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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 Innovation Ecosystems: reflections from the EIT”.

Competition in the global economy has increasingly become a battle between various networks or ecosystems. Companies can often no longer be competitive just using their own know-how. Instead, and in addition to their own competitive advantages, they need the benefits offered by strong partners. Such partners may include other companies and public sector or civil society organisations. Various business incubators, business accelerators and organisations specialising in promoting the use of various technologies may have an important role as platforms for testing, developing and distributing new ideas.

See all the papers presented in the seminar.

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: Areces Foundation, C / Vitrubio, 5. 28006, Madrid.

The Conference is organized by the Economy and Innovation Policy Research Group of the Complutense University of Madrid (GRINEI-UCM) and the Forum of Innovative Companies (FEI), in collaboration with the Ramón Areces Foundation.

The day consists of two different sessions:
I. Morning session: 9.30 to 17.00
II. Afternoon session: 19:30 to 21:00

In the morning, a scientific work will be developed to analyze the current trends of innovation policies and in the afternoon there will be a round table where companies and representatives of the administration will discuss the Spanish situation. The round table focuses on circular economy and industry 4.0 as levers that, in the hands of companies, can contribute to solving some of the challenges of society and, therefore, to align with transformative innovation policies.

– Moderator: José María Insenser, Forum of Innovative Companies.
– “Business and the circular economy”. Mirari Zaldúa Urretabizkaia. Responsible for Innovation Policy Projects. TECNALIA POINT. TECNALIA. Research & Innovation.
– “Industry 4.0 and transformative innovation policies”. Luis Fernando Alvarez-Gascón Perez. General Manager GMV secure eSolutions.
– “Digital platforms as a lever to promote the Circular Economy “, Totti Konnola, CEO, Insight Foresight Institute
– “Transformative innovation policies and public administration”. Francisco Marín, General Manager of CDTI.

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Transformative governance of adaptive digital platform ecosystems from Totti Könnölä

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 ways of innovating and changing the business. In his opinion, Industry 4.0, digital transformation, Internet of Things and other technological advances offer new opportunities for circular economy.

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La revolución de la Economía Circular from Totti Könnölä

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 sharing vehicles in a simple way. Uber and others have developed platforms that connect drivers and passengers, making it possible to find a driver or share a car with just a one click. These companies are pushing for a change in the patterns of private car use, which will have important consequences.

The electric vehicle is reaching the levels of autonomy and cost that make it competitive with the vehicles of internal combustion. Tesla has strongly encouraged the development of this type of vehicle with a huge investment in the production of electric batteries and a coordinated bet on the development of solar energy.

The autonomous vehicle begins to be accepted as a real possibility in a not too distant future. After years of investing in the technologies that will make a driverless vehicle possible, what began as a highly speculative bet from Google (a moonshot) is, since late 2016, a new business unit, Waymo, under the umbrella of Alphabet.

Read the full article in CincoDias in Spanish.

Totti Könnölä, CEO

Dr. Totti Könnölä, Managing Director of Insight Foresight Institute, is experienced executive, advisor and speaker in the realm of innovation, entrepreneurship and digitalisation to transform society towards sustainable pathways. He has coordinated many strategic foresight, appraisal, evaluation and decision-making processes together with industry management, research directors, policy-makers and other stakeholders.

He has attained experience in Europe and the Americas in the areas of management, research and policy advice especially in: i) the JRC-IPTS of the European Commission and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), ii) research and technology organisations and universities like IE Business School, Politechnical University of Madrid (UPM), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Helsinki University of Technology, Aalto University, Comillas Pontifical University (ICAI) and ESERP Business School and iii) venture caps, consultancies and industries like eGauss Business Holding I+T, Insight Foresight Institute, Impetu Solutions, Gaia Group and Stora Enso.

In particular, by founding and heading two digital innovation consultancies (previously Impetu Solutions and currently Insight Foresight Institute), Könnölä has gained first-hand experience in startups and activated an extensive network of collaborators around the world. He was also instrumental in scaling up the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and played an active role in the development of EU foresight capabilities and research and innovation policy benchmarking systems of the European Commission (JRC), incl. monitoring the innovation system of Finland.

He is an international advisor and board professional experienced in innovation practice, foresight methodologies and digital platforms for private sector, governments, European Commission and international organisations. For instance, Könnölä is a nominated member of ‘los 100 de Cotec’, a group of experts for Cotec Foundation for Innovation and a Member of the Advisory Boards of CARISMA Innovation for Climate Mitigation, Sustainability College Bruges and FOM Asesoramiento Tecnológico.

Könnölä is associate professor in business and engineering schools (UPM, ESERP, UNIR, etc.) and an accredited public university professor by the Ministry of Education of Spain. He holds Dr.Tech and Lic.Tech in Systems Analysis from Helsinki University of Technology and MSc in Environmental Economics from Helsinki University. He has also attended in Executive Education on Science and Innovation Policy Evaluation in the University of Manchester (MIoIR). He is a co-author of Palgrave Macmillan Book ‘Eco-innovation: When competitiveness and sustainability shake hands’ translated to Spanish and Chinese; an co-author of over hundred scientific publications; an experienced conference speaker and member of scientific committees. Könnölä writes also for daily press and professional magazines contributing to societal discussion on innovation, digitalisation and sustainability.

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