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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 European car industry has to catch up

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image©Cinco Días/Thinkstock

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.

 

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 and representatives of EU and international institutions. The result of these deliberations is a set of policy recommendations aimed at improving the overall environment and approach for entrepreneurship and innovation in Europe and a new paradigmatic understanding of the role that innovation and entrepreneurship can and should play within the overall context of EU policy. These recommendations are based on a new, multi-dimensional approach to both innovation and entrepreneurship as social phenomena and to the policies that are meant to promote them.

The Task Force was chaired by José Manuel Leceta, former Chairman and Co-founder of Insight Foresight Institute (IFI), currently DG of Red.es. Andrea Renda, CEPS Senior Research Fellow, Totti Könnölä, Managing Director and Co-founder of Insight Foresight Institute and Felice Simonelli, CEPS Research Fellow, served as rapporteurs.

Link to the free pdf

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Unleashing innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe: People, places and policies from Totti Könnölä

 

 

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 technological based companies, to promote the figure of the scientific entrepreneur, to create synergies between the different agents involved in the sector and to inspire the coming generations, in charge of building the future knowledge society.

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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, were the consequence of having improved the way in which the production factors were combined. Back in the days it was called a technical change, nowadays we would call it “innovation in its broadest sense”, or, as the economist prefer “total productivity of the factors” (TPF). Only the remaining fifth of the mentioned growth, was attributable to the increase in the use of capital and labour. According to the OECD, between 1985 and 2010, the contribution to the (TPF) to the GDP growth between 1985 and 2010 was of 72% in Germany, of 63% in South Korea and a 52% in France. This percentage represented only a 13% in Spain. It is obvious that our economy hasn´t experience the improvement in the use of capital and labour, one of its main ways and opportunities to grow…

Read the full article in Spanish.

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