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#1: Discovering Innovation Ecosystems Gran Concepción 7th-9th October 2014 [email protected]
Characteristic of Helsinki innovation ecosystem • Compared to benchmarks, lot of actors
• 7 Universities (after several mergers) • 4 Cities and Regional council • 10+ public or public-private ecosystem developer organisations • Several joint/ppp RDI platforms • EU key nodes: EIT ICT Labs, EDII • Capital– national responsibilities and players (Tekes, 6Aika)
• Policy growth focus: ICT, Wellbeing, Tourisim, Cleantech, Design
• “Startup Hot-Spot of the World” • 21 of Red Herring’s top-100 startups 2014 from Finland
• Key global ICT RDI • Nokia, Microsoft, Huawei, Intel, Samsung…; Game developers
Rovio, Supercell, Disney…; Health Tech, Life Sciences, Nanotech)
Forum Virium eyeglasses to the Helsinki innovation ecosystem • Smart City • Digital service innovation • Citizen- and city-driven • Startups • Open innovation • Agile
Attitudes towards novelty
American Startup Tries to disrupt taxi service ecosystem Lobbying in Helsinki with varied success
Bus-‐on-‐a-‐demand (intelligent rou@ng) Startup Ajelo Ltd from Helsinki Service bought and piloted by City Govt
CULTURE Tradition: “Only Big are Successful” + “Finland is a Club, not a Country”. Attitude changes after Nokia demise/Rovio success. Very stable social system – lot of rigidness: - Uber taxi service didn’t success in - Kutsuplus and open data transport apps world
top-class
POLICY Hel City Strategy, second sentence: “Helsinki is world class business and innovation center.” Also Helsinki Innovation Strategy exists and is updated. Finland: Word “Innovation” read 27 times in the prior PM’s Government Programme – about every second page
SUPPORTS “The innovation ecosystem garden is flourishing” “The gardener is probably on holiday” - which is a good thing (personal opinion) - competition and evolution of the ecosystem support activities - there is a political trend to simplify
MARKETS “International Smart City Markets are right now under consolidation” (2010, 2013, 2014, …) Cities’ key role in generating lead markets is identified - Kutsuplus pilots startup Ajelo service - Mobile App Challenges on Transport 2012, 2014
HUMAN CAPITAL 7 Universities in Helsinki Nokia has laid of thousands of people in greater Helsinki region, but mere 2 game companies have created as many new jobs at the same time. FVH steering board has members from universities, research centers, also lots of collaboration projects with them. FINANCE Ecosystem finance instruments exist and proactively promoted by Govt and City (6Aika, INKA, clusters) Most of the project financing is collaboration financing. Very good public sector startup financing. There is fast and easy funding, and there is slow and difficult funding
HELSINKI SMART CITY ECOSYSTEM FROM FVH PERSPECTIVE
#2: Defining Value Opportunity Gran Concepción 7th-9th October 2014 [email protected]
Vision for 2015 “Forum Virium Helsinki has made the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and Finland an internationally recognised showcase for digital services, in the process attracting a number of top-level international organisations as partners. Forum Virium Helsinki is the EU’s central node in the development of the sector’s products and services. The program has enabled companies to generate significant international business."
New service innovations in cooperation with companies,
public sector organizations and citizens.
Forum Virium Helsinki is a part of the City of Helsinki Group.
Ecosystem value components Value experiencer Value defini/on Possible measurement
City Departments e.g. Healthcare, Construc@on
Improve capability of understanding and up-‐taking innova@ons into city services
New innova@ons tried or in-‐use the Healthcare Department
City Central Execu@ve Office
Marke@ng value of Smart City leadership; More effec@ve city
Invest-‐in ac@vi@es BeQer efficacy of departments
Member companies (large companies)
Insight into city and SME scenery; RDI collabora@on
Joint RDI projects; alignment of City and Company RDI
SMEs and Startups Insight into procurers (city) systems; first steps of ac@on
Startup-‐driven pilot services, # of startups in X
Interna@onal partners Peer learning Successful transfer of prac@ces (CitySDK, HRI)
Ambient ecosystem value
More fluid and focused collabora@on
Aligned RDI ac@vi@es of the region
Ci@zens BeQer Services BeQer Everyday Life 1 hour more every day
Sa@sfac@on in to the services 1 hour more in everyday life
Ecosystem value components Value experiencer Value defini/on FVH revenue streams
City Departments e.g. Healthcare, Construc@on
Improve capability of understanding and up-‐taking innova@ons into city services
20% as direct commissions for specific purposes (eg: Independent Living Innova@on Challenge);
City Central Execu@ve Office
Marke@ng value of Smart City leadership; More effec@ve city
25% annual “base” funding,
Member companies (large companies)
Insight into city and SME scenery; RDI collabora@on
5% as FVH Membership fees; Sponsors; co-‐funders of projects
SMEs and Startups Insight into procurers (city) systems; first steps of ac@on
Minimal revenue to FVH
Interna@onal partners Peer learning No revenue
Ambient ecosystem value
More fluid and focused collabora@on
No direct, but creates future success in EU project calls.
50% FVH revenue from EU/Na@onal collabora@on projects – explicit link to value varies