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FutureForesight Futures 2020: scenarios and user guidance Foresight
Everyone needs to plan for the future. Even everyday activities
such as leaving the house in the morning require decisions
based on assumptions about the future. All decisions, whether
in business or government, are taken against an uncertain
future. Against this background of Onderweg naar morgen maatschappelijke trends als basis voor innovatie Patrick van der Duin, Annemieke de Korte, Elisabeth Kroon, Arlette Pikaart, Dóris Pires This deliverable describes an analysis of trends relevant for the Freeband Application program. Major trends playing a role in the Dutch society between 2002 and 2010 are described. The trend analysis is used as the basic material for sketching two future impressions of plausible societies at the end of this decade. Two scenarios for future societies have been made which are based on the trend the perspective of time: ‘calming’ and ‘buzzing’. (pdf) The Age Shift, Priorities for action Foresight People are living longer and birth rates are falling. The reshaping of the age pyramid -THE AGE SHIFT - is a global phenomenon, affecting all developed nations and an increasing number of developing countries. By planning now, we can position ourselves to exploit the opportunities and meet the challenges. (meer info) The Demographic and Social Trends Panel Report Institute for Prospective Technological Studies The Futures Project is a major prospective exercise of IPTS that explores the likely effects of the major economic, social and technological developments which will take place in Europe and the world in the next ten years on Technology, Employment and Competitiveness in Europe by 2010. It is organised as an interactive process based on expert panels and workshops, and supported by background research. (pdf) The New World Map: A Quick Tour of the Ten-Year Technology Horizon Kathi Vian with Frank Baitman, Mary Cain, Bill Cockayne, Harvey Lehtman, and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Every two years, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) surveys the broad technology horizon to reconsider and recalibrate the future. The goal in this process is not so much to list interesting new technologies as to see how the many innovations from different sectors will intersect. (more info)
Deconstructing the formula for Business Model Innovation: uncovering value-creating opportunities in familiar places Deloitte & Touche The creation of new business models that would redefine industries was the boardroom game of the late 1990s’ dot-com boom. For many companies today, however, it appears to be an anachronism. Amid economic uncertainty and dot-com carnage, executives are battening down the hatches slashing payrolls, winnowing product and service lines, scaling back R&D programs, and pressuring sales managers to redouble their efforts. Reason for Deloitte & Touche to Costcutting and streamlining are back in vogue. (pdf) Entrepreneurial innovation in Europe Directorate-General for Enterprise
A review of 11 studies of innovation policy and practice in
today’s Europe. This book summarises 11 recently published
reports in the ongoing series of Innovation Policy Studies
undertaken by the European Commission’s Directorate-General
for Enterprise. All 11 were commissioned to examine topics
of current interest or concern to policy-makers in Europe
to European trend chart on innovation: Country report Belgium Alasdair Reid, Bernard Musyck The Trend Chart on Innovation in Europe is a practical tool for innovation policy-makers and scheme managers in Europe. Run by the Innovation Directorate of DG Enterprise, it pursues the collection, regular updating and analysis of information on innovation policies at national and Community level, with a focus on innovation finance; setting up and developing innovative businesses; the protection of intellectual property rights; and the transfer of technology between research and industry. (meer info) How Top Innovators Get Innovation Right: Results from Arthur D. Little's Third Innovation Excellence Survey Georg Beyer, Jasper Boessenkool, Anders Johansson, Per I. Nilsson and Frederik van Oene Improving innovation ability is today the most important lever for increasing profitability and growth. But success is mixed. In just about all industry sectors the 25 percent most innovative companies have 2.5 times as many new products and get 10 times better returns on their innovation investment than the least innovative ones. In