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OpenAlps
Open Innovation Labs
Ideas have no borders.Open Innovation in Alpine SMEs
Join OpenAlps in your region!
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Content Foreword
Introduction
The Labs in Detail
1 Foreword
2 Open Innovation Labs: Idea and Benefits
3 Open Innovation Labs in your Region
4 Open Innovation Lab Austria Cross-Industry Innovation
6 Open Innovation Lab France Wood Energy and Environmental Efficiency of Heating Equipment
8 Open Innovation Lab Germany eHealth Care
10 Open Innovation Lab Italy (Piedmont) Technology Transfer in the ICT Sector
12 Open Innovation Lab Italy (Veneto) Wood and Furniture, Marble, Fashion Industry and ICT
14 Open Innovation Lab Slovenia ORbITaLA – Creative Industries
A Challenge, a Concept, a Project ...Within the past decades, rapid developments in the field of communication technology as well as the ongoing trend of globalisation were causing the change from an industrial to a knowledge society. While worldwide networking today allows quick and easy access to knowledge for everyone, companies lose their formerly competitive advantages. As a result, innovation pressure is growing and companies are forced to refine their existing products, services, and processes.
Especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle with ever shorter product lives and increasing innovation costs. A solution to these challenges for companies can be to open their innovation process for external input of knowledge and know-how instead of exclusively relying on internal research. The concept behind this idea is called “Open Innovation”, and this is where the OpenAlps project comes into play:
OpenAlps’ overall aim is to support SMEs with enhancing their innovative ability to successfully implement Open Innovation methods. To this end a comprehensive range of services will be created. With this brochure, we would like to introduce one of them: The Open Innovation Labs.
Working groups of SMEs and Research & Development (R&D) centres, so called “Open Innovation Labs”, were set up in six different regions of the project cooperation area. Each lab has its own focus, target group(s), and objective(s), which you can learn more about on the following pages. We’ve included the regional contact data for you to obtain more information.
Enjoy reading and thank you for your interest in our project activities!
Best regards,
Melanie John Elfi Bihler
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Open Innovation Labs
The Idea:
The Benefits:
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Open Innovation Labs in your Region
OpenAlps’ Open Innovation Labs are working groups of SMEs and R&D centres, completed by participants from political authorities and innovation organisations (e. g. cluster organisations).
Within the labs target groups are thoroughly introduced to the concept of Open Innovation and its various methods. Each lab shares a different innovation topic and tries to find elaborate solutions to participants’ innovation problems using Open Innovation. Ultimately, concrete process and/ or product innovations shall be developed.
The Open Innovation Labs are based regionally but are encouraged to achieve transnational impacts. Interested stakeholders thus can participate in any of the six regional labs, according to their specific interests, needs and preferences. The map and table on the following page provide you with a comprehensive overview.
» Supported by innovation experts SMEs can gain hands-on experience with Open Innovation methods and find creative solutions to their current innovation challenges.
» R&D centres have the chance to gain experience with Open Innovation methods on a research level.
» Policy makers can learn about the current state-of-the-art of the innovation processes of their regional SMEs and R&D centres.
» Innovation organisations benefit from networking opportunities and can win new competences in Open Innovation.
OI Lab Topic Location
Austria Cross-Industry Innovation Salzburg, Austria
France Wood Energy and Environmental Efficiency of Heating Equipment Lyon, France
Germany eHealth CareStuttgart / Villingen-
Schwenningen, Germany
ItalyWood and Furniture, Marble, Fashion Industry and ICT Verona, Italy
Technology Transfer in the ICT Sector Turin, Italy
Slovenia ORbITaLA – Creative Industries Maribor, Slovenia
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Open Innovation Lab Austria: Cross-Industry Innovation
What is it about?
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The Open Innovation Lab Austria attempts to utilise the benefits of Cross-Industry Innovation for regional SMEs. According to this concept, existing solutions from other industries are imitated creatively and readjusted to meet a company’s needs in order to create innovations.
