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 […]
Fractal Innovation
The Chairman of IFI Advisory Board, José Manuel Leceta connects in his latest book the innovation with the fractals that are mathematical objects present in nature. Halfway between art and science, they describe complexity with simplicity, knowing the underlying pattern that is reproduced at different levels.
Towards smart circular economy; the role of digitalisation
The Digital Development and Society Forum of the Spain Digital Foundation supported by the Insight Foresight Institute (IFI) has prepared a dossier in Spanish entitled “Towards the Intelligent Circular Economy; the role of digitization” tries to contribute ideas proposing to take advantage of the potential of digitization to change the model of the current linear […]
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.
National strategies and roadmaps for international R&I Cooperation
IFI supports the Member States to develop their Strategies and Roadmaps for International Cooperation in Research and Innovation. Totti Könnölä, CEO of IFI, participates in the expert panel of the Policy Support Facility for the European Commission.
Foresight services to the European Commission
As part of the consortium led by the Austrian Institute of Technology, IFI supports the European Commission by providing “foresight on demand” services in science, technology, research and innovation policy. DG Research and Innovation has set-up a “Foresight-On-Demand” (FOD) mechanism to respond to the demand for quick inputs to policy-making, drawn on the best […]
Advise to Andalusia in the industrial transition towards carbon neutrality
The CEO of IFI, Totti Könnölä advises the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in its work to support the Andalusian Government to create industrial transition towards carbon neutrality. Within the frame of the project RIS3 Support to Lagging Regions, the JRC has launched a Working Group on Understanding and Managing Industrial Transitions.
Towards Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem in Montenegro
The European Commission expert panel applied the entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem model developed by IFI in expert advice in Montenegro. In this assignment, Totti Könnölä, CEO if IFI, was the rapporteur of the panel that was set up to provide external advice and operational recommendations on how the country could develop its entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem. […]
IFI in the IND+I 2020 event
IFI collaborates with the IND+I 2020 event that is organized in Viladecans on April 2, 2020. In addition, the president of our board, José Manuel Leceta gives the presentation with the title: ‘towards a new agreement in Industry and Innovation’. This year’s IND+I agenda is around new horizons for a sustainable lifestyle. The IND+I […]
