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Open &
Collaborative Innovation in a European Network of Living Labs
Fanuel Dewever
Senior Consultant
IBM Business Consulting Services
IBM Belgium
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The way innovation is
managed is undergoing a major paradigm shift itself. Research
no longer solely happens in silos within thick corporate or
academic walls! Increasingly we see the emergence of a new
approach to innovation: collaborative innovation. Especially
in Europe this collaborative approach has a bright future, as
it allows us to innovate by tapping into Europe’s diversity
which was long deemed a barrier to innovation adoption. Often
however, participation is still limited to closed partnerships
with limited involvement from the end user.
Through Living Labs we
can realize sustainable systemic innovation by enabling
co-creation of innovation in open public, private and civic
partnerships. The Finnish EU Presidency will launch a European
Network of Living Labs on November 21, 2006. This is the first
step towards a New European Innovation System (EIS).
In this session, Mr.
Dewever will give you a deeper insight in what Living Labs
are, in what they are not and in how you could benefit from
engaging in open innovation through Living Labs. |
Biography Fanuel
Dewever
Fanuel Dewever is Senior
Consultant in IBM Business Consulting Services. Fanuel has deep
hands-on experience in the area of Strategy & Innovation,
Collaborative Workplaces, eLearning, Knowledge Management, Process
Improvement and IT strategy, which he acquired on projects in the
services industry and the government sector.
With several speaking
engagements in Europe, Fanuel is a regular speaker at seminars and
conferences. He is member of the eLearning Industry Group (eLIG),
the AMI@Work Policy Taskforce and the European Expert Group for
Collaborative Work Environments & Living Labs. Through his
involvement in several European and local expert groups he
provides decision makers with policy advice on human capital
development and innovation management.
Fanuel Dewever holds
university degrees in Organizational and Managerial Informatics
(1998) and in Applied Economics (with majors in Marketing and
Informatics, 1999), both from the Brussels University (VUB). In
April 2005 he started an executive MBA programme at Henley
Management College (UK). He is acknowledged for his contributions
to two books and is the author of several articles and papers
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