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Prof. Jari Kuusisto

10th International Open and User Innovation Workshop

July 30-August 1, 2012 Harvard Business SchoolBoston, Massachusetts, USA

User Innovation Policy in Finland2010 ->

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Outline of the presentation

Introduction Demand and user-driven innovation policy in Finland (UDI)

PART I: Framework PART II: Action plan

Examples of user innovation policy measures Development of consumer innovation indicators Introduction of User innovation measurement in the European Community

Innovation Survey

Apps4Finland yearly competition Website publishing case studies and blogs on user innovation Road map for opening of public data

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Introduction

The national innovation strategy (2008) searched for new sourcesof competitive advantage for Finland

Demand- and user-driven innovation policy was identified as acentral policy area to be developed Breaking ground to new innovation policy area

In 2009 the Ministry of Employment and Economy organized aformal group to drive demand- and user-driven innovation

In 2010 the launch of comprehensive Demand and User-drivenInnovation Policy, took place Influence on government agencies, research funding, business innovation support,

and public sector development activities

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Policy framework

Ministry staff worked intensively with researchers and leadingexperts for 18 months developing a framework and conceptsof user innovation Resulting policy document was published (Finnish and English editions) Essential for credibility building and effective communications

User Innovation policy framework provides:A logical organisation of the topic area Themes for the policy action planA basis for planning and impacts evaluation

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Developing

understanding onusers needs

New research methods

that provide in-depth

understanding on user

needs

Users as R&D&I

actors and resources

New level of interaction

gives users more

power & responsibilities

in the R&D&I process

User innovations and

their commercialization

Users develop innovations for their

own purposes; this provides

businesses with new ideas and

commercial opportunities

Kuusisto, 2009

User-driveninnovaon

BusinessdrivenR&D&I

Source: Ministry of Employment and Economy, (2010) Demand and User-driven

Innovation Policy Framework (Part I) and Action Plan (Part II), Helsinki, Finland.

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Key areas of the action plan

1. Competitiveness by strengthening knowledge-base andawareness of demand and user-driven innovation

2. Innovations by bolstering demand for novel solutions3. Renewal of the public sector as a source and target of

pioneering actions4. Incentives for enhancing grass root level initiatives5. More impact from increased usage of user-driven methods6. Networks enhancing diffusion of innovations7.

Evaluating the impact of the action programme

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Action plan some policy measures

Wide variety of activities supporting user innovationTowards smart regulationDevelopment of public sector practices Inputs to IPR strategyCross governmental activitiesActivation of regional actors and research performersUser innovation is becoming relevant across a wide variety of public

policy actors

R&D programmes modifications and changes in Funding criteriaA developer-forum for user innovationsEtc.

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Examples of user innovation policymeasures

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Statistical IndicatorsDevelopment for User Innovation

and Innovation Transfers in Finland

Eric von Hippel Jeroen de Jong

Fred Gault Jari Kuusisto

UNUMERIT

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Survey of 3500 Finnish consumers

Telephone and internet surveys by trained interviewers1. Pilot surveys (6 x 100 consumers) focusing on

Consumer innovation indicator development and

Survey method development and selection - telephone vs. internet

2. Main survey of 3500 consumers Combined telephone and internet survey On-going during spring-summer 2012

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InFi-project - Expected findings

New knowledge of user innovation activities by consumersWho? When? In what context? How extensively?How are innovations are transferred to commercial actors?

New indicators that will reveal the scope of consumerinnovation In consumer goods In private and public sector services In the context of user groups

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InFi-project - Expected findings II

New inputs for innovation policy development Consumers as important source of innovation Need to facilitate / promote the transfer of consumer innovations?

New indicators that are instrumental for better statistics Scale, scope and variation in user innovation by consumers

Indications of the economic significance of consumerinnovations

Transfer of consumer innovations to commercial producers

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CIS results - user innovation matters

User innovation is widely spread phenomena among thesurveyed Finnish businesses

80 per cent of innovating firms incorporated user information or usersin their innovation activity during the survey period

Around half of innovating firms commercialized user innovations Involvement of users was most common among enterprises that

developed (radical) new to the market product innovations

More results to come in the main presentation

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Concluding comments - policy

User innovation promotion is an important part of Finnishinnovation policy

It has an important role as catalyst of policy renewal Finland currently has most comprehensive policy for

promoting user innovations

User innovation policy is systemic in natureCross governmental actions are necessaryRenewal of regulations and removal of obstacles to user innovationsProvides a new perspective to IPR policy developmentCatalyses change across national innovation system, influencing key

government agencies, funding and policy instruments

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Key policy documents

Ministry of Employment and Economy, (2010) Demand and User-driven InnovationPolicy Framework (Part I) and Action Plan (Part II), Helsinki, Finland.

Ministry of Employment and Economy (2012), Demand- and user-driven innovationpolicy Action Plan 2010 - 2013- Interim report; Kysynt- ja kyttjlhtiseninnovaatiopolitiikan toimenpideohjelma 2010 2013, [In Finnish], Helsinki, Finland.

Ministry of Employment and Economy, (2010) Outlining Finnish Innovation Policy;Innovaatiopolitiikan linjaukset ja painopisteet 2010 [In Finnish], Helsinki, Finland.

The Research and Innovation Council of Finland (2010) Research and InnovationPolicy Guidelines for 2011 2015, Helsinki, Finland.