Inovation Seminar,
March 30, 2015
Introduction to OI-Net
Prof. Catherine Equey
Co-funded by
the European Union
Ref. number: 542203-LLP-1-2013-1-FI-ERASMUS-ENW
Catherine Equey, PHD
UAS Professor
Name
Equey Catherine
Contact
catherine.equey@hesge.ch
Haute école de gestion de
Genève
Tél. +41 (0)22.388.17.17
Campus
Website
http://campus.hesge.ch/equeyc/
Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève,
University of Applied Sciences, Western
Switerland
UAS Western Switzerland:
• University-level education strongly focused on
applied and practical skills, delivering Bachelor and
Master degrees recognized throughout Europe
(Bologne treaty)
• In 2014-2015, more than 19,400 students
Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève,
University of Applied Sciences, Western
Switerland
Haute Ecole de Gestion Genève:
largest business school in Western Switzerland. Approx. 1.000 students
per year. A philosophy of innovation, excellence, ethics and sustainable
management.
4 Bachelor Programs:
• Business administration
• Information Systems
• Information Science
• International Business Management (EN)
o Masters, EMBA, Lifelong learning programs
Catherine Equey, PhD
UAS Professor
Research projects
(ongoing or completed)
Open Innovation Network (OI-NET)
Granted by the European Commission
Simplified Integrated Management Accounting System for SMEs
(SICS).
Granted by Swiss Confedration (CTI)
Etude du comportement des PME/PMI suisses en matière
d’adoption de système de gestion intégré.
Funded by Oracle, SAP, Microsoft et Abacus.
Teaching
3 keywords
Management Accounting / Controlling
Integrated Financial System and ERP’s Systems / Innovation
Open Innovation, Management Accounting, ERP’s Systems
Agenda
1. Introduction to OI-Net
2. Aims and objectives
3. WP structure, partners & first results
4. OI-Net Platform
1. INTRODUCTION TO OI-NET
Sources:
Marko Torkkeli, Justyna Dabrowska,
Introduction to OI-Net,
LUT, Lappeeranta Meeting, January 2014
Facts & Figures
• Total amount of partners: 52 from 35 countries
• Universities: 41 with at least one university
partner per European country (exception:
Luxemburg)
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Other non-university partners: 11
• Total Budget: 865 659 EUR (EU grant: 599 989 EUR),
mainly covers meetings
• Project Duration: October 2013 - September 2016
What is OI Net?
OI-Net is an EU co-financed project designed to
promote cooperation on open innovation (OI)
topics in European Higher Education curricula
and institutes for the benefit of EU
competitiveness.
2. AIMS & OBJECTIVES
What do we mean by Network?
Bring together practitioners, experts and policymakers in a specific field and to create an
organizational framework for intensive networking
“… a specific cooperation by several organisations
designed to cover a longer period of time for the
attainment of jointly stipulated objectives and
added value for the individual participants”
(Wohlfahrt 2002, p. 39)
Aims and objectives
The aim is to facilitate European cooperation by outlining and
exchanging up-to-date concepts, and good practices in open
innovation and open innovation education.