Main ObjectivesThe main objective of the Austrian Open Innovation Lab is to take advantage of one specific Open Innovation method, namely cross-industry innovation, in order to foster the innovation process in the Salzburg region and the entire Alpine Space.
What is happening?An analysis of potential areas of innovation to be tackled within the lab was completed. As a next step, ideas and solutions from different industries will be presented in a series of workshops. New and innovative products and services shall be developed.
Target GroupsSMEs, R&D centres, universities, and cluster managers from Salzburg and all partnering regions are invited to join the lab.
Open Innovation Lab Österreich: Cross-Industry Innovation
Worum geht es?Das Open Innovation Lab Österreich will die Methode der Cross-Industry Innovation erproben, ihr Potential für KMUs der Region Salzburg aufzeigen und nutzbar machen. Hierbei werden bereits existierende Lösungen verschiedener Branchen kreativ imitiert, neu übersetzt und an die Bedürfnisse eines Unternehmens angepasst, um Innovationen zu schaffen.
ZielsetzungZiel des österreichischen Labs ist es, eine spezifische Spielart der Open Innovation zu nutzen, um den Innovationsprozess in der Region Salzburg sowie im gesamten Alpenraum zu fördern.
Was passiert gerade?Eine Analyse möglicher Innovationsbereiche wurde abgeschlossen. In einer Reihe von Workshops werden nun Ideen und Lösungen verschiedener Branchen vorgestellt, aus welchen neue und innovative Produkte und Dienstleistungen entwickelt werden sollen.
ZielgruppenKMUs, F&E-Einrichtungen, Universitäten und Cluster-Manager aus Salzburg sowie allen Partnerregionen.
KontaktBernhard LehoferITG SalzburgSüdtiroler Platz 115020 SalzburgAustria
+43 662 254 300 17
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Open Innovation Lab France: Wood Energy and Environmental Efficiency of Heating EquipmentWhat is it about?The Rhône-Alpes Lab deals with the wood-energy industrial sector and its contribution to sustainable development with the aim to boost innovation in wood-fuelled heating systems (household, collective, industrial). Innovations target higher energy and environmental efficiency.
Main ObjectivesAim of the Lab is to provide services to SMEs for Open Innovation (OI), raise the environmental awareness of stakeholders and develop innovation projects for the
What is happening?The Lab’s kick-off meeting was held in Grenoble on 27 June 2012. Besides interesting talks about the wood-energy industry and OI, related issues such as consumer behaviour and the improvement of heating systems were discussed. Participants will meet again for the first Lab meeting on 27 September 2012 for a workshop on creativity and innovative co-design to identify specific innovation topics. In 2013, the matching process between innovation seekers and solvers will start. Resulting OI projects will be accompanied by the project partner and external experts.
Target GroupsSMEs, start-ups, technical centres, research labs, experts, authorities and clusters (Tenerrdis) from the wood energy industry sector.
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Open Innovation Lab France: Efficacité énergétique et environnemen-tale des équipements de chauffageIl s’agit de quoi?Le Lab Rhône-Alpes est dédié à la filière bois-énergie et à sa contribution au développement durable, avec l’objectif de favoriser les innovations dans les systèmes de chauffage. Les innovations visent une meilleure efficacité énergétique et environnementale.
Objectifs PrincipauxL‘objectif de l’Open Innovation Lab est de proposer des services à l’innovation ouverte (IO) aux PME de la filière, de mettre en réseau les acteurs de l’écosystème et de faire émerger des projets d‘innovations dans les solutions de chauffage. Les domaines d’innovations potentiels concernent les équipements et usages, l’approvisionnement et le management de la ressource.
Quelles sont les Activités en Cours?Le lancement du Lab a eu lieu le 27.06.2012. Les enjeux de la filière bois-énergie, les problématiques des acteurs, les voies d’innovation pour les systèmes de chauffage au bois, le recours à l’IO ont été abordés. La première réunion du Lab aura lieu le 27.09.2012 avec un atelier de co-conception innovante pour faire émerger des projets. En 2013, des recherches d’expertises, de solutions et d’offres technologiques seront conduites pour répondre aux besoins des participants.
