regional platform for healthy and active aging tuija hirvikoski

Platform Breaking Down Barriers Between Key Players at Regional Level Laurea LivingLabs Network with the Helsinki - Uusimaa region as

an open innovation ecosystem based on human centric RDI European Innovation Partnerships – meeting societal challenges and reinforcing

competitiveness Simulation Seminar for ERAC regarding the pilot "Active and Healthy Ageing”

Ways of identifying and tackling obstacles to Innovation

22nd of February, 2011 Berlaymont building, room Schuman, 200 rue de la Loi, Brussels

Tuija Hirvikoski, PhD Director| Laurea University of Applied Sciences| Internationalisation of RDI | ENoLL council member and co-ordinator of the thematic domains |

Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre steering group member | | [email protected] | www.laurea.fi | http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/ | http://vimeo.com/16424693| http://sendai.fwbc.jp/en/index.html |

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Directorate C - Research and Innovation Unit C.1 – Innovation Policy

New Collaborative Innovation Paradigm, Why?

•  due to the multi-layered, multidisciplinary, multi-sector, multi-stakeholder complexities

•  we need to improve the effectiveness and impact of policies, programmes and projects

•  apart from new technologies and products, we also need new production and consumptions that will renew local and global services, markets and industries

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New Collaborative Innovation Paradigm How?

LivingLabs = enlarged Triple Helix model & open Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) infrastructures and methodologies

Learning and Co-Innovating for Development

local, regional and cross-boarder collaboration addressing the grand challenges


Hirvikoski (2009)

Laurea’s Operating Environment •  the Greater Helsinki Metropolitan Area produces

approximately 50% of Finland’s gross domestic product

•  Uusimaa region consists of urban and rural areas •  The social and health care sector is strongly influenced by demographic changes and

struggling with the challenge of ensuring equal services for rural and urban areas with limited budgetary conditions. The ageing population, long distances and the possible lack of qualified work force are common challenges in particularly in the archipelago

•  In its operating environment, Laurea is specializing in service innovations and focusing on regional development of the metropolitan area


Helsinki Smart City Showcase http://vimeo.com/16424693

Laurea’s LivingLabs Network and the partners in the Uusimaa Region


Strategic Intent 2015: In 2015 Laurea will be an internationally acknowledged university of applied sciences specializing in future expertise and regional development in the metropolitan area.

Ac#ve Life Village

Service Innova#on and Design Lab

Care Innova#on and Design Hub

User Driven Innova#on Centre

Medical and Care Simula#on Centre

The focus of the LivingLabs is on welfare, knowledge intensive business services, security and social responsibility. The basis for Laurea’s R&D&I is a holistic view of well-being which provides sustainable direction for businesses and for the development of entire service systems

CKIR /Aalto Forum Virium

Otaniemi Marke#ng Culminatum

Hospital Area Hyri and TechVilla

Uusimaa Regional Council HUS, THL

Political guidelines

Institutional enviroment

Design environment

Developer

Execution enviroment

User

Personal meanings

Utilizer

Business environment

Strategic environment

Enablers New Technologies, products, services, New production and consumption spin-offs, User behavior transformation renewal of markets, industries and societies

orchestration table

Learning by Developing (LbD) with an open RDI Ecosystem = Laurea LivingLabs

professional development

Why a University of Applied Sciences? Case Laurea: Strategic Choices and Central Measures for

2010-2015

1.   LbD: Generating Future Expertise and Service Innovations and Promoting Student Entrepreneurship •  Strengthening the student-oriented learning culture

based on creativity, which brings together teaching and R&D&I.

•  Promoting the commercialization of ideas and innovations.


Why a University of Applied Sciences? Case Laurea: Strategic Choices and Central Measures for 2010-2015

2.   Developing the Greater Helsinki Metropolitan Area •  Participating in world

class networks that develop the metropolitan area.

•  Promoting multi-stakeholder functional entities that develop the metropolitan area.


Why a University of Applied Sciences? Case Laurea: Strategic Choices and Central Measures for 2010-2015

3.   Internationally Recognized and Productive R&D&I

•  Increasing Laurea’s international recognition, reputation and influence.

•  Increasing international competence transfer that enriches Laurea’s partners and the region.


New Collaborative Innovation Paradigm, How? Cross-boarder collaboration

In the world without boarders, the diversity of cultures, technologies and business models nurtures innovation and learning

New opportunities emerge whilst ideas, knowledge and innovation travel from country to country

New Collaborative Innovation Paradigm. How?

