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Smart & Specialized Networks for Smart & Innovative Entrepreneurs how to build efficient ecosystems Philippe VANRIE, EBN MUTECOS Workshops CESE, Paris, 26 avril 2012. Let’s talk about. 1 . The EBN Network a community sharing values, goals & brands. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Smart & Specialized Networks forSmart & Innovative Entrepreneurs
how to build efficient ecosystems
Philippe VANRIE, EBNMUTECOS Workshops
CESE, Paris, 26 avril 2012
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Let’s talk about
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
• The European Network of BICsEuropean Network of BICs, incubators, innovation and
entrepreneurship & start-up Centres >>> « Innovation-based incubators » >>> Business & Innovation Centres (BICs)
• An organised Network of 200+ Business & Innovation Support Centres covering most regions of EU 27 + neighbouring as well EU 27 + neighbouring as well as partnering countriesas partnering countries
• An initiative taken 27 years ago27 years ago by the EC (DG Regio), public authorities, industry leaders, and Universities >>> A pioneer in PPP, a connector between knowledge and business
• A dynamic dynamic clustercluster of clusters with 25.000+ entrepreneurs within the active portfolio >> > with Village Tronic, Exilica, Vivalis, Lipotec, Codasystem, Semiotix, Biofly, BioAzul, Kandor Graphics, Leica Geosystems, Jamendo, Weecast, Flexineo, etc inside
• A community of qualified & committed intermediaries, with St-John Innovation Centre, Cap Alpha, Innostart, Promotech, Innotek,Technoport, etc inside !
1. The EBN Networka community sharing values, goals & brands
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
2. Networking, a serious game
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
o Networking, a core-competence!
A keyskill for innovators & entrepreneurs , for SMEs!
• A network is a non-linear process, a fractal subject, with fuzzy logic, semi-chaotic, semi-organized, with its own open source language, inter-operable and plugable, coopetitive,…
• A true new profession to be inserted in academic (pragmatic) education, a community with its own language and C(C for Community)RM software !
• A strange business object developing a series of functions & services: - collective reputation builder & roadmapping- internal quality insurance & external branding- total benchmarking & resources centre- intra-community networking & thematic groupings- idea-lab, toolkit, projects factory- hub & spoke connecting platform
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o A network, a platform for services & progress!
• collective reputation builder & roadmapping• individual services provider• internal quality insurance & external branding• total benchmarking & resources centre• capacity building & ad-hoc training• intra-community thematic networking• idea-lab and a collaborative projects factory• hub & spoke connecting platform• bizdev & opportunity spotting• Scaling-up • international partnerships facilitator• …
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Together we can! A major collaborative innovation behaviour
Équipe
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3. Networking,… Clusteringbut why?
• Learning : knowledge, know-how, tools• Finding Models: business, role, leadership, admiration• Being inspired by method & benchmarks• Being proud of exposing robust results & impact• Sharing efforts: work, investment, risk, reward• Help taking decisions: right or wrong• Sharing values: ethics, integrity, reputation• BV social-club: trust, affectivity, emotion, • Exploring the world: trends, idea & opportunity
spotting• Teaming-up talents: teams, core competences,
collaborative management, know-who & outsourcing• Making business & money: of course !• Cluster or not cluster : sector-specific incubation or not
?
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networking/clustering No !
1. Not for creating ghettos2. Not for enhancing sectorial corporatism3. Not for research players only4. Not for big brothers only5. Not for strategic studies only6. Not by « ministerial top-down decision » only7. Not to create centralized « big fat platform »8. Not to isolate the cluster management from the
other actors
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networking/clusteringYes!
• Yes for a focus on downstream appliations• Yes for entrepreneurial clusters• Yes for « small business/SMEs friendly »
clusters/networks• Yes for networked clusters/ clustered networks• Yes for « open innovation » communities• Yes for clusters who delivers value services!• Yes for clusters who road-maps the ecosystem• Yes for a professionnal « business object »
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
B2territoriesthe place-based theory, the proximity factor
• Serious Gaming at Coventry (entrepreneurial) University• Birmingham (real SMEs) Photonics Clusters• KIS Biotherapies clustering in Nantes• Knowledge Dock regeneration in the Docklands• Creative computer graphics in Darmstadt• Cleantech platform in Lahti• Software development centre for start-ups in Cork• SatNav Galilleo applications incubated in Liège & Lux • An IT community of 100+ start ups in Barcelona• An integrated TT-Incubation-VC-cluster ecosystem on micro/nano-
electronics in Leuven• Creativity and design crash courses in Sunderland• Mechatronics in Haute-Savoie, Photovoltaics in Savoie, • Software apps in Coimbra• And so many other smart regions: Eindhoven, Oulu, Kazan, Lund/Mamoe,
Grenoble, Emilia-Romagna, Basque Country, Brno, ...
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4. Innovation
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Innovation is about connecting ideas, markets & people
Market & customers
• Develop I Succeed• Move I Motion I Dynamics• Simplicity• Sense• Tomorrow• Progress I Power• …• People ! Entrepreneurs!
Ideas & networking• Thinking• Inventing• Connecting• Collaborating• Imagination• Passion• …• People ! Intrapreneurs!
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Why innovation matters ?and why does it create the conditions for entrepreneurship ?
