An Open Innovation Workshop as part of our FP7 SME-AERO-POWER Project. Facilitated by Ron Donaldson of Argenta Europ Ltd and Hosted by Óscar Sacristán de Frutos of Cidault. We took a group of mostly SMEs through a series of workshop methods aimed at amplifying networking, collaboration and the production of opportunities for innovation to their particular innovation ecosystem.

1. Facilitated by:
Ron Donaldson
Argenta Europ Ltd
Hosted by:
Óscar Sacristán de Frutos
Fundación CIDAUT
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2. Overview
This workshop was set up to engage the SME and Primes
community in and around Valladolid, Spain with the intention of
stimulating communication, knowledge sharing, collaboration
and the co-creation of creative ideas while building awareness
of our SME-AERO-POWER project and the approach we are
taking.
We ran the event on a Monday from 09:00 – 14:00
What follows is a brief summary of the event...

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Instrumentos financieros del CDTI Y Horizonte 2020

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WORKSHOP TIMETABLE
09:30 Welcome and coffee
10:00 Instrumentos financieros del CDTI Y Horizonte 20202: Vision general y
perspectivas
Welcome (and subsequent translation) Oscar
SME-Aero-Power Ron
Information about our European Project
Future Backwards Ron
Communicating, Networking in groups
SpeedStorming Ron
Collaborating for Innovative Thinking
Next Steps Ron
Innovation Boosting
13:55 Review & Feedback
14:00 close

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OBJECTIVES OF THIS WORKSHOP
The workshop objectives are for you to experience . .
1 NETWORKING
To show how capturing, creating and exchanging
“stories” is a quick and effective way to make sense of a
subject area within a complex situation.
2 COLLABORATING
To provide a ‘taste’ of some of the techniques we use
with companies in our project and so help them to
innovate by working more effectively with others.
. . CONSIDER JOINING SME-AERO-POWER
To interest you in joining the SME Aero-Power project
(not just for those already in the Aerospace supply
chain).

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We used Ron Young's 4x4 matrix to show the
16 areas of interaction in the SME-AERO Open
Innovation Ecosystem our project aims to
stimulate.

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...and translated effortlessly, by Oscar, into Spanish.
The project objectives were explained by Ron ...

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“Collaboration and Innovation
In this part of Spain”
Future Backwards - This is a way to network
with people at your table, to explore the
following ecosystem...
Future Backwards is a Cognitive Edge method http://cognitive-edge.com/library/methods/future-backwards/

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The instructions were explained piece by piece...

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In under an hour we had three complete time-
lines complete with worst outcome (Hell) and
best outcome (Heaven)

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Each group then nominated a storyteller who
told their story to the other groups.
These themes are emergent and contextualised by the white perspectives.
They help define and make sense of the Innovation Ecosystem being explored
Sharing story, perspectives, expertise...

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The groups then considered the similarities,
differences, surprises and concerns within the
stories to make sense of the three different
perspectives.

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COLLABORATING
COLLABORATION &
INNOVATIVE THINKING
- collaborating is more than networking: it involves doing
something together and demands a degree of trust
- this next technique is called SpeedStorming: how to find a
number of opportunities for innovation in a short time by
sharing ideas with other people

14. Now each person completes Step 1 on the
SpeedStorming Instruction sheet . .
This was how we
planned to do it, but with
time running out and
translations proving
tricky...

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How we actually did it...

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Collaborative pairs consider opportunities for
Innovation (O for I)

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COLLABORATING
INNOVATION
BOOSTING
- takes a good idea and accelerates the process of finding
out how to turn it into reality
- Innovation Boosting takes some time, so today we can only
start the process by using a small number of techniques
More about Argenta Boosters: http://www.argenta-europ.com/default.asp?pageid=215

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The collaborative opportunities plotted by the
participants on a Benefit vs Cost/Harm matrix ...
… and their priority determined. All the opportunities were
self-assessed as being of 'high benefit' to this ecosystem.

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Feedback on today's workshop

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WANT TO LEARN MORE?
Join SME Aero Power by registering on the website
www.sme-aero-power.eu
Join our LinkedIn group and SIGs
SME-AERO-POWER Group

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WANT TO LEARN MORE?
Join SME Aero Power by registering on the website
www.sme-aero-power.eu
Join our LinkedIn group and SIGs
SME-AERO-POWER Group

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Thank you for
participating and
sharing
Ron Donaldson
knowledge ecologist
Argenta-Europ
ron@argenta_europ.com
Twitter: @rondon
Blog: rondon.wordpress.com
Óscar Sacristán de Frutos
Técnico en Transferencia de
Tecnología
Departamento de Difusión y
Transferencia de Tecnología
Fundación CIDAUT
oscsac@cidaut.es

23. Wouldn't it be great if we could run this event with
your organisation, partners and customers...
Ron Donaldson
knowledge ecologist
Argenta Europ Ltd
Email: ron@argenta-europ.com