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Welcome to the Union

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© 100%Open 2014May 3, 2023 11It’s a small world…


“The world isn’t getting smaller, the networks

are getting bigger” Greg Hadfield

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“Networking is only one letter away from not working.”

Chris Powell

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1000+ innovation professionals from all sectors > 10 talks, each with a clear ask, and no Q&A > 100’s of productive

partnerships created > Quarterly in London & Geneva.

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Just one conversation away from pretty much anything and everything…

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3 Minute Joint Venture

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1. Turn to somebody you don’t know.

2. Introduce yourselves to each other.

3. Find something you could do together.

4. Give your joint venture a name.

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“Connect on your similarities, and benefit

from your differences.” Valdis Krebs

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Are Sustainable Innovations Valuable?

Roger KirbyHuman Centered Design

Swisscom

Paved since 4000 BC!

Useful for transport

Communication

Governmance

Spins off innovations!

Changes how we live

Growing in complexity

Useful for transport

Communication

Governmance

Controlling Things

Electrified since 1839!

Spin-off innovations!

Which companies are profiting

most from the network?

The Golden Cage of

Sustainable Innovation:

How to escape?

How do you get value from your most Sustainable

Innovation?

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Felix SthaliImpact HUB Geneva

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used

when we created them” _

Albert Einstein

INSPIRE. CONNECT. ENABLE.

Take part!

http://geneva.impacthub.net



Philippe QuinioSTMicroelectronics

Sustaining Innovation in the High-Tech B2B businessPresentation to Union Suisse’s Spring Event

Philippe Quinio, Group VP, IP Sourcing & Strategy

March 13th, 2014

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Who We Are 34

• A global semiconductor leader

• The largest European semiconductor company

• 2013 revenues of $8.08B

• Approximately 45,000 employees worldwide

• Approximately 9,000 people working in R&D

• 12 manufacturing sites

• Listed on New York Stock Exchange, Euronext Paris and Borsa Italiana, Milano

Where You Find Us 35

Our automotive products

are making driving safer, greener and more

entertaining

Our smart power products

are making more of our energy resources

Our MEMS & Sensors are augmenting the consumer experience

Our Microcontrollers

are everywhere making everything smarter and

more secure

Our digital consumer products are powering the

augmented digital lifestyle

Intelligent Locks

Powering Wearable & Connected Devices 36

Activity MonitorSmart Watch

Headset

Heart Monitor

Glasses / GogglesSports Contactless Pmt

Weather Station

Intelligent Locks Home Gateway Smart AppliancesToys & Games

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Innovation Process

Innovation Input

• R&D resources

• R&D policy

Innovation Output

• Products

• Process improv.

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Technology Bricks System Ideas

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Basic Needs-orientedScientific and Technical Research

Antenna Technologies

Denis von der Weid

Geneva, March 13th, 2014Union Suisse event – Sustainable Innovation

WHEN RESEARCH PRIORITY IS TO FIND SOLUTIONS

FOR THE MOST BASIC NEEDS

Antenna Technologies• Founded in 1989 in Geneva, Switzerland

• About 400 people involved in fifteen countries, incl. 50 scientists and engineers (Africa,

Asia and Latin America)

• Financed by governments, international foundations, private donations and institutional

funds

• Research & Diffusion of technologies appropriate to the basic needs of the bottom of the

pyramid – BOP (< 2 $ / day)

Basic needs

Fight against malnutrition

Access to drinking water

Biofertilizers & biopesticides

North-south collaborative medical research

Solar lighting systems & mobile chargers

Microcredit supports many of the projects

Upgrading

Performances not integrated in social needs

Profit as unique priority

Reach high income population for higher margin

Downgrading

Looking for sustainability & robustness

Available at very low cost

Stimulating replicability

Reinforcing the local economy (produced locally)

Accessible to the poorer

VS

Operating cost below 0.01€ per litre of chlorine concentrate !

A simple, robust, low cost, reliable device for local production of

active chlorine by electrolysis

This device produces 30,000 l of drinkable water per day

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Research and technology have to be combined with social consciousness in order to fight poverty

Could your organisation be involved and would you become the link between your organisation

and Antenna?

Please contact us:

www.antenna.ch

Fondation Antenna Technologies

24, Avenue de la Grenade - 1207 Geneva, Switzerland

+41 22 737 12 40

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Paul JeremeasHP

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Sustainable Innovation: Living in the Age of Distraction

Paul JeremaesDirector HP Innovation Centers EMEA


‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, …’

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens, 1812-1870


Lessons leant from Flappy Innovation

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Understanding the Social Physics of Innovation

Creating a sustainable innovation culture

• Trust

• Willingness to accept failure

• Flexibility

• Open communication

• …

• Stimulate participation

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What motivates you to participate in the business of innovation ?