this article Beyer, Boessenkool, Johansson, Nilsson and van Oene present the key findings and show how companies can benefit from them. (meer info) Innobarometer Directorate General Enterprise and coordinated As in 2001 and 2002, the research objective was to sound out the opinions of European managers on their companies’ needs in innovation, their investments in innovation and the output achieved. In addition, it looked at the driving forces for innovation, the impact of the market on innovation as well as the development of new managerial approaches to innovation. It also aimed at assessing how the Single Market can be of further benefit to companies in the European Union. (meer info) Innovation Management and the Knowledge - Driven Economy European Commission Directorate-general for Enterprise Knowledge is considered as an economic driver in today’s economy, it has become a commodity that can be packed, bought and sold. This evolution has been enhanced by by the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that have reduced the cost of gathering and disseminating knowledge. The contribution of knowledge to innovation has been achieved most notably by reducing transaction costs between companies and other actors, especially in areas such as information search and buying. (meer info) Innovation potential Results and analysis of the 2002 innovation survey Confederation of Britisch Industry This survey of over 400 companies was conducted between January and March 2002 to assess the general climate for innovation in UK business. Our report features an analysis of innovation potential, details on how companies create and manage ideas, how and why technology is used to support innovation and what factors are currently driving and constraining companies. (meer info) Innovation Sourcing Strategy Matters Jane C. Linder, Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, Thomas H. Davenport This research in five industries concludes that companies are increasing their reliance on external sourcing for innovation, but most lack an innovation sourcing strategy. Avid innovators create and manage a diverse set of innovation "channels" that incorporate not only sets of sources, but also wellestablished approaches for managing at the interfaces. Finally, leading companies manage the entire innovation-sourcing network olistically including both internal and external sources. (meer info) Managing Business Innovation Mohan Sawhney Objectives of this study: Understand how firms deal with the managing a healthy core business, while pursuing business innovation initiatives that can revitalize the core business, define the nature of business innovation, and classify the dimensions of business innovation, identify patterns and archetypes in organizing for business innovation initiatives and identify best practices managing business innovation in the areas of culture, structure, people, processes, funding, incentives, and linking mechanisms to the core business. (meer info) Research study finds link between innovation leadership teams and influential trends Cheskin Deciding who leads innovation initiatives within a company may have broader implications than previously assumed. Leadership not only sets the tone for innovation, but it also influences which market trends will dominate the process. This insight surfaced in the recent study on innovation conducted by strategic consulting and research firm, Cheskin and the international design firm, Fitch:Worldwide. In a sense, choosing an innovation leader is equivalent to choosing a view on the future. (meer info) Stimulating Consumer Demand Through Meaningful Innovation Paul F. Nunes and Brian Johnson In this challenging economic climate, many firms are focusing on cost-cutting and on gaining shortterm efficiencies. This study of more than 3,500 consumers suggests, however, that innovation geared toward actual consumer preferences and incomes may be the best tool to achieving valuable long-term results. (meer info) UK Innovation Survey 2001 Brian Stockdale This article presents emerging results from the UK Innovation Survey 2001, covering the three-year period from 1998 to 2000. This is part of a wider third Community Innovation Survey (CIS) conducted by EU Member States (CIS 2 was in 1997). The main constraint on innovation was direct cost closely followed by the cost and availability of finance. The major impact of innovation activities was on the quality of goods and services produced or supplied. Internal and market were the most frequently cited sources of information