Slovenia Initiative Innovation for Life Quality –

Slovenia Living Lab: What Next?

Jože GričareCenter

Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of v MariborGricar@FOV.Uni-Mb.si

http://eCenter.FOV.Uni-Mb.si/Gricar http://eLivingLab.org

European Commission Involvement in the Living Labs Development

Living Labsfor user-driven open innovation

Draft versionAn Overview of Activities, October 2008

Directorate-General for the Information Society and MediaUnit F4

New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities

OISPG Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group

Members http://OISPG.PBwiki.com

• BT Group • European Commission • France Telecom - Orange • HP Labs • IBM Europe, Middle-East

and Africa • Intel• Items International

• Living Labs Portfolio Group

• NESTA Policy & Research Unit

• Nokia Corporation • Philips Research • SAP EMEA Research • Sitra• University of Maribor

Some Opportunities for the Cross-border eRegion Development

in the Living Labs Environment

• Growing interest in the innovative Cross-border eRegions development (EU Presidency, DGs INFSO, REGIO, INDUSTRY, INTERNAL MARKETS)

• European Network of Living Labs• Country-wide Living Lab Initiative • eInvoicing & eProcurement Initiative• eHealth & eInclusion Initiative• Disaster eResponse Initiative• Centre for eGovernance Development (South

East Europe)

Presidency Roadmap for European Network of Living Labs

Finnish Presidency launching ENoLL and Helsinki Manifesto1st wave, November 20 2006

Portuguese PresidencyRenewing Lisbon strategy for people2nd wave ENoLL, October 17 2007

German Presidency emphasisingRegional innovation (Bremen &

Munchen LLs), Spring 2007

Slovenian PresidencyChallenging cross-border and

Pan European level Open Innovation3rd wave LL, Brussels April 8 2008

French Presidency bringing Innovation to citizen level

Lyon, November 26-28 2008

Cross-border Baltic Region Development

Sweden is one of the strongest advocates for a special EU Baltic strategy, and I am pleased to tell you that the strategy is one of my government's top priorities in the discussions with France and the Czech Republic for our common presidency work programme.

Malmström, Cecilia:

An EU strategy for the Baltic Sea region.

Speech: European Parliament, Strasbourg, 12 December 2007,

http://Sweden.gov.se/sb/d/3211/a/94598

2009 European Year of Creativity and Innovation

Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation for

both social and economic reasons.

http://www.ecnais.org/documents/Commissionproposes2009tobecomeEuropeanYearofCreativityandInnovation_000.doc

European Network of Living Labs - ENoLL

First Wave, Finland - Helsinki, November 20, 2006Second Wave, Portugal – Brussels, October 17, 2007

Third Wave - France, Lyon, November 26, 2008http://OpenLivingLabs.eu

Innovation for Life Quality: Slovenia Living Lab

Slovenia’s Country-wide Initiative, July 2007 http://SloveniaLivingLab.org

• Focusing on few research & development projects of the highest relevance to the country.

• Gaining practically useful high added-value solutions by pilot implementations.

• Providing for interoperability of the existing technology platforms.

• Improving a long-term oriented collaboration with the most developed countries.

• Obtaining political support for the initiative accomplishment where, and when the government support is needed.

eInvoicing & eProcurement Initiative

Innovative experimenting in the Cross-border eInvoicing:

Invitation to possible joint actions http://eLivingLab.org/Invoicing/Experimenting.htm

Pan-European Public Procurement OnLine – PEPPOLEU Funded Project - Pilot

http://PEPPOL.eu

eHealth & eInclusion Initiative

Infrastructure development for tracking all health related activities

and integration with a regular e-health record.&

Creation of an environment where the elderly community with vast experience and knowledge

can become a significant asset

http://eCenter.FOV.Uni-Mb.si/ecomENG/Events/OpenDays2008/SloveniaLivingLabInitiative.pdf

Disaster eResponse Initiative

Draft Memorandum of Safe and Secure eRegionhttp://eLivingLab.org/Safe/Memorandum.htm

Ljubljana, July 2005

Virtual Cross-border Disaster Response

Living Lab in the eRegionhttp://eCenter.FOV.Uni-Mb.si/MerkurDay

November 2007

eGovernance Development for South East Europe

Centre for eGovernance Development (CeGD)

http://www.CeGD.eu

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Living Labs in Slovenia

eLivingLabhttp://eLivingLab.org

ICT Technology Networkhttp://ICT-Slovenia.net

Slovenian Automotive Living Labhttp://www.acs-giz.si/ang/home.asp

Sea Entrance to Central EuropeSea Entrance to Central Europe

A L A D I N ALpe ADria INitiativeUniversities’ Networkhttp://ALADIN-Net.eu

Universities:

Budapest, Hungary KF Graz, AustriaMedical Graz, AustriaTU Košice, Slovakia Maribor, Slovenia BW München, GermanyNovi Sad, Serbia BU Prague, Czech Rep.Rijeka, Croatia Trento, ItalyTrieste, ItalyGeorge Washington, USA

Innovative Cross-border eRegion Development

in the Living Labs Environment

November 12-14, 2008 http://eCenter.FOV.Uni-Mb.si/eRegionEventsInSlovenia

The 6th Workshop on the Cross-border Disaster eResponse in the eRegion:

Interoperability of Information Systemsof the Organizations Involved

The 5th International Workshop on LivingLabs

in the Innovative eRegion

Merkur Day 2008The 10th Undergraduate and Graduate

Students eConference & 16th Business & Government & Diplomacy

Executive Meeting on the Innovative Cross-border eRegion

Opportunities in Open Innovation & LLs Experience Sharing in the eRegions

Which components, solutions, or LLs operations successful in one eRegion could be copied, which could be followed, and which are not applicable at all in another eRegion?

Can some guidelines for successful copying be defined and generalized for better understanding of the potential of the LLs as a concept and as a practice in an eRegion?

How relevant are the outstanding business, government, and academic leaders to the LLs & eRegions awareness creation, policy making, or solutions implementation?

Can the neighboring countries facing tensions or conflicts gain benefits if helped in, or pushed into an eRegion development and innovative experimenting in the LLs?