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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Ken Dooley

17.01.2017

OverviewThe story of built environment innovation and entrepreneurship from the point of view of the large company

• How did we innovate 5-10 years ago ?

• Why has this changed ?

• How do we innovate now ?

GranlundLeading building services expert in Finland with over 600

• Building Design

• Real Estate Consulting

• Software Development

The Ghost Innovation Past

The Market

Previously, the business models were simpler:

Model Example Frequency

Products Windows Very Common

Services Architects Very Common

Software as a Service Corporate software Common

Product as a Service Carpet tiles Rare

Combinations Product leasing + SaaS

Rare

Corporate Innovation

Time schedule of software development:

Medium term: Research institutions

Long term: In house

Lean Innovation

Starting Point

Lean Start-Up“get out of the building”

“start before you are ready”

Names:

- Age of agile

- Move from why to try

- Culture of experimentation

- Corporate experimentation

Digitalisation

DisruptionStart-ups have yet to be institutionalised by the industry norms

Flir One

• Turn your smart phone into a thermographic camera

Other driversMore support for SMEs and thus more talented people moving in that direction

New working patterns make being self employed more attractive

Public funding partners (i.e. Tekes) like to see SME’s included in applications for corporate innovations projects

Strong local eco-system of software and electronics knowledge

- also amplified by people from Nokia

Corporate Experimentation

How we innovate nowNew

• Lean experiments with Start-ups

• Acceleration programs

• Hackathons

• Reverse pitching

• Strategic partnerships with Start-ups

Traditional

• Multi-organisation research projects

• Internal development projects

• Supporting employee education – via Masters, PhDs etc

CaaP

Large Corps.

Start-ups / SMEsGive: Flexible legislation

Get: Results of experiments

Give: Fresh ideas

Get: Reference cases

Give: Test site / Funding

Get: Differentiation / Reduced costs

Cities

New Innovation Platforms

Experimentation Overview

• Quick

• Inexpensive

• Simple goal

Result

• Learning / Proof of Concept

• New collaboration partners

• Interesting and newsworthy

Indoor Location

Geo-located Feedback

Option 1

+ Set up of maps is quick

- When you report feedback its slow to find you

- Not all phones are compatible

- Accuracy deteriorates over time

Option 2:

+ No set up is needed

- A hardware infrastructure is needed

- App development time is slow

- The triangulation of the the hardware isnt easy

Indoor Location

Indoor Mapping

Gamification

Acceleration Programs

• Call sent out to Start-ups

• Start-up mapping is provided to the large companies

• Start-ups receive mentoring

• Reach collaboration partners outside our network

• Collaboration is facilitated

• Targeted end experiment

• Start-ups get reference cases

SmartRetro

SmartRetroCo-creation sessions to solve existing problems

Bees and Trees

Climate Launchpad2016 Euro finals of Climate Launchpad:

The world’s largest cleantech start-up

competition

Hackathons• Rapid idea generation

• Alternative perspectives

• Gives everyone a voice

• Gives a deadline for innovation activities

• Meet new people

Hackathons as a service

• Arctic Start-up

• HUB 13

• IndustryHack

• Ultrahack

• JunctionHack

• AEC Hackathons

Hackathon• Behavioural scientists

• Energy Experts

• Coders

Hackathon

Hackathons + Strategy Days

SummaryHopefully it’s a win-win situation

Start-ups get:

- reference cases

- validations from customers / industry experts

- some income when they are starting out

Large companies get:

- access to new ideas

- access to emerging skill sets

- access to people who can make lean demos in short time frames

Ken Dooley

Senior Specialist – Digitalisation

Innovation and Development

Granlund Oy

ken.dooley@granlund.fi

@kendooley