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Dear INFUthiast,

here you have the opportunity to react on the eighteen visions on Innovation-Futures developed by the INFUForesight team.If you have not done so already, please have a look at the 10-minutes movie that gives an overview of all visions.

http://www.innovation-futures.org/?q=video/

Afterwards just click here to comment on each individual vision.Your input will be taken into account for further visioning, scenario building and policy recommendations.

If you want to play an even more active part in the INFU futures dialogue just let us know … there are many differentinroads for creative thinkers to join.

Thank you for your participation

Dr. Philine Warnke

Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISIInnovation and Technology Management and ForesightTelefon: +49 (0)721 / 68 09 - 326E-Mail: philine.warnke@isi.fraunhofer.de

François Jégou

Strategic Design ScenariosTelefon: +32 (0)495 / 50 24 - 33E-Mail: f.jegou@gmail.com

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What if open source development is no longer limited to softwaredevelopment but becomes an all-encompassing innovation pattern?

Many products and services are provided by people contributing bitsand pieces to various technological and social innovation projects.Open source business models and coordination mechanism abound.

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What if many innovations would be enjoyed only virtually?

Virtual-Only products satisfy human appetite for newness. They aredisplayed in virtual galleries for public perception or projected intohomes and offices for individuals on demand. Most of theseproducts are never materialised.

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What if innovation becomes publicly negotiated?

Companies advertise for innovation proposals to citizens, competingto get 'innovation credits' from them in order to get approval for thedevelopment of new products.

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What if companies generate most innovations on special requestfrom user communities?

Together with sociologists, designers and developers, communitiesof users develop innovation scenarios and sell them to companies.

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What if experimenting social and technological innovation would beat the core of successful innovation systems?

Public authorities strive to foster a permanent stage of collectiveexperimentation through a loosely connected network of localbottom-up projects. Enablers for collective experimentation such asinnovation toolkits form the critical infrastructure for publicexperimentation.

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What if innovation fatigue takes over and No-Innovation isen-vogue?

The innovation rush is finally slowing down. Product cycles arebecoming longer again. For market success, unchanging quality ismore important than ever new offers.

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New visualisationWhat if innovation camps, where people gather for a few days toinnovate together, become widely established as a means ofproblem solving?

Innovation camps are used by companies, public sector and civilsociety to solve problems from high-tech challenges toneighbourhood facilities. Most people regularly join innovationcamps.

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What if innovation is primarily directed at the “other 90%” of theworld population living in poverty?

Extreme low-cost/high-innovation strategies prevail. Rich worldcompanies struggle as they lack the competences and culturerequired. Innovators from today’s emerging markets fare muchbetter due to their longstanding experience.

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What if fabrication laboratories for everybody with flexiblemanufacturing equipment, become widely available and allowpeople to produce ever more products themselves?

Self-production of personalised objects is the standard way ofproducing commodities directly at home or in “create it yourselfshops/malls” with optional professional support. Companies justdeliver materials, components, equipment and design tools. Brandsdo hardly play a role any more.

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What if the current emphasis on innovation and creativity fordesigners, programmers and engineers spreads to all workplaces?

All employees from the janitor to top management are constantlyinvolved into innovation activities. Creativity is part of any jobsdaily routine and is key in performance measurements. Part of thejob is to redefine the job it-self.

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Visualisation from Innovation MarketplaceWhat if companies no longer innovate themselves but fullyexternalise innovation to an open innovation marketplace?

Nomadic innovators bid on innovation tenders and contests inconstantly changing teams. They gather in co-working spaces someof which are top-favourite employers for creative people.

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Visualisation stemming from “Externalisation/MINATEC”What if companies would collaborate in joint innovation places?

Independent innovation plants will rent large open spaces forcompanies to settle their innovation staff with private areas and allsorts of collaborative facilities in between.

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What if companies use digital systems to randomly create and testinnovation variants before selecting the “fittest” for furtherdevelopment?

Enormous amounts of variants are tested, often with an unexpectedoutcome. Design, creativity and consumer research loose relevance.Engineers dream of ultimately simulating the end-user and thusfully automate the innovation process.

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What if we scan the internet for ideas and automatically pick theones that best answer to current customer needs?

Sophisticated semantic web-filters track changes in consumerpreferences and new ideas in real time, and automatically extractinnovations with outstanding market potential.

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What if innovation skills would be high on the education agendaright from kindergarden?

Children are motivated to maintain their “discovery spirits” andlearn how to question facts and think things differently. Learning isproject oriented with a high emphasis on bricolage.

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What if the bulk of successful and disruptive innovations were tocome from today’s emerging markets?

The West adopts the role of a follower and has to face productsprimarily designed for different cultural context. Western companieswishfully look to Asia, often with the help of industrial espionage.Creative people migrate to the new innovation hot spots in Asia andsend back their money home to the US and Europe.

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What if the principle of “Waste equals Food”/”cradle to cradle”would be widely adopted?

Instead of raw materials, databases with used components andmaterials serve as a starting point for innovations. The whole worldbecomes one eternal circle. Everything that is made of something ispart of making something.

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What if stores were to become laboratories where companies andcustomers co-develop innovations?

Laboratory Department Stores would offer theme-worlds such as“Family Life” or “New Sports”, where customers can experienceunreleased products, individualize existing goods and in return getaccess to products fitting better their needs and desires.

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What if cities became stronger actors in the field of innovation byproactively pushing for needed solutions?

Cities could take on the investment risks for the development andimplementation of needed innovations and use this as a neweconomic factor by patenting and marketing their solutions to othercities.

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Finally, some personal questions.

Where are you based?

What is your main perspective on innovation?

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What is your type of innovation you are concerned with?

Product Innovation

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Service Innovation

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