THE STORY OF THE INNOVATION HUBS

HANS JACOBSBrussels, December 22nd 2016

Number of Innovative startups in Belgium per year…

Source: Ecosystem Platform @2015 DataScouts.

The role of the Bank is to finance the real economy by supporting our clients to grow and create added value

Where does growth come from?

Drivers of growth in our economy…

Growth comes from:• doing same things more

- Factor-driven economies- (e.g. growing population & markets)

• doing same things better- Efficiency-drive economies- (e.g. tractor instead of horse)

• doing new things- Disruption: innovation-driven

BE & EU economy rapidly evolving:

• Geopolitics- Aging population- Climate disturbance- Danger of deflation, LT IR declining

• New environment- New and stricter regulation- Digitalization, Mobile, - Shortcut economy- Social Media, Internet of things

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Drivers are still the same… … yet environment changed

challenging

More & faster

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What should we do

about it?

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Co-create

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Understanding – by Listening

A workshop with the local ecosystem in

Charleroi

10 entrepreneurs interviewed face-to-face (5 FR, 5NL)

Final joint workshop: define the Service Concept (Customer Experience Design)

A workshop with the local ecosystem in

Leuven

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Their Needs…

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Addressing the issue – Our Minimum Viable Product

The Team

The Network

Banking Products, Skills & Services

Collaborate - act as a Hub…

Teams active in 9 location in Belgium…

www.innovation-hub.be