Groupes ciblesPME, start-ups, centres techniques, labos de recherche, experts, autorités, pôles et clusters (Tenerrdis) de la filière bois-énergie.
ContactSara Maiez-TributARDI Rhône-Alpes41 rue Garibaldi69006 Lyon, France
+33 629 48 65 69
wood-energy industry. Potential fields of innovation may concern equipment and usage, traceability, and resource management. Potential fields of innovation include filtration, combustion chamber efficiency, and wood drying.
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Open Innovation Lab Germany: eHealth Care
What is it about?Small and medium-sized enterprises from the eHealth sector are supported in their idea generation processes by using Open Innovation methods. The focus is set on the areas of rehab and wellness. Issues will be tackled from the users’ point of view.
Main ObjectivesThe Open Innovation Lab eHealth Care uses a multilevel approach. To begin with the focus is set on the knowledge exchange between users and manufacturers. As a next step the innovation potential of manufaturers shall be increased in a development workshop for interdisciplinary exchange and idea generation. Finally, the respective exploitation strategies will be developed.
What is happening?In April 2012 the kick-off meeting of the eHealth Lab was conducted as part of the OpenAlps Launch Conference in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. Starting points and issues for the following events were discussed. In October 2012 a workshop to explore multiple Open Innovation methods will take place in order to make the user needs transparent. Following this, technology experts from different fields will discuss eHealth innovation within a third workshop.
Target GroupsSMEs, research facilities, policy makers, healthcare providers
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Open Innovation Lab Deutschland: eHealth im Gesundheitswesen
KontaktValentina GrilleaMFG Innovationsagentur für IT und MedienBreitscheidstraße 470174 StuttgartDeutschland
http://[email protected]
+49 711 90715-336
Worum geht es?Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen werden durch einen Open Innovation Prozess bei der nachhaltigen Ideengenerierung im eHealth Sektor unterstützt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei in den Bereichen Rehabilitation und Wellness. Dazu werden Problemstellungen aus Sicht der Anwender behandelt.
ZielsetzungDas Open Innovation Lab eHealth Care ist mehrstufig aufgebaut. Zunächst liegt der Fokus auf der Interaktion zwischen Anwendern und Herstellern. Es folgt ein Entwicklungsworkshop für den interdisziplinären Austausch und die Ideengenerierung. Abschließend sollen Strategien zur erfolgreichen Ideenumsetzung erarbeitet werden.
Was passiert gerade?Das Kick-off Treffen zum eHealth Lab fand im April 2012 statt und thematisierte Ausgangspunkt und Aufgabenstellung für Folgeveranstaltungen. Im Oktober 2012 ist ein erster interaktiver Workshop geplant, in dem verschiedene Open Innovation Methoden vorgestellt und Anwenderbedürfnisse ermittelt werden sollen. Daran anknüpfend folgt ein Austausch zwischen Technologieexperten verschiedener Fachrichtungen zum Thema eHealth Innovation.
ZielgruppenKMUs, Forschungseinrichtungen, Gesundheitsdienstleister, Politikvertreter
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Open Innovation Lab Piedmont, Italy: Technology Transfer in the ICT Sector
What is it about?Technology Transfer has been identified as a key factor for regional development in Piedmont, with particular reference to the ICT sector. Within the lab, regional SMEs from this sector will try to find creative solutions to their innovation challenges by entering an Open
Main ObjectivesPiedmont’s Open Innovation Lab will involve SMEs, R&D centres, and policy makers to define and implement an OI-TT process in an ICT subsector. This process will range from the identification of Technology Transfer needs to the joint choice of research themes and the definition of OI-TT practices and tools.
What is happening?The Lab’s kick-off will be in September 2012, when a group of experts will choose the subsector. A virtual collaborative environment for Piedmont’s Open Innovation Lab has been set up. The face-to-face periodic workshops will start in October 2012.
Target GroupsInnovative SMEs from the ICT sector, ICT research bodies.