European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) was founded in 2006 under the auspices of the Finnish EU-presidency

•  contributes to the creation of a dynamic, multi-layered and multidimensional, future European innovation ecosystem

•  supports co-creative, human-centric and user-driven research, development and innovation in order to better cater for people’s needs


Hirvikoski (2009)

All current 212 Living Labs listed on www.openlivinglabs.eu/livinglabs

Average growth of turnover in Danish firms, 2005-2007 (Source: Fora & Statistics Denmark, 2010)

New Collaborative Innovation Paradigm How?

The long term vision on Public-Private-People Partnerships (PPPP) for user-driven open innovation includes:

•  Living Labs as Open Access Platforms for Smart Cities and Regions

•  Alliances with Local Authorities to integrate Living Lab Innovation and Sustainability Policies

•  Cross-border and Cross-Thematic Cooperation addressing the grand challenges of our time

•  Large-scale User Behaviour Transformation through Social and Societal Innovation


Europe as a dynamic, multi-layered and multi-dimensional European Innovation

Ecosystem

Living Lab Partnerships

City- and Regional Governments Social Networks Citizens Groups

Universities Research Institutions SMEs ICT Industries

International Organizations FAO, UN, World Bank, OECD International Partnerships with Living Labs in other Regions

European Union

Apollon - Homecare and Independent Living�Experiences of SMEs

▶  Evaluates the different services in another country – forces to re-think the initial business case ▶  Provides a “lessons learned” in transferring or setting-up

cross border Homecare and Independent products – better value proposition and better product fit ▶  provides opportunity to discuss the Health care eco-system in

another country to identity different needs and to explore new business opportunities ▶  provides insights into the requirements and operational issues

related to transferring products to other markets outside the base market

Innovating, Televic

Elderly Welfare Promotion Group, National Taiwan University INSIGHT Suan-Lien Living Lab

Innova&ons of Long-‐Term Care Services for the Elderly in Chuncheon,

Hallym University, Korea

Connec&ng the Dots of Excellence across European and Asian Aging Socie&es

East Asian civic societal model

Northern European

welfare model

What is the role of the ci#zens, users, and people ? How does the public, private, people partnership evolve?

LivingLabs/Testbeds role?

Comparative research

City/region level analysis

scaling up the results to the system level

=> new products, services and solu#ons to be scaled up from the micro level to the system level and to the global market

Connecting the Dots of Excellence across European and Asian Aging Societies

Pre-Commercial Procurement Good Practice

Procure R&D in steps (solutions, prototypes, test series) to reduce the risk and give SMEs a chance

Risk-benefit sharing with Suppliers

Competing development with multiple Suppliers

Sharing R&D costs with other Procurers

Lessons Learned - Action Through a Policy Mix

-  enabling health and social care policy, educational policy, industrial and innovation policy (management by vision, evaluation and incentives) ⇒ integration of education and RDI to foster motivated professionals ⇒ integration of bottom-up (demand and human driven, self-organising)

and top-down (scalable, transferable solutions) approaches ⇒ parallel incremental development and systemic paradigm sift of

active and healthy aging (care systems, health behaviour, societal innovation etc.)

⇒ enhancing innovation in pre-commercial public purchasing processes & sustainable urban innovations through multidisciplinary R&D cooperation (as The Innovative City® Program)

⇒ simultaneous innovative procurement and support for growth companies => business expansion, generates new job opportunities


Lessons Learned - Improving the Coordination of Key Players by PPPP

•  enabling structures and platforms (LivingLabs) to address the multi-stakeholder, multi-layer, multi-disciplinary, multi-sector complexities => effectiveness and impact of policies

•  proactive platform activators => trust, coherent value bases, good collaboration among stakeholders => strategic agility

•  empower the elderly, citizens, care professionals and students => innovative solutions & diffusion of innovation

•  connect the dots of excellence across European and Asian aging societies

Scaling up the PPPP model: Europe as a dynamic, multi-layered and multi-dimensional Innovation Ecosystem - Consequences


-  involves creative and motivated professionals and citizens to the development of Active and Healthy Ageing solutions and the transformation of behaviour

-  creates innovative solutions from the micro to the most macro level of the Active and Healthy Ageing systems

-  decreases innovation obstacles -  boosts Europe as a lead market of Active and Healthy Aging -  boosts new spin-offs and supports growth companies -  gives companies an opportunity to grow in the emerging

Asian (global) markets -  generates meaningful new jobs

January 14, 2011, Taipei , Taiwan Interna#onal Forum on Smart Living Summer School Ini#a#ves in Asia Tuija Hirvikoski 23

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