Skolkovo Business School, Moscow, organised by RosAtom, April 2012

«Инструменты кластерной политики»,
Ilkka Kakko, 24.4.2012
Росатом, «ЦСР Северо-Запад»

INNOVATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CLUSTERS.
THIRD GENERATION OF SCIENCE PARKS

Case: netWork Oasis, Joensuu Science Park,
Finland


Cluster based thinking is evolving
Cluster based thinking is widely used in context of the regional and national
economic development since late 1990’s.

Several types of clusters can be defined but be divided in two main
categories
• Industrial clusters
• Knowledge based clusters

At the moment the focus is moving towards knowledge ecosystems and the
interaction between several innovation communities inside the ecosystem

Third Generation Science Parks are supporting mainly knowledge based
clusters


Emerging realities of global innovation landscape*
• Focus on dynamics of interaction with each other and new “none
institutional elements”
>> Networks – the challenge is to specify networks and how they operate
>> complexity and emergence, ecosystem thinking
• A holistic approach – focus not on isolated activity (inside a company or
cluster) but what happens within specific firms, clusters and innovation
communities as a cohesive system
• To understand how organizations and ”none institutional elements”
perform in complex environments
• To measure the performance and activities between the institutions and
communities (not only inside them)
*) Ref Institute for the Future report ” Future Knowledege Ecosystems – The Next 20 Years of Technology-Led Economical Development”,
June 2009, www.iftf.org/iasp


Future scenarios for technoparks*
The IFTF report listed three different scenarios for STPs:
1) Science and Technology Parks 3.0
2) The Rise of Research Clouds
3) Dematerialized Innovation

*) Ref Institute for the Future report ” Future Knowledege Ecosystems – The Next 20 Years of Technology-Led Economical
Development”, June 2009, www.iftf.org/iasp


The Rise of Research Clouds

• Disruptive Competition from outside

• An Oort cloud around universities

• A crucible for new institutions and networks

• Parks hobbled high-energy infrastructure puts parks at a
disadvantage
• Lightweight approaches push R&D in productive new directions
* ) Ref Institute for the Future report ” Future Knowledege Ecosystems – The Next 20 Years of Technology-Led Economical
Development”, June 2009, www.iftf.org/iasp


3GSP elements / © Manchester Science Park, workshop/ John Allen 2007

• A global player, but with local roots

• A part of the community, with care for people and the environment

• A healthy business and an opportunity for investment

• An essential element of university activity

• Part of multiplicity of networks

• Focused on the needs of its tenants


3GSP approach
• A new approach is needed  third generation of science parks (3GSP).

• The 3 GSP environment encourages diversity on all layers and respects
serendipity, even a new management paradigm - serendipity
management – is emerging.
• The competitive edge for 3GSP is:

• To attract nomadic talent

• To be able to create sustainable innovation communities

• To be able to harvest the innovation potential in more fruitful way

• To be able to create ”sticky knowledge” in order to maintain and
improve regional competitiveness
*) Ref http://blogs.america.gov/ip/2010/03/05/new-innovation-landscape-a-challenge-for-science-parks/


3GSP approach
• Focus on supporting innovation activities on individual and CNO level

• ”glocal” - local but with access to global competence pools

• Managing activities and creation of new combinations of competences

• Network Incubation

• Serendipity Management

• Oasis like co-creating space as an elemental part of facilities

• Extensive use of virtual community platforms – like GLOW in Oasis case


3GSP elements in Joensuu Science Park case
• Focus:

• To support innovation activities on individual level and to enable fluid
CNO operations
• Elements:

• netWork Oasis, collaborative working environment,

• GLOW, interaction tool, virtual community platform

• CNO support: Oasis as VBE, ICT – PVC, Joensuu Entrepreneurship
Society - PVC
• Joensuu Living Lab for Design and Services


Innovation Communities, typology

© Karostech Ltd 2012


The fundamental factors driving dynamic cluster
development
• The complexity of traditional organizational structures

• The increased market requirements for flexibility call for better usage of
resources and connectivity to global competence pools.
• The key players in a new innovation landscape are truly nomadic and well
inter-connected, they work and live in a world powered and inspired by
CNOs
• Open innovation and social entrepreneurship widely used

• Scientific knowledge and tools is available anywhere “on demand”
because of scientific and technology bloggers, social media, virtual
collaboration platforms and innovation intermediaries
• == > Vital innovation activities are happening outside the walls of
traditional STPs


Dynamic cluster development

• Innovation management bodies - like STPs and regional development
institutions - are traditionally providing services, but the need in future is:
>> to actively manage activities and knowledge creation
>> to mastermind CNO (Collaborative Networked Organizations)
theoretical approach and methodologies
• Regional ecosystem elements that provide the capacity repeadetly re-
inventing the cluster is paramount
• More emphasis on creativity mechanisms that link local assets to global
competence and markets
• To include informal networks far beyond the major regional institutions of
today


•North Karelia Centre of
Expertise


Cluster building –technology focus in Joensuu
• Nanotechnology Forest Industry Future Energy Technology Housing
• Fotonics
• Materials
• Precision technologies
• Energy efficient lighting,
• LED technology
• Forest resources and management
• Timber procurement and logistics, forest
• technology
• Natural fibre composites and secondary
• metabolites of trees
• Wood and composite products for
• construction
• Procurement and logistics of energy wood
• Production of biofuels: wood chips, pellets,
• firewood, other biomasses, biogas, FT diesel
• Entrepreneurship and business models in wood
• energy business
• Energy systems and energy efficiency in
• housing
• Wood in construction: from small to large
• buildings
• Concepts for distric level construction
• Energy efficiency
• New service concepts for housing
• Energy efficient wood construction


Cluster building with Finnish Center of Expertise Programme
Joensuu Science Park
Expert services for SMEs and start ups:
• Technology Surveys, Market Surveys
• Project preparation – networking, partner search, involving companies
in research projects
• Support for internationalization (companies + researchers)
• Linking companies to universities, research institutes and R&D
projects
• Technology transfer: fact-finding, customer & expert visits, Business Cafes.
• Managing joint development projects for companies
• Support for growth: capital investments, partners, piloting
• Marketing of regional expertise and building up knowledge-based
future and profile for the region
• Creation of value chain –based Mini Clusters (ICT business mainly)
– Joint marketing, supply chain and export activities
– Joint product and service development


Thank You !

• Contact info:
• Ilkka Kakko
• Tel + 358 50 536 2941
• E-mail: ike.kakko@gmail.com
• Skype: ilkka.kakko

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