OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORM FOR BUSINESSES AND UNIVERSITIES – DEMOLA VILNIUS Saulius Arelis, VITP.

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OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORM FOR BUSINESSES AND UNIVERSITIES – DEMOLA VILNIUS Saulius Arelis, VITP

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OPEN INNOVATION PLATFORM FOR BUSINESSES AND UNIVERSITIES –

DEMOLA VILNIUS

Saulius Arelis, VITP

Why Innovations?

• Hypercompetition/Red Queen's race: „it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place“

• Shortened product lifecycle

• Faster, cheaper and more predictable innovations on demand

What innovations?

TYPE 1990s 2000s % change

New-to-the-world, new-to-market innovations 20,4% 11,5% -43,7%

New product lines 38,8% 27,1% -30,1%

Additions to existing product line 20,4% 24,7% +20,8%

Improvements & modifications to existing products

20,4% 36,7% +80,1%

Robert G. Cooper, Creating Bold Innovation in Mature Markets, IESE Insight Third Quarter 2012, Issue 14, pp. 28-35

Indoor Innovations

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IDEA SHOULD BE MATERIALIZED ASAP

Start with a demo/prototype

• Express and reflect ideas• Bridge communication gap• Fast and cheap• Involve the users• Feedback:

- Validate idea

- Right direction

- Detect flaws

- Information about users

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• Product/Service idea from business• Multidisciplinary team of students• Agreements for project results• Facilitation• Concept design/Proof of Concept/Demo /Prototype• Licensing/Employment/Startup/Dismissal

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NABC (by Stanford Research Institute)

Need Is there real need in the market? What need?

Approach How the need is addressed? How your product is different?

Benefits What is benefit for the customer?

Competition What is competition in the market?

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Need

• What’s your problem?• Is it a real problem? Is it...• ➜ Frequent? Painful? Expensive? Unsolved? Common?

• Who cares?• ➜ Who has this problem?• ➜ What characteristics define them?• ➜ Why does this problem happen to them?• ➜ How are they solving it now?• ➜ Do they actually care enough to change?

• So what?• ➜ How many people have this problem?• ➜ Can you find them?• ➜ Will they pay you to solve it?

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Project Description Partners

Smart EV 2 Building electric car designed during Demola Vilnius project Smart EV.

N technologijos UAB

Mobile Reporter Toolset for small and subject oriented media organization of reporters

IQ UAB

Optimal custom taxation Finding or checking right taxation for custom operations

Bull Lietuva UAB

Indoor navigator Indoor navigation toolset based on recognition, compass, pedometer, QR codes, WiFi spots etc.

Hnit Baltic UAB

Sensors New SERS sensors development. Altechna UAB

E-content selling platform

Multimedia content selling and delivering platform for end users

BMG Consulting UAB

iROBOLAB Remote applications for testing of Lego robots

Baltic Orbis UAB

Demola impact for students

• Teamwork skills• Application of theory in practise• Skills to develop new products/services

• Presentation skills• Entrepreneurship• Communication skills• Project management• Creative thinking

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• Demola is initiated and network coordinated by New Factory International Ltd., Tampere, Finland

• Demola centers: Tampere, Budapest, Oulu, Vilnius, Maribor, Linköping, Riga, St. Petersburg, ...

• 350 projects• 37 universities• 1600+ students• 140 companies• www.demola.net www.demola.lt

Akademijos 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania

Phone

+370 5 2109256

Fax

+370 5 2109257

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