Description of the Catlabs project and its implications for the design of new digital policies in Catalonia

1. El projecte Catlabs
Un programa per articular Catalunya com
Societat digital innovadora i cohesionada.
Barcelona, March 30th 2017
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2. I. The ICT Innovation System

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La ciència, la tecnologia i la
innovació:
Una qüestió d’Estat als EUA

4. Dos models diferents de recerca i
innovació
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Model tradicional
Ciència-Tecnologia
Model nou:
“High Tech”
Science,
Basic Research
Technology,
Applied Research
Industry,
Development
Mission driven
Research:
Technology Research:
Basic and Applied
“Dual use
Technology”:
First defense, then
commercial.
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High Tech model:
The DARPA model
Mission driven
Research:
Technology Research:
Basic and Applied
“Dual use
Technology”:
First, public used.
Then, commercial.
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“The high tech” innovation system

6. What is high-tech?
Alan Turing
(Mathematician)
Father of Computer
Science and AI.
Frank
Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
Father of atomic bomb
J. Von Neumann
(Mathematician)
Father of programming
Languages.
Claude Shannon
(Telecom engineer)
Father of
Information Theory
In WW2, The scientists become engineers. The engineers,
scientists.

7. What is mission-driven research? (1)
+ =
General Leslie
Groves, head of
Manhattan Engineering
District
Frank
Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
Chieff Scientist of Manhattan
project
Fat man: 1st atomic bomb
(1945)

8. What is mission-driven research? (2)

9. What is Dual Use Technology?
The driveless car, as an example.
2004 DARPA
Autonomous Vehicle
Challenge
Sebastian Thrun
Stanford AI Dep.
DARPA Gran Challenge
2005 Edition Winner
Google
Driveless Car
2014

10. How NIT research is governed in the
country that invented high tech?
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11. Marianna Mazzucato:
“The Entrepreneurial State:
debunking private vs.public sector myths” (2014)
http://marianamazzucato.com/
The US Entrepreneurial State: “The USA has spent the last few
decades using active intervention policies to drive private sector
innovation in pursuit of public policy goals”
“The core lesson of this pamphlet is the need to develop a
new industrial policy which learns from the past
experiences in which the state has played a leading,
entrepreneurial role in achieving innovation-led growth”.

12. II. Evolution and crisis of
the technological paradigms

15. (Carlota Perez, 2011)

18. III. Where we are now in the
ICT Innovation System evolution?

19. We are here!

20. A new digital infrastructure
connecting
old economic ,social , political
structures… and disrupting them.

21. Repeating old structures…
• Trustification of the Net. (Google,
Amazon, Facebook, Apple….)
• Increasing the centralized surveillance
(NSA,…)
• Repeting monopolies of the past ….
• Results: Ending the innovation in the
long term.

22. Or
disrupting
them:
UK Brexit
wins
referendum
June 23
2016

23. Trump’s victory (2016/11/8)

24. -TheTrump vote: Old white collar college-
graduated middle class from the postindustrial era.
-They are becoming unemployed,
politically displaced and culturally threathen
-The opposite of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs,
Non White Ph.D. immigrant young students.
-Where we are in the digital era? What’s next?
A divided society.

25. Is it posible an innovative and
inclusive digital society? But how?

26. For producing a computer we need
a computer technology
For generating digital society
we need a digital societal
technologies.

27. Industrial management :
the social technology for the mass
production paradigm
Industrial engineers
Public Administrators
Industrial Management
Welfare State
management

28. An ICT “golden period” needs
digital social technologies.
ICT
Paradigm
Electronics, Computers
(Physicists+engineers)
Computer Software
(Mathematicians+engineering)
(Internet, AI…
Telcom engin,
Cog Psy,+Math,+engineering)
(Triple Helix,…
Economists, urban planers, )
Social networks
(CS+social scientists)
Industry 4.0
(CS+industrial engin…)
Digital Social Innovation
(CS+social scientists
Quadruple Model, Living Labs
1971-
2000
2000-
2030
DSI
Paradigm

29. Quines tecnologies socials
necesitem a l’era digital?
Computer scientists
ICT technologists
Digital Social
Technologists
Digital Social
Technologists
Democratització dels
Sistemes d’innovació
digitals.
Democratització dels
Sistemes d’innovació
digitals.

30. The digital innovation system should be
open and collaborative
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Darpa Model
(1969)
Mission driven
Research:
HighTechnology
Research: Basic and
Applied Digital
“Dual use
Technology”:
First defense, then
commercial.
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Catlab Model
(2017)
Co-creation
tecnologies
(Living labs,
Collaboratories )
Digital
Social High Tech
(Digital Social Sciences:
Synthetic Social Sciences)
Digital social
innovation

31. i2cat vision
ICT High Tech (Mission
driven research+innovation
+
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Digital Social
High Tech:
Co-creation tecnologies
(Living labs,
Collaboratories )
Synthetic social sciences
(Challenge driven
research and innovation)

32. Four characteristics
Social Digital Innovation
Quadruple Helix
User Cocreation
Organized through labs.

33. 1. What Digital Social Innovation is
about?