• Fill the gap in terms of structured OI in HE
• Demonstrate the implementation/integration of the European OI
curricula
• Develop a European Community of Practice on OI in HE +
observatory/think-tank
• Implement support actions to OI in HE
• Build sustainability, shape the future of HE
• Implement dissemination and supporting facilities from the very start
and promote open approaches
3. WP STRUCTURE, PARTNERS
& FIRST RESULTS
OI-Net Structure
WP2
Industrial Needs
WP3
Methodologies and
Practices
WP5
Common Curricula
Framework
WP4
Curricula and
Education
WP8: Sustainability and Exploitation of Results
WP7: Dissemination
WP6: Quality Assurance
WP1: Project management
OI-Net WP Leaders
WP 1 Leader
Marko Torkkeli
LUT
WP 3 Leader
Anne-Laure Mention
CRP Henri Tudor
WP 5 Leader
Ger Post
WP 2 Leader
Marko Torkkeli
LUT
WP 4 Leader
Simona Lache
University of Transilvania
Fontys University of Applied Sciences
WP 6 Leader
Christophe Terrasse
EFMD
WP
WP77Leader
Leader
Iain
IainBitran,
Bitran,Steffen
SteffenConn
Conn
ISPIM
ISPIM
WP 8 Leader
Anna Trifilova
University of Exeter
WP 2: Industrial Needs
• WP2: Identification of Industrial Needs for
Open innovation Education in Europe
Questionnaire & Survey:
• OI status and performance
• OI practices
• OI set of skills
• Abilities of OI specialists
Sources :
Daria Podmetina; Warswa Meeting, November 2014
WP 2: Industrial Needs
WP Leader
Marko Torkkeli, LUT
WP Support
Annick Castiaux
University of Narmur
WP Core Team
EFMD, Belgium
ESCEM/FBS – FRANCE BUSINESS SCHOOL, France
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Athens University of Economics and Business-Research Center (AUEB-RC), Greece
IMCRC University of Miskolc, Hungary
Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change, National University of Ireland,
Ireland
Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Linköping University, Sweden
Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève, Switzerland
P01 Lappeenranta University of
Technology, Finland
wwww.lut.fi/en
• Established in 1969 with over 5 000 students; over 30% of new students are foreign
• Focused on three key strategic priorities: green energy and technology, sustainable value
creation, and building a hub of international relations with Russia.
• School of Technology, School of Business, School of Industrial Engineering and
Management
o LUT School of Industrial Engineering and Management areas of expertise:
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Innovations, Entrepreneurship and Performance Management
Managing Value Networks
Software Production and Data Management
Activities in the field of Open Innovation:
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Projects: Open Innovation Simulation (OISIM); Open Innovation Service for Emerging Business
(OpenINNO); Open Innovation on the borderline of university-enterprise cooperation (OpenUNIC)
Erasmus Summer School: Open Innovation Clinic (2013-2014)
Open Innovation course for master students
P01 Team (1/2)
1. Marko Torkkeli, Professor of Innovation
Management
• Innovation management, strategic & growth
entrepreneurship
• OI-Net ‘founder’
2. Justyna Dabrowska, Project coordinator, PhD
student
• Open innovation, cross-cultural aspects in
innovation management; leadership; crossfunctional collaboration in NPD; entrepreneurship
• Contact person for OI-Net project related issues
P01 Team (2/2)
3. Daria Podmetina, D. Sc., OI-Net Scientific
Coordinator
• Open innovation, methodology of science,
Innovation and
• internationalization, R&D cooperation, transitional
economies
• Contact person for WP2 and other research related
questions
WP 2: Industrial Needs
• Survey: selecting industries
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rFor each OI-Net partner:
• Select country top 6-10 industries in terme of
contribution to GPD
• Select 3-10 companies from each selected industries
Middle size to big size companies
If possible with strong R&D
land
WP 2: Industrial Needs
• Questionnaire Structure
• Part 1: Company profil
de Genève, Switzerland
• Part 2: OI activities and competences
• Part 3: Set of skills and competences for an OI
Specialist
• Part 4: Innovation performance
• Part 5: Respondent info
WP 2: Industrial Needs
• Conducting survey:
• Online Survey – Webropol.