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Open Innovation Lab Piedmont, Italia: Technologietransfer im ICT-Sektor
ContattoMichela PolloneCSP - Innovazione nelle ICTVia Nizza, 15010126 Torino Italia
http://[email protected]
+39 011 4815111
Cosa farà il Lab?Il trasferimento tecnologico (TT) è stato identificato come un fattore chiave per lo sviluppo regionale in Piemonte, con particolare riferimento al settore ICT. Le PMI del settore ICT in Piemonte potranno trovare soluzioni creative alle loro esigenze di innovazione, entrando in un processo di OI-TT (Open Innovation Technlogy Transfer) e cooperando con enti ed esperti di R&S in ambito ICT.
Obiettivi principaliIl Piemonte OI-Lab coinvolgerà PMI, organismi di R & D, decisori pubblici, per definire e attuare un processo di OI-TT in un sottosettore ICT. Questo processo di OI-TT va dalla definizione dei bisogni TT, alla scelta congiunta dei temi di ricerca, alla definizione di alcune pratiche e strumenti di OI-TT.
Cosa si sta facendo?Il Piemonte OI-Lab sarà lanciato nel mese di settembre 2012, quando un gruppo di esperti sceglierà il sottosettore. Un ambiente virtuale per la collaborazione è stato predisposto e gli incontri periodici faccia a faccia del gruppo di lavoro inizieranno a ottobre 2012.
Destinatari: PMI innovative del settore ICT, enti di ricerca ICT.
Innovation Technology Transfer (OI-TT) process and cooperating with research & development (R&D) centres and experts from the field of ICT.
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Open Innovation Lab Veneto, Italy: Wood and Furniture, Marble, Fashion Industry and ICTWhat is it about?The Veneto lab will collaborate with a regional innovation and technology transfer institution. The lab’s activities aim at promoting Open Innovation in strategic sectors throughout the greater Verona region both to SMEs and stakeholders. Lab participants will for instance be made familiar with
Main ObjectivesMain goal of the lab of Veneto region is to raise SMEs’ and stakeholders’ level of knowledge concerning Open Innovation processes.
What is happening?Amongst the planned lab activities are workshops and training courses with SMEs and stakeholders, regional Open Innovation events, as well as promotional activities. A group of SMEs potentially interested to be involved in Open Innovation projects will be identified and concrete feasible projects which can be developed within the lab will be selected.
Target GroupsSMEs belonging to the wood, furniture, marble and fashion industries of the province of Verona, as well as technology transfer and innovation centres located in the Veneto region are invited to join the lab.
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Open Innovation Lab Veneto, Italia: Legno e Mobile, Marmo, Moda e ICT
ContattoVerona Innovazione Corso Porta Nuova 9637122 VeronaItalia
+39 045 8085706
Cosa farà il Lab?L’Open Innovation Lab collaborerà con un’organizzazione esperta in innovazione e trasferimento tecnologico a livello regionale. Le attività del laboratorio mirano a promuovere processi di Open Innovation nei settori strategici della provincia di Verona, coinvolgendo PMI e portatori d’interesse locali. I partecipanti al Lab avranno occasione di essere formati sui processi di innovazione. Strumenti esistenti, come la mappatura regionale dei centri di ricerca e di trasferimento tecnologico in fase di realizzazione, verranno integrati e ottimizzati.
Obiettivi principaliL’obiettivo del Lab Veneto è di sensibilizzare e qualificare PMI e portatori d’interesse nella gestione di processi di innovazione.
Cosa si sta facendo?Le attività previste dal laboratorio locale di OI sono: workshop, corsi di formazione ed eventi promozionali sul concetto di Open Innovation per PMI e portatori d’interesse locali. Saranno identificate le aziende potenzialmente interessate ad essere coinvolte in progetti di Open Innovation e verranno selezionati alcuni progetti concreti da sviluppare all’interno del laboratorio.
Destinatari: Piccole e medie imprese dei settori: Legno e Mobile, Marmo, Moda e IT della provincia di Verona e centri di ricerca e trasferimento tecnologico della regione Veneto sono invitati a partecipare al laboratorio.
and trained in using already available information sources such as a mapping of technology transfer and innovation institutions.
