Cross InnovationManifesto

How to unlock the potential of our cities?We have a three year program, supported by the EC

looking at cross-innovationLinz, Amsterdam, Berlin, Birmingham, Rome, Warsaw,

Pilsen, Lisbon, Vilnius, Tallin, StockholmThe Manifesto enables a conversation to take place in our

cities and develop plans about cross-innovation

cross-innovation

peace is in development

cross-innovation

development is in culture

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culture is in town

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culture is in town

cross-innovation

we used to know how an agricultural landscape looked like

and we used to know how an industrial landscape looked like

But how are we building the knowledge age landscape?

culture is in town

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a city is a platform

a city is an ecosystem

cities are commons

culture is in town

cross-innovation

a city is a platform

a city is an ecosystem

cities are commons

a network of cities linked to:the world

europethe internet

Promos & Call-to-actions

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innovation as remixinnovation as co-operationinnovation as connection

Promos & Call-to-actions

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vision has consequencesmetaphores are persuasive

innovation has sources

Vision

Shift happens And when it happens it’s not the way you planned

Joseph Schumpeter “Neue Kombinationen” is innovation across different industries, inspired and supported by the creative sector

Context is king

Innovation is not grown in a greenhouseIt evolves in an ecosystem

The grand societal challenges from the Lund-declaration as starting and inspiring point for thinking about possible innovations leading to a more

integral approach to innovation

Creative value

Being specialized is goodBeing special is way better

A plan for innovation frameworks that views innovation not as a linear develpment process aimed at exploiting technology but merely as a

cooperation between people and organizations with different background and skills

Exploration

Boundaries need defenceFrontiers need pioneers

National and regional innovation prolicies, often organized along departmental lines, don’t get it: radical innovation is a cross-boundary

exploration

Reality check

From vision to actionthrough connection

A list of examples and cases that illustrate this “new” way of looking at innovation and its implications for local and regional governments

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Vouchers, crowd fundingresearch grants to promotecross-innovation

Artistic practices and creative thinking; schmes that link culture and the arts to business

INNOVATION HAS SOURCES

SMART FINANCEIS POSSIBLE

CULTURE BASEDINNOVATION

BRIDGE BUILDING

ENERGYSPACES

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Development agencies offer services to build bridges between sectors

Brokering services used in co-working spaces, incubators, fab-labs, science parks local clusters

PUBLIC OFFICERS MATTER

THE ART OF BUSINESS

INCENTIVES CAN HELP

Vision City Action

Cross-innovation Manifesto

Politicians, please: listen and respect your innovative people.

You can enable us, by thinking our citiesas open platforms, ecosystems, commons