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Bring your ideas on how EU could become an innovation friendly environment. Share your views on how to foster impact innovation in EU and overcome the issues hindering it.
In the modern experience economy, the notion of innovation is evolving beyond the realm of being exclusively technology-focused and R&D-driven. There is a paradigm shift towards user-centeredness...
EARTO has published a first paper on what an EIC should look like in October 2015. A second paper with more concrete recommendations to initiate an EIC Pilot under Horizon 2020. EARTO sees 3...
There is now over a ten year experience in investigating the space time distribution of oceanic phytoplankton at high frequency and at the single cell level. This was a prerequisite to have access to...
‘Challenge.eu’: The call for a European Challenge Prize Platform Alexander L.E. Mäkelä Halfway through the EU’s Horizon 2020 framework it is time to consider which areas...
I would like to present the particular idea presented on ICERI2013 on November 2013 which I hope could be soon a reality. Ever since, the business area and the academic community are trying to...
Your experience What would you like to share? Barcelona is a hot spot on innovation. My experience is building open living labs and citizen labs in this city during 20 years. Your ideas How would you...
Self- and Co-Regulation have the potential to strenthen citizens and consumers trust in digital markets without hampering innovation. To unfold this potential for regulatory innovation a legal...
Towards Collaboration, Not Conflict The global push for innovation brings new challenges in foreign relations. It represents, in many ways, the same kind of sabre rattling and competition that has...
Globally connected world of innovation As we think through innovation and how and where the EU can possibly go in shaping a different innovation drive, it is always utterly advisable to scan “...
I was looking at the concept of clustering and it cast my mind back. Twelve years ago I was in a collaboration effort with one of the major consulting firms on a concept called “button and...
To start with, a simple story. I did try recently to innovate sending my kids to school walking with their friends instead of driving them by car. The idea is to organize and gather groups of kids...
There is so much threatening to disrupt the existing. The extension of this will be whole industries as we know them will rapidly change. Regulation will lag even more. We are seeing entirely new...
Thinking about a service or program solely in terms of the current process greatly limits developing a vision for how it might be changed or improved. The way it’s done today often prevents...
Give intrapreneurs a playground that allows for challenge and change. Even worse than a lack of incentives is a culture that discourages change. Leaders should provide safe places where intrapreneurs...
To trigger thoughts we need to look at doing more with innovation through technology and less emphasis on 'imposing' regulation. The problem is that society faces an unprecedented array of big...
Your experience Universities have a wealth of expertise about what works, what doesn't and what is possible. Many public procurement tenders are monopolised by large providers who provide software...
Your experience The process of harmonising law at EU level is slow and can take up to 10 years allowing for implementation and clarifying court cases. Often it takes place in the teeth of opposition...