Innovation Policy and the New Developments Needed by Engineering Universities – the European FrameMarkku MarkkulaMember of the EU Committee of the Regions: www.cor.europa.euAalto University, Finland: www.aalto.fi

World Engineering Education Forum, Singapore 18.-21.10.2010IFEES-Led Common Session R&D and Innovation Partnerships: Addressing Future Needs in Challenging Timeswww.weef2010.org

The Board instructs iterative planning process as follows: Vision 2020 Concepts and processes Aalto culture Organizational structures

Extensive Research Assessment Evaluation was carried out in 2009 (60 international professors): Understanding of future potential Defining focus areas New investments

Aalto University:Where science and art meet with technology and business

BusinessArt &

Design

Science & TechnologyAalto = a merger of 3 top

universities, European forerunner of university reform

Prof Richard Miller (opening keynote on Tuesday): f (feasibility x viability x desirability)

How to Respond to Grand Challenges?Mental Change from 3 C’s to 3 I’s

• Continuous change and increasing pace of change• Contradictory values and goals• Need to move from the world of ”either or” to ”both and”• Increasing complexity

In the past 3 C’s:– Command– Control– Correct

Based on: Dr. Pentti Sydänmaanlakka, Lecture in Aalto University Dipoli, 16 September 2008

Leadership is facing new challenges:

Leadership change:

Now 3 I’s:– Inspire yourself /

ourselves– Inspire others– Innovate

Future:– Radical

changes in working culture

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University-Industry Real Case Collaboration in Aalto Factories (Design, Media, Service …),

Living Labs and Other Platforms

R&D Focused on Innovation Concepts, Processes and Practices

R&D Focused on Lifelong Learning Concepts, Processes and Practices

R&D Focused on Foresight Aspects of Multidisciplinary Research

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New Developments Needed by Engineering Universities

Map: EU Regional Innovation Performance Index

More: Brussels 6.10.2010, COM(2010) 553 final

Finland = Something Unique (Country to Invent the Future)

Some evidence:# 1 World’s Best Country

Newsweek, August 2010

# 2 Innovation Hot Spot in the worldHarvard Business Review March 2009;

# 3 Global Innovation in the worldThe Economist Intelligence Unit, April 2009;

# 1 Higher Education and Training in the world, World Economic Forum, September 2009;

# 1 Availability of Scientists and Engineers in the world World Economic Forum, September 2009;

# 1 Prosperity in the worldLegacy Prosperity Index, October 2009;

. Markku Markkula & Hannu SeristöAalto University

5 million people

EU 2020 Strategy – What Does It Mean?

EU 2020 mutually reinforcing priorities: • Smart growth• Sustainable growth• Inclusive growth

The role of universities in making this a reality:• Focus on grand challenges• The strong role of universities is crucial: Knowledge Triangle i.e. synergy

between research & education & innovation• Modernize the Triple Helix cooperation: University – Industry – Cities• Living labs & user-driven innovations: people & process development

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Implementation through 7 Flagships:• Innovation Union• Digital Agenda• The Agenda for New Skills and Jobs• Industrial Policy for the Globalisation Era• …

EU 2020 Three Mutually Reinforcing Priorities: • Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation.

• Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy.

• Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion.

EU Committee of the Regions / Digital Agenda Plenary 5.10.2010:Implementation of the Digital Agenda should include incentives aimed at

encouraging local and regional authorities and universities to work together to develop necessary Living Labs concepts.

The EU must adopt a new purposeful approach based on the idea that some regions and cities are pioneers, active researchers, experimenters and decision-makers who develop new solutions for the future for the benefit of all.

EU 2020 Strategy

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Are We Ready to Respond?

