WP 3 Update – The Innovation EcosystemInnovation Management & CollaborationMattias Gustafsson, LTU Business AB

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• Help build a professional network• Help different actors to meet and create a fruitful cooperation• Build a link between industry and academy• Invite other universities for collaboration – networking• Strengthen the competence within the Space Campus (Centre of Excellence)• Easy way for PhD:s, space companies and supervisors to meet.• Include local/regional SMEs• Invite master students as well• ”Use video links so that more people can participate.

Virtual Team Environment

• Invent the need of competence within the space industry• Invent what competence is available among SMEs in the region• Help to spread awareness of different actors competence and skills demand• RIT could be a platform to promote master thesis• Speed dating between differents actors• Idea generation (both upstream and downstream)• Academy meets space industry and SMF in the region• Competitions for ”problem solving” of a challenge within space industry

Industry Competence,

Trends & Needs

• Build meeting points around ”themes”• Why not and ”Entrepreneur Week” in Kiruna?• Study visits to space companies – the companies could be hosting these meetings• Meetings in Sweden in the first place, but abroad if suitable (ESA locations and UK

Space)• An external speaker for inspiration (success stories)• Evaluation• Visit SMEs product and service development

Event Planning

• Problem solving – brainstorming• Idea development• Commercialization and Entrepreneurship

Commercialization Support

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The potential of a fully matured platform with engaged users:• Up-to-date needs specification and status of the innovation projects• SMEs keeping their company profiles updated• Students and SMEs using the environment to come up with ideas and offer their services• Open Innovation• Discussion• Collaboration• Continuous improvement• GROWTH

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What next?Innovation Management (IM)• What is IM? • Developing and launching new products, services, technologies,

concepts or processes to the market in a way that maximizes the organization’s idea generation and innovation potential.

• IM brings together collaboration and social software, with a clear focus on generating results and developing a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation. (HypeInnovation, 2016)

(Hedin, Hirvensalo, and Vaarnas, 2011)

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Idea generation & Evaluation

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