Juan Mulet Melia, a member of the Innovation Council of IFI, and Totti Könnölä, CEO of the Insight Foresight Institute (IFI), write in Cinco Días, one of the leading economic journals in Spain, to promote smart specialization in the regions. The aim of any policy to promote innovation is to make more innovative companies, and those that already … [Read more...]
Foresight Methods and Practice: Lessons Learned from International Foresight Exercises
Totti Könnölä, CEO of IFI attended the Foresight Methodology Workshop of the Mineral Intelligence Capacity Analysis Project (H2020) organised by La Palma Research Centre in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain between 10 and 11 May, 2017. Foresight Methods and Practice: Lessons Learned from International Foresight Exercises from Totti Könnölä … [Read more...]
IFI at the Conference on “New Innovation models in the European Industry”
The Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) and Zabala Innovation Consulting have organized on June 1, 2017 in the Hall of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) the Conference "New Innovation Models in the European Industry". The event aimed to showcase the most relevant systems and innovation models of European … [Read more...]
R&D+i, an acronym that confuses
Juan Mulet, a member of the IFI Innovation Council, writes in Cinco Días, one of the leading economic journals in Spain, about how R&D and innovation are essential for technological advancement and for economic development. There is a broad coincidence that after the crisis will be imposed worldwide knowledge economy, so it would be very … [Read more...]
Corporative Innovation in Spain: Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Venturing
Insight Foresight Institute has prepared a research on corporate innovation in Spain in connection with the E2I2 Forum (Education, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Investment) coordinated by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The project consisted of: i) a study of the literature on intrapreneurship, innovation and corporate entrepreneurship, iii) … [Read more...]
SMEs, Innovation and Industrialisation for Europe 2030
The ‘deep dive’ workshop for the EURO-CASE Innovation Platform was organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (RAI), with José Manuel Sanjurjo as chair and Francisco Jariego, member of the Innovation Council of IFI, in colaboration with Totti Könnölä, CEO of IFI, in Madrid on January 30-31, 2017. The workshop focused on ‘SMEs, … [Read more...]
Policy Experimentation for Pan-European Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystems
José Manuel Leceta, General Manager of Red.es, and Totti Könnölä, CEO of Insight Foresight Institute write on their experiences on the EIT. The article was presented in the seminar "Growth ecosystems as a tool in the new industrial and innovation policy" organised by by SITRA and Ministry of Economy and Employment of Finland. Established … [Read more...]
IFI in the Finnish policy research seminar: Growth ecosystems as an innovation policy tool
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation TEKES and the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA organised in autumn 2016 an international workshop to compile international research data on developing ecosystems. Totti Könnölä, CEO of Insight Foresight Institute, presented the paper "Co-creating Pan-European … [Read more...]
IFI attends the Conference on Transformative Innovation Policies
Totti Könnölä, CEO of the Insight Foresight Institute, will participate in the Scientific Conference on Transformative Innovation Policies and will be in the Roundtable organized around circular economy and industry 4.0. Totti will share his views on "digital platforms as a lever to promote circular economy". Date: April 25, 2017. Place: … [Read more...]
The Revolution of Circular Economy
The AEC-Quality Community celebrated on February 9 its first plenary meeting of 2017. The plenary session was attended by Totti Könnölä, Managing Director & Co-founder of Insight Foresight Institute. During his keynote, Totti Könnölä reviewed the characteristics of the so-called 'Circular Economy' which, he said, allows the development of new … [Read more...]
The European car industry has to catch up
Francisco Jariego, a member of the Innovation Council of IFI, and Totti Könnölä, CEO of Insight Foresight Institute (IFI), write in Cinco Días (one of the leading economic journals in Spain) about the transformation in the automotive industry driven by technological advances and the platform economy. Smartphones have opened the possibility of … [Read more...]
Unleashing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Europe: People, Places and Policies
IFI co-authored a book that sets out the elements for the design of a streamlined and future-proof policy on innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe. It is the result of a collective effort led by CEPS, which formed a Task Force on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the EU, composed of authoritative scholars, industry experts, entrepreneurs, … [Read more...]
Internationalisation of Spanish Universities
Luis Delgado and Totti Könnölä (CEO of IFI) write in the EAIE Magazine on the role of international officers in Spanish universities. The analysis of job offers for international officers in higher education in Spain leads to the conclusion that their main goal is to support the recruitment of international students. They often work within … [Read more...]
IFI attends the IV National Congress of Entrepreneurial Scientists
Our Member of IFI Innovation Council, Juan Mulet participates in the panel 'Innovation 6.0' in the IV National Congress of Entrepreneurial Scientists in Barcelona, 24-25 February 2017. The event represents an inflexion point of entrepreneurial innovation ecosystems in our country. Its goal is to encourage the creation of scientific and … [Read more...]
I+D+i, una sigla que confunde
Hay una amplia coincidencia en que después de esta crisis se impondrá en todo el mundo la economía del conocimiento, por esto sería muy conveniente resolver cuanto antes la confusión que se manifiesta en muchos discursos públicos y privados sobre conceptos tan elementales como I+D o innovación. Link al artículo completo. … [Read more...]
Innovation, purchases and employment
Juan Mulet, the member of IFI Innovation Council writes in Cinco Dias, one of the leading economic daily papers in Spain on how innovation, purchase and employment are, or should be, connected. The 1987 Nobel Prize for Economics, Robert Solow, proved that the four fifths of the United States economic growth of the first half of the past century, … [Read more...]
IFI in the Innovation Panel of the VI General Conference of the Spanish Foundations Association
Our Managing Director, Totti Könnölä attended the innovation panel of the the VI General Conference of the Spanish Foundations Association, which was held the 23rd of November of 2016 in the headquarters of the Barrie Foundation in A Coruña, in the framework of the 50th commemorative act of this Galician entity. Totti made a bet on innovation … [Read more...]
Sharing Economy…… End of the game?
A lot of businesses within the digital economy are structured around the so called digital platforms. Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook are platforms, and up to a 70% of the new unicorns, with Uber leading them, as well. In USA and Asia the companies based in platforms represent a substantial part of the new digital economy. Surprisingly, Europe, … [Read more...]
California for Europe
A reflection of the almost finished year: at the same time that the Cotec Foundation for Innovation celebrated its “the must” spring event, near Seseña a tyre bonfire was burning full flame. Those lost tyres could have become a business opportunity, an important service for our community and to the environment. Since the 70s the MIT professor … [Read more...]
IFI response to Public Consultation: Interim evaluation of the EIT.
1. Introduction The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is part of Europe’s most recent efforts to change entrepreneurial innovation policies into successful practices. The EIT exemplifies an experimental shift from today’s EU-level interventions and current emphasis focused on trans-national collaborative projects (in … [Read more...]
Building Regional Foresight Capability in Chile
The co-founder of IFI, Totti Könnölä co-authored the European Foresight Platform brief on the foresight programme, of which overall objective was to enhance innovation-driven sustainable economic development of the Antofagasta region in Chile. The main purposes of the foresight were to: improve the foresight capability in the region, … [Read more...]
