Markkula: Higher Education Institutions and Smart Specialisation. Presentation: Open Dyas Workshop in Brussels on 9 October 2013.

1. Open
Days
2013
Workshop:
“Higher
Educa<on
Ins<tu<ons
and
Smart
Specialisa<on”
Markku
Markkula
•
Member
of
the
EU
Commi/ee
of
the
Regions,
Rapporteur
on
“Horizon
2020”
and
“Closing
the
InnovaBon
Divide”
•
Espoo,
Chair
of
the
City
Planning
Board
•
Advisor
to
the
Aalto
Presidents
at
Aalto
University
markku.markkula@aalto.fi
Smart
SpecialisaBon
refers
not
only
to
regional
policy,
it
needs
to
have
a
strong
role
in
acBviBes
throughout
the
whole
European
innovaBon
system.
Also
each
university
should
know
and
dare
specialize
and
collaborate
openly,
much
more
than
before.
In
the
new
programme
period
in
using
structural
funds,
there
are
four
new
“guiding
requirements”
which
strengthen
the
role
of
universiBes:
1. The
use
of
funds
is
based
on
Regional
Smart
SpecialisaBon
Strategies
2. The
focus
is
on
innovaBon
3. MulBfinancing
and
synergic
collaboraBon
between
projects
4. Projects
should
collaborate
on
a
European
scale:
European
partnerships

2. To
implement
the
Barroso
State
of
the
Union
message
on
innovaBon
Europe
needs
its
own
“Blue
Ocean
Strategy”
PIONEERING
REGIONAL
INNOVATION
ECOSYSTEMS
MulB-­‐level
Governance
Plaorm:
Regional
InnovaBon
Ecosystems,
Local
Digital
Agendas,
Knowledge
Triangle,
Living
Labs,
Modernising
Triple
Helix,
InnovaBon
Partnerships,
Shared
Ownership,
MulB-­‐financing
High-­‐level
University
Research
CreaBng
New
InnovaBve
SoluBons
To
Grand
Societal
Challenges
Markku Markkula

3. José Manuel Durão Barroso
President of the European Commission
State of the Union address 11 September 2013
“We are also adapting to a dynamic transformation
on a global scale, so we must encourage this
innovative dynamism at a European scale.
That is why we must also invest more
in innovation, in technology and the role of science.
I have great faith in science, in the capacity of the human
mind and a creative society to solve its problems.
The world is changing dramatically. And I believe many of the
solutions are going to come, in Europe and outside Europe,
from new science studies, from new technologies.
And I would like Europe to be leading that effort globally.”

4. Modernizing
Triple
Helix:
Co-­‐crea<ng
Regional
Innova<on
Ecosystems
Open
Days
9
October
2013
Markku
Markkula
DigiBsaBon
and
globalisaBon
drive
change,
and
convergence
towards
digital
services
is
speeding
up.
For
regions
and
ciBes
together
this
means
new
kind
of
collaboraBon
with
universiBes
and
industry
to
create
new
innovaBon
ecosystems
based
on
the
following:
1)
InnovaBon
communiBes
operate
as
ecosystems
through
systemic
value
networking
in
a
world
without
borders.
2)
InnovaBon
processes
are
strongly
based
on
demand-­‐driven
user
orienta<on
and
customers
as
crucial
players
in
innovaBons.
3)
InnovaBon
strategies
focus
on
catalysing
open
innova<on
and
encouraging
individuals
and
communiBes
towards
an
entrepreneurial
discovery
and
effecBve
use
digitalised
services.
4)
InnovaBon
is
ocen
based
on
experimen<ng
and
implemen<ng
demonstra<on
projects
by
partnerships,
using
the
best
internaBonal
knowledge
and
creaBng
new
innovaBve
concepts.
UniversiBes
are
the
key
drivers
of
this
development.

5. Regional
Innova<on
Ecosystem
Aalto
University
Campus
2020
According to the plans, by 2020, there will be new investments of 4-5 billion €:
metro, tunnel construction of ring road, other infra, housing, office and business
buildings, public services, university buildings, sports and cultural facilities…
Aalto
University
Nokia
Rovio
Tapiola
Garden City
EIT ICT Lab
Laurea
Energizing
Urban
Ecosystems
(20
million
€
research
program)
2012-­‐2016
Young
entrepreneurial
mindset
Aalto
Innova<on
Garden

