The seventh European Service Innovation Think Tank meeting was organised in Vienna, Austria on 16-17 February 2012. Results of the service innovation policy mapping were discussed and the Think Tank contributed to the EPISIS statement on EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020 (HORIZON 2020).
Paris was the location of the sixth meeting of the European Service Innovation Think Tank on 24-25 October 2011. Two themes – service innovation policies at the member state level and continuation of work towards policy implications – were the major agenda points. The meeting was opened by a keynote speaker from the hosting organisation. Laure Reinhart, General Manager for Innovation from OSEO gave an overview of the service innovation policy in France.
Unit D2, Support for Industrial Innovation of the DG Enterprise and Industry, is inviting stakeholders to provide comments on the draft text an upcoming Smart Guide on Service Innovation. The guide does neither cover all forms of innovation nor all aspects of regional innovation strategies that may be supported on a regional level.
Name: Ms. Lina Kager, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, Sweden
Short presentation
Lina Kager is Deputy Director in the Division for Entrepreneurship at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications. She works with entrepreneurship policies and was part of the ministry’s service innovation strategy group and is currently involved in the development of a national innovation strategy.
Name: Mr. Mikko Martikainen, The Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Finland
Short presentation
Mikko works at the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy as a Ministerial Adviser. His present interests are in user and demand led innovations and innovation policy. The main task at the moment is public service renewal by using innovation policy ideas and thinking. Previously Mikko has worked at the Confederation of Finnish Industries.
The Support for Industrial Innovation Unit at the European Commission's Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General is inviting regional organisations to take advantage, free of charge, of new types of advisory support services offered by the forthcoming European Service Innovation Centre in view of better capitalising on service innovation for promoting regional development and facilitating industrial change.
Name: Ms. Annamaria Andres, Austrian Research Promotion Agency/FFG, Austria
