“Smart & specialized strategies and delivery mechanism:
the innovative entrepreneurs perspective”
Philippe VANRIE, CEO of EBN
Regions for Economic Change Conference
Brussels, 23 June 2011
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
The EBN Network
a community sharing values, goals & brands
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The European Network of BICs, incubators, innovation and
entrepreneurship & start-up Centres >>> « Innovation-based
incubators » >>> Business & Innovation Centres (BICs)
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An organised Network of 200+ Business & Innovation Support
Centres covering most regions of EU 27 + neighbouring as well as
partnering countries
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An initiative taken 26 years ago by the EC (DG Regio), public
authorities, industry leaders, and Universities >>> A pioneer in
PPP, a connector between knowledge and business
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A dynamic cluster of clusters with 25.000+ entrepreneurs within
the active portfolio >> > with Village Tronic, Exilica, Vivalis, Lipotec,
Codasystem, Semiotix, Biofly, BioAzul, Kandor Graphics, Leica
Geosystems, Jamendo, Weecast, etc inside
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A community of qualified & committed intermediaries, with StJohn Innovation Centre, Cap Alpha, Innostart, Promotech,
Innotek,, Solvay Entrepreneurs, Technoport, Innovatum, Barcelona
Activa, inside !
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Let’s talk about
1. Deliver smartly!
2. Total Services
3. Incubate, it’s serious
4. Smart Entrepreneurs
5. Creative Innovation
6. Ecosystems & Darwin
7. Together we can !
8. Massive & micro
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Networking, a serious game
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Networking but
why Networking ?
relationship with entrepreneurship ?
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Learning : knowledge, know-how, tools
Finding Models: business, role, leadership, admiration
Being inspired by method & benchmarks
Being proud of exposing robust results & impact
Sharing efforts: work, investment, risk, reward
Help taking decisions: right or wrong
Sharing values: ethics, integrity, reputation
BV social-club: trust, affectivity, emotion,
Exploring the world: trends, idea & opportunity spotting
Teaming-up talents: teams, core competences, collaborative
management, know-who & outsourcing
• Enhancing ICT skills: connected, pervasive
• Making business & money: of course !
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Total Services Culture
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
The language of Entrepreneurs
do you speak entrepreneurship ?
A services-oriented language !
« leadership, collaborative, open-minded, multi-disciplined,
teaming, unique individuals, BD lovers, passion, work, rigor,
conviction, talents, emotion, challenge-driven, customeroriented, curiosity, courage, audace, tenacity, fighting spirit,
solutions-driven, vision, risk, social engagement, adaptability,
agility, mobility, ethics, integrity, simplicity, sense,
communicator, focus, conscience, substance, excellence,
invasive, pervasive, inclusive, visual, research, knowledge,
duration, compliant but not too much, solidarity, exchanges,
sharing, nomad, IT-addict, cash-fan, investment-ready, fast
networker »…What else Georges?
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Incubation, a serious mission
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
BICs’ core business/competences
a standards for Innovation-based Incubators
By the way, let’s focus !!!
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incubator of new business ideas/models
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creator of new innovative start-ups
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generator of spin-offs
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developer of innovative SME projects
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accelerator of growth
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animator of clusters
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proximity connector local/global
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multiplier of public policy
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networking hub to experts, agents, players, investors…
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Opportunity spotter, « hands-on » business developper
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Coach & mentor, strategic advisor
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
…in search of …
the Perfect BIC/Incubator/entrepreneurs’ support centre
...powered by dream teams, guided by visionaries, endorsed by leading
stakeholders, totally credible to the private sector, mandated by the
public sector, sustainable and politically independent, making impact on
the civil society, stimulating the entrepreneurship culture, embedding
innovation by all means and with all (from academic sources or not) ,
serving a multi sectors entrepreneurs communities, open to external
partnerships, interacting with other instruments in an open & smart
mode, a connectors of small businesses to the global landscape, acting as
an idea-lab and development centre for growing firms, providing
knowledge and creativity centres facilities, finally an interactive cross-
road for people, projects, know-how, technologies, IP, Investment,
researchers and entrepreneurs.
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
“Entrepreneurship: a key-driver for territorial development and sectorial competitiveness”
Entrepreneurs, doers & creative
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
360 degrees Innovation
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
How does innovation works ?
with sociology, psychology & realism
• First of all, integrate innovation at the core of the strategy, as a
pivotal & visible corporate value
• Moving from/balancing optimizing business to/and creating
business
• Develop innovation teams (with R&D of course but not only)
• Stimulate participative management, a high degree of delegation
& responsibility, collaborative & team works, and employee
engagement (an innovative HRM style)
• It’s an « inside-out » open process interacting with customers,
prospects, suppliers, partners, competitors, staff
• Balance supply-pushed (new technologies) with demand-led
(based on market requirements)
• Design systems for ideas assesment and prioritization of
detected/selected opportunities
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
The innovators’ & entrepreneurs’ dna
Does it require specific skills ?
• Creative intelligence,
not only cognitive skills
• Courage to take + ability
to manage risks
• Courage to start + stop
• Emotion + realism
• Collective leadership
• Customer intelligence
• Opportunity spotters
• KM/EI integrators
• Associating skills
(connecting disciplines)
• Questionning skills
(why, why not, what if,…)
• Observing skills
(observing others, being
anthropologist/sociologist)
• Experimenting skills
(prototyping + overseas exp.)
• Networking skills
(going out, ideas festivals,…)
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
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darwin, schumpeter & ecosystems
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
The business support ecosystem
clear focus & easy access !
• Efficient territorial innovation
ecosystems require a wellcharacterized road-map of
support services providers
• Entrepreneurship should be a
pivotal value & action of any
territorial economic development
strategies
• Vital for individual performances
and for enabling cooperation
between players
• Simply vital for the emergence of
competences, efficency of
support, and open innovation
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Back2downstream
the Apps era !
The proximity with the end-users
an acute understanding of the usages
The Changing Technology landscape is not only affected by
disruption, but more by the rise of applications, with/without IP
@ a hunger for applications,
@ the emergence of niches,
@ an extreme diversity in applications,
@ serial “opportunity spotting”, fast movers and integrators of
market intelligence,
@ by customer-lead innovation routes,
@ by pervasive solutions approaches >>> output: hard, soft &
data downstream applications for usable products & services
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
B2territories
the place-based theory, the proximity factor
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Serious Gaming at Coventry (entrepreneurial) University
Birmingham (real SMEs) Photonics Clusters
Chem2biz basf spin-off incubator in Ludwigshafen
KIS Biotherapies clustering in Nantes
Knowledge Dock regeneration in the Docklands
Creative computer graphics in Darmstadt
Cleantech platform in Lahti
Software development centre for start-ups in Cork
SatNav Galilleo applications incubated in Liège & Lux
An IT community of 100+ start ups in Barcelona
An integrated TT-Incubation-VC-cluster animation system on micro/nanoelectronics at Imec in Leuven
• Creativity and design crash courses in Sunderland
• Mechatronics in Haute-Savoie, Photovoltaics in Savoie,
• Creative industries in Trolhattan as a response to automotive
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu
Thank you for your attention
European BICs Network (EBN)
Philippe VANRIE
Avenue de Tervuren, 168, B-1150 Brussels
Tel. +32 (0)2 772 89 00
Fax +32 (0)2 772 95 74
pva@ebn.be
www.ebn.eu
EBN – European BIC Network
Avenue de Tervuren, 168. B – 1150 Bruxelles
Phone: + 32 2 772 89 00 - Fax: +32 2 772 95 74
E-mail: ebn@ebn.eu – Internet : www.ebn.eu