for innovation. Technical and other formal standards were also important sources. (meer info) Wetenschap en Technologie: Innovatie-indicatoren Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid Belgisch rapport over wetenschap, technologie en innovatie • 2001 In dit rapport worden drie soorten gegevens behandeld: basiscijfers, tabellen en grafieken welke zijn gekoppeld aan kwalitatieve gegevens om indicatoren te produceren. Deze zijn bedoeld om een beter inzicht te geven in de ontwikkeling van W&T in België en de positie van België ten opzichte van zijn belangrijkste handelspartners.Ze moeten een goed inzicht verlenen in de Belgische W&T-activiteiten en de beleidsmakers (meer info) Wie zijn onze klanten? Het innovatieprofiel, bron van inspiratie Donald Carchon Bart Clarysse Lieven De Clercq Eric Sleeckx De analyse bestaat uit 3 delen. In hoofdstuk 1 worden de gegevens uit de steekproef en combinaties ervan voorgesteld. Dit leert ons iets over de aard en de innovatiestatus van bedrijven. In hoofdstuk 2 wordt dan op basis van de indeling van de bedrijven volgens innovatiestatus gezocht naar economische parameters die onderscheidend zijn voor de innovatiebereidheid van bedrijve. Tot slot wordt in hoofdstuk 3 nagegaan in welke mate het klantensegmentatiesysteem dat door het Nederlandse Syntens ontwikkeld werd, ook voor Vlaanderen bruikbaar is als innovatieclassificatie. (meer info)
Innovatie-inspanningen van Vlaamse ondernemingen: een exploratie van de CIS-3-enquête Henri Delanghe, Marc Tiri, Jan Larosse, Donald Carchon This report presents the first results of the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS-3) in Flanders. (meer info) Innovatiestrategiën van Vlaamse industriële ondernemingen Reinhilde Veugelers, Bruno Cassiman
This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of Flemish
manufacturing companies and examines the relationship between
their innovation strategies and important industry, corporate
and innovation specific characteristics. This paper focuses
on the derterminants Performantieprofiel en typologie van innoverende bedrijven in Vlaanderen Marion Debruyne prof. Dr Ruud Frambach Waarin verschillen innovatieve bedrijven van niet-innovatieve? (meer info) Promoting Innovation Management Techniques in Europe Erdyn Consultants
The European Community launched a series of projects to promote
Innovation Management Techniques, hereafter called IMTs. In
this initiative, IMTs were considered to be methodological
approaches for improving the competitive position of firms
through innovation.
Expanding the Innovation Horizon Global CEO Study 2006 IBM Consulting Services Over the next two years, two-thirds of corporate CEOs say they're going to need to make fundamental changes to their business. The reasons, they say, are many: intensified competition, escalating customer expectations, and unexpected market shifts. For many, you can add to that list workforce issues, technological advances, regulatory concerns, and globalization. Yet fewer than half of CEOs think their organizations have handled such changes with much success in the past. These and other findings are in "Expanding the Innovation Horizon," the 2006 IBM Global CEO Study reporting on the agenda of CEOs in the next few years. (meer info) Management tools survey 2003: usage up as companies strive to make headway in tough times Darrell Rigby For nine years, Bain has tracked the adoption and usefulness of management tools. The 2003 survey gathered data on tool use and satisfaction in 2002 from 708 companies on five continents. (meer info) Onderzoek naar de agenda van de CEO's IBM Business Consulting Meerderheid van CEO’s over de hele wereld plant fundamentele veranderingen en verwacht dat nieuwe vormen van innovatie de groei zullen stimuleren, blijkt uit studie van IBM Business Consulting. CEO’s bestempelen samenwerking en partnerships als belangrijkste bronnen voor nieuwe, innovatieve ideeën. In een studie die IBM Business Consulting Services vandaag bekend heeft gemaakt, verklaarde 65% van de top CEO’s ter wereld dat zij, door de druk die zij ondervinden van de concurrentie en de markt, van plan zijn hun bedrijven de volgende twee jaar radicaal te veranderen. Dit ondanks het feit dat meer dan 80% van de CEO’s verklaarde dat hun organisatie in het verleden niet erg succesvol was bij het managen van veranderingen. (meer info) Planning and Growth Characteristics of Small Business Owner-Managers Tim Mazzarol
This paper outlines the findings from a study of small business
owner-managers who were seeking to grow their businesses.
