Urban Mill case presented for the Future Center Alliance of Japan delegation 5.10.2017

1. Kari Mikkelä: URBAN MILL Case 5.10.2017
Think local, act global!
Orchestration of Co-creation and Co-deployment
supported by Connected Digitally Enabled Physical Platforms
Kari.Mikkela@urbanmill.fi,FutureCenterAllianceofJapan5.10.2017
Co-working and Co-creation Platform Prototype for Urban Innovations
Betonimiehenkuja 3E, 02150 Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org

2. We are living a VUCA & Postnormal Era
VUCA Era (US Army)
• Volatile (vision), Uncertain (understanding), Complex (clarity),
Ambigous (agility)
• Oikukas, Epävarma, Monitahoinen ja Epäselvä
Postnormal Era (Stowe Boyd)
“Organizations are becoming fast-and-loose, reconfiguring around social
networks instead of business processes, becoming more decentralized and
as autonomy increases, more egalitarian. We will belong to our networks –
which are our own – and not to institutions that require us to subordinate
our interests and selves.”
Main characteristics:
• low or no predictability
• non-linear development
• emergence of new, unexpected combinations of competences and business
models
• legacy organizations face huge transformation challenges
Kari Mikkelä, Urban Mill, Savonlinna 20.7.2017

3. • We have stepped to a Postnormal VUCA Era
• Old operational models don’t fit to the new reality
• Individuals innovate, not institutions!
• Meaningful purposes motivate and engage people
• Multi-talented and disciplinary teams thrive
• Connected platforms enable people to contribute
• Entrepreneurial thinking and new business models emerge!
• Ecosystems and networks are new working contexts
• Systemic gaps need to be filled and wicked problems solved!
• Ambidexterity rules: think local and build global impact!
Think Local, Act Global!
A great opportunity for local Hubs.
Kari Mikkelä, Urban Mill, Savonlinna 20.7.2017

4. Urban Mill – Urban Transformation and Innovation Hub
www.urbanmill.org
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Scientific Research (3)
Regional and Interregional Collaboration (1)
People and Communities of the World (8)
Urban Mill Facilitation Processes:
Engagement, Curation, Uplifting, Orchestration
Innovation & Experimentation (5)
Biz Devel. and Startups (6)
Learning and Education (4)
Enabling Environment (2)
URBAN MILL 2013-16
Ecosystem
Community
Platform
85.000 Visits
2.300 Events
1.000 Pioneers
500 Organizations
200 Protos/demos
50+ SMEs / Startups
IT
Middlephoto:JoniViitanen,CityofEspoo
KIGALI
Private and Public Services (7)
MIDE
400+
Private & Public &
Industry
Organisations

5. The Interface Challenge:
Bridging the “People vs. Instutions” Gap!

6. Levels of the Learning Ecosystem (Learning as a service)
SERVICE OFFERING OF ESPOO ECOSYSTEM
Service Production and innovation processes
(internal/external)
City-as-a-
Service
City Community
Learning-as-a
Service
Service Provision
Learning
Enablers
Operational units
Learning
Contributors
People
ENABLING PLATFORMS/ENVIRONMENTS
Social, Physical, Virtual,
Innovation
Platforms
“Places”
GLOBAL WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Potential inndividuals, companies, entrepreneurs, developers, researchers,“Global
Affordance”
Humanity
INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
Pioneers, makers, exploiters
CORE ECOSYSTEMS
City
Energy
Wellbeing
Innovation
Experience
Learning
INSTITUTIONS
”Strategic
Top-down”
”Operational
Bottom-up”New roles
”Structural Ecosystem”
”Knowledge Ecosystem”
Activity-Driven–NOW!
Actor–Driven-FUTURE!
v 0.2 13.9.2017New capabilities
Value-driven ”Boundary resources Ecosystem”

7. Response to the challenges: create and
leverage Local Sticky Knowledge!
“Creep into the Mind”
• Movements/ quality in Japan, environment in Germany
• Cultural assumptions (Fashion, Music, Arts)
• R&D approach
“See through the Eyes”
• Vision statements
• Management processes
• Customer Service Manuals
• Consumer Behavior Reports
“Jump into the Shoes”
• Practices and skills
• Simple procedural routines
“Take a Picture”
• Technical blueprints
• Patents
Explicit Knowledge
Endemic Knowledge
Simple
“See & Study”
Experiential Knowledge
“Experience & Practice”
“Study and Live”
Existential Knowledge
“Feel and Live”
Complex
Source: Yves Doz, INSEAD
TACIT
EXPLICIT