• 528 answers
• On going data analysis
• Report available soon
WP 2: Industrial Needs
• Summary:
• Type of outputs : Questionnaire & Report
• Dissemination level: Public
• Aim: To collect, process and categorize data from companies
in Europe on OI awareness, adoption, implementation, and
skill requirements for personnel
WP 3: Methodologies and
Practices
• WP3: Exchanging methodologies and best
practices on open innovation
Collect:
• Info about teaching practices
• Cases study
• …
WP 3: Methodologies and
Practices
WP Leader
Anne-Laure Mention
CRP Henri Tudor
WP Support
Tor Helge
Norwegian School of Economics
WP Core Team
New Bulgaria University, Bulgaria
Aarhus University, Denmark
University of Tartu, Estonia
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
iNNOWiSE, Germany
Strategie en Organisatie, Netherlands
NTNU Social Research AS, Norway
Instutute de Empresa, IE UNIVERSIDAD, Spain
EADA, Spain
University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
P29 – Public research centre
Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
www.tudor.lu
• Research and Technology Organization
• Wide range of activities covering the whole
innovation chain
• 30+ researchers in the field of innovation economics
and management
• Open Innovation: research, implementation,
awareness raising and publications
P29 Team
1. Mention, Anne-Laure, Eng. in Telecom, PhD in
Management, Head of Research Unit
• Innovation in services economies, open and
collaborative innovation, measurement and
evaluation issues, policy analysis
2. Martovoy, Andrey, PhD in Marketing,
senior researcher
• Services industries, innovation and change
management, economic aspects of OI
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• WP4: Comparing and developing Curricula
and Education on open innovation
Collect:
• Curriculum
• Current OI teaching activities
•…
Sources :
Simona Lache, Laura David; Warsaw Meeting, November 2014
WP 4: Curricula and Education
WP Leader
Simona Lache
University of Transilvania
WP Support
J.J.Pinto Ferreira
INESC Porto, University of Porto
WP Core Team
Wifi - Vienna Chamber of Commerce, Austria
FH Wien, Austria
MAC-Team aisbl, Belgium
University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Actif-Europe, France
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia
University of Malta, Malta
Technology Partners, Poland
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
ISPIM, United Kingdom
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
P39 Transilvania University
of Brasov, Romania
• Established in 1948, public institution;
• Comprehensive university, with 18 faculties, 20,000 students;
• Mission:
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www.unitbv.ro
Advanced scientific research, development, innovation and technologic transfer, in
Sustainable Development field
Academic education at all levels: bachelor, master, PhD, Post-graduate programmes
Interaction between University and the Society, by joint structures and knowledge
society based partnerships
• Activities related to open innovation (education):
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Development of the RTD University Institute (2007-2013) – European Structural Funds
Development of the Technological & Business Incubator (2007) – INFRATECH Project
Consultancy in intellectual property – Department of Intellectual Property
Some projects: University – Enterprise Cooperation (EUI-Net, 2004-2007; EUE-Net, 20072010), Quality of student transnational placements (Q-PlaNet, 2008-2010; Transnational
partnership U-E for student placements, 2010-2013), Erasmus for young Entrepreneurs
(LEARN-DO, 2013-2014).
P39 Team
1. Simona, Lache, PhD, Professor, Vice-Rector for
Internationalization and Quality Evaluation
• Teaching and researching in Mechanical Engineering;
Quality assurance in higher education;
Internationalization of higher education;
Entrepreneurship, University-Enterprise cooperation
• Participation in several European projects on education
(Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus for Young
Entrepreneurs, CIP – Europe Enterprise Network); P39
Team coordinator.
2. Laura, David, PhD, Lecturer
• Teaching and researching in psychology of creativity.
• Participation in European projects concerning
entrepreneurship, quality of practical placements and
university-enterprise cooperation; P39 Team member.
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• Summary data about the survey:
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• Surveyed programs at Bachelor level (1/3)
Number of programs surveyed
97
Number of programs with Open Innovation
as topic (14 countries)
25 25,77% of total
Mandatory 15 60% of OI
Optional 10
Average total duration (hours)
97
Min duration 16
Max duration 800
Average duration of OI topic (hours)
14 14,4% of total
Min duration
2
Max duration 100
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• Surveyed programs at Bachelor level (2/3)
Hot topics covered
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New Product Development
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Challenging innovation strategies
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Marketing of Innovation
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Creativity and Idea generation
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• Surveyed programs at Bachelor level (3/3)
Reflections on results:
• Only 25% of programs about innovation include OI among
topics
• Open Innovation is a minor topic (14,4% of total hours are
devoted to OI)
• The majority of classes that contains OI are mandatory (60%)
• 1/3 of programs are taught in English
• 1/3 practical approach and cases/seminars
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• Surveyed programs at Master Degree level (1/3)
Number of programs surveyed
Number of programs with Open
Innovation as topic
157
Mandatory
Optional
Average total duration (hours)
Min duration
Max duration
Average duration of OI topic (hours)
Min duration
Max duration
50
32
18
122
20
2250
26
2
77
31,84%
64%
36%
