Innovation Ecosystems and Competence Building Background

Innovation Ecosystems and
Competence Building
Observations from Human Spare Parts and
Venture Finance Ecosystems
15 September 2015
9:30 – 15:00
Radisson Blue Royal Hotel
Runeberginkatu 2, 00100 Helsinki
Background
‘The Innovation Ecosystems, Leadership and Innovation Policy’
(EcoLead) -project aims (a) to identify the key determinants and
drivers of change of two different types of innovation ecosystem; (b)
to provide decision and policy makers at all levels with novel policy
tools to build, enhance and facilitate innovation ecosystems for
economic renewal and business growth; and (c) to provide
practitioners with new ways to lead reciprocal and non-hierarchical
sets of actors that constitute innovation ecosystems.
Funded by Tekes, City of Tampere and the University of Tampere
Carried out by the University of Tampere School of Management,
Urban and Regional Studies Group (Sente)
Markku Sotarauta, Pasi Sorvisto, Tuomo Heinonen & Jari
Kolehmainen
Partnered by professor Martin Kenney (University of California),
professors Björn Asheim & Jerker Moodysson (University of Lund)
and Professor Emeritus Morris Teubal (Hebrew University
Jerusalem)
Registration
(Please write the link into the
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https://elomake3.uta.fi/
lomakkeet/15236/
lomake.html
by 6 September 2015
Further
information
markku.sotarauta@uta.fi
+358 40 190 4004
EcoLead -Seminar
September 2015
Programme
9:30 – 10:00
Coffee, Tea, Biscuits
10:00 – 10:15
Words of Welcome and Introduction
Markku Sotarauta, Professor, University of Tampere
10:15 – 10:55
Innovation Policy for Economic Resilience: The Case of Sweden
Björn Asheim, Professor, University of Lund
10:55 – 11:35
Institutional Change, Innovation and Policy Coordination: Illustrations from Sweden
Jerker Moodysson, Professor, University of Lund
11:35 – 12:15
National Strategy, Policy Targeting and Country Adaptation: A System-Evolutionary Perspective
Morris Teubal, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University Jerusalem
12:15 – 13:00
Light lunch
13:00 – 13:40
Commercializing Stem Cell Science in the U.S. - Where Is It and Where Are We?
Martin Kenney, Professor, University of California Davis
13:40 – 14:10
Venture Finance in Finland - Outcomes of the Executed Policies
Pasi Sorvisto, Researcher, University of Tampere
14:10 – 14:40
Leadership and Competencies in Innovation Ecosystems
Markku Sotarauta, Professor, University of Tampere
14:40 – 15:00
Discussion
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Notes and observations