Innovation Ecosystems Summit - Topics

Attendees at the Innovation Ecosystems Summit came from Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada and the US to talk about accelerating technology-based growth. They included professionals from established businesses, academic and government organization, as well as investment firms and startups and independent consultants. A video summary is forthcoming.

Key themes of the Summit presentations and discussions included:

- An appreciation of innovation ecosystems as a metaphor for interdependencies in technology-based business (or economic) development
- Familiarity with network analysis concepts and terms relevant to innovation ecosystems
- Excitement (and caution) about the transformative power of data visualization
- Examples of employment and investment relationships as the basis for knowledge-networked innovation
- Important leadership components/points/elements in an organizational/regional innovation ecosystems across the boundaries
- Examples of metrics and indicators used to measure impact and transformation
- Stories of how events create impact and shared vision, which transform innovation ecosystems

Panel presentations included five themes:

Environment and Infrastructure for Innovation: What is the Role of the IT Infrastructure?

• City Ecosystems of the 21st Century: A network of interfacing systems describe complex interdependencies in 21st century cities. Educational institutions renew knowledge resources across many of these systems
  
• Knowledge-Based Norway: Metrics for 6 driving forces of knowledge-driven innovation – national and regional levels, international goals
  
• Media Infrastructures for Regional Innovation: Information highways connect local people and businesses to global partners and opportunities. The dynamic networked organization depends on technology, process and culture

Organizational Systems for Innovation: Who Leads? Who Follows?

• The Global Enterprise as an Innovation Ecosystem: Simultaneously innovating technologies and developing markets require creating a dynamic ecosystem. What are the fastest changing components? Which elements are the most stable?
  
• EIT ICT Labs: A new European Approach to ICT Innovation: Key differentiators for the first Knowledge Innovation Cluster launched by the European Union creates a network of 5 innovation hubs and several satellite cities. Targeting accelerators and inflection points in the driving organizations of this large, boundary-less virtual organization
  
• Ubiquitous Innovation : Hong Kong’s 5 year plan for activating innovation throughout the economy – technology, service, education, and government.

Resource Networks: First Mover Advantages and. Bridge-Spanning Activities

• Agencies and Angels: Seeding the science, seeking the market, and making connections in between
  First mover advantages and responsibilities
  
• The Venture Capital Ecosystem: Activating synergy across new entities from different ecosystems
  Empowering focused energy with the big picture: customer, parent and partner roles
  
• The Corporate Investment Ecosystem: Criteria and timeframe for measuring the risk and benefit of corporate investments. Interfacing enterprise business decision cycles with startup evolution and uncertainties

Analyzing and Visualizing Networks: Insights from network analysis depend on the data used as well as on the analytical tools and methods. For each visual perspective, what is revealed and what is hidden?

• Open-source Gephi for InMaps and Other Networks: Using Exploratory Network Analysis of innovation, patents, companies, and publications. What personal insights are provided through LinkedIn maps?
  
• Locating Strategic Opportunities with Technology Mapping: Integrating patent, publication and business information for network analysis and insights.
  
• Network Perspectives: the Converging Mobile Sector: Network analysis can show different perspectives: periscope, periphery, and ecosystem.

Innovation's Vital Signs

• Indicators for Brain Drain and Brain Gain: Highlights and indicators from a study of knowledge transfer by Chinese J1Visa holders
  
• Selecting Indicators to Build Shared Vision: Selection of indicators for politicians, academicians, and business leaders. Feedback and reporting cycles for public and private initiatives.
  
• ROI Indicators for Enterprise Innovation: Experiences in building a shared vision for open innovation across organizational divisions. Managing attention on the things that matter most

More information about Innovation Ecosystems Summit, please contact: Martha Russell