The SA Innovation Network

4 March 2010

Agenda 1. Introduction

2. The SAINe logo3. Where did it all start?4. SAINe format5. What can SAINe do for you?6. Focus areas7. Benefits8. Sustainability9. Guiding documents10.Successes and Progress11.Featured open discussions12.Most popular discussion topic13.NineSigma RSS Feed on SAINe website14.Thought leader commitment15.The way forward

The SAINe logo

Where did it all start?• SA Innovation Summit survey on the need for a

benchmarking club for innovation in SA– Innovation Summit 2008

• Output Cofisa’s Innovation Systems Leadership Leadership Programme– Sponsors of time

and resources

Format: First Year

• 2010 Steering committee: Cape Biotech Trust, SAVCA, Meraka Institute,

COFISA, DBSA, RIIS• Infrastructure shared with RIIS at the Innovation Hub• Primary contact: Riëtte van Schalkwyk • Programme finances reported in full at yearly AGM• Membership from 1 Jan to 31 Dec.• SAVCA has been tasked to restructure SAINe into an

association when sustainability has been proven

What Saine can do for you? • Interactive website • Create knowledge in innovation in SA • SA Innovator for free• Members appear in the Innovation Yearbook• Members receive full reports of surveys they participate in• Discounts to events such as the SA Innovation Summit, 4

great innovation events per year, some events by invitation only.• Publish and get access to new case studies in distinct fields of

innovation• Innovation network opportunities: Why networking?

The network is the Learning by George Siemens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpbkdeyFxZw&feature=related

Focus areas• Networking, publicity and information sharing and

events to foster innovation and innovation management practices

• Creating case studies on the success of innovation• Research and benchmarking on innovation in South

Africa• The creation of standards for “Innovation

Management”

Benefits• Develop common language and practice for the

“ Management of Innovation”• Networked niche that picks up momentum and can

deliver real value in terms of economic growth and job creation

• Lobbying force for standards, benchmarks and contextual information about SA innovators

•Less lonely

•Sharing of knowledge

•Bridge the innovation chasm

Sustainability• Membership fees• Corporate memberships• Sponsors• YOU!

Guiding Documents

• Cofisa Team Manifesto• Code of Ethics

Progress from Launch:

Australis Comm BMGi Cape Biotech Trust CeresCexino DBSA Debono /BRGEast London IDZ Eskom Faculty Training Institute Fiftyways Funk That Limitless OpportunitiesMedical Research CouncilMeraka InstituteMindstir

NETCBNone-Zero-Sum Development North West UniversityQueORIISSABS Design InstituteSARIMASAVCASense2SolveSymphoniaTrusler ConsultantsUnisaUniversity of PretoriaWits Commercial Enterprise Zweni ICT Solutions

Currently 155 individuals from 31 companiesAcademia, Business and Government

Successes & Progress • SAINe Video: Open Innovation on You Tube (watched

283 times up to date!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVa5QAKJMSE

• Month on month growth of 30% new visitors• Members networking event : SABS Design Institute• 11 hosted open discussions and 83 articles

published• Facebook group(101 members) and Cape Silicon

group (new)

Featured open discussions

• 13 Thought leaders • 11 Discussions• 93 comments• Topics with most comments:

1. 15 comments: Is open Innovation for everyone?/ What does open innovation mean to you?

2. 15 comments: What is blocking SA’s innovation potential?

3. 8 comments: The promise of science parks4. 7 comments: The experiences of Lathi Living Lab5. 6 comments: What is your favourite innovation book?6. 5 comments: Should I patent?7. 5 comments: Lego serious play

Most popular discussion topic

•Open Innovation: http://www.saine.co.za/?p=98

•What is open innovation? – The Lassen Innovation explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8sxKDkeSCc&NR=1

•Current open discussion: Open vs Closed Innovation Visit http://www.saine.co.za/?p=1575 to ask the expert

NineSigma RSS FeedsOpen Innovation: NineSigma RSS Feed on SAINe website: (most resent)Nine Sigma Projects• Particle Measurement• Removing Carbone Dioxide from Methane

Fermentation Gas Streams• Technology for Stabilizing Functional Proteins in

beverages

• What is a RFP? https://www.myninesigma.com/sites/public/_layouts/RFPs/NineSigma_RFP_65646.pdf

Thought Leader Commitment

• It is easy: 2 open discussions every year and 6 other short articles or paragraphs during the year (may be published previously)

The Way Forward

• Grow membership base• Firm up thought leader process• Website content expand• Network the network• Think tank data basis in different sectors• Yearbook for members• “The value of Innovation survey”• Listening to the network

• Contribute: Volunteer you expertise, time or resources to collaborate to make the difference

• www.saine.co.za

Thank you!