On the 4th of November 2016 we have received some great news for Cluj-Napoca and its supporting innovation community. The hosting city for the 2017 edition of the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference has been selected and yes, the flame will be carried to Cluj-Napoca! The exact dates of this event will be decided in the upcoming weeks and will most probably be mid-June 2017.
“Following the success of the previous edition of the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference taking place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, under the label of the Dutch EU Presidency, next year’s fifth edition will take place in the heart of Romania’s Transylvania region – Cluj-Napoca” states the official news published on the European Commission’s webpage at the Digital Single Market section.
SOFTECH from Cluj-Napoca and its tech brand Codespring are further cheerleading and willing to support Cluj-Napoca’s innovation community, ARIES Transylvania’s and the Transylvanian Clusters Consortium initiatives and Cluj-Napoca municipality’s actions that emphasize on the capabilities to deliver quality technological solutions and products.
Open Innovation 2.0. Conference
As we have learned that last year’s Open Innovation 2.0 event covered topics like European Innovation Living labs; Innovation Ecosystems; OI2 funding opportunities under Horizon 2020; Online Engagement Platforms (Big Data, Cloud, IoT, participatory design) and other related topics, we are aware of the importance of this forum for both Cluj-Napoca community and the broader Transylvania region.
The 2016 edition of the event held in Amsterdam reunited more than 300 people around the following action oriented themes: Open Innovation 2.0 and Digital Single Market, ePlatforms, Data Driven Innovation, Urban Agenda, Future Cities, Living Labs and Business Challenges as cross-cutting themes, just to list a few, we have Power of Crowds; Experimentation and Prototyping; and Citizen Engagement in practise.
We are now eagerly looking forward for the 2017 Open Innovation 2.0 Conference Agenda!
The Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG)
The EU’s Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) unites industrial groups, academia, governments, and private individuals to support policies for open innovation at the European Commission.
As presented on the official page, the “OISPG philosophy embraces the Open Innovation 2.0 paradigm: creation of open innovation ecosystems where the serendipity process is fully-fledged”.
It is considered that the involvement of citizens in the innovation process increases the speed of prototyping in real life and thus it may uplift the sustainable economic and societal growth. The fundament for The Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) thinking is the Quadruple Helix Innovation Model where government, industry, academia and civil participants work together to co-create the future and drive structural changes far beyond the scope of what any one organization or person could do alone.
The Innovation Leaders of this group are Prof. Dr. Martin Curley – the Director of Intel Labs Europe; Chairman of the OISPG, Mr. Markku Markkula – the President of the European Committee of Regions (CoR); Member of Espoo City Council in Finland. Vice-Chairmain of the OISPG and Mr. Bror Salmelin – the Advisor for Innovation Systems at DG CONNECT and managing the OISPG.
More on Open Innovation and related topics on our following news and publications.
