentsto exhibit behaviour

of natural ecosystems?

Integrated scalable approachwith intermediate results


What is a Digital Ecosystem ?

•THE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM•is a pervasive “digital environment”•that supports the business ecosystems•that is populated by “digital components”•that evolves / adapts to local conditions with the evolution of its components

THE “SOFT” SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE,WHICH MEDIATES

SERVICES & INFORMATION (knowledge)EMPOWERING THE NETWORKING

AND THEIR SHARING

architecture / structure


What is a Digital Component ?

•DIGITAL COMPONENTS•could be: software components, applications, services, knowledge,business processes and models, training modules,contractual frameworks, laws ....... and hopefully a mixture of all these

formalised knowledge

ANY USEFUL IDEA,EXPRESSED IN A LANGUAGE

(formal or natural),DIGITALISED AND LAUNCHED

ON THE NET,WHICH CAN BE PROCESSED

(by computers and/or humans)

Repres. of service:•biz model•rev. model•comp. model•ref. to Ontology


The innovation ecosystem

Digital ecosystem: an o-s, public, distributed, pervasive environm.- transport, identification, match (services, knowledge)- spontaneous evolution, adaptation and composition of services, digital content and sw components- embedding knowledge, biz rules, revenue models, ontology...

Derivative work from Salzburg Technical University


Economy changesneeded infrastructures too

Hamburg, Harbour in 1900 Hamburg, Harbour in 2006

The Digital Ecosystem is the transport infrastructurefor the services and knowledge

Courtesy from DBE project


Conceptual Layers of ecosystems










The innovation ecosystem

Derivative work from Salzburg Technical University

Economy(business ecosystem)

Structural coupling

ICT (digital ecosystem)


ICT-SMEInputs

Digital(ICT) Services

Digital Ecosystem Dynamic aggregation of ICT-services

ICT service

ICT service

ICT service

ICT service

ICT service

Rules,models,context

Aggregated Complex,personalised,ICT-services

Needs of ICT solutions,Profile of users, of ICT needs

DE structuralservices*

Digital Ecosysteminfrastrucutre

DE structural services, e.g.•Accounting•Billing•Authentication•Reputation•Decentralized Data Storage•Fitness data


SMEOffers

2. Final Services

Digital Ecosystem Dynamic aggregation of final services (and SMEs)

ICT service

ICT product

ICT service

ICT service

Rules,models,context

Aggregated Complex,personalised,Services /Solutions

Needs of ICT services, solutions,profile of providers, profile of users

Digital Ecosysteminfrastructure

1. Networks of SMEs

DEstructural services*

Digital Services,applications


DE Roadmap - past events

• Sep 2002 - Discussion Paper

• End 2002 - Cycle of Workshops

• Nov 2003 - Start 1st integrated project DBE

• Apr 2005 - Cycle of Workshops - re-tuning DE concept

• June 2005 - Position paper - Research vision 2010

• July 2005 - Int’l Summer School - EU bisness ecosystems

• Nov 2005 - WSIS - Int’l interest for EU models

• Feb 2006 - 2nd digital ecosystem cluster meting - Launch of Innovation Ecosystem Initiative


DE Roadmap - Consultation Process

• Feb-June :Multi-stakeholder open consultation process

for the Innovation Ecosystem Initiative.• Defining• future innovation and research initiatives in digital ecosystems and priorities (FP7)• strategy and instruments for a pan-European deployment and mechanisms for

local self-sustainability (CIP; structural funds, nat’l initiatives)• roadmap for technical development (needs , …)• structures and the bodies needed for

– the sustainability of the local/regional digital business ecosystems,– the global technical interoperability of the technical infrastructure,– the definition of a “bill of rights”: the “constitutional” ethical rules

and the obligations, of the digital ecosystems

– the legal framework


The cluster of EU FP7 projects


The Deployment - The International network



DE Roadmap - future

• June 2006 - Start of 1st NoE on Ecosystems• July 2006 - Stakeholder position paper• Sept 2006 - Staff working paper

on Innovation Ecosystems• Nov 2006 - DBE conference• Dec 2006 - Initial governance structures• End 2006 - 15 Digital Ecosystem Pilot regions,

1st national charter


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