places of innovation - how tech giants, hackerspaces and corporates shape new places to foster...

Places of Innovation Talk @ CUASIA - January 2015�1

What we do

• A world tour of startups & innovation in the emerging markets

• A tech media reporting on each visited country, city, event, innovative phenomenon

• A consultancy to link up corporates, government and industry associations with innovation

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Why such a report?

• Identify different models of innovation across the world

• Create a typology to better understand the places of innovation

• Help a large French corporation to better design and manage its “Innovation Space”

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Methodology• Taille (Size): what superficy? how many

members? what kind of funding?

• Ouverture (Openness): how open is it to other communities? to city-dwellers? to clients? to entrepreneurs?

• Interdisciplinarité (Interdisciplinarity): what fields are these places working on?

• Partenariats (Partnerships): how many institutions are gathered in the place of innovation?

• Valorisation (Valuation): what follow-up for the innovations created in different places?

• v2: adding Timeframe, Adaptability

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Corpus of our research1. Tech giants in the US

2. Corporate accelerators

3. Makers

4. Government powered clusters

5. Events and tech festivals

6. International networks

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Google Bay View Campus, 102km2, Silicon ValleyKeyword: Health (100% fresh air, light, yoga) �6

Facebook Hacker Campus, 40km2, Silicon ValleyKeyword: Collaboration (2800 engineers in ONE room) �7

General Electric Garages, Lagos, NigeriaKeyword: Employability (of future GE employees) �8

Coca-Cola Innovation Labs, 8 buddy teams across the worldKeyword: Exfiltration (barely any links to the corporation) �9

La Paillasse, Paris: largest open-science place of EuropeKeyword: Interdisciplinary (from biohacking to multi-lab) �10

TAMI, Tel-Aviv’s MakerspaceKeyword: Wiki (all the activity of the group is documented) �11

NUMA, Paris: One storey for each stage of the ecosystemKeyword: Centralisation (of all players in one place) �12

Konza City, Kenya: a $14.5bn Silicon Valley in the desertKeyword: Off-ground (lost in the desert) �13

Echelon: South-East Asia’s largest tech conferenceKeyword: Satellite (10 mini-Echelon organised in 10 countries) �14

Maker Faire Shenzhen, the biggest Maker eventKeyword: Popular (a familial event with lot of education) �15

Sandbox, a network for bright below 30. 1000 members in 86 countries Keyword: Diners (by and for Sandboxers, monthly)

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BlueSeed, the startup boat in international watersKeyword: Outlaw (no visa or ethics apply) �17

Outcome & Perspectives

• No secret recipe, no one size fits all, a LOT of test & try

• Communities always pre-exist the space they occupy, manage, grow, with maturation times ranging from a few weeks to a few months/years

• Governments love all what’s big and fat: pharaonic projects of Silicon Valley replica built as infrastructure without community are bound to fail

• Education (makerspace, events…) and Valuation (tech giants, corporate accelerators…) seem to be two poles of the Places of Innovation

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Get in touch

We’d love to get your feedback, or tell you more about the full version of the report.

You can reach us at:

• www.innovationiseverywhere.com

• martin@innovationiseverywhere.com

• +65 9235 4234 (Singapore timezone) This presentation was originally designed & shown at the Coworking Unconference Asia in Bali, January 2015 (http://www.cuasia.co/)

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