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Innovation Ecosystems
Professor Simon Kaplan
Director, NICTA Queensland
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Overview
• What are innovation ecosystems?• What is innovation?• What is NICTA?• NICTA as an example of building an
innovation ecosystem
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Innovation Ecosystems
• Economies and complex networks of technologies all form ecosystems
• It’s helpful to understand them from this viewpoint
• Then we can get a better grasp on how to encourage innovation
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Ecosystems are complex systems
• Characteristics:– Network structure– Self-organisation– Swarm behaviours– Temporal shear– Co-evolution– Emergent behaviour
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A high-level example: the ‘product space’
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What is innovation?
• All innovations are ‘evolutionary moves’, which means they are:– Incremental from existing capabilities– Governed by time shear– Dependent on underlying network structure to
shape possibilities– A consequence of the ‘swarm behaviours’ of
the players in the innovation ecosystem• Once the move is made, the ecosystem is
changed, which opens up fresh possibilities
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NICTA
• Australia’s National ICT Centre of Excellence
• 5 locations: – Sydney (2), Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane
• University and State Government Partnerships– Key high-quality researchers.
• ~$80m (RMB 550 million) budget per year
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NICTA focuses on
• ICT Research Strengths– Computer Vision– Software Systems– Networks– Control Systems– Optimisation– Machine Learning
• Strategic Business Areas:– Infrastructure,
Transport and Logistics
– Broadband & Digital Economy
– Health– Safety & Security
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Goals
• Research Excellence– Top 10 worldwide in ICT
• Wealth Creation for Australia– Including
• productivity improvements, • new business creation• new economic niches
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NICTA = Innovation Ecosystem?
• Build network of best capability around Australia
• Understands time shear – long-term and short-term investments
• Self-organising & ‘swarming’ – significant group independence to explore– Leads to emergent outcomes rather than top-
down planned activities• We understand our niche target areas
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Impact
• 3 bn mobile phones worldwide run NICTA technologies
• Many airports use our people tracking capabilities
• We are participating in the Australian Bionic Eye project
• We are building a system to support organisational innovation and growth in Queensland (then all of Australia)
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