#1: Discovering Innovation Ecosystems Beirut 21st-23rd October 2014 Roope.Ritvos@forumvirium.fi

Characteristic of Helsinki innovation ecosystem •  Compared to some benchmarks, a lot of actors

•  7 Universities (after several mergers – Aalto and Univ. of Helsinki). •  4 Cities and Regional council •  10+ public or public-private ecosystem developer organisations •  Several joint/ppp RDI platforms •  EU key nodes: EIT ICT Labs, EDII •  Capital– national responsibilities and players (Tekes, 6Aika)

•  City policy growth focus: ICT, Wellbeing, Tourisim, Cleantech, Design

•  “Startup Hot-Spot of the World” •  21 of Red Herring’s top-100 startups 2014 from Finland

•  Key global ICT RDI •  Nokia, Microsoft, Huawei, Intel, Samsung…; Game developers

Rovio, Supercell, Disney…; Health Tech, Life Sciences, Nanotech)

Forum Virium eyeglasses to the Helsinki innovation ecosystem •  Smart City •  Digital service innovation •  Citizen- and city-driven •  Startups •  Open innovation •  Agile

Helsinki: Attitudes towards novelty – blockers and enablers

American  Startup  Tries  to  disrupt  taxi  service  ecosystem  Lobbying  in  Helsinki  with  varied  success  

Bus-­‐on-­‐a-­‐demand  (intelligent  rou@ng)  Startup  Ajelo  Ltd  from  Helsinki  Service  piloted  by  City  Govt    

CULTURE Tradition: “Only already Big are Successful” + “Finland is a Club, not a Country”. Attitude changes after Nokia demise/Rovio success. Very stable social system – lot of rigidness: -  Uber taxi service didn’t success in, but -  Kutsuplus &open data transport apps world top-

class (You have to know your innovation space)

POLICY Helsinki City Strategy, second sentence: “Helsinki is world class business and innovation center.” Finland: Word “Innovation” read 27 times in the prior PM’s Government Programme – about every second page

SUPPORTS “The innovation ecosystem garden is flourishing” “The gardener is probably on holiday” - which is a good thing (personal opinion) - competition and evolution of the ecosystem support activities - there is a trend to simplify at public sector

MARKETS Finland is too small market for most start-ups. “International Smart City Markets are right now under consolidation” (2010, 2013, 2014, …) Cities’ key role in generating lead markets is identified -  Kutsuplus pilots a startup-service -  Mobile App Challenges on Transport a few times HUMAN CAPITAL 7 Universities in Helsinki, including Aalto and University of Helsinki. Nokia has laid of thousands of people in greater Helsinki region, but mere 2 game companies have created as many new jobs at the same time. Several thousand startups/SMEs in Helsinki region

FINANCE Ecosystem finance instruments exist and proactively promoted by Government and City (6Aika, INKA, clusters) Most of the project financing is collaboration financing. Very good public and private sector startup financing. There is fast and easy funding, and there is slow and difficult funding.

ECOSYSTEM CANVAS  

#2: Defining Value Opportunity Gran Concepción 7th-9th October 2014 Roope.Ritvos@forumvirium.fi

Vision for 2015 “Forum Virium Helsinki has made the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and Finland an internationally recognised showcase for digital services, in the process attracting a number of top-level international organisations as partners. Forum Virium Helsinki is the EU’s central node in the development of the sector’s products and services. The program has enabled companies to generate significant international business."

New service innovations   in cooperation with companies,

public sector organizations and citizens.

Forum Virium Helsinki is a part of the City of Helsinki Group.

Ecosystem value components Value  experiencer   Value  defini/on   Possible  measurement  

City  Departments  e.g.  Healthcare,  Construc@on  

Improve  capability  of  understanding  and  up-­‐taking  innova@ons  into  city  services  

New  innova@ons  tried  or  in-­‐use  the  Healthcare  Department  

City  Central  Execu@ve  Office  

Marke@ng  value  of  Smart  City  leadership;  More  effec@ve  city  

Invest-­‐in  ac@vi@es  BeQer  efficacy  of  departments  

Member  companies  (large  companies)  

Insight  into  city  and  SME  scenery;  RDI  collabora@on  

Joint  RDI  projects;  alignment  of  City  and  Company  RDI;  SME  scenery  

SMEs  and  Startups   Insight  into  procurers  (city)  systems;  first  steps  of  ac@on  

Startup-­‐driven  pilot  services,  Other  accelera@on  help  

Interna@onal  partners,  European  Union  

Peer  learning  Driving  of  EU  development  

Successful  transfer  of  prac@ces  (CitySDK,  HRI)  

Ambient  ecosystem  value  

More  fluid  and  focused  collabora@on  

Aligned  RDI  ac@vi@es  of  the  region  

Ci@zens   BeQer  Services  BeQer  Everyday  Life  1  hour  more  every  day  

Sa@sfac@on  in  to  the  services    1  hour  more  in  everyday  life  

#3: Developing Service & Business Gran Concepción 7th-9th October 2014 Roope.Ritvos@forumvirium.fi

•  Open source toolkit/API for developing digital city services: opening and harmonizing city interfaces, processes & standards

•  Mobility, Tourism, Participation

•  Eight European cities, 15 companies and research partners involved

EU Digital Agenda Inspiring Initiatives (EC 2013)

”Truly smart cities such as Helsinki are using technology that is already out on the streets and on the web, enabling residents to input and update via smartphones, while apps help them to navigate the city more efficiently” (Guardian 2013)

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KEY PARTNERS City Departments City Executive Office Key EU Peer partners Key EU Networks Member companies Startups and SMEs

KEY RESOURCES -  Smart City Vision-

(people) -  Project execution

resources (people) -  Smart City

infrastructure (owned by City)

KEY ACTIVITIES o Smart City projects/programs, e.g. - HEL<3Developers - CitySDK - 6Aika, Kalasatama - Innovation Challenges

VALUE PROPOSITION

New service

innovations in co-operation with

companies, public sector organisations

and citizens.

CUSTOMERS

- City specific departments

responsible for Smart City activities

- City Executive Office

-Member companies with Smart City RDI -Developers (SMEs,

Startups, other developers)

-Citizens -Local Ecosystem

-European network

RELATIONSHIPS

Domain understanding

Cluster understanding

CHANNELS 1:1

Small group negotiations

City strategy process Events

Workshops

COST STRUCTURE

Personnel costs mostly (Infra investments case-by-case)

REVENUE STREAMS City

Member companies External project funding 50%

OFFERING Smart City Vision: Strategy support; Project/activity ideation; Events/network facilitation; Developer engagement.

Project management services: Project and partnership design; Project execution/management SME growth services. Living Lab Services

KEY ACTIVITIES TO ENABLE THE SERVICE IN THE ECOSYSTEM innovate, co-create, design, pilot, persuade new service innovations

engage lead developers

#4:Delivering to the Real World Gran Concepción 7th-9th October 2014 Roope.Ritvos@forumvirium.fi

Developing of FVH offering 1.  Smart City Vision (“programme; strategy”)

§  The continuous stream of projects, project proposals and commissions are a key tool in the continual improvement of the strategy

2.  New Digital Service Innovations (“projects/services”) §  Methods (e.g. service design) §  Learning of service domains (e.g. SME growth support) §  Learning of funding instruments (e.g. Horizon2020)