This document summarizes a meeting on "Science and Technology for a better Society" held at CERN in Geneva. It includes:
- Presentations from various organizations such as CERN, Pangloss Labs, Fongit, Just Innovate, Onepi, University of Cambridge, and ICRC on how they are using science and technology to create social and economic value.
- Discussions around open innovation, enabling entrepreneurs, maximizing knowledge transfer from research, and using technology and innovation to help vulnerable groups like refugees and people with disabilities.
- Announcements of upcoming events like an "Enable Makeathon" challenge to develop assistive technologies and an "Autumn Suisse Union" meeting on
33. What would a refugee camp designed from a
woman’s perspective look like?
How can communities in Sudan have
sustainable transport solutions that can be used
to get pregnant women living in remote villages
to health facilities?
Innovation and Development
39. Plashboard
Union Suisse Summer :: Science and Technology for a Better Society, CERN
11th June 2015
Matthew Leigh, Director OpenPi
40. Ben, I want to say one word to you. Just
one word: GoogleGraphene3D PrintingRaspberry Pi
41. Costs / benefits of a swimming pool
• Advantages
• Fun
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•
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•
• Disadvantages
• Energy consumption
• Chemical consumption
• Time consumption
• Danger
• Cost
42. 10 % of power consumed
by private swimming pools
(this power station would not be needed if all pools had a 10%
improvement in efficiency)
49. stewart.mctavish@ideaspace.cam.ac.uk
2016
innovationLab (tbc)
Health and Active Living to 100
Scalable and Sustainable Nutrition Systems
Infrastructure for a Fair Society
If you know of any corporate innovation programmes in these areas
(or would like to help shape the agenda) please get in touch
52. ICRC Challenges
Physical Rehabilitation
for people with disabilities
Huge amount of affected people
(over 18 Mio in rural India alone)
Lack of affordable and appropriate solutions
53. Enable Makeathon 2015
Products for people with disabilities
living in rural areas and slums
Entrepreneur
s
People with
disabilities
Manufacturers
Investors
Engineers Designers
54. Needs Analysis
Challenge Day
Maker Days
and Business Bootcamp
Demo Day
Market Development
August – November 2015
Challenges
EarlyPrototypes
Enable Makeathon 2015
Products for people with disabilities
living in rural areas and slums
55. Connect us to people / organizations that can enable the market development of
the makeathon prototypes
Participate in our Online Makeathon
Challenge Day: 20th August 2015 (GVA and Bangalore)
How can you support the
Enable Makeathon 2015 ?
60. Save the date:
Autumn Suisse Union – 24th of September 2015 hosted by IATA
‘The future of connecting people’
Notes de l'éditeur
Science and Technology for a Better Society
SCALE
open source scales and you can share it.
Distributed solutions… Share
Importance of Creating economic value from innovation:
OECD report 2006
Performance in Innovation application – employment in hightech services & manufacturing, exports of new to market products, and new to firm ideas
UK innovates less, but has more economic value.
Switzerland is one of the innovation leaders with an above average performance. (European innovation benchmark 2014)
Relative strengths are in Open, excellent and attractive research systems, Intellectual assets and Innovators.
Relative weaknesses are in Finance and support, Linkages & entrepreneurship.
Choices for CH : Moving along the diagonal?
Money -> research -> money : funding unis: 60-70 M CHF to EPFL/EHZ = 1 start-up
Moving in y axis: money to incubators 500 k CHF to Fongit = 1 start-up
Hard earned Innovation is being wasted
Clearly CH strategy for innovation is working well… but less good for gaining the economic value from it… … and the start-ups
The entrepreneur needs to focus on Value creation: customer and product development
– the incubator puts him at the center of the ecosystem:
Office space, coaching, how to scale up,
Best practices: Avoiding mistakes
Etter – helping entrepreneurs
Be in a place where «things happen»
Accelerate development
x2 success rate
INTRO – BACKGROUND
ICRC has been innovative since its beginning
Henry Dunant
We need to keep innovating
To fulfill our mandate of assisting and protecting victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence
A few examples
PHYSICAL REHABILITATION
(let’s look at one of our activities)
Physical Rehabilitation:
Areas of conflict often people with disabilities; also due to poverty
ICRC as a pioneer in that field:
..
CHALLENGES persist:
Huge amount of affected people
Lack of affordable and appropriate solutions (to facilitate the daily lives of people with disabiltities)
E.g. Challenge to move around illustrated on the pictures from India
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
WHAT
HOW
…
WHY
New products for people with disabilities
better provide assistance in different context of conflict
Test a new market-based approach to innovation by partnering inclusively
Potential:
Practice open innovation for market-based solutions for other humanitarian challenges (water/sanitation, information/data, connectivity/energy, security/protection, etc.)
ASK
Participate in our online Hackathon
Connect us to people/ organizations that can enable the market development of the hackathon prototypes