Meaning

Improvement and Accomplishment OwnershipScarcity

Social Pressure

Creativity and

Feedback

Loss and

Avoidance

Unpredictability


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What role do you play as an Innovation Architect?

What is on your Innovation Agenda?



Manju GeorgeSchwab Foundation

Corporations and Social Innovation13 Mar 2014

Financial Returns

+

Social Impact

Social Entrepreneurship

“Business can do much more to address society’s challenges in the

areas of most concern: resource scarcity (68%), climate change

(65%) and income equality (64%)”

- Deloitte Millennial Survey 2014

- India, Companies Act 2013

Changing Role Expectations?

BUSINESS

STRATEGY

EXTERNALITY

From shareholders to stakeholders

“If you want me to do things

only for ROI reasons, you

should get out of this stock”

What would it take?

What would it take?

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Accenture Development Partnerships

Find the Social Intrapreneurs in your Company!

Union Event – March 13th

2014

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What do these people have in common?

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Amit Mehra

Founder of Reuters Market Light

(Thomson Reuters)

1.3 million unique subscribers so far

in an estimated 50,000 villages across

13 states

Myriam Sidibe

Founder of Lifebuoy (Unilever)

55 countries with the aim of changing

handwashing behaviours of one billion

people by 2015

Nick Hugues

Co-founder of M-Pesa

(Vodafone)

23 million subscribers in Kenya and

30%+ of the country GDP is spent

through mobile money


Individuals passionate about a social issue, a challenge or a social need

People applying the principles of social entrepreneurship inside a major organization to develop

practical solutions to drive social and business impact

Persons operating inside an organizational ecosystem (corporate, government etc.) and leverages

assets – such as brand, people and technology

Individuals aiming to make a difference and to develop a commercial viable solution for social and

business impact

Social intrapreneurs are people who use their organizations to create both business and social value

Who are social intrapreneurs?

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Key principles

"Social intrapreneurs are demonstrating to the

world how business can be a force for good.“

- Richard Branson -


Accenture acts as a catalyst for Social Intrapreneurship and has launched a portfolio of related initiatives

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Launched in Spring 2013

League of Intrapreneurs competition with more

than 200+ entries from 50+ countries

• 15 initial members of the League

• 4 winners

• Research on intrapreneurs

• Support to the winners

League of Intrapreneurs

Launched in October 2013

• 3 day + 3 month programme for early

stage intrapreneurs from various

companies

• 3-day intensive where participants interact

with thought-leaders and successful

intrapreneurs.

• 3-month accelerator where participants

receive support for their projects

Intrapreneur Lab

And more to come…

(Future of the League, Social

Intrapreneurship courses,

Incubator for Intrapreneurs, …)


What does it mean for Union Suisse members?

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Q: How to discover and support Social Intrapreneurs in your company?

To further your thoughts :

• www.leagueofintrapreneurs.com

• intrapreneur.businessfightspoverty.org/take-action/the-intrapreneur-lab/

mailto: [email protected]

http://www.leagueofintrapreneurs.com/

http://intrapreneur.businessfightspoverty.org/take-action/the-intrapreneur-lab/



mailto:[email protected]

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Innovation Pillars at UNOSAT

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Satellite based analysis (Natural Disasters - Conflicts )

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Knowledge Transfer (Training & Capacity Development)

Applied Research: Cyberlab Project

Citizen Cyberlab will pioneer open source platforms and tools that enable and enhance learning and creativity in Citizen Cyberscience,

http://crowdcrafting.org/

http://crowdcrafting.org/

The UNOSAT GeoTag-X pilot project

http://citizencyberlab.eu/2014/01/unitar-is-calling-out-for-volunteers/





Philip BoydelDu Pont

70% of P&G Sales rely

on water in use

3 out of 5 consumers claim to be interested in learning more about what companies are doing to:

Recycle Reduce Energy

SOURCE: LOHAS Segmentation Study Global Report, October 2013

Reduce Water

INNOVATION

24 Billion Liters of water saved

since January

2008 launch

EDUCATION

COLLABORATION

Life Cycle

Assessment

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What are the chances that two people in

this room share the same birthday?

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Is there anyone in particular that it

would help you to meet at

the moment?

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