3. Innovation & ICT
• 40% of European Growth comes from
Innovation (European commission)
• ICT potentially increases innovation
– by speeding up diffusion of information,
– favours networking among firms,
– enables closer links between businesses and
customers,
– Reduces geographic limitations,
– increases efficiency in communication
4. BUT
• The complete benefits of new technologies
are obtained only when associated with:
– new organizational change,
– Complementary investments. From website
design to electronic exchanges with suppliers and
customers,
– appropriate types of skilled workers
5. CURRENT SITUATION
• Significant achievement in business environment
• Effective E-Government & ongoing improvements
But
• Shortage of ICT professionals
• Limited access to business finance
• Business sector dominated by trade & services (69%), very
low level of innovation (7%)
• ICT business use widespread but low efficiency gains – low
level complementary investments
• Declining research base – physical assets & researchers
• Low investment in research, State & Private Sector
• Almost no linkages within & between universities, research
institutes, private sector.
6. GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX RANKING
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
2007 2008 - 9 2009 - 10 2011 2012 2013
Global Innovation Index Ranking
Finland
Ireland
Georgia
7. Active Business Support
Build
Professional
Base
•Train in Business Advice Skills
•Build Professional Base
•Train New and Existing Management Consultants
•Develop courses in entrepreneurship, business skills & train business trainers
Provide
Specialist
Services
•Voucher Consultancy & Training Programme - funding
•Specialist Technology Transfer Support – competitions & target support
•Export support services
•Investment support
•Sector Development Programmes focused on key sectors
Tailored Spin
Out & Sector
Services
•Pilot incubator located at a University, leading to larger programme
covering whole country
•Medium Term Development of Science Park
8. ICT Sector
Build
Professional
Base
• Major training programme in ICT Skills, all levels
• Direct involvement ICT Sector in developing training
programmes
Continue
develop
Egovernment
Services
• Implement EGeorgia draft strategy document
• Seek to involve private sector more fully
Support Cloud &
other new
initiatives
• 1st Pilot Incubator should have focus on cloud services
• Develop funding models for ICT businesses
• Develop inward investment promotional programme
9. University Sector
Involvement
with Private
Sector
• Placements & secondments
• Case studies, joint actions and curriculum
development
Modernisation
of Teaching
Practice
• Entrepreneurship Learning
• Development of ICT skills and resources
Intellectual
property
protection
• Sharing of income from innovation
• Enforcement of Intellectual Property
10. Research Sector
Build
Professional
Base
• Reverse decline in research base physical and human assets
• Increase number of faculty members and encourage involvement in
transnational research programmes
Increase
Research
Funding
• Increasingly focus research funding on joint public/private projects
• Progressively raise level of public & private R&D funding
• Increase funding for Science & Mathematics PhDs
Knowledge
Triangle
• Develop linkages within and between Universities, Research Centres
and the Private Sector
• Facilitate networking, meetings & actions to enhance collaboration
11. Pillars of Innovation Policy
Active
Business
Support
Services
ICT SECTOR
Educational
System
Reform
Research
Co-
ordination
ICT Led Innovation
Co-ordination Mechanism
12. Co-ordination
Key Actions
• Promotional campaigns to raise awareness
• Initiatives to promote digital society
• Initiatives to develop professional advice skills & pilot projects
Networking
• Initiate practical co-ordination steps to improve knowledge
triangle
• Extending networks to cover whole country
• Initiate steps to improve ICT professional training
One co-
ordinating body
• Combine/lead existing organisations to create overall co-
ordinator of innovation initiatives
Notes de l'éditeur
If we now move onto the ecosystem rather than the individual enterprise then relationship between 3 areas is increasingly seen as critical, within the EU at least.The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) focused on the knowledge or innovation triangle in Europe. Explain relationship between the 3 core partnersWhat counts is the depth and speed of interaction between the 3 areas. The greater the depth and speed the higher the level of innovation that could be achieved.EIT has created 3 pilot Knowledge and innovation communities KIC drawing from all 3 areas into a major long term collaboration at a regional level to support specific innovation developments.
Finland 6 place, Ireland 10, Georgia 73World Bank cost of doing businessFinland 11, Ireland 15 Georgia 9
