Profile Ecosystem Competences – Page 4 – Insight Foresight Institute

Angel Alba (ES)

Angel is a consultant specialist in strategic innovation and accelerating innovation processes and projects. Innovation coach of the European Commission for the SME Instrument.

He has more than 20,000 hours of experience in innovation projects. He worked at Procter & Gamble for 7 years and after that he worked as Managing Director of the first Tech Center of KIBS in ES. In 2012 he launched his own consultancy start-up, called Innolandia.es, achiving +140 clients in 7 countries in 4 years.

He is certified innovation consultant and professor for the EOI Foundation (under the Ministry of Industry), working in several innovation and entrepreneurships projects and courses.

He is specialist in helping organizations and entrepreneurs to innovate sustainable and continuously and in designing new products and services with agile tools such as Design Thinking and Lean Start-up.

Orchidea Innovations (FI)

Orchidea Innovations is leading software company in the field on innovation. They help their customers to systemize and involve the whole organization in innovation. Orchidea SaaS platform enables employees, customers and partners to participate in innovation. Their software and expertise help the customers to accelerate innovation which leads to more profitable business.
Orchidea was founded in 2002 assist and catalyze in-person ideation. Since 2006 they have focused on systemization and acceleration of employee driven innovation. They codevelop software with their customer which involves employees, customers and partners in development of products, services and process improvements.

Jari Kaivo-oja (FI)

Mr Jari Kaivo-oja is an expert in the field of foresight and innovation management. He is Research Director at Finland Futures Research Centre, at TSE of University of Turku. He is adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki (Faculty of Science) and at the University of Lapland (Faculty of Social Sciences). He has worked in various foresight research projects for the European Commission (FP 6, FP 7, and Horizon 2020), European Parliament, European Foundation, Nordic Innovation Centre, Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation and the Academy of Finland. He is respected research fellow in European science forums, being among other things, Skłodowska-Curie science program´s evaluator in 2016 and evaluator of various EU research programmes.

Effie Amanatidou (EL)

Effie has 20 years of experience in research and innovation policy analysis including in particular EU research and innovation policies, evaluation / impact assessment of research policies and programmes and foresight studies. Effie has also taken up a special interest in social innovation especially in relation to grass-roots initiatives emerging in contexts of financial crises in the South of Europe but not only. Her interest in this area has been focusing on developing a typology of social innovation also in relation to other innovation types and examining its ‘position’ in the research and innovation systems and the consequent policy implications.

Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla (ES)

Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Management at the University of Alcalá (UAH), where he leads the INNOGREEN Research group on eco-innovation and circular economy. He is also an associate researcher at IAES and the Banco Santander Chair of Corporate Responsibility, a member of the Innovation Council at IFI, and a fellow at the Centre for European Studies Jean Monnet at IE University.

He has served as Head of the Department of Economics at IE Business School, where he co-founded the Center for Eco-Intelligent Management, and has held visiting researcher and professor positions at international institutions. His research focuses on eco-innovation and the circular economy, with numerous publications and active participation in media and conferences. He holds a PhD in Economics from UAH and an MBA with Honors from IE Business School.