The Grand Challenges

EU through Innovation Union:• Need to get more innovation

from our research,• Better understanding of

public sector innovation,• European Institute of

Innovation and Technology EIT to set out a Strategic Innovation Agenda,

• European Innovation Partnerships to be launched to accelerate innovation,

• …

Need to Integrate Top Research to Practice

EU 2020 Strategy Challenging Universities Reform & Need for Forerunners

Paradigm Shift Digital Single Market

The biggest challenge for EU and Member States is to adopt a much more strategic approach to innovation:Three major weaknesses:

1. Under-investment in our Knowledge Foundation,2. Unsatisfactory framework conditions, such as poor access to financing, high

costs of IPR, ineffective use of public procurement3. Too much fragmentation and costly duplication

Europe Needs to Develop Its Distinctive Approach to Innovation:• Focusing on innovations that address the major societal challenges identified in

Europe 2020• Create added value through European wide integrated investments on innovation• Pursuing a broad concept of innovation • Universities are having a key role: Knowledge Triangle• Involving all actors and all regions in the innovation cycle

EU Flagship: Initiative Innovation Union

Brussels, 6.10.2010, COM (2010) 546 final

What will happen?Reforming research and innovation systemsResources to be allocated through the EU agendaSelf Assessment Tool: Features of well performing national and regional

research and innovation systemsAnnual monitoring: Performance scoreboard for research and innovationWhat is crucial?Focus on regional innovation ecosystemsYoung entrepreneurial mindsetNew culture of working and learning togetherSystem thinking and conceptualizing the change processes neededIncentives for pioneersMore market-driven R&D-processesPolitical commitment at all levels

Innovation Union to Become a Reality

Message Modern engineers are needed:- Integrating theory and practice- Rigorous training in fundamentals- Inter-disciplinary thinking- Curiosity and ability to understand problems in

socio-economic context- Ability to solve complex problems

Keynote on Wednesday October 20, Prof. Joseph Hun-wei Lee Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Linking Engineering and Public Policy

We Get What We Measure: Scientific Publications and/or the Global Talent and/or Societal Innovations

Source: The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, INSEAD & World Economic Forum (using also the work of UNCTAD, UNDP, UNESCO, World Bank etc.)

Environment variables

Talent Availability

Talent Usage

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European Creativity and Innovation Manifesto 2009

1. Nurture creativity in a lifelong learning process where theory and practice go hand in hand.

2. Make schools and universities places where students and teachers engage in creative thinking and learning by doing.

3. Transform workplaces into learning sites. 4. Promote a strong, independent and diverse cultural sector that can

sustain intercultural dialogue. 5. Promote scientific research to understand the world, improve

people’s lives and stimulate innovation. 6. Promote design processes, thinking and tools, understanding the

needs, emotions, aspirations and abilities of users. 7. Support business innovation that contributes to prosperity and

sustainability.www.create2009.europa.eu/fileadmin/Content/Downloads/PDF/Manifesto/manifesto.en.pdf

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IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education on Wednesday

Message by professor Richard M. Felder

“Action”

As the Starting Point for my Message:Theory of Prof. Prahalad / from Conventional Projects to Working together through Megaprojects

Social architecture of the organization

Effective process leadership and management

Technical architecture of the organization

Source: Prahalad ja Krishnan, The New Age of Innovation – Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks, USA, 2008.

N = 1Personalizedco-created experiences(customers’ needs and skills to enable co-creation)

R = GGlobal access to resources and talent

Why Knowledge Triangle?1. European higher education institutions should play a central role in

the knowledge triangle interactions by creating and disseminating knowledge valuable for society and businesses as well as by linking education, research and innovation through collaboration with the wider community.

2. The concept of the knowledge triangle relates to the need for improving the impact of investments in the three activities – education, research and innovation by systemic and continuous interaction. Higher education institutions must be given a central role in building a Europe where the impact of knowledge building can be measured in terms of social and economic progress.

The key statements of the Swedish EU Presidency Conference ”Knowledge Triangle Shaping the Future Europe” (organised in Gothenburg Sweden 31 August–2 September 2009)

EU: The Future Is Based on Knowledge Triangle

Martin Schuurmans, EIT Chairman “Innovation requires an integrated knowledge triangle”

• Actors in the knowledge triangle are at the core of the innovation web;

• Enhanced capacities + high degree of integration + leadership are prerequisites for scaling up Europe’s innovation performance.

Education

Innovation

Research

KNOWLEDGE TRIANGLE

Knowledge Triangle will be conceptualized to become a unique strength of Aalto and other universities

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EducationResearch

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Minimum requirement is that each of these three

operational areas has a strategy.

These need to be integrated.

