Starting Up with

Open Innovation

Event 13h June 2012

Jointly Dublinked, Dublin City Council & Innovation Dublin

hosted an event to explore the area of 'Starting Up with

Open Innovation'. Attendees on the day heard from

industry experts in the field of Open Innovation, where

they discussed the current trends, barriers and future

challenges to developing & implementing Open Innovation

Strategies. The format of the event enabled participants to

network and explore the implementation of the Business

Model Canvas technique with a workshop environment led

by Gary Leyden, LaunchPad Director at NDRC.

Speakers on the day included:

Gary Leyden- Business Model Canvas Workshop Director, NDRC’s LaunchPad Gary has a passion for the technology start-up, with a focus on

creating value propositions that contribute to building repeatable

and scalable business models. He has successfully founded two

companies in the last ten years – Computer Gym and Vrising- and

has advised numerous others in a personal capacity and as a

member of the Enterprise Ireland Mentor Network since 2005.

With over 20 years experience in the ICT sector, Gary brings a

strong customer focus to the organisations’ with whom he works,

aligning technical solutions with customer problems. He is a

graduate of Trinity College and holds an MBA from the Smurfit

Graduate School of Business, UCD.

Dr. Brian Vaughan – “Open Innovation in a centralised system: challenges & perspectives” Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science Foundation Ireland funded FASTNET Project, Trinity College Dublin Principle Investigator, Enterprise Ireland Commericalisation Project

Dr. Brian Vaughan has a strong background in speech corpus development and emotional speech analysis,

having worked on the FP7 SALERO (Sematic Audio VisuaL Entertainment Reuseable Objects) project ( ) while

completing his PhD in the digital media domain, having lectured on a number of third level institutions in

Ireland (Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, Griffith College, Digital Skills Academy, Dublin

Institute of Design). Brian is currently employed as a postdoctoral research fellow on the Science Foundation

Ireland funded FASTNET project (Focus on Actions in Social Talk: Networking-Enabling Technology) at the

Speech Communication Lab at Trinity College Dublin. He is currently investigating non-verbal behaviour in the

speech modality and is Principle Investigator on an Enterprise Ireland funded commericalisation project. He is

particularly interested in applying his research in a number of diverse domains.

John Shaw – “Open Innovation @ Mainstream” CIO & Head of Information Services, Mainstream Renewable Power, Ireland John Shaw is CIO and Head of Information Services, based at Mainstream’s Global

Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. John joined Mainstream in September 2008 to

lead the company’s Business Technology Strategy. A Chartered Engineer (C Eng

MIEI) and a registered European Professional Engineer (Eur Ing) with 20+ years

experience. John holds an MBA in Technology Management and a Bachelor’s

Degree in Electronics Engineer from University College Dublin. A senior member of

the IEEE (SMIEEE), joined Mainstream from Pfizer where he was Director of

Information Services at one of Pfizer’s largest manufacturing facilities, having

previously held senior IS executive positions in Accenture and General Electric. John is an active member of

technical institutes, including The International Society of Automation, The Institute of Marine Engineering,

Science and Technology and The Innovation Value Institute which researches and develops unifying

frameworks to create more value from Business Technology innovation.

Prof. Martin G. Curley – “Open Innovation 2.0 Outlook”

Vice President, Intel Labs Director, Intel Labs Europe and Senior Principal Engineer Intel Corporation

Professor of Technology and Business Innovation

Co-Director, Innovation Value Institute

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Martin Curley is a vice president at Intel Corporation and director of Intel Labs Europe, the company's network of more than 25 research labs, development centers and open innovation collaborations spanning the European region. He also serves as a senior principal engineer at Intel Labs Europe, which is charged with helping to advance both Intel research and Europe's ability to compete in the global society. Curley leads Intel's research and innovation engagement with the European Commission and the broader European Union research ecosystem. He is also a co-director of the Innovation Value Institute, an industry-academic open innovation consortium that strives to promote structural change in the way companies and governments achieve value through information technology.

Before assuming his current position in 2009, Curley was global director of IT innovation at Intel. Earlier in his Intel career, he held a number of senior IT management and automation positions for Intel in the United States and Europe. Before joining Intel in 1992, he held management and research positions at General Electric in Ireland and at Philips Electronics in the Netherlands.

Curley is the author or co-author of three books on technology management for value, innovation and entrepreneurship and has published more than 20 papers in the area of IT, entrepreneurship and innovation management. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, the British Computer Society, the Irish Computer Society and the Irish Academy of Engineering. He currently chairs the European Union Open Innovation Strategy and Policy group, an industry-led group advising on strategic priorities for open and service innovation.

Curley has a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering and a master's degree in business studies, both from University College Dublin, Ireland. He earned his Ph.D. in information systems from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Business Canvas Model Workshop

Click here to view Gary’s

presentation from

Business Model Canvas

Workshop.

Understanding of Open Innovation

Descriptions used by participants to

describe Open Innovation if it were a

person:

Open Minded

Big Ideas

Idea sharing

Always on the move

Tech-savy

Conversational

Open-armed

Connected to communities

Innovator

Thoughtful

Passionate

Positive

Creative

‘Hot for Ideas’

Big ears for listening

Should be female and

named Una Vate

What participants said:

“All speakers were on message

regarding application of

innovation”

“It definitely ‘opened’ my

mind!”

“Great insight to end user/

business”

“knowledge transfer” “new business contacts”

“Great introduction to NDRC and the future sustainable power and

innovation needs”

“great at showing what’s coming down the line”

“networking, methods, perspectives”

“Informative”

Tweets from ‘Starting Up with Open Innovation’ Event:

Click here to view archive of tweets from ‘Starting Up with Open Innovation’ Event

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commercialised as easily as possible and to minimise legal or technical barriers that can be

impediments for small and medium businesses (SMEs) seeking to develop and prove business ideas.

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Launched in 2009, Innovation Dublin is a Creative Dublin Alliance Project coordinated by Dublin City Council (Economic Development Unit). The Economic Development Unit (EDU) provides the programme co-ordination and promotional activity for Innovation Dublin, supported by a working group made up of representatives from the member organisations of the Creative Dublin Alliance across Dublin’s academia, local government and business sectors. As well as organising events in their own right, each partner leverages their constituent members and communities to promote wider involvement in the festival. In 2009, the first Innovation Dublin festival was held over seven days. The programme included over 465 events organised across the City region by 54 partner organisations. In 2010, Innovation Dublin was expanded to 12 days. 394 high-quality events were held in over 77 venues throughout the city, with 117 organisations participating. During 2010, Innovation Dublin became part of a European Funded project (INTERREG IVB NWE) called Inspiring Open Innovation Team (IOIT). As a result, a group from Dublin (made up of Dublin City Council’s Economic Development Unit, UCDand the National College of Ireland’s Centre for Research and Innovation) is partnering with eight cities in the north west of Europe to develop open innovation models through transnational collaboration, to maximise European level synergies and development potential in the knowledge economy. For further information please contact us at info@innovationdublin.ie.

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