Sean Pillot de Chenecey’s Post

💡 Systemic Design in SMEs open innovation processes 🤝🏻 To facilitate European enterprises’ ecological and digital transition, a systemic and collaborative approach is required, framing issues within the complexity of the relationships and interconnections that characterize them. 📝 The paper, written by Silvia Barbero and Eliana Ferrulli, aims to investigate how the approach and methods of Systemic Design support an “open innovation” process in industrial and interdisciplinary environments. ♻️ The DigiCirc European project represents the reference case study, offering a space to test the challenges found in the literature with data collected in the field, emphasizing the contribution made by the researchers in Systemic Design of the Politecnico di Torino, both as project partners in the “open innovation” process and through activities supporting the start-ups and SMEs involved. 🌐 Read the whole article at this link: https://lnkd.in/eD73CsCp #systemicdesign #circulareconomy

Discovery-oriented Innovation Policies are a new type of industrial policy. Instead of based on the classical “policy planning & control of implementation” cycle, which demand a lot of knowledge about specific problems in their own context, these policies are developed through open collaborative “discovery processes”. Discovery processes are, however, difficult to implement, particularly when they aim to address wicked complex challenges, requiring higher levels of engagement with a wider set of actors, through participatory mapping and listening mechanisms. In this paper developed by Ramojus Reimeris and myself and presented at #EUSpri2024, we provide an analysis of how five European regions are attempting to implement their problem-driven learning and discovery-oriented innovation policy approaches. Among other insights the policy-process involves two types of discovery: ◾ Problem-discovery. Going from broad global challenges to regional specific place-based agendas. ◾ System-discovery. Knowing your regional eco-systems, who-is-who, who is already doing what. Are there "pockets of the future found in the present" These interviewed European Regions perceive their industrial innovation challenges as complex. However, in some cases they format their policies as "moonshots" fuelled by Smart Specialisation Strategies and funded by ERDF. Implementing these industrial strategies remains an "experimental" open process of discovery often subject to "mission-drifting" on a longer term. The paper is now available at: https://lnkd.in/dwNbEuXJ #iseg #ulisboa #TIPC #TIPResourceLab #TransformativeInnovationPolicy #deeptransitions #MOIP #PolicyInnovation #industrialstrategy #CohesionPolicy Dimitrios Pontikakis Carolina Haddad Bianca Cavicchi Francesco Cappellano Arnault Morisson Victoria Shaw Philippe Larrue Nicola Francesco Dotti Américo Veloso Bento Luiz Lopes Michal Miedzinski Angela Sarcina Manuel Gonzalez Evangelista Luisa Henriques Alexandra Vilela Joao Mendes Borga António Ramos Sandra Primitivo Pedro Dominguinhos Jacek Walendowski Laurentiu Teodorescu António Bob Santos Kieron Flanagan Elvira Uyarra Alejandra (Sandra) Boni Jordi Molas-Gallart Paulo Neto Sandro Mendonça Tiago Santos Pereira Patrice dos Santos Pablo Shah Jonathan Potter University of Sussex Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)

While I could agree with most of what is reported here (especially facts based by evidence), I would still be a bit cautious to compare the #EU with US and China. It is simply not possible to do this, because the EU is not a country, has no federal government, and more importantly its #RD policies are mainly geared to peaceful applications. The US has a different role in world governance and also a different agenda and a very different capital market. So we should not compare things that are not comparable. Moreover #industry in Europe follows principally national historical patterns and has built-in inertia factors that hold it back. So it could be probably better to focus on what we could improve in institutional terms and how we can make the shift to a really European #Innovation System.

The European Union is losing the innovation race, thereby forfeiting its economic well-being and its regulatory and geopolitical influence. Its total absence from the top 20 technology companies and top 20 start-ups is worrying. It spends too little on R&D and concentrates on intermediate technology. In collaboration with the ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the IEP@BU - Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University, we wrote with four economists a report calling for changes in European innovation policy and the distribution of research and development funding.

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[INCASE YOU MISSED IT] The Annual Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture took place on Tuesday, 3 September 2024. The lectures are held each year to honour the legacy of Alice Amsden, a former lecturer of the APORDE Programmes who passed away in 2012. She wrote extensively about the process of industrialisation in emerging economies, particularly Asia. The keynote speaker Prof. Carlota Perez is a British-Venezuelan scholar studying the mutual shaping of technical change and society and the lessons from the history of technological revolutions for economic growth and development. She is currently Honorary Professor at IIPP-UCL, London, and at SPRU, University of Sussex, UK, as well as Adjunct Professor at TalTech University, Estonia. Her work, especially her influential 2002 book, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, has contributed to the present understanding of the relationship between innovation and economic development; between technical and institutional change; and between finance and technological diffusion. In her presentation she discusses the importance of changing windows of opportunity for the rise of the rest. "In my view the two most important lessons from Alice Amsden's work are that development is about learning and that it is guided by a determined state. But what I have added is that windows of opportunity are a moving target and are defined by the process of diffusion of technological revolutions and by the successive rearrangements of the world economy". Watch her full presentation here: https://ow.ly/NGQM50TmB4P #APORDE2024 #DEVELOPMENTECONOMICS #INDUSTRIALPOLICY

Just attended the session: "Tech Horizons: AI and Innovation in Emerging Markets". I want to share just one of the many interesting insights: Emerging markets should show thought leadership on how to establish effective guardrails for ethical and responsible AI. Cornell Emerging Markets Institute

📢 High-tech businesses - The University of Sheffield needs your help! Please take 10 minutes to complete this survey 👇 A research team at the University of Sheffield are developing a toolkit for high tech businesses to help them enhance their capacity for innovation. This research aims to gain a better understanding of the novel combinations of different knowledge channels that lead to innovation in high-tech cluster businesses. The outcomes of the research project will help high-tech businesses to enhance their innovativeness by providing a step-by-step toolkit with illustrative examples from real-world case companies. They are asking high tech companies to complete a 10 minute survey: https://lnkd.in/eTE9B8fY #innovation #hightech #sheffieldbusiness

𝐓𝐡𝐞 "𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞" 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫'𝐬 𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐒 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 - 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲!🚀💡 The 5th course of this year's #ACISS has started today with the topic "Aspects of the circular economy"! 🔁 🌍🌱 The course is a brand new addition to the ACISS course programme and is led by Dr. Sarah Lichtenthäler from the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, who is a former doctoral student and graduate of our faculty 🎓 🔎💡 During this week, participants will be introduced to the concept of the #circulareconomy in the context of #resourceeconomics 🔁 🌍🌱 Therefore, the course will cover the importance of the circular economy in addressing #climatechange, its integration into #politicalregulations, the role of #businessmodelinnovations in the transition and effective strategies to increase #resourceefficiency. We wish all participants a successful course and some very informative days!🚀💡 #summerschool #researchmethods #datascience #rwth