Knowledge Triangle & University Management

Synergy & knowledge co-

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Creating Collaborative Platforms & Strategic Alliances

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Innovation• Education & Well-being

in Society• Human-centric Ba• Testing and prototyping

Education• Good Practices• Methods and tools• Passion to Learn

Research• Foresight and

Competence Needs• Culture & Learning • Impact of Education &

Societal Competitiveness

OrchestrationStrategic Alliances for

concepts and processes + methods and tools +

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Platform & Processes for Learning Spaces for Blended Learning

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One of the major aims of the Aalto Factory Park Concept is to create the necessary infrastructure and working culture to encourage collaboration between

a) research and education carried out by the university’s departments, b) the Aalto Factories, c) other Aalto units, and d) Aalto stakeholders.

Successful implementation of the Knowledge Triangle needs to be based on conceptualized processes. Target is mass customization & personalization and at the same time integrate different perspectives throughout the process.

Different learners integrated in the same learning process and different learner groups have different roles and responsibilities:

e) Working life experts (continuing education students)f) Young graduates doing their masters (basic students)g) Researchers (post-graduate students)

Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation ACSI

Creating the Aalto Concept for Knowledge Triangle Based Learning

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The Aalto President Tuula Teeri in her speech (Opening the Aalto Tongji Design Factory in Shanghai):“In the Design Factory the students come first. … Research and expertise are the most important sources of, and preconditions for, innovation. … The diversity of innovation relies on a strong research base as well as other factors, such as a climate and ways of working that encourage innovation creativity and the ability to take risks.”

Aalto Design Factory & Aalto Tongji Design Factory

www.aaltodesignfactory.fi/annualreport2010.pdf

ACSI is a meta-level innovation platform that networks researcher and user communities.• It builds up a global, self-renewing collaboration network and integrates

global societal innovation activities for learning, research and rapid implementation.

• ACSI will create an innovative operating mode that incorporates the annual Aalto Camps into university research, teaching as well as global innovation activities throughout the year.

• The international ACSI community produces innovative solutions meeting the needs of real life cases of society and enterprises.

Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation - ACSI

Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation ACSI

March 2010 PS, MM, MPI

ACSI Continuous Innovation Process

Themes

Cases

Engagement ofGlobal Networks

Research, Development, Innovation and Learning Networks

Users, Researchers, Students and Experts

Orchestration and Method Facilitation

Global ACSI Learning Environment

Substance Facilitation

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www.acsi.aalto.fi

What did the ACSI 2010 Participants learn: “A person can understand a system only by participating in it.”

Niklas Luhmann

ACSI Proto 2010something special

Integration into multifunctional urban blocks

with park and Three I “Places” where the wise aging “go for their

dreams”

Active environment supporting self-care

Home care services based on the needs of the elderly living in the area

Housing

Housing for the elderly

Common Services and spaces

school

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shops

Why – How – Who – What – Next

New Tools for Learning

Freedom of Location

New Concepts of

Competence

ACSI 29. June – 6. July 2011

End user’s needs and potential:

Individuals & Organizations

We need innovative solutions

for sustainable

impacts

Scientific Knowledge and Resource Base

co-creationValue

Living Lab HUB Concept

Cities in Integration - Existing city

DigiEcoCity –

New city

City Asset Management

New Paradigm of Transportation

Regional Innovation

Ecosystem 2.0

User CentriCity

Pioneering Mobile Community – Venture Garage Mindset

Knowledge Triangle – Co-creation in Climate Change & Energy

Societal Grand Challenges & Leadership Enabling Systemic Change in Society

Summary: Need for Regional Innovation Ecosystem

DRAFT: 3.10.2010

Regional Innovation EcosystemUniversity Campus 2020

According to the plans, by 2020, there will be new investments of about 4-5 billion euros: metro, tunnel construction of ring road, other infra, housing, office and business buildings, public services, university buildings, sports and cultural facilities…

The foundation and origin of the cultural growth is the human mind with the stem of the tree symbolizing lifelong learning.

Its strong branches reach out to the three university missions: research, education and interaction with society.

The blossoming flowers represent the solid base of creative synergies and collaboration, crucial for sustainable development.

Examples:www.unifi.it/eugenehttp://daete.up.pt

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Summary: Strategic Global Collaboration

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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute!

For further information, be in contact with: Markku MarkkulaAdvisor to the Aalto PresidentsSocietal ImpactAalto University+358 50 4642455markku.markkula@aalto.fimarkku.markkula@cor.europa.euwww.aalto.fi