• Changes in the environment forces companies to find new ways to serve their customer profitably (ex: automotive industry)
• Increasing competitive pressures threaten existing businesses (ex: National Posts)
• New customer needs emerge that requires new answers (ex: non letal weapons)
• Disruptive technologies make existing businesses obsolescent (ex: the rise of digital photography)
• Emerging technologies provide opportunities for value creation (ex: mini-cyclotrons)
• Traditional innovation management methods based on perfect information and rational decision making need to be adjusted, in an age of change & uncertainty
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What is innovation ?An ocean of both technology & entrepreneurial vocabulary
• Upstream R&D, yes of course (new IP above all) • Technology & Engineering (a passion for optimizing processes)• Blue ocean (inventing new market, ex: i-pad)• Red ocean (intensifying frontal competition)• Radical (Re-inventing your company!, ex: Keytrade bank)• Disruptive (« innovation perturbatrice », ex: RyanAir)• Incremental (Optimizing the processes)• Micro-innovations (constituents of a corp. system for innovation)• Quality management & continuous improvement • Strategic innovation (ex: Dacia)• Unintentionnal innovation • Survival innovation (La Redoute « on-line » shop)• Downstream applications (end users-oriented)
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Back2Downstreamthe Apps era !
The proximity with the end-usersan acute understanding of the usages
The Changing Technology landscape is not only affected bydisruption, but more by the rise of downstream applications (for usable products & services) , with/without IP!
@ be hungry for applications,@ look at the emergence of niches, @ surf through the extreme diversity in applications, @ be serial “opportunity spotter”, fast movers and integrators of
market intelligence,@ be inspired by customer-lead innovation routes,@ deploy pervasive solutions approaches
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behaviors & skillsit’s about investing in innovation
• Creative intelligence,not only cognitive skills
• Courage to take + ability to manage risks
• Courage to start + stop• Emotion + realism• Collective leadership• Customer intelligence• Opportunity spotters• KM/EI integrators
• Associating skills(connecting disciplines)
• Questionning skills(why, why not, what if,…)
• Observing skills(observing others, being anthropologist/sociologist)
• Experimenting skills(prototyping + overseas exp.)
• Networking skills(going out, ideas festivals,…)
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The European landscapean update on European policies
Don’t mention « Lisbon » anymore but only refer to
Europe 2020, Innovation Union, Digital Agenda, S3, New Skills!
ERDF SG, S3& back to EC-BICs
FP7 JTIs, ETPs, KICs& back to all Innovations
CIP PI, EI, KIS, EEN, Clusters& what else ?
ESA/GSA TTP, GMES, GNSS& back to ESA-BICs and Sat-clusters
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The European landscapethe innovation support networks
• EBN (EC-BICs, ESA-BICs, IBIs)• EEN (Entreprise Europe Network)• EUREKA, KICs, • IASP (Science parks)• Various Clusters alliances (ECA,
EIC…)• EARTO (CROs)• PROTON, TII, ISPIM,…• ENOLL• Projects’ networks: EI, FP7, Intereg,
…• EURADA, ERRIN, …
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3. The world is now smart !
1. The world was flat
2. The world has been spiky
……smart growth, smart specialization, smart cities, smart hubs, smart networks, smart policies, smart entrepreneurs,… Comment traduire smart en français ?
Innovation Policies !The new frontier : be smart & go
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
5. SME support, Incubation, econ
dev: a serious mission
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
The business support ecosystemclear focus & easy access !
• Efficient territorial innovation ecosystems require a well-characterized road-map of support services providers
• Vital for individual performances and for enabling cooperation between players
• Simply vital for the emergence of competences, efficency of support, and open innovation
• Plug your BIC, your STP, your IBI adequately into the ecosystem and collaborate openly around your core knowledge/competence
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Invest in Quality(compliance & benchmarking)
1. Characterize yourself and define your specific metrics
2. Elaborate information agregates and performances indicators
3. Collect data (quali- & quanti-) & accumulate data
4. Invent a serious community-based process (auto-evaluation) and accessible auditing system
5. Create your professional standards
6. Accredit the community members, without conflict of interest
7. Report on performances, individually and collectively
8. Beside compliance, create a benchmarking culture
9. Activate thematic benchmarking and peer reviews
10.Use quality systems as a permanent improvement tool
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• incubator of new business ideas/models• creator of new innovative start-ups• generator of spin-offs• developer of innovative SME projects • accelerator of growth• animator of clusters• proximity connector local/global• multiplier of public policy• networking hub to experts, agents, players, investors…• Opportunity spotter, « hands-on » business developper• Coach & mentor, strategic advisor
BICs’ core business/competences a standards for Innovation-based Incubators
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• stimulate• detect• assess• select• Plan /Modelize• Pre-Incubate• Seed finance• Incubate• Mentor• Cluster• Accelerate/Post-incubate• Internationalize
BICs’ supply chain
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150.000 Existing SMEs supported
180.000 Business Plans developed
75.000 Start-up companies created
330.000 Jobs created
Invest in Quantity !Measure (seriously) & promote the impact
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Small innovative firms going global ?A few provocative thoughs
• Before thinking global• Before flying out• Before burning cartridges• Before trying to sell• Before asking public money• Before asking private money• Before travelling• Before jumping
• Back2 basics!• Back2 local/national sales!• Back2 innovations!• Back2 differenciation!• Back2 reputation• Back2 pragmatism & apps• Back2 your assets (incl. Fin.)• Don’t stay alone, trust other
credible & engaged enablers: do it with the BICs !
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
EBN – European BIC Network Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74 E-mail: [email protected] – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Conclusions
• B2basics• B2Strategies• B2Territories• B2Applications• B2Delivery• B2Serious• B2Practices• B2Gether
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Thank you very much for your attention
European BICs Network (EBN)
Philippe VANRIE
Chief Executive Officer
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