Markku Markkula

Smart Specialisation:Societal Innovation for implementing the EU2020

The Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the political assembly that

provides the regional and local levels with a voice in EU policy

development and EU legislation. The Treaties oblige the

Commission, Parliament and Council to consult

the Committee of the Regions whenever new proposals are made in areas that affect the regional or

local level. The CoR has 344 members from the 27 EU

countries, and its work is organised in 6 different commissions. They examine proposals, debate and discuss in order to write official

opinions on key issues.

Smart SpecialisationSocietal Innovations for implementing the EU2020

Open Days12 October 2011

Markku MarkkulaOR DO WE HAVE ANOTHER OPTION?

IS THIS OUR EUROPEAN FUTURE?

End user’s needs and potential:Individuals & Organizations

We need societal innovation

for sustainable impacts

Scientific Knowledge and Resource Base

SMART SPECIALISATION FILL THE GAP

Real Life Practice

“City as the laboratory”

CoR: EU Needs Radical Transformation

Mindset & Pioneers & Scalability

Based on the Committee of the Regions CoR opinion on “The role of local and regional authorities in achieving the targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy” the policy should focus on (I have chosen a few key conclusions from the 12 page opinion which will be approved today at the CoR Plenary):1.Strong regional measures are needed to turn research results into innovation that is locally tailored and can be applied throughout Europe;2.The focus should be on making full use of digitalisation and new key enabling technologies to modernise regional innovation policy;3.CoR stresses the importance of building regional innovation capacity on the basis of smart specialisation and complementarities in neighbouring regions;4.CoR calls for pioneering regions to form European consortiums integrating different capabilities to create ground-breaking societal innovations for Europe-wide use.5.CoR encourages the regions to move towards open innovation, within a human-centred vision of partnerships, i.e. to modernise the Triple Helix concept;

Markku MarkkulaCoR & Aalto University

According to the plans, by 2020, there will be new investments of 4-5 billion €: metro, tunnel construction of ring road, other infra, housing, office and business buildings, public services, university buildings, sports and cultural facilities…

Nokia

Aalto University

Rovio Tapiola Garden City

EIT ICT Lab

Innovation Ecosystem in Practice

Regional Innovation Ecosystem

Regional Ecosystem Approach: Integrating Research and Innovation of Urban Design & ICT

Markkula, M., Miikki, L., Hyyppä, H., and Pirttivaara, M., Aalto University, 14.3.2011Applying the Future Internet – PPP, Francesca Bria, OISPG, March 2011

URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

PLATFORMS INTEGRATING VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLD

OPEN INNOVATION FOR QUALITY OF LIFE

USER DRIVEN HUMAN COLLABORATION AND

PROCESSES

SOCIO ECONOMIC ECOSYSTEM

Urban Planning Perspective

FUTURE INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE

SERVICE SUPPORT & CLOUD PLATFORM

USAGE AREAS & SMART PILOTS – APPS AND DATA

PROVISION APPS

GOVERNANCE & POLICY REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

SOCIO ECONOMIC ECOSYSTEM

Smart Digitalization Perspective

Summary:We Cannot Reach the Target by Incremental

Small Steps

We need to create “Joint Regional Innovation Ecosystems”

Inventing the future: Working and learning together

Fruits of global pioneering to the use of all

Today: Separate projects and silos

Gardening to enable uniqueness

The picture is based on the results of the Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation 2011: Markku Markkula