The study examined the management practices of these owners
and their strategic thinking in relation to internal and external
environmental issues. Rapport over het concurrentievermogen van de vlaamse economie Koen De Backer, Leo Sleuwaegen Het Steunpunt Ondernemerschap, Ondernemingen en Innovatie concentreert zich op de relatie tussen ondernemerschap, ondernemingen, innovatie en concurrentievermogen en heeft als belangrijke taak een substantiële ondersteuning te geven aan de Vlaamse regering bij het ontwikkelen van kwaliteitsvolle leidraden omtrent innovatie en ondernemerschap. Binnen deze algemene taakomschrijving werd de specifieke opdracht gegeven om tweejaarlijks een rapport over het concurrentievermogen van de Vlaamse economie op te stellen. Het objectief van dit eerste rapport is een internationale vergelijking/benchmarking van de economische prestaties van Vlaanderen en de identificatie van de sterkten en zwakten van de Vlaamse economie. (meer info)
Europe in figures - Eurostat yearbook 2005 Eurostat The Eurostat yearbook is Eurostat's statistical compendium: It reports figures on the European Union and its Member States, the Euro-zone, the European Economic Area and other global key players. It provides a good understanding of all topics on which Eurostat has statistical data available. The Eurostat yearbook contains all structural indicators the European Commission and national governments have agreed to use to evaluate progress in the European Union. (meer info) Industrial relations as a key to strengthening innovation in Europe Guy Van Gyes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The aim of this study was to examine the impact of industrial relations on innovation. The report constructs a generic model of innovation-friendly industrial relations. There is evidence of a positive link between innovation and high involvement forms of direct participation. The report concludes that a distinctive set of industrial relations practices can be discerned as positively affecting the business ability to innovate. (meer info)
Innovation Networks Tom Martin & Associates/TMA, Vision Consulting, Claire Nauwelaers Forfás commissioned a study in 2003 to review Innovation Networks throughout the island of Ireland and to contrast them with comparable international systems. The study also sought to review national and international support mechanisms for innovation networks both North and South and to provide outline recommendations for improvements and/or modifications which could be made to these arrangements in order to ensure that they encourage and support a robust island-wide Innovation System.In its Terms of Reference, Forfás defined innovation networks as independent groups (meer info)
The power of customers to drive innovation (pdf) Business Decisions Limited The innovation process begins with the emergence of new market opportunities, progresses through the process of developing new products and services, and finishes with customer and market acceptance. To examine more closely the role of customers in the innovation process and to identify possible policy options, the Innovation Directorate of DG Enterprise supported a study on "The power of customers to drive innovation".
Management Tools 2003: An Executive's Guide Darrell K. Rigby In 1993, Bain & Company launched a multiyear research project to gather facts about the use and performance of management tools. The objectives of this study are 1) to provide managers with an understanding of how their current application of these tools and subsequent results compare with those of other organizations across industries and around the globe; and 2) to provide the information they need to identify, select, implement and integrate the right tools to improve their company's performance. As part of this study, Bain creates a yearly guide to 25 of the most popular and pertinent management tools. This guide provides a description, methodology, common uses and selected references for each of the tools. (meer info) The Cluster Initiative Greenbook The Cluster Initiative Greenbook The Cluster Initiative Greenbook, prepared for the 6th Global TCI Conference and financed by VINNOVA, takes a closer look at CIs around the world, mainly in OECD countries. The Greenbook highlights drivers of good performance, reflects a shift in the policy discussion from whether a cluster initiative is useful to how it should be done and presents systematic learnings that will help CI practitioners to make these choices in an informed way to become more successful. (meer info)
Sectorroadmap mechanica&mechatronica: bouwstenen voor de toekomst Agoria Deze roadmapstudie, toegespitst op de sector mechanica & mechatronica, heeft de volgende doelstellingen: bedrijven van de sector een kader bieden voor uitwisseling van ideeen, het confronteren van hun toekomstbeelden en voor het vastleggen van de belangrijkste tendensen; de KMO's een basis bieden voor het uitwerken van hun eigen innovatiestrategie en de noodzakelijke technologische ontwikkelingen identificeren voor de toekomst. (meer info) Technolgies for the future: looking a decade ahead (pdf) Bart Van Looy, Koenraad Debackere, Petra Andries, Edwin Zimmermann, Julie Callaert, Arnold Verbeek Verkenningstudie uitgevoerd door Incentim, onder leiding van Prof. dr. ir. K. Debackere, K.U.Leuven
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