8. Smart Networked Co-creation Hubs configure
Distributed Creative Knowledge Work
Espoo Innovation
Garden
Sustainable
solutions
Challenges
CapabilitiesKnowledge
Business
models
People
Networked Smart
Working Methods
& Space
Co-learning
Co-design
Co-effectuation
Physical &
Digital
Environment
Social &
Cultural
Networks
Energizing Urban Ecosystems Research Program 2012-2016 Lars Miikki & Kari Mikkelä, Järvelin Design Oy 21.8.2012 / 20..2017
A Smart Networked Co-Working Space supporting Creative Knowledge Work
WORLD
Impact Driven!
Kari Mikkelä, Urban Mill, Savonlinna 20.7.2017

9. What Creates ‘Rootedness’?
1. The Presence of Complex ‘Sticky’ Knowledge Locally
- Collective, tacit, interactive, complex ‘knowing’
2. Strong Linkages with Co-Located Players/Partners
interacting to create and exploit complex knowledge
- Customers
- Suppliers
- Partners
- Knowledge Creation Hubs
- Competitors
Source: Yves Doz, INSEAD

10. Framework for Open Innovation at Urban Mill
Adopted from
CatLabs Catalunya

11. Open & Smart Ecosystem Platform Service

12. From pipeline thinking
to platform thinking
Source Kakko & Mikkelä: Platform thinking within the third generation
science park concept emerging cases from Finland and the Netherlands

13. Serendipity & Innovation orchestration elements
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Realize
Movements
Spectrums
Practices
BUILD
PEOPLE
CONTEXT
MEANING
INSTITUTIONS
INDIVIDUALS
LEARNING
RESOURCES
DOING
AGENTS

14. From project management to
Serendipity management
Source: Ilkka Kakko, Jari Kaivo-oja, Kari Mikkelä: “How to Support and Develop
the Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turbulent VUCA conditions?”

15. Multidexterity: From push production to
organisation of value creation by pull!
Source: Richard Normann: Reframing Business:
When the Map Changes the Landscape

16. A vision: Co-create locally meaningful and
globally impactful innovation hub based on
entrepreneurial thinking!
1.Ask how could local talents and knowledge sources complement/support
entrepreneurial efforts?
2.Ask how locally available knowledge can be complemented with global talents
and knowledge sources?
3.Ask how do local entrepreneurs globally exploit and leverage the capabilities
they co-create enabled by the hubs?
Local innovation and co-creation hub opens
an opportunity for co-evolution between
local entrepreneurial ventures and global
knowledge networks!!?

17. Urban Mill materials
Urban Millin sivustolla:
https://urbanmill.org/stories/
Mikä on Urban Mill?
• Urban Mill -esite
• Urban Mill brochure in English
• Urban Mill videoesittely (Työelämä 2020/TEM)
• Tilat yhteiskäyttöön – Urban Mill / Maankäyttö –lehti, 3/2013
• Urban Millin kumppanuus ammattiyhteisön kanssa (TEK ry)
• Innovation Alley: Startup Sauna, Design Factory ja Urban Mill
• Korjausrakentaminen-lehti 2/2017: Luova tila ei yksin riitä – myös työtapoja pitää muuttaa
Urban Mill -yhteistyöverkostossa tuotettuja julkaisuja
• Innovaatioekosysteemit elinkeinoelämän ja tutkimuksen yhteistyön vahvistajina / VNK TEAS
• Yrittäjäekosysteemit kasvun ajurina / VNK Policy Brief
• “How to Support and Develop the Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turbulent VUCA conditions?
• Platform thinking within the third generation science park concept emerging cases from Finland and the Netherlands
• Learning spaces as accelerators of innovation ecosystem development
• Place-Based Innovation Ecosystems: Espoo Innovation Garden and Aalto University (Finland), EUR – Scientific and Technical Research Report, 2017
Kari Mikkelän esityksiä aihepiiristä
• https://www.slideshare.net/kmikkela/