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Berglind Hallgrímsdóttir Director

Impra SME and Entrepreneur Services

A common platform for innovation within Green Growth and Welfare

Nordic Innovation Forum

THE VISION

...is for the Nordic Region to

be a leading innovation region in green growth and welfare

Social

Economic Environmental

Viable

Bearable Equitable

Sustainable

Bruntland Report:

Three Pillars of Sustainability

Source: stylized representation of ”Our Common futures” definition of sustainability / Bruntland report

The Green Economy

Environment

Society

Economy

Leading Welfare Societies

Strengths • Values and visions

• A history of promoting innovation

• Empowering users and customers

• Trust, flat hierarchies and the power of employees

• Networks that succed at innovation

Weaknesses • Innovation only flourishes locally • Fragmentation - Lack of coordination • “Not-Invented-Here” syndrome • “No-failure” culture impedes innovation • Public institutions are rewarded for

stable operations – not innovation • Scale is lacking

Opportunities • Enabling Technology

• Innovative public procurement and tendering

• Rewarding copycats

• Branding Nordic strengths to boost export

Threats • High costs in Nordic countries • A crowded marked • Small Nordic markets – global growth

lies in Asia • Actual austerity predominates instead

of innovation

The Experimental Society

Innovation is a knowledge-based competitive edge, used to the benefit of business, society

and well-being

Recommendations for Action

Green Growth and Welfare

Nordic Added Value

Global Outlook

Public sector Innovation

Public procurement of innovation

Sustainable business models

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

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

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

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