Start-up, Scale-up, Surf-acrosswild wide wired ecosystems

P H I L I P P E VA N R I E , E B N

120 SECONDS CONFERENCE

J IC, BRNO, 18 FEB. 2015

An international community of smart and specialised organisationsthat connect and coach innovators, entrepreneurs and SMEsto start, grow, and transform our economies

With BICs (business & innovation centres), Tech-Incubators, Accelerators, Clusters, EntrepreneurshipCentres, inside

With JIC inside !With South Moravia on board !

EBN, a services & connecting platform

A wild, wide, wired (www) ecosystem !

An ecosystem in disruption

With complex sociology & target groups

Driven by new concepts, new methods

With traditionnal players in vertuous transformationor being pushed out of the roadmap

A complex public financial support system

New innovative businesses being core or niche responses to grand societal challenges

Find your place on the planet-ecosystem!Positionning + characterization

Open Innovation, the new frontier for win-winsmallbizz/corporates partnerships

Understanding entrepreneurs’ needsAccess to potential clients/distributors

Access to technology partners and infrastructure

Improving financial robustness

Projecting business trend & sales with longer time scale

Optimizing margins & reducing potential bad debts

Ensuring quality, compliance & customer satisfaction

Building reputation, skilled team, & differentiated USPs

Innovation, validation, coaching & mentoring

Partnering with Business & Innovation champions

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Understanding what Corporates want

Identify new trends, new ideas

Find unique concepts, new hot designs

Acquire & Integrate new IPs, Technos, Apps

Help (& control) champions in the growing

Invest in hot start-ups & SMEs

Increase adoption of proprietary standards

Co-llaborate, Co-design, Co-innovate

Partner with out-of-the-box selected stakeholders

Open Innovation meansInvesting in interactions

Stimulate creativity at the periphery of the core business

Take an active part in your ecosystem’s life

Develop an acute sense of advanced services

Capture capabilities held by small firms

Open your non core-business IP (licensing + spin-off)

Let others develop your non strategic initiatives

Sponsor communities of young talents & of apps developers

How does open innovation works ?

Integrate innovation & partnerships at the core of the strategy

Move from optimizing business to creating business

Develop innovation scouts teams

Stimulate participative management

An « inside-out » open process interacting with

Balance supply-pushed with demand-led

Design systems for ideas assesment & prioritization

Differentiate yourself, be the smartiestspecialist in your segment !

Believe in (open innovation) collaborative (EU) projects

Quality & excellence, your labelBecome best-in-class

This is a very serious … business!

A serious game with serious players

Scaling, fighting, growing, exiting, merging, impacting, educating Smart Success Stories-S3 !

Thank you !Philippe.Vanrie@ebn.euwww.ebn.eu