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Transforming Innovation to
Address Social ChallengesParis, France
9-10 November 2009
Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP)
Alan Marcus
Sr. Director & Head of IT and Telecom Industries
World Economic Forum
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Mastering Innovation: Transferring Spark into Value
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Innovation Clusters
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Hard Enablers
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Diversification
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Soft Enablers
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Importance of Enablers
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Innovation Cluster of the Future
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Leadership
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Leadership
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How can organisations leverage open platforms in addition to or
instead of physical footprint expansions to enlarge their
innovation network?
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How can organisations identify and leverage emerging
business model innovation from different parts of the world?
• What kind of culture is
required?
– Inspire rather than lead
– Give freedom rather than
control
– Focus on people rather than
on processes
• What attributes should
organisation have?
– Decentralise
– Disaggregate and recombine
people and process
– Open
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How can the partnering process between large global and
small locally innovative organisations be accelerated?
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Media’s role
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Innovation in Response to Social Challenges
• Innovation clusters are unparalleled engines of value added growth,
employment and prosperity for both social and commercial needs.
• The hallmark of an innovation cluster is not only its ability to generate new
ideas but also its ability to turn ideas into reality.
• Soft enablers play an important role in attracting and retaining talent as
well as maximising ideation and delivery output
–How can soft enablers be created and nurtured?
• Dynamic changes in clusters increase the complexity of managing global
innovation.
–Flexibility and agility are needed to respond to external changes
–Collaboration plays and increasingly important role.
• Difficult trade offs have to be made to meet tomorrows challenges.
–Open innovation vs. commerialisation
– Integration vs. diversity
– Intellectual property protection vs. network expansion
–Freedom versus manageability
–Scale vs. specialisation
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Alan Marcus
Sr. Director & Head of IT and Telecom Industries
World Economic Forum