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Open Innovation Lab Slovenia: ORbITaLA - Creative Industries
What is it about?The Slovenian Open Innovation Lab ORbITaLA is connecting end users with developers of ideas and implementors of solutions. It provides an environment where clear needs and ways to fulfil them are identified, and new technological and process solutions are brought from the abstract model to the implementation level.
Main ObjectivesThe lab will identify the need for specific improvements of everyday household items, for instance to improve the user friendliness for specific target groups such as children, the elderly, or disabled people. Refinements of design and functionality, as well as giving everyday value to innovation and/ or invention will ensure that creative approaches to Open Innovation will be made for the use of the general and specific public and/ or private target groups.
What is happening?Regional SMEs, R&D centres, policy makers, and other stakeholders from the field of Open Innovation were identified as founding members of ORbITaLA and the lab’s launch conference was held in May 2012. The lab is making its presence known in cooperation with the University of Maribor, and to the wider public within Slovenia (outside Podravje region) in cooperation with public stakeholders such as the Technological Agency.
Target GroupsStakeholders in the field of creative industries, research and development centres and the wider public with the need to overcome specific problems.
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Open Innovation Lab Slovenija: ORbITaLA - Creative Industries
KontaktBorut JurišićMariborska Razvojna AgencijaPobreška cesta 202000 MariborSlovenija
+ 386 2 333 13 16
Kaj je ORbITaLA?Laboratorij odprtega inoviranja ORbITaLA povezuje končne uporabnike s snovalci zamisli in razvijalci produktov. Na ta način zagotavlja okolje, kjer se identificirajo jasne potrebe uporabnikov ter načine, kako tem potrebam zadovoljiti. Prav tako pa se abstraktni modeli tehnoloških ali projektnih zamisli pripeljejo do stopnje implementacije ideje.
Glavni ciljiORbITaLA bo identificirala specifične izboljšave vsakodnevnih predmetov z namenom izboljšave uporabnosti posameznim ciljnim skupinam (kot npr: otrokom, starostnikom, invalidom). S pomočjo izboljšav zasnove ali funkcionalnosti, kakor tudi s podajanjem uporabne vrednosti abstraktnim zamislim, bo zagotovljen kreativni pristop k odprtemu inoviranju v dobrobit tako širših kot tudi specifičnih družbenih skupin.
Kaj se trenutno dogaja?V mesecu maju so deležniki s področja MSP, R&R centrov in lokalne/regionalne politike podpisali ustanovno listino za odprtje laboratorija ORbITaLA. MRA v sodelovanju z Univerzo v Mariboru kakor tudi Tehnološko agencijo skrbi za osveščanje javnosti o delovanju ORbITaLE.
Ciljne skupineDeležniki s področja kreativnih industrij, raziskovalni centri ter splošna javnost z izzivi, ki čakajo na inovativne rešitve.
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Contact
Project PartnersCCI Black Forest‐Baar‐Heubergwww.schwarzwald-baar-heuberg.ihk.de
MFG Public Innovation Agency for ICT and Media www.digep.polito.it
Verona Innovation www.veronainnovazione.it
CSP‐ICT Innovation www.csp.it
DIGEP - Politecnico di Torino www.digep.polito.it
Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente www.flanet.org
ARDI Rhône-Alpes www.ardi-rhonealpes.fr
Innovation and Technology Transfer Salzburgwww.itg-salzburg.at
Maribor Development Agency www.mra.si
The OpenAlps ProjectToday, in order to produce a successful product or service, the access to relevant information on needs and solutions is more important than ever. For this reason the OpenAlps project was set up to support SMEs in their innovation processes with external partners, in a push to open their doors for external knowledge and know-how.
OpenAlps is part of the EU’s Alpine Space Programme and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the participating states. The project has a budget of 2.6 million € and a duration of 3 years (July 2011 – June 2014).
Lead Partner of the OpenAlps Project:
Project Manager: Melanie JohnPhone: +49 7721 922-206E-mail: [email protected]
