Raunio inno work-9-5_2012

Channels and Platforms of Innovation and Competence (CHAPS)Research Programme of TaSTI/UTA

Come and Stay!Communities for global nomads

Mika Raunio

Unit for Science, Technology and Innovation StudiesInstitute for Social Research

University of Tampere, Finland

InnoWork9.5.2012 TAMPERE

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1 Connectivity and rewards

Renewing inflow

Outflow

Outflow

Complenting inflow

REGION

CONNECTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

Human capital

Social capitalCultural capital

REWARDS

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2Occupationswith highest

percentage offoreigners as

a share oftotal

employed2009

(Statistics Finland 2009)

Philologists, translators & interpreters (Professionals) 20,3 (772)

Cleaners (Elementary occupations) 14,6 (7 479)

Clearing & forwarding agents (Technicians and associate professionals) 14,5 (373)

Newspaper & adv. deliverers and messengers (Elementary occupations) 11,6 (745)

Housekeeping & restaurant supervisors (Service, Care and Shop workers) 11,5 (2 025)

Waiters, waitresses & bartenders (Service, Care and Shop sales workers) 10,7 (3 116)

Travel consultants & organisers (Technicians and associate professionals) 10,5 (123)

Fruit & veget processingmachine operators (Plant and machine operators) 10,5 (98)

Managers of SMEs of restaurants & hotels (Senior officials and managers) 10,4 (149)

Lecturers & senior assistants (Professionals) 10,3 (378)

Choreographers & dancers (Professionals) 9,5 (78)

Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified (Professionals) 9,2 (964)

Bleaching & cleaningmachine operators (Plant and machine operators) 8,9 (295)

Other medical doctors (Professionals) 8,4 (799)

Biologists, botanists, zoologists & related professionals (Professionals) 8,3 (207)

Gardeners & horticultural workers (Skilled agricultural & fishery workers) 8,2 (512)

Sewingmachine operators (Plant and machine operators) 8,2 (153)

Cooks (Service, Care and Shop sales workers) 8,1 (1 651)

Central government professionals (Professionals) 8,0 (1 296)

Beauticians (Service, Care and Shop sales workers) 7,7 (239)

Assistants & parttime lecturers (Professionals) 7,3 (181)


3 Why to connect?• The firms follow the people or are started by them. Cities should strive to become

broadly creative communities, not just centres of technological innovation and hightechindustry.”(Florida 2002)

• Properly managed economic and cultural diversity may create new ideas and modesof operations. (Niebuhur 2006), not just fulfill the missing pieces.

• Connections with strangers are (weak ties) likely to contain new information.(Martin & Sunlay 2006, 416; Granovetter 1973)

• Mobility may open exclusiveness and lockin situations of too closed networks wheretraditional solutions and routines are not questioned. (Uzzi 1996; Bathelt et al 2002)

• Facetoface time minimize communication and trust related principalagentproblems within the firms (Rosenblum 2001, 887).

• Mobility helps researchers and professionals to keep up the pace of advancements(OECD 2000.)

• When product life cycles are months national educational institutions may be too slow

• Knowledge flows and knowledge spillovers may be strongly based on to social networksand labor mobility ; Geographical proximity as such is not compulsory or sufficientcondition for knowledge spillovers. (Glaeser, et al. 1992; Breschi and Lisson 2003)

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4 How to connect?

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5 Why community building?

Social capital

Human capital

Cultural capital

Define value and rules of therewarding feedback from the use

of professional skills forindividuals

Define the value of knowledgeand related transaction costs forregional innovation economy

Regional economy

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8a Community building: how?

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8b Community building: how?


9 Nourishing policy measures; why?

•No new MNCs to Finland– Nokia’s R&D from over 2Be below 1,3Be during 2000

•Global small firms/entrepreneurs– Rovio 2003 (turnover 2010: 10,5 Me (80M 2011?), employees approx. 300)– Beneq 2005 (turnover 2011: 15 Me, employees 82)

•New generation, promising experiences– In Demola (Tampere) about 30 percent of students are foreigners. New products

and service concepts are produced in cooperation with companies.– Aalto Venture Garage (Helsinki region), connect with Silicon Valley and Stanford

University, students have been very active in setting up the activities

• Markets in BRIC & Developing countries

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Policy issues 1

Social and transnational competences1. Analytical competence: Understanding of the central beliefs,

values and practices and ability to link foreign conditions to one’sown circumstances, and to discern transnational strategies.

2. Emotional competence: Motivation and ability to open oneself upcontinuously to divergent cultural influences and experiences withgenuine interest and respect, ability to manage multiple indentities.

3. Creative/imaginative competence: Ability to foresee thesynergistic potential of diverse cultural perspectives in problemsolving and to articulate transnational synthesis

4. Behavioral competence: communicative facility: Interpretationskills and proficiency in relaxed use of intercultural nonverbal cluesand codes, to discern different cultural messages

5. Functional (project/task) adroitness: Ability to relate tocounterpart(s) and to develop and maintain positive interpersonalrelationships, to adapt sensitivity and imagination in transnationalinteractions, accommodative organizational strategies

(Koehn and Rosenau 2002)

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Regional integrative platform(Ely, NF, programs, etc )

National policy forSystem CHAP

[Global CHAP][Global CHAP]

National policy forCorporate CHAP

National policy forHuman Capital CHAP

Firms & other organizations

Policy issues 2Matching channels and platforms

Platforms integrate the global flows with the regional economy

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Policy issues 3Innovation and immigration converging?

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Thanksfor your attention!

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