Open Innovation Labs for Open Entrepreneurship

CERN, 9 September 2015Paul Bristow, Co-founder

Classic Startup Route1. Have an idea

2. Protect it3. Find investment4. Exploit it5. Become immensely rich

What is an idea worth?

@maebert

An open source toolkit for entrepreneurs

Open Source software has changed the world…

Freely shareable open source software has changed the entire world, bringing us:

Linux, most of the internet, the majority of websitesWikipedia, the Creative CommonsAndroid, most mobile phones100,000’s of new SMEsToday >86% of all companies worldwide use open source software

… but software was just the start

The Open source revolution is moving to the real world

Open Source Hardware shares designs for physical objects that you can manufacture anywhere

MOOCs are open source applied to education

The next twenty years will see immense changes in the way we do things

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Open Source HardwareThe price of flexible machines for making things is collapsing

3D Printers were €20,000 in 2010, now available from €200

The core enabling technology is low-cost electronics and open source machine control

A few examples

Made in USA

Made in Italy Made in UK

Made in Netherlands

Made in Geneva

3DFunlab Made in Geneva

3D Robotics

Seeedstudio

Google “Arduino” + “anything”

Open Source as a ToolWith open source:

software

hardware

business Models

data

We can prototype FAST

Lean Startup

Minimum Viable Product

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The LocalFab RenaissanceMake physical things inexpensively

Add intelligence with open source electronics and software

Connect them to the Internet of Things

Resulting in an explosion of innovation everywhere. Why not here too?

Since August 2014…

Open Innovation Labs, based around an entrepreneurial, ecological fablab.

“Fab Labs give people the tools they need to create technology and make (almost) anything”

Professor Neil Gershenfeld

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

HACKERSPACE

MAKERSPACE

FABLAB TECHSHOP

networkinghardware recyclingcomputer hacking

programmingrobotics community electronics woodworking

metalworkingshared machineskids / schoolscourses

CNCLaser cutting3D printing

pro consultingsmall production

educationbits & atoms

researchnetwork

open access

About us

We are a team of entrepreneurs with a shared passion for open innovation.

We aim to create experimental laboratories, to prototype ideas and create businesses

We see an ecological fablab as a tool for expanding open source innovation beyond the software world into more tangible things

Team: Founders

Founders & Management Paul Bristow, Yves Zieba, David Jeanneret, Arnaud Blain, Cristina Olivetti, Charlie Sellers, Ayse Ozturk, Alain Vuilleumier, Denis Bucher, Clement Drevo, Carmelia Rubio-Torset

Y V E S Z I E B A

PA U L B R I S T O W

C A R M E L I A R U B I O -

D AV I D J E A N N E R E T

C H A R L I E S E L L E R S

C A R M E L I A R U B I O - T O R S E T

AY S E O Z T U R K

D E N I S B U C H E R

C L E M E N T D R E V O

A R N A U D B L A I N

C R I S T I N A O L I V E T T I

+ A L A I N V U I L L E U M I E R

Founders’ businesses

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Typical fablab equipment…

Ideas->realityIdea Computer 2D drawing or 3D model

2D drawing Laser cutter or CNC

3D model 3D Printer or CNC

In a short time, you go from an idea in your head to your idea in your hand!

Cost balance is shifting

Renewable Energy

Local Materials

Recycled Materials

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Transport & Far East Labour Costs

Local Fabrication Costs

We can accelerate

this trend, using

Working with ecologically sound materials

Bio-plastics where possible Composite wood/PLA

Recycled ABS/PET/HDPE

Local Wooden offcuts Local Aluminium offcuts

Local Recycling

and other similar projects

“Working all day to destroy the planet

Circular Economy

Inserting ourselves into the local industrial ecosystem

Here in GenevaThe Geneva area has mostly lost it’s prototyping ecosystem.

It’s not in great shape for the Internet of Things.

Even industries like watches and jewellery are too traditional to innovate.

…part of the solutionA FabLab provides a shared resource for the entrepreneurial community: digital fabrication equipment and expertise for physical prototyping and small production runs.

An entrepreneurial FabLab is part of the collaborative economy, sitting alongside co-working spaces as a resource for local entrepreneurs starting their activities.

For example:

Newco.ch wants to create an activity tracker with air quality measurement in the wearable IoT space.

Our planBuild creative spaces to stimulate local innovation

A hybrid mix of fablab, creative lab, media lab, nutrition lab, mobile lab and edu lab

Prototyping ideas of any kind

Use the frontier - and work with the network of other spaces - we can’t do everything!

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After-workers. Hobbyists

Teachers. students, beginners

Entrepreneurs, Artists,

Businesses

People are the secret ingredient

Where?Pangloss Labs #1

Ferney-Voltaire, FRANCE

12bis rue de Gex, Domaine des Marmousets (Bus F, Château de Voltaire)

Non-profit Association

Pangloss Labs #2 Geneve, SWITZERLAND

Searching under way, with lots of discussions ongoing

Association, becoming a Foundation

Activities are ongoing already

WHAT CAN YOU MAKE?

A few books…

eBook sale oreilly.com

www.panglosslabs.org

@panglosslabs1

With open source, we can go fast, together - not an African Proverb

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