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Towards a Platform for Collaborative Innovation: A roadmap for a small University of Applied Sciences

Hannes RaffasederGabriele Permoser

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The Changing Role of Higher Education Institutions

Innovation is an important key to mastering difficult, complex and interrelated societal and economic challenges!


Innovation Ecosystems

Increasing demand triggered an ongoing evolution of innovation processes, creative environments and collaborative methods

Of course innovation ecosystems have been developed inside companies, universities, traditional networks and communities

But even more important trends and interesting issues have come up off the beaten tracks (maker spaces, coworkingspaces, creative labs, crowdfunding, open source, social innovation,…)

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Innovation Hubs incorporate functional elements of research labs,

science parks, communities and networks of practice or incubators and accelerators

combine tried and true methods with networking and community-based ideas

embrace fluidity and diversity

focus on impact

encourage serendipity

create a sense of community

intensify collaborative innovation

dynamise the innovation process and enable, rather than force innovation

allow for new combinations of existing knowledge bases that otherwise would not happen

…the opposite of universities´ ivory towers?

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Third Mission

Knowledge-Transfer Entrepreneurial-University Societal engagement Continuing Education Offer academic services to the public …

…where to start?

Higher Education in Austria

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69 Higher Education Institutes

Regular Students (Summer 2015): more than 300.000

More than 2000 study programmes

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Higher Education in Austria

St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences

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Founded in 1996

2.700 students in

17 bachelor & master programmesnumerous continuing education courses

6 departments

6 research institutes

7 steps to start up | XIV International Triple Helix Conference | Gabriele Permoser | 25 September 2016

St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences


St. Pölten UAS‘ development phases

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1996 20112005 2014

Focus on Higher Education

Focus on Research

Focus on Knowledge Transfer

Focus on Innovation & Entrepreneurship


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Include and interact with a divers variety of:

institutions and organizationssuch as global companies, regional SMEs and start-ups, NGOs, schools, training centers, science centers, museums, co-working spaces, innovation hubs, accelerators and incubators, science and business parks, research labs and other higher education institutions, regional and federal governments, interest and pressure groups, funding agencies,…

ambitious and smart individualssuch as pupils, students and alumni, lecturers, scientists and developers, artists, practioniers and industry experts, business angels and investors, decision makers, responsible citizens,…

disciplines and industrial sectors

business models and processes as well as learning, teaching, research and innovation methods

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Interact with a Divers Varietyof Institutions and Organizations


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Find overlaps and use synergies between the three missions Promote Open Innovation (Knowledge-Transfer: Inside-Out AND Outside-In) Collaborate with a wide variety of different stakeholders Ecourage faculty innovation Connect knowledge from various, usually not interrelated branches Interact with a wider public Promote student innovation and entrepreneurship …

St. Pölten UAS as a Platformfor Collaborative Innovation

Encouraging Faculty Innovation

promoting and enabling interdisciplinarity

facilitating collaborative research, responsible science and open innovation

supporting individual researchers

facilitating science and technology transfer with transparent guidelines


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Promote Interdisciplinarity

Towards a Platform for Collaborative Innovation | Hannes Raffaseder, Gabriele Permoser

Example I: CARMACenter for Applied Research in Media Assisted Health and Social Care

INTELLIGAIT - Using machine learning for pattern recognition and gait classification

IMPECD – Improvement of Education and Competences in Dietetics

SONIGait - Design and manufacturing of a portable and low-cost pair of wireless-sensor shoe insoles, which are capable of capturing a person’s gait (walking) parameters and providing auditory information in real-time for altering movement

BRELOMATE – Breaking Loneliness with Mobile Assistive Technologies for Elderly

Master in Digital Healthcare (http://showreel.mdh.fhstp.ac.at/)

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Example II: Pitoti 3D 3D acquisition, processing and presentation of prehistoric European rock-art

In a consortium with University of Nottingham, University of Cambridge, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, TU Graz, ArcTron3D, Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici

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Connect Knowledge form various, usually not interrelated BranchesExample III: SOUND DESIGN

Several research projects about sound design for film and television

Interactive sound installations for Toccarion @ Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Sound design for a relaxation room at St. Martins SPA & Lodge

Design of warning sounds for Daimler AG

Sonification of Health Data / Musicbased Training / SoniGAIT


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Interact with a Wider PublicResearch to Society - Society to Research


European Researches Nights2011: http://www.fit-fuer-forschung.eu2013: http://www.destinationfuture.eu2014 & 2015: http://www.fit-for-future.at/

Active Member within the Austrian Science Center Network

…and several other activities

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Promote Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship emphasizing innovative teaching and learning

SKILL – Center for innovative teaching and Learning (http://skill.fhstp.ac.at/)

Campus Media Campus and City Radio 94.4, https://cr944.at/c-tv – the campus television, http://www.campusfernsehen.at/SUMO – the print and online magazine, http://www.sumomag.at/fhSPACE – an experimental media channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/fhSPACEtv

Open labs and studios 24/7study projects AND non-commercial private interests

providing career services to all students and young professionals

7 steps to start up – St. Pölten UAS strategy to enable student entrepreneurship


http://skill.fhstp.ac.at/

https://cr944.at/

http://www.campusfernsehen.at/

http://www.sumomag.at/

https://www.youtube.com/user/fhSPACEtv

Student Entrepreneurship:7 steps to start up

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Entrepreneurship & Innovation Basics

Motivation & Ideas

Experiments & Concepts

Discover & Encourage

Develop & Enhance

Networking & Promotion

Starting a Business


Creative Pre-Incubator(Step 5: Develop & Enhance) Support excellent innovative ideas togehter with accent GmbH,

the business incubator of Lower Austria (http://www.accent.at) One year of intensive coaching (for students and alumni)

students and alumni apply with already well elaborated ideas for innovative business

expert jury selects three or four projects per year free co-working space individual support by accent GmbH and UAS customized workshops and seminars contacts to the start-up ecosystem within the Vienna region and Lower Austria support for public relations and marketing activities First contacts to business angels and investors

http://www.fhstp.ac.at/cpi


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http://www.fhstp.ac.at/cpi

Conclusions

enable and support highly motivated individuals instead of trying to force performance through to narrow defined objectives and indicators

enable and support interdisciplinary collaboration across the boundaries of departments and institutes

do not take too many steps at once facilitate interaction of science with society and promote science

communication with a wider public establish a diverse set of collaboration and interaction with the industry act along the institutions’ own vision and strategy instead of reacting to every

upcoming trend or new buzz word learn from the best institutions not only in higher education, but in industry

as well (…and don´t try to copy them!) have a close eye on ideas and concepts to be developed off the beaten

tracks outside or on the brink of common academic ecosystems Think “Out-of-the-Box” and leave the “Ivory Tower”!


Thank you!

Hannes Raffaseder & Gabriele PermoserSankt Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

http://www.fhstp.ac.at

[email protected]@fhstp.ac.at

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