Talk at MaRS in Toronto on Clean Tech Innovation Ecosystems

1. Clean Tech
Innovation Ecosystems
September 16th, 2013
MaRS, Toronto
@fnauta

2. Innovation Ecosystem
Construction Worker
Political Assistant Deputy Mayor Amsterdam
Policy maker EPA Amsterdam & Ministry
Cinema
ICT Trendwatcher
Knowledge Land Foundation
Prime Minister's Innovation Platform
Consultant
Professor Government Innovation
Climate-KIC

3. 1. The mother of all clusters
2. Mini cluster
3. The Clean Tech Wave
4. Surfing the Clean Tech Wave
5. Collaboration MaRS - Climate-KIC

4. 1
The mother
of all clusters

6. Talent
&
Knowledge
Business
Smart
Money
Government
Policy
Interaction

7. Talent
&
Knowledge
Business
Smart
Money
Government
Policy
Interaction
1891 1941
1951
1939 1958

8. Fred Terman @ Stanford

10. 2
Mini Cluster

11. Clusters
• Enough resources and competences amass
and reach a critical threshold;
• Giving it a key position in a given economic
branch of activity;
• With a decisive sustainable competitive
advantage over other places, or even a
world supremacy in that field.
"There are no low-tech industries,
only low-tech firms"

15. SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE DI
LIUTERIA A. STRADIVARI
• 1938 founded
• 1950: 6 students
• 2008: 150 students
- 30 South-Korea
- 26 Japan
- 6 China
- 3 Taiwan

18. 3
Clean Tech Wave

20. Trend:
100 GW PV per year

24. 4
Surfing the
Clean Tech Wave

26. Climate-KIC surf board:
Entrepreneurship
• Acceleration Programme
• Masterclasses
• Venture Competition
• Startup Tour
• Summer School

28. Acceleration Programme

29. By 2015:
• 300-400 startups py in Acceleration
Programme, 60-80 per country
• Expanding to other EU incubators
• Largest Clean Tech accelerator program in the
world

30. 5
Collaboration
MaRS - Climate-KIC

31. Market access for
startups

32. Build global network
• Exchange best practices in Incubator Network
• Global competition with Cleantech Open
• Challenge touch policy issues together
• Exchange talent

33. Thank you for
your attention
@fnauta