Roope Ritvos Forum Virium Helsinki #1: Discovering Innovation Ecosystems

1. #1: Discovering Innovation
Ecosystems
Gran Concepción 7th-9th October 2014
Roope.Ritvos@forumvirium.fi

2. Characteristic of Helsinki
innovation ecosystem
• Compared to benchmarks, lot of actors
• 7 Universities (after several mergers)
• 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)
• 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)

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

5. Attitudes towards novelty
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
bought
and
piloted
by
City
Govt

6. HELSINKI SMART CITY ECOSYSTEM FROM FVH PERSPECTIVE
CULTURE
Tradition: “Only 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
- Kutsuplus and open data transport apps world
top-class
POLICY
Hel City Strategy, second sentence: “Helsinki is
world class business and innovation center.” Also
Helsinki Innovation Strategy exists and is updated.
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 political trend to simplify
MARKETS
“International Smart City Markets are right now under
consolidation” (2010, 2013, 2014, …)
Cities’ key role in generating lead markets is identified
- Kutsuplus pilots startup Ajelo service
- Mobile App Challenges on Transport 2012, 2014
HUMAN CAPITAL
7 Universities in 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.
FVH steering board has members from universities,
research centers, also lots of collaboration projects with
them.
FINANCE
Ecosystem finance instruments exist and proactively
promoted by Govt and City (6Aika, INKA, clusters)
Most of the project financing is collaboration financing.
Very good public sector startup financing.
There is fast and easy funding, and there is slow and
difficult funding

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

8. 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."

9. New service innovations
in cooperation with companies,
public sector organizations and citizens.
Forum Virium Helsinki is a part of the City of Helsinki Group.

10. 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
SMEs
and
Startups
Insight
into
procurers
(city)
systems;
first
steps
of
ac@on
Startup-­‐driven
pilot
services,
#
of
startups
in
X
Interna@onal
partners
Peer
learning
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

11. Ecosystem value components
Value
experiencer
Value
defini/on
FVH
revenue
streams
City
Departments
e.g.
Healthcare,
Construc@on
Improve
capability
of
understanding
and
up-­‐taking
innova@ons
into
city
services
20%
as
direct
commissions
for
specific
purposes
(eg:
Independent
Living
Innova@on
Challenge);
City
Central
Execu@ve
Office
Marke@ng
value
of
Smart
City
leadership;
More
effec@ve
city
25%
annual
“base”
funding,
Member
companies
(large
companies)
Insight
into
city
and
SME
scenery;
RDI
collabora@on
5%
as
FVH
Membership
fees;
Sponsors;
co-­‐funders
of
projects
SMEs
and
Startups
Insight
into
procurers
(city)
systems;
first
steps
of
ac@on
Minimal
revenue
to
FVH
Interna@onal
partners
Peer
learning
No
revenue
Ambient
ecosystem
value
More
fluid
and
focused
collabora@on
No
direct,
but
creates
future
success
in
EU
project
calls.
50%
FVH
revenue
from
EU/Na@onal
collabora@on
projects
–
explicit
link
to
value
varies