Connecting People to InnovationCreativity as a strategic enabler

Carlos Zorrinho - Portugal

In 2009 the world is under pressure to change…

The Dream of a Flat World faces the nightmare of increasing Exclusion Valleys.

Continuous Growth without sustainable development drives to a structural crises in global economy.

Fair Globalisation needs more skilled citizenship to improve competition and cohesion.

Knowledge and E-Skills are the available weapons to faces the new challenges

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In 2005, Portugal was also under pressure to change…With the Euro currency, it became impossible to sustain competitiveness by devaluating the currency

The Pact for Stability and Growth limited the possibility of using public expenditure to sustain growth and jobs

The enlargement of European Union brought new competitors to the same playing field

Globalisation made it impossible to compete based on low wages

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3.9%

2.0% 0.8%

-0.8%

1.5%

0.7%

1.2%

1.9%

2000 2002 2004 2006

GDP Growth in Portugal

How can Portugal become a network country again?

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”… Technological Plan is about people …

Living in a global world…”

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CIAPEM 2008

Change happens…

EverydayEverywhereAnd for Everybody

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But change has patterns…

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Sometimes, those patterns are inspiring…

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Even if they are unpredictable…

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The web (virtual networks) are changing the rules of change

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A net generation has reinvented the web

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

•Browse (Yahoo!)•Publishing (Britannica Online)•Download (mp3.com)•Mass advertising

(DoubleClick)•One to many (Akamai)•Static contents

(personal homepages)•Centralised content management

(CMS)•Taxonomy of contents

(directories)•Contents scattered over several

web pages (HTML)•Unique visitors & pageviews

•Search (Google)•Participation (Wikipedia)•Share (Napster)•Context Ads

(Google AdSense)•Many to many (BitTorrent)•Dynamic contents, continuously

updated (Blogs/Twitter)•Shared and open editing

(Wikis)•Folksonomy

(tags)•Syndicated contents

(RSS feeds)•Community members

(Hi5, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

Adapted from http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

That generation is changing the world …

How can we deal with the challenges of change?

Condition for the economic activity

Condition for the economic activity

Economiccompeti-tiveness

Economiccompeti-tiveness

Scientific and Technological Infrastructure

Scientific and Technological Infrastructure

Qualifications & Human Resources

Qualifications & Human Resources

Network societyNetwork society

EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship

Financing SystemsFinancing Systems

Coming up with a different kind of plan …

Doing and Having results to show

The ‘tipping points’:Key issues for structural change

Scientific Scientific developmentdevelopment

Partnerships with the MIT, CMU, Harvard, Austin, Fraunhoffer, etc.

Focus on Focus on qualifications qualifications

“New Opportunities” to enroll 1 million people in lifelong learning

Better public Better public administration administration

Rising from 16th to 3rd in the EU ranking of online public services availability

LessLessbureaucracy bureaucracy

“On the spot firm” to create a company in less than one hour

Innovation Innovation networks networks

Public initiatives for collective efficiency embedded in Structural Funds support

Bridging the Bridging the Digital Divide Digital Divide

Providing access and training to those excluded from the information society

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Internet AccessComputer, Internet and Broadband in Portuguese households (%)

Computer, Internet and Broadband in Portuguese households (%)

Conventional and Mobile Broadband penetration (% of total population)

Conventional and Mobile Broadband penetration (% of total population)

Source: INESource: INE Source: ANACOMSource: ANACOM

Qualifications and Life Long Learning

Students enrolled in technological and profissional secondary training

Students enrolled in technological and profissional secondary training

Source: MESource: ME

Adult enrolled in the “New Opportunities” lifelong learning initiative

Adult enrolled in the “New Opportunities” lifelong learning initiative

Source: MTSSSource: MTSS

Investment in science and technology

Public Budget for R&D(Million Euros)Public Budget for R&D(Million Euros)

Doctorate scholarships grantedDoctorate scholarships granted

Source: MCTESSource: MCTES Source: FCT - MCTESSource: FCT - MCTES

Condition for the economic activity

“On the Spot Firms” established“On the Spot Firms” established Simplified Statements

delivered (IES)Simplified Statements delivered (IES)

Source: MJSource: MJ

Economic CompetitivenessTechnological Balance of Payments (Million Euros)Technological Balance of Payments (Million Euros) Income of the

Technological Balance (Million Euros)

Income of the Technological Balance (Million Euros)

Source: Banco de PortugalSource: Banco de Portugal

Knowledge, Technology and Innovation are the keys to succeed

Specially, if you are always thinking about the future …

Computer Access for All…

Public initiatives Private initiatives

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(broadband-connected laptops for 1000.000 teachers, students and adults in lifelong learning)

• Nation-wide broadband coverage

• IT Academies by the industry

• Digital literacy development

• Technological Plan for Education(400M€ to develop the schools’ technological infrastructures and upgrade teachers’ skills)

• Magalhães – customised laptops for 500 000 basic school students A comprehensive approach to touch a wide public, reaching students, teachers, enterprises and older adults enrolled in

lifelong learning

A Public-Private partnership in action!

Public Partners:

Private Partners:

When the UMTS licenses were granted, the mobile operators became committed to promote the information society. This programme fulfils that commitment. (industry partners)

(mobile operators)

Building on the e-escola experience, the Portuguese Government announced in July 30th a strategic partneship with Intel to develop the Magalhães initiative: Introducing the Magalhães laptop, made in Portugal based on the Intel Classmate platform

Making it available to the 500.000 students enrolled in primary education with a low subsidised price (0 to 50€)

Exploring possibilities abroad to use Magalhães to bridge the digital divide

One step further:The initiative

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Rephrasing the question - How can Portugal take advantage to be a

network country?

Our ambition… Portugal as a global “living lab”A “nearshore” country – network of services

A logistical platform – network of goods

An attractive place to live in – network of people

A test market – network of innovation

Our aim … a network with Hungary Exchange of experiences

Increase of Business

Partnership to the future

”… Technological Plan is about a strategy for winning …

With people inside…and a global approach”

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Carlos Zorrinhoczorrinho@cnel.gov.pt

www.planotecnologico.pt

videos.sapo.pt/planotecnologico

National Coordinator of the Lisbon Strategy and theTechnological Plan

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