Activation
The dormant and dispersed competencies of the ecosystem can be harnessed and stimulated to launch new initiatives and promote entrepreneurial culture. Information flows can be activated through mutual learning within and across ecosystems. To spinoff and scaleup promising ecosystem activities it is everything but trivial how such advances are communicated to gain wider interest and build supportive culture. Communicating the plans, findings and achievements in society leads to wider impact and creates transformative culture.
Seamless communication measures from the beginning to the end of any initiatives benefit from and build on social media campaigns, challenge competitions, event management, press conferences and interviews, cross platform publishing, press packages, website and multimedia production.
Alignment
The number and diversity of actors engaged in complex ecosystems create immense challenges of alignment that are not often addressed in a coordinated manner. Alignment steps in to activate the ecosystem, to raise the ambition level of key stakeholders to make the ecosystem more dynamic and capable of launching ambitious initiatives that scale up quickly.
Various measures of alignment such as high-profile meetings and events as well as Idea and Policy Labs can be organised to engage with international thought leaders and key stakeholders crucial for the ecosystem transformation by way of cross-feeding, challenging and gaining strategic alignment and commitment among key stakeholders.
Action, agency, actionable: the semantics of innovation
José Manuel Leceta, chairman of IFI Advisory Board, writes on innovation in the Spanish newspaper, CincoDías. “… When I prefaced the book of my friend Ángel Alba ‘Minimum Viable Manual of Innovation’ (Innolandia), I pointed out my particular definition of innovation as knowledge in action. But my interest in philosophy leads me to wonder […]
Towards the smart and circular economy
CEO of Insight Foresight Institute, Totti Könnölä, writes in the Telos Magazine on the role of digitalization in circular economy. Digitalization can significantly reduce emission levels and the polluting impact of human activity on the environment. The economic model that society has lived up to now is the linear one that follows the sequence: extract […]
Task force to address water scarcity in Southern Europe
The CEO of Insight Foresight Institute, Totti Könnölä, participates in the task force of EIT-KICs (Climate-KIC, EIT Food, EIT Manufacturing, EIT RawMaterials). This Body of Knowledge works on finding innovative solutions for water scarcity in Southern Europe.
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) verification of the data with public material, and […]
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, practitioners […]
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, especially for the partner organisations, enhance collaboration between the industry, government and research […]
E2 I2 Forum – Education + Entrepreneurship + Innovation + Investment
A new coalition is set to create an innovative ecosystem in Spain. The Royal Academy of Engineering sponsors the Forum E2 I2, to unite innovation actors with allies including RedEmprendia, la Fundación Transforma España, el Foro de Empresas Innovadoras and European Institute of Innovation and Technology. The Royal Academy of Engineering together with the experts of […]
