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Innovation Ecosystems Professor Simon Kaplan Director, NICTA Queensland

Innovation Ecosystems Professor Simon Kaplan Director, NICTA Queensland. Overview. What are innovation ecosystems? What is innovation? What is NICTA? NICTA as an example of building an innovation ecosystem. Innovation Ecosystems.

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Innovation Ecosystems Professor Simon Kaplan Director, NICTA Queensland

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  1. Innovation Ecosystems Professor Simon Kaplan Director, NICTA Queensland

  2. Overview • What are innovation ecosystems? • What is innovation? • What is NICTA? • NICTA as an example of building an innovation ecosystem

  3. Innovation Ecosystems • Economies and complex networks of technologies all form ecosystems • It’s helpful to understand them from this viewpoint • Then we can get a better grasp on how to encourage innovation

  4. Ecosystems are complex systems • Characteristics: • Network structure • Self-organisation • Swarm behaviours • Temporal shear • Co-evolution • Emergent behaviour

  5. A high-level example: the ‘product space’

  6. What is innovation? • All innovations are ‘evolutionary moves’, which means they are: • Incremental from existing capabilities • Governed by time shear • Dependent on underlying network structure to shape possibilities • A consequence of the ‘swarm behaviours’ of the players in the innovation ecosystem • Once the move is made, the ecosystem is changed, which opens up fresh possibilities

  7. NICTA • Australia’s National ICT Centre of Excellence • 5 locations: • Sydney (2), Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane • University and State Government Partnerships • Key high-quality researchers. • ~$80m (RMB 550 million) budget per year

  8. NICTA focuses on • ICT Research Strengths • Computer Vision • Software Systems • Networks • Control Systems • Optimisation • Machine Learning • Strategic Business Areas: • Infrastructure, Transport and Logistics • Broadband & Digital Economy • Health • Safety & Security

  9. Goals • Research Excellence • Top 10 worldwide in ICT • Wealth Creation for Australia • Including • productivity improvements, • new business creation • new economic niches

  10. NICTA = Innovation Ecosystem? • Build network of best capability around Australia • Understands time shear – long-term and short-term investments • Self-organising & ‘swarming’ – significant group independence to explore • Leads to emergent outcomes rather than top-down planned activities • We understand our niche target areas

  11. Impact • 3 bn mobile phones worldwide run NICTA technologies • Many airports use our people tracking capabilities • We are participating in the Australian Bionic Eye project • We are building a system to support organisational innovation and growth in Queensland (then all of Australia)

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