LivingLabs and the Danube Region

Gábor Andrásagabor@corvinno.hu

Old / new idea of region

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• Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy• Kossuth: Danube Federation• European Union

Problems

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• One big city (> 1M) / many small (<500 K)• Bad infrastructure / transport• Capital investment:

– less knowledge transfer– more wagetransfer

• No big infra project (EXPO, Football WC, Olympic Games)• Competition of countries and/or cities

– Rivalry– Sales -> Production -> Development– SCM - buyer - vendor position

• Structural problems of employment/unemployment– Growing # of young people with diploma– Development potential / attractivity

Innovation Region

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• Environment & energy• Connectivity (transport & communication)• Socio-Economic development• Seggregation / minorities• Poverty• Smart cities

– Resources– Resorce allocation vs re-allocation– Restricitions in PA -> own fund

• Time horizon– Conflict of short term - long term– Smart = good to live there (> election cycle)

Preconditions

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• Mobility• Language skills• Flexible training• Control climate• Business model(s)

– Sharing complementer competencies vs.– Sharing competitive advantage

• Transborder character• Risk taking attitude• What happens after the honeymoon?

– Sustainability?

Development vehicles

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• Transformation to an open innovation system in the eRegion• New business-administration-academia partnerships with special focus on cross-

border partnerships in the macro regions• Creation of innovative eServices for SMEs and inter-organisational eServices in a

cross-border context• Increasing cooperation and collaboration capacity of SMEs• Developing a universal, utility-like software service infrastructure to enable value-

added innovation at the application level, taking into account new business models as well as new forms of businesses enabled by the Internet

• Fostering knowledge sharing through new eTechnologies that can assist in expanded eLearning and eCollaboration improving connectivity of cross-border eRegions, with border cities as cases

• Stimulating Living Labs creation in the Danube Region and their involvement in the European Network of Living Labs