21,31%
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• Surveyed programs at Master Degree level (2/3)
Hot topics covered
• R&D/Technological Innovation
• Management Knowledge
• Products development
• Creativity and Idea generation
• Intellectual Property Management
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• Surveyed programs at Master Degree level (3/3)
Reflections on results:
• Only 31,84% of programs about innovation include OI
among topics
• Open Innovation covers about a quater of the hours
from master programs with OI topic
• Classes are mostly mandatory (64%)
• Half of programs are taught in English
• Half use practical approach and cases/seminars
WP 4: Curricula and Education
• Surveyed programs at Ph.D. level
Number of programs surveyed
Number of programs with Open
Innovation as topic
18
Mandatory
Optional
Average total duration (hours)
Min duration
Max duration
Average duration of OI topic (hours)
Min duration
Max duration
3
3
100
30
120
29
2
80
16,0%
100,0%
WP 4: Curricula and Education
Conclusion:
• Lot of variety
• No consistency across region, bachelor to
master level
• Subjects mainly in bussiness and engineering
WP 5: Common Curricula
Framework
• WP5: Consolidation of Common Curricula
Framework for Open Innovation
Education & Training in Europe
WP 5: Common Curricula
Framework
WP Leader
Ger Post
WP Support
Elpida Christou
Fontys University of Applied Sciences
EU association of Erasmus coordinators
WP Core Team
University of Zagreb, Croatia
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
University of West Hungary, Hungary
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
TTP Lab, Technology Transfer Program & Laboratory/ Studio ing. Giordani, Italy
Riga International School of Economics and Business Adminsitration, Latvia
University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Marin Barleti University, Albania
P10 European Association of Erasmus
Coordinators – EAEC, Cyprus
The EAEC was founded in 2004 in Lodz, Poland, with an official kick off during the
Erasmus Coordinators Conference ERACON 2005 in Cyprus.
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More than 80 members from EU and Non-EU
The aims of the association are to:
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Enable information and experience exchange amongst the Erasmus Coordinators
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Promote mobility
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Circulate provisions on the Bologna Process in academic circles
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Promote principles and participation in the Erasmus+ Programme
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Support the process of raising education and quality standards in EU
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Organise seminars and conferences (ERACON Annual Conference)
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Prepare and submit project proposals to by funded by the EC
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Cooperate as a partner in EU funded projects
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Run surveys and studies on topics relating to the above
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Produce publications of interest to the members
P10 European Association of Erasmus
Coordinators – EAEC, Cyprus
1. Emma Zeniou,
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Head of ERASMUS Office, University of Cyprus,
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Executive Vice President, European Association of
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ERASMUS Coordinators(EAEC)
• Mobility Programmes, EU Project Management
2. Elpida Christou,
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Executive Secretary, European Association of
ERASMUS
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Coordinators (EAEC)
• EU Project management, Event Management ,
Networking and Promotion
4. OI-NET PLATEFORM
Sources :
Yves Boisselier, Lappeeranta Meeting, January 2014
OI-Net Platform(s)
• Central website: www.oi-net.eu
• Public + Private parts
• Functions:
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Info + news
Library
Forum
Calendar
Social network
More functions and tools
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Daily newsletter
Twitter account: @OinetProject
(more social media to come… depending on you)
Webconferences: Skype, GoToMeeting /
Webinar
• xWiki, PADs (15 people), Google Docs …
• Akari platform (collaborative curricula)
Login / Private / Member access
Register / Create an account via the social network
Create account – step 1
• Username:
latin alphabet
no accent éçà…
• No blank space
• Then click “Next”
Account – first email
• After clicking “Next”
you receive a first
email
• Only as a reminder
Account – step 2
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For each info, you can choose
the privacy level.
By default, emails are not
public.
15 characters
minimum
Account – step 3
• Your picture:
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Optional
You may skip it
and do it later
Account – second email
After selecting or skipping your pic, then just
wait that the administrator wakes up and
approve your account. 
Account – final
You should receive
a second email with
a link to validate
your email address.
Helpdesk
o Yves Boisselier
o P05 – MAC-Team – BE
o yb@mac-team.eu
o skype: yvesfb
o +32 485 800 009
or
http://oi-net.eu/forum/4-support
Contacts
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For more information:
www.oi-net.eu
FIN: +358 504 357 545
o Coordinators
(Lappeenranta University of
Technology)
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Marko Torkkeli
marko.torkkeli@lut.fi
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Justyna Dabrowska
Justyna.Dabrowska@lut.fi
This project has been funded with
support from the European Commission.
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the author, and the Commission cannot
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