6. CoR
Opinion
on
“Closing
the
Innova<on
Divide”
(30
May
2013)
The
recent
development
has
throughout
the
world
led
to
new
operaBonal
units
with
flexible
enBBes
characterized
by
a
strong
collaboraBve
approach
in
all
their
acBviBes.
As
the
Commi/ee
of
the
Regions
defined
in
its
opinion
“Closing
the
InnovaBon
Divide”,
the
examples
include:
Incubators
and
Accelerators,
Living
Labs,
Entrepreneurial
Hubs,
Development
Labs,
Social
Innova<on
Labs,
Fab
Labs,
Societal
Innova<on
Learning
Camps
and
Future
Centers.
They
usually
operate
as
associated
collaboraBve
enBBes
of
universiBes,
municipaliBes
and
businesses.
Other
points
in
the
opinion
include:
1. “As
many
phenomena
of
the
digital
society
have
already
demonstrated,
significant
transforma<on
takes
place
from
the
bo]om
up,
and
a
pervasive
mindset
of
"entrepreneurial
discovery"
is
cri<cal.
The
CoR
encourages
the
Commission
to
set
up
"entrepreneurial
discovery"
programmes
to
work
at
different
levels
and
discover
what
is
most
effecBve
for
local
needs
and
European
scaling.”
2. “InnovaBon
communiBes
operate
as
ecosystems
through
systemic
value
networking
in
a
world
without
borders.
Regions
need
new
arenas
as
hotspots
for
innova<on
co-­‐
crea<on.
These
could
be
described
as
"innovaBon
gardens"
and
"challenge
plaorms",
which
together
form
prototype
workspaces
for
invenBng
the
future.”
3. “The
best
pioneers
for
developing
and
running
Europe-­‐wide
projects
should
be
financed
through
Horizon
2020
and
cohesion
funding
–
the
aim
being
also
to
test
effecBve
methodologies
and
tools
in
real
life
collaboraBon
and
cross-­‐border
learning.”
Open
Days
9
October
2013
Markku
Markkula

8. Regional
Innova<on
Ecosystems:
Case
T3
Espoo
/
Aalto
University
Campus
IntegraBng
real
and
virtual
worlds
within
the
Energizing
Urban
Ecosystems
EUE
research
program
(for
the
whole
EUE
the
budget
is
totally
20
m€
for
4
years)
adopts
cuing-­‐edge
techniques
for
spaBal
data
acquisiBon.
These
are
applied
to,
and
combined
with,
concepts
for
a
digital
ubiquitous
ecosystem
in
Espoo
City
T3
area
(Otaniemi
–
Keilaniemi
–
Tapiola).
The
target
applicaBon
will
be
a
mobile
and
virtual
smart
city
model
with
geospaBal
virtual
knowledge
elements.
Specific
a/enBon
will
be
paid
to
aspects
of
usability
and
innovaBve
visualisaBon
for
various
user
needs.
By
capturing
the
city’s
geometry
and
characterisBcs
through
laser
scanning,
the
resulBng
model
can
be
applied
in
an
informaBon
modelling
process
to
conduct
different
kinds
of
analysis.
The
virtual
—
possibly,
photorealisBc
—
models
used
as
the
basis
for
the
regional
informaBon
model
create
a
virtual
city,
geometrically
accurate
and
visually
close-­‐to-­‐idenBcal
with
the
real
one.
This
enables
city
planning,
built
environment
and
real
estate
management
professionals,
as
well
as
decision-­‐makers
and
ciBzens,
to
use
the
model
for
diverse
purposes.
The
resulBng
regional
informaBon
models
become
shared
knowledge
resources
to
support
decision-­‐
making
about
a
facility
from
earliest
conceptual
stages,
through
design
and
construcBon
through
its
operaBonal
life
and
eventual
demoliBon.
The
starBng
point
for
the
regional
informaBon
modeling
is
the
integraBon
of
exisBng
building
informaBon
models,
different
spaBal
informaBon
systems,
and
state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art
measuring
techniques
such
as
Mobile
Laser
Scanning,
with
virtual
environments.
This,
in
effect,
creates
a
combinaBon
of
the
physical
and
virtual
worlds.
Within
the
EUE
program,
we
have
used
these
instruments
in
creaBng
our
virtual
collaboraBon
plaorms.
Online
virtual
reality
hosBng
systems,
like
Meshmoon,
are
sBll
fairly
new
technologies,
but
the
potenBal
is
high.
Based
on
the
text
by
the
research
team
of
professor
Hannu
Hyyppä,
Aalto
University

9. Knowledge
Triangle:
Create
Synergy
between
Research,
Educa<on
and
Innova<on
Innova<on
Educa<on
Research
Plaborm
for
Blended
Learning
Orchestra<on
Special
need
to
focus
on:
A. Value
crea<on
based
on
be]er
use
of
intangible
assets
B. New
processes
and
methods
for
university-­‐industry
collabora<on
C. Systemic
change
and
societal
innova<ons
Open
Days
9
October
2013
Markku
Markkula

10. The
Concept:
Implemen<ng
Knowledge
Triangle
by
the
Help
of
an
Orchestrated
Concept
for
Crea<ng
Regional
Innova<on
Ecosystems
Open
Days
9
October
2013
Markku
Markkula