2. A common platform for innovation
within Green Growth and Welfare
Nordic Innovation Forum
3. THE VISION
...is for the Nordic Region to
be a leading innovation region
in green growth and welfare
4. Bruntland Report:
Three Pillars of Sustainability
Social
Equitable
Bearable
Sustainable
Environmental Economic
Viable
Source: stylized representation of ”Our Common futures” definition of sustainability / Bruntland report
6. Leading Welfare Societies
Strengths Weaknesses
• Values and visions • Innovation only flourishes locally
• Fragmentation - Lack of coordination
• A history of promoting innovation
• “Not-Invented-Here” syndrome
• Empowering users and customers
• “No-failure” culture impedes innovation
• Trust, flat hierarchies and the power of • Public institutions are rewarded for
employees stable operations – not innovation
• Networks that succed at innovation • Scale is lacking
Opportunities Threats
• High costs in Nordic countries
• Enabling Technology
• A crowded marked
• Innovative public procurement and
• Small Nordic markets – global growth
tendering
lies in Asia
• Rewarding copycats • Actual austerity predominates instead
• Branding Nordic strengths to boost of innovation
export
8. Recommendations for Action
Public sector Public Sustainable
Innovation procurement business
of innovation models
Green Growth and Welfare
Nordic Added Value
Global Outlook
9. Public Sector Innovation
• Reccomendation 1
A vision is needed for Innovation in welfare
and green growth in the Nordic Public
Sectors
• Recommendation 2
Joint Nordic programme to train civil servants
at local and national levels to manage
innovation for the renewal of public services
10. Public Procurement of
Innovation
• Reccomendation 1
Nordic governments should set a goal for
procurement of Innovation. 3% of all public
procurement should be innovations
• Recommendation 2
„Nordic guidebooks“ for public procures and
policy makers should be created
• Recommendation 2
Nordic Knowledge Transfer Network for
public procurement should be established
11. Sustainable Business Models
• Recommendation 1
A study on the Social Business Models
should be commissioned
• Recommendation 2
Ongoing Nordic efforts on Green Business
Models should be strenthened and continued