Kari Mikkelä: URBAN MILL Case 5.10.2017

Think local, act global! Orchestration of Co-creation and Co-deployment

supported by Connected Digitally Enabled Physical Platforms

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Co-working and Co-creation Platform Prototype for Urban InnovationsBetonimiehenkuja 3E, 02150 Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org

We are living a VUCA & Postnormal Era

VUCA Era (US Army) • Volatile (vision), Uncertain (understanding), Complex (clarity),

Ambigous (agility)• Oikukas, Epävarma, Monitahoinen ja Epäselvä

Postnormal Era (Stowe Boyd)

“Organizations are becoming fast-and-loose, reconfiguring around social networks instead of business processes, becoming more decentralized and as autonomy increases, more egalitarian. We will belong to our networks –which are our own – and not to institutions that require us to subordinate our interests and selves.”

Main characteristics:• low or no predictability

• non-linear development

• emergence of new, unexpected combinations of competences and business models

• legacy organizations face huge transformation challengesKari Mikkelä, Urban Mill, Savonlinna 20.7.2017

• We have stepped to a Postnormal VUCA Era• Old operational models don’t fit to the new reality• Individuals innovate, not institutions!• Meaningful purposes motivate and engage people• Multi-talented and disciplinary teams thrive• Connected platforms enable people to contribute• Entrepreneurial thinking and new business models emerge!• Ecosystems and networks are new working contexts• Systemic gaps need to be filled and wicked problems solved!• Ambidexterity rules: think local and build global impact!

Think Local, Act Global!A great opportunity for local Hubs.

Kari Mikkelä, Urban Mill, Savonlinna 20.7.2017

Urban Mill – Urban Transformation and Innovation Hub

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Scientific Research (3)

Regional and Interregional Collaboration (1)

People and Communities of the World (8)

Urban Mill Facilitation Processes:Engagement, Curation, Uplifting, Orchestration

Innovation & Experimentation (5)

Biz Devel. and Startups (6)

Learning and Education (4)

Enabling Environment (2)

URBAN MILL 2013-16

EcosystemCommunity

Platform

85.000 Visits2.300 Events

1.000 Pioneers500 Organizations200 Protos/demos

50+ SMEs / Startups

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The Interface Challenge: Bridging the “People vs. Instutions” Gap!

Levels of the Learning Ecosystem (Learning as a service)

SERVICE OFFERING OF ESPOO ECOSYSTEMService Production and innovation processes

(internal/external)

City-as-a-Service

City Community

Learning-as-aService

Service Provision

LearningEnablers

Operational units

LearningContributors

People

ENABLING PLATFORMS/ENVIRONMENTSSocial, Physical, Virtual,

InnovationPlatforms

“Places”

GLOBAL WORKING ENVIRONMENTPotential inndividuals, companies, entrepreneurs, developers, researchers,“Global

Affordance”Humanity

INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIESPioneers, makers, exploiters

CORE ECOSYSTEMS

CityEnergy

Wellbeing

Innovation

Experience

Learning

INSTITUTIONS

”StrategicTop-down”

”OperationalBottom-up”New roles

”Structural Ecosystem”

”Knowledge Ecosystem”

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Value-driven ”Boundary resources Ecosystem”

Response to the challenges: create and leverage Local Sticky Knowledge!

“Creep into the Mind”• Movements/ quality in Japan, environment in Germany

• Cultural assumptions (Fashion, Music, Arts)

• R&D approach

“See through the Eyes”• Vision statements

• Management processes

• Customer Service Manuals

• Consumer Behavior Reports

“Jump into the Shoes”• Practices and skills

• Simple procedural routines

“Take a Picture”• Technical blueprints

• Patents

Explicit Knowledge

Endemic Knowledge

Simple

“See & Study”

Experiential Knowledge

“Experience & Practice”

“Study and Live”

Existential Knowledge

“Feel and Live”Complex

Source: Yves Doz, INSEAD

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Smart Networked Co-creation Hubs configure Distributed Creative Knowledge Work

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Energizing Urban Ecosystems Research Program 2012-2016 Lars Miikki & Kari Mikkelä, Järvelin Design Oy 21.8.2012 / 20..2017

A Smart Networked Co-Working Space supporting Creative Knowledge Work

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Impact Driven!

Kari Mikkelä, Urban Mill, Savonlinna 20.7.2017

What Creates ‘Rootedness’?

1. The Presence of Complex ‘Sticky’ Knowledge Locally

- Collective, tacit, interactive, complex ‘knowing’

2. Strong Linkages with Co-Located Players/Partnersinteracting to create and exploit complex knowledge

- Customers

- Suppliers

- Partners

- Knowledge Creation Hubs

- Competitors

Source: Yves Doz, INSEAD

Framework for Open Innovation at Urban Mill

Adopted fromCatLabs Catalunya

Open & Smart Ecosystem Platform Service

From pipeline thinkingto platform thinking

Source Kakko & Mikkelä: Platform thinking within the third generationscience park concept emerging cases from Finland and the Netherlands

Serendipity & Innovation orchestration elements

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From project management to Serendipity management

Source: Ilkka Kakko, Jari Kaivo-oja, Kari Mikkelä: “How to Support and Developthe Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turbulent VUCA conditions?”

Multidexterity: From push production to organisation of value creation by pull!

Source: Richard Normann: Reframing Business:When the Map Changes the Landscape

A vision: Co-create locally meaningful and globally impactful innovation hub based on

entrepreneurial thinking!

1. Ask how could local talents and knowledge sources complement/support entrepreneurial efforts?

2. Ask how locally available knowledge can be complemented with global talents and knowledge sources?

3. Ask how do local entrepreneurs globally exploit and leverage the capabilitiesthey co-create enabled by the hubs?

Local innovation and co-creation hub opens an opportunity for co-evolution between local entrepreneurial ventures and global

knowledge networks!!?

Urban Mill materialsUrban Millin sivustolla:

https://urbanmill.org/stories/

Mikä on Urban Mill?

• Urban Mill -esite

• Urban Mill brochure in English

• Urban Mill videoesittely (Työelämä 2020/TEM)

• Tilat yhteiskäyttöön – Urban Mill / Maankäyttö –lehti, 3/2013

• Urban Millin kumppanuus ammattiyhteisön kanssa (TEK ry)

• Innovation Alley: Startup Sauna, Design Factory ja Urban Mill

• Korjausrakentaminen-lehti 2/2017: Luova tila ei yksin riitä – myös työtapoja pitää muuttaa

Urban Mill -yhteistyöverkostossa tuotettuja julkaisuja

• Innovaatioekosysteemit elinkeinoelaman ja tutkimuksen yhteistyon vahvistajina / VNK TEAS

• Yrittajaekosysteemit kasvun ajurina / VNK Policy Brief

• “How to Support and Develop the Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turbulent VUCA conditions?

• Platform thinking within the third generation science park concept emerging cases from Finland and the Netherlands

• Learning spaces as accelerators of innovation ecosystem development

• Place-Based Innovation Ecosystems: Espoo Innovation Garden and Aalto University (Finland), EUR – Scientific and Technical Research Report, 2017

Kari Mikkelän esityksiä aihepiiristä

• https://www.slideshare.net/kmikkela/