By Anna Ntinidou, Open Arena 5, LU Open, Lund University, Sweden, presented at the 16th TCI Global Conference, Kolding 2013.

1. Regional Smart specialization realities from
an Issues stand point
Anna Ntididou
Cluster lab: Competence driven vs. issue driven smart
specialization and impact result
4 september 2013

2. @
16th TCI Annual Global Conference
3-6 September 2013, Kolding, Denmark
Regional Smart specialization realities from an Issues stand point
How can open Innovation processes speed up impact & results?

3.  Skåne
• Area: 10 939 km2
• Population: 1 243 329
• Density: 112.8/km2

4.  Knowledge Key to Innovation :To increase the impact
of university research and knowledge
 Joint initiative between the higher education
institutions in the counties of Skåne and Blekinge
(2011–2013)
 Catalyst for cooperation in the Regional Innovation
System
 Effectiveness and coordination of efforts
 Synergistic effect in interdisciplinary cooperation
 Focus
 Challenges – needs driven innovation
 Open Innovation principles & processes

5.  “smart specialisation” - launched at EU level to emphasise the
importance of basing prioritisations in innovation strategies and
subsequent initiatives on a fundamental analysis of the requirements for
future competitiveness at all political levels. Focus is also on regional
players’ participation in strategy development.
 Open Arena 5 : Synergy with and contribution to
 STRATEGY 2020: An International Innovation Strategy for Skåne
 ‘smart personal health’, ‘smart sustainable cities’, ‘smart materials’
 Developing new innovative areas and creative environments
 Sub-strategy: From cluster initiatives to the development of open
innovation arenas in Skåne

6.  Aims
 To increase the impact of university research and
knowledge
 To strengthen the innovative capacity in the region
through the increase of utilisation of university research
 To develop and test new methods and tools to this end
 To establish an open collaboration arena/platform in the
region between academia-society-business
 Thematic areas
 Smart Cities
 Food
 Environment
 Personal Health
 ICT as a catalyst
Sustainability as a
horizontal
thematic

7.  Implementation:
 Project Leader: LU Open
 Joint Learning and capturing of lessons learned
 Pilots - interdisciplinary innovation arenas to test new methods and tools-
new methodologies for collaboration models
1. Green Development - ORIGO (SLU Alnarp)
2. Food, Environment & Health - Open Innovation Arena (HKR)
3. Prototyping the Future - ICT Tools for Innovation (MAH)
4. IT and Internet-based solutions within Health & Smart Cities (BTH)
5. Bridging Academia & Knowledge (LU Innovation System)

8. one unique team
Academic intrapreneur
SME/Public sectorTeamleader
Business advisor
Expert
Scentific researcher

9. Academic
intrapreneur
An innovation model
SME/Public sectorScentific researcher
Research result Product/service

10. one team - # milestones
 Risk management as a particularly crucial aspect
 Milestones focused on commercial product development
 Time to market effectiveness
 Increased potential to involve SMEs

11. University
Researcher
Origo modelPhD
Intrapreneur
Risk management
Research based product development
Academic material
Research results
Market potential
Commercial product development
Innovation
Origo 2012/ SLU; Kristina Santén, Patrik Stolt, LU;Helena Ljusberg
Industry
Public sector
 Risk management as a particularly crucial aspect
 Time to market effectiveness
 Increased competitiveness
 Commercial product development
 Increased potential to involve SMEs

12. Project formulated by
challenges and needs
Project created and changed
according to needs
Project that fails
Project that achieves commercialisation or
implementation in a business environment
iterative processes
Challenge
Challenge
External/Internal Knowledge and Insight
Collaborative Methods & Tools
OPEN INNOVATION PROCESS
HKR & KRINOVA Open Innovation Arena
Model key aspects:
 nature in challenge driven innovation
 interdisciplinary teamwork and knowledge complementarity
 triple-helix collaborative effort and insight, including participatory
processes
 early fail aspect, crucial for level of investment
 efficiency and time to implementation

13. WORKSHOPS
- Coopetitions
WORKSHOPS
Identification and definition
of challenge and problem
WHAT EXISTS? INSIGHTS?
Current knowledge level and competence
Available solutions and companies
Research,
Project result
and Societal
Challenges
Insight
Assignment
Formulation
Invitation to
researchers, compa
nies,public sector
identified
project-
embryo
DESIGNPROCESSES
- Translation and metaphors
- Team prototyping
Testbed-
Assignment
formulation
CROWD
SOURCING
- Development
From Challenge to Idea to Innovation
An iterativ innovation process
Support from
innovation
actors in
ecosystem

14. From Challenge to Idea to Innovation
An iterativ innovation process
Prof of
Concept
INNOVATION
- Commercialisation
- Beta launch
PITCH
Unique and
valuable new:
- Process
- Concept
- Product/service

15. BTH Model
Cases coming from researchers (push)
and the industry (pull)
Students
Pilot Leader
Workshops:
Researchers
fertilize the
industry ideas
Academy
Students:
Product/prototype
tests
The link between the industry and the
academy, identifying cases, creating
workshops, business
development, attract commercial
partners
Proof of
Concept
Proof of Concept:
Business
development &
prototyping
Industry
Workshops: The
industry fertilizes
the researchers
ideas

16. .
Modell 2:

Prototyping the Future
Model
Key aspects: Fast failure
IPR not crucial

17. LU Innovation System Pilot: Bridging Academia & Knowledge
Making knowledge available to business in life science
• MAX lab infrastructure mostly used by university
researchers
• Goal:
 To make infrastructure available to life science industry
 To stimulate increased usage of facilities
• Effect:
 Competence development together with industy
 Facilities as a resource for product development
 Increase of international attractiveness of the region
• Key aspect: Facilitator function

18.  Lessons learned until now
• Systems innovation is a top‐to‐bottom attitude for
policy‐makers, universities, industry, customers and users. This is the
spirit of Open Innovation Arenas in theory.
 Reality: It takes time and bottom-up efforts to change processes but
challenge driven processes speed up impact
• Regional “smart specialisation” priorities are successful in streamlining
regional efforts between innovation players since these are based in the
analysis of the cluster realities and competencies in the region.
• Open Arena 5 avoided dread-lock through a bottom-up approach that
respected the needs of the actors in the innovation system and moved
slowly towards new open innovation models as a first step toward
integration of university efforts in the region.
• Key aspect: Intermediary function
• Issues and challenge driven open innovation processes speed up impact
& results since they showcase reality and success & failure
stories, contribute therefore in changing established practices.