34. “Un tipus d’ innovació social i col.laborativa en la que els innovadors, usuaris i comunitats, co-crean coneixement i solucions per un ample
rang de necessitats socials i en una escala que era inimaginable abans del sorgiment de les TIC i de Internet”. (DSI project).”.
Qué es la innovació
social digital?
https://digitalsocial.eu/

36. Àrees
Francesca Bria. Final Report. DSI Project. 2015
https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/dsireport.pdf

37. Systemic innovation

38. Quadruple Helix:
Nou model d’innovació
Universities Governments
Companies Citizens
Les RIS3 s’han de desenvolupar mitjançant models de Quadruple Helix

39. What can be a digital society?

40. Is it possible to create a universal
innovation system for every citizen,
upon Internet?
The Collaboratory
Hipothesis for a posible digital society

41. The current Innovation Systems
Universities,
company labs,
national labs. ….
An elitist and
minority
system.
?

42. What a Universal System looks like?
The European universal healtcare systems
Covering 100% of population
Intermediate
Clinics
Primary Health Centers
Speciallized
Hospitals

43. The real Quadruple Helix
Universities
Governments
Companies
Citizens

44. “Empowering everyone to innovate”
(Amsterdam, 2014)

45. El món dels “labs”:
Nova meme desprès de “net”

46. A living lab is a user-centred, open-innovation
ecosystem, often operating in a territorial context (e.g.
city, agglomeration, region), integrating concurrent
research and innovation processes within a public-
private-people partnership.
The concept is based on a systematic user co-creation
approach integrating research and innovation
processes.
What is an Open Living Lab?

47. Quina implicació per a Catalunya?

48. III. RIS3CAT 2014-2020:
Testing new innovation models
in a European region

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Catlabs es el projecte per construir la comunitat d’innovació social digital de
Catalunya. Un projecte dirigit a incloure a la ciutadania al sistema d’innovació del
pais construïnt un veritable col.laboratori.
Projectes estratègics de país
Catlabs
Catalunya com a
col.laboratori ciutadà

51. Situació actual a
Catalunya

52. Pasar de la política d’inclusió digital
a la política de
Innovació social digital.
-La xarxa de Punts TIC, com poden ser
Reconvertits en labs d’innovació social digital?
-Com recullir les altres xarxes de labs dins una
Unica xarxa de labs diferenciats.
-Com poden els diferents programes de formació
Digital en Gran Coalition for Digital Skills and Job

53. TecnologiaTecnologia
CERCA, BIST
CienciaCiencia
In 2016 Science and Technology is coordinated
by the Ministery of Enterprise and Knowledge at regional gov.
Conselleria de Empresa i Coneixement.Conselleria de Empresa i Coneixement.
Vice-Presidència
Departament Economia
Coord. RIS3CAT
Vice-Presidència
Departament Economia
Coord. RIS3CAT
Tecnio/Eurecat
Catalan Science and Technology System
a Triple Helix Model (2014-2016

54. RIS3CAT 2016-2017:
Triple Helix model inside the Quadruple
Helix
SCIENCE
& TECH
INDUSTRY

55. SMARTCAT initiatiative (2016-2020):
The regional new digital strategy
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56. Presidència
Generalitat de Catalunya
Secretaria TIC
Presidència
Generalitat de Catalunya
Secretaria TIC
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SmartCAT +RIS3CAT: Completing the model
TecnologiaTecnologia CiènciaCiència
Curt
TECNIO (EureCAT) CERCA (BIST)
LLarg
DGIndústria.
 Regional ICT strategy is basic for any regional innovation strategy.
 ICT strategy is governed by the Presidency of the regional government in order to having the transversal strategic impact in all the departments.
 ICT allows 4H models.
SmartCATSmartCAT
Recerca i innovació
TIC, i2cat
Vice-Presidència
Generalitat de Catalunya
Coord. RIS3CAT
Vice-Presidència
Generalitat de Catalunya
Coord. RIS3CAT

57. Digitalizació 4.0
1.Internet of Things
2.Industrie 4.0
3.Big Data
4.5G-NGI
5.Labs
6.Smart Cities
7.Collaborative economy

58. RIS3CAT+SmartCAT (2016)
CATlabs
Industria4.0
Internet of
Things
SMARTCAT
initiatives

59. Catlabs project:
Catalunya as a collaboratory.
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60. Collaboratories
Open innovation structures over the “the Net”

61. Catlabs (2016-2020):
Building a regional network of labs
1. Building a universal service network of labs at the regional and city level, serving a citizen-
driven innovation model.
2. A public concerted system including public labs, private labs, cooperative labs.
3. Common set of goals: promoting social digital innovation for public good,
empowering citizens to innovate.
4. Sharing a common set of basic innovation and learning services for every citizen.
5. With a common seal that allows its identification as a member of a network
(like public libraries)
6. Each of them specialized in different areas: digital fab, e-participation, collab economy,..
7. Promoting a responsible innovation and the citizens digital rights, first of them,
the right to innovate.
8. Acredited and evaluated like the rest of the research and innovation centers in the Catalan
innovation ecosystem.
9. Confederated with other similars networks at the European and global scale.

62. Fundació i2CAT
Technological Center
Gràcies 
Artur.serra@i2cat.net