Presentació "Catalan Innovation Strategy" a càrrec de Sergi Marcén, responsable de desenvolupament industrial TIC i mobilitat de la Generalitat de Catalunya en el marc de la inauguració de l'SparkLab, el laboratori del telecentre del futur.

2. Innovation Strategy – “Tech value”
“Technology both eliminates jobs and creates jobs. Generally, it destroys lowerwage, lower-productivity jobs, while it creates jobs that are more productive, higherskilled, and better paid. Historically, the income-generating effects of new
technologies have proven more powerful that the labor-displacing effects.
Technological progress has been accompanied not only by higher output and
productivity, but also by higher output of productivity, but also by higher overall
employment.”*
A large number of economists have identified
ICT as a “general purpose technology” that
plays an inordinate role in innovation and
productivity. ICT is a major growth driver in
develop and developing countries alike.
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3. ICT Innovation Strategy – “Cross-sector”
ICT’s role in the innovation ecosystem as a general purpose technology that
drives innovation across all sectors of the economy. Information and
communications technology plays a vital role in the global innovation ecosystem.
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4. ICT Innovation Strategy – ICT as innovation based
The Information and Communication Technologies must be used with a new vision to
generate innovation. Until now the ICT have been tools to improve the company's
competitiveness, from now, the ICT must also be the tools to create new solutions
and products.
Strategy
Real case
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5. Case Study
“Cross-sector” ICT - mobile solutions
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6. Catalan Innovation Strategy – “QH based”
According to the Quadruple Helix Innovation Theory (QH), the Catalan
economic structure lies on four pillars/helices: Academy, Industries, Government
and Citizens. The economic growth is generated by the clustering and
concentration of talented and productive people.
Academia and Industries, together with Technological Infrastructures of Innovation,
provide the integrated innovation ecosystem where all forms of creativity can rise.
In turn, Governments provide part of the financial support and the regulation
system for the definition and implementation of innovation activities. Citizens
demands for ever innovating goods and services.
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7. Case Study
“The Catalan Mobile Innovation Strategy based in QH”
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8. Industry – Barcelona Mobile World Capital
The aim of the Mobile World Capital is to drive and develop innovate
mobile initiatives with the capacity to transform the traditional way of
doing things, both in industry and in people’s day-to-day lives.
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9. Academy - Mobile World Lab
Mission Statement :
The Mobile World Lab
mission is to showcase the
deployment of cutting-edge
mobile technologies in
Barcelona with the most
innovative networks,
solutions, applications and
services.
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10. Citizens – Living Labs & Telecentre Network
The Catalan Living Labs, Advaced Telecenter’s and Telecenter’s Network
works improving innovation on development of useful mobile services through
interaction in “daily life” setting between developers, universities, technological
centers and end users. Produce mobile products and services relevant for the
industry and their clients is the main goal of our living labs.
The model of a Catalan Living Lab is a user-centric research methodology for
sensing, prototyping, validating and refining complex solutions in multiple and
evolving real life contexts managed from the Catalan Government.
Innovation
manager
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11. Government - idigital
The idigital plan is the strategy of the Government to create in Catalonia
an innovation pole of the Digital Society that generates economic growth,
business competitiveness, occupation and transform the Administration.
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12. www.gencat.cat