Economics of innovation centersConditions for designing social infrastructureCentre for strategic research “North-West”, Sanatov DmitryWorkshop “Skolkovo public spaces and innovation process”Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, May 18-20, 2012

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The strategic goal of the creation of the innovation centers – to develop high-tech activity in the country1

Main questions: (1) what will be a source of knowledge and technology competences, (2) where is consumption market?

The search for knowledge source and competencies, which can become the driver of growth

Unpacking and development of own / national intellectual assetsMODEL 1

Recruitment of the external intellectual capitalMODEL 2

Knowledge-making (science institutes)

Strong university

Recruitment of the companies-customers

Recruitment of talents

Recruitment of start-up’s

Recruitment of completed innovation businesses

But if you have library of science knowledge……and possibility of new knowledge reproduction

But if you have great scale of your market

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…enter into number of leading Knowledge Economy Regions?

Axis f competitiveness

LRD, Vlerick Business SchoolSource : Vacature – M.Hinoul

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…or to become the centre of market?

World Bank

Markets of R&D

World Bank

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Unique knowledge… or… Specialized development

European centers- to develop unique knowledge

China- Investments to infrastructure

Specialization on technology transfer: from the source of knowledge to the consumer of products

Emphasis on unique technologies

Пример IMEC (Бельгия)

Пример Holst Centre (Нидерланды)

Specialization on technology transfer, but in geographical aspectE-Town in Beijing: plan - 1 thousand square km, with a total area of Beijing in 16 km

http://www.bdainvest.com

Bio-pharmaceutical park

The largest in Northern China exchange of patents with a

focus on research and development in the oil and gas

industry (Daqing, China)

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Morphologically similar strategy lead to different types of solutions

Philip Yo (Singapore): “We have no time and money for the study of neutrino. We are not in a position to

engage in fundamental science” (Expert RA)

Philip Yo (Singapore): “We have no time and money for the study of neutrino. We are not in a position to

engage in fundamental science” (Expert RA)

Fundamental science Pre-incbation Incubation Acceleration Scaling

university &science institutes

communities business-incubation accelerator Industrial parks

Singapore

Saclay

рекрутинг

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Priorities in different models of innovation centers

MODEL 1Innocentre – source of new ideas and knoweledges

MODEL 2Innocentre – entrance to market

Primary tools Secondary tools

• Special education programs (agglomerating of universities, new school, etc.)

• Strong links with fundamental science

• Professional communities• Public spaces• Urban identity

• Completing finish parts of commercialization chain (industrial infrastructure but under condition of robotics and “smartization”, network construction)

• Infrastructure development• Standards of urban environment ,

housing policy and strong architectural concept

• Catching talents and ideas throughout the world

• Completing of commercialization chain (up to generation of new ideas)

• Public spaces

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Model 1 Example 1.1. Space for spin-offs

Innovation centre as a way of commercialization of excessive competences (Philips and Eindhoven High Tech Campus)

•Strong business model

•Social services only formatted and only in STRIP (plus stadium outside campus)

•Spin-offs – priority•Start-ups – only for ecosystem

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Model 1Example 1.2. Living lab

Specialized public spaces as a new management tool in innovation policy

3”I”: instruments, interiors, interactions (Oasis, Finland)

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But the generation of knowledge also could be copied…

Карта LivingLab в мире

Карта инновационных зон Китая

openlivinglab.eu

China Torch Program

Agenda – how to replicate of knowledge generation process (main risk for Model 1)

?

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Model 2

TYPE 1Incubation

TYPE 2Acceleration

TYPE 3Scaling

Incubation and spin-off process.Main element – incubator.Function – support for small innovation business.Key condition – permanent links with source of knowledge (science institutes, R&D centers, labs, etc).Priority location – center of big city.Example: Harbin innovation zone (part of Harbin economic zone) , which includes 3 b-incubators.

Acceleration and engineering.Main element – special business real estate, including labs, clean rooms, etc.Function – accumulation and commercialization ready technologies.Key condition - infrastructure readiness, legislative support and restrictions.Priority location: suburban territory.Example: Daqing economic zone with specialization in oil technologies.

Industrial orientation and adaptive R&D.Main element – industrial park (or modular consortium).Function – realize ideas, product manufacturing (innovations mainly in processing).Key condition - enabling infrastructure and tax conditions.Priority location: outside city, 1-2hours connection to centre of big city.Example: E-Town in Beijing.

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Engineering of social policy depends on economic model 3

MODEL 1 MODEL 2Basic social services

Tendency to lean on the infrastructure of the existing system of nearest settlement.Only a few services are autonomous (kindergarten, regular sport, public nutrition, stomatology)

Tendency to autonomous social systems.

Housing policy

It is not a priority question. Need only for supporting activity during night and week-end time.

Forwarding specific of housing policy (investments to houses before new residents)

Public spaces and event policy

High openness and high availability of public spaces.Controlled activity on the basis of public spaces (clubs on interests, communities of practice, VNO, CNO, and integrated commands).Discussion culture and special infrastructure.Conditions that stimulate random innovations (serendipity).

High role of demonstrative decisionsThe high efficiency of one-time meetingsOrientation on the magnitude of the eventsManaged research process

Only basic set of social services is standard.

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Social policy principles

• Principles for communication (professional societies, open innovation, etc.)

• Principles that ensure effectiveness of specialists work (kindergartens and schools for children, the availability of sports and other services)

• Principles that ensure social stability (crosscultural communications, security, etc)

• Principles that provide orientation on innovation (promotion of innovative activities and innovative labour market organization, the promotion of innovative solutions in design, construction and operation of social facilities, etc.)

• Principles that ensure SKOLKOVO interactions with the surrounding territories

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Итальянский квартал в Тяньцзинь

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/26023502

3 main social policy directions in Tjanjin, which are oriented to attract innovators form other countries:

1.Affordable housing2.Familiar conditions of life3.Special events (forums, briefings companies, discussions)

…transfer of technologies and talents must be accompanied by import of urban environment and models of communication