Innovation is alive and well.
This is not new and it is global and is very much European.
There are many examples.

Examples

• Building of Zaragoza by Romans 2,000 years ago
• Scanning Tunneling Microscope
  •  Dr. Gerd Binnig (German) and Dr. Heinrich Rohrer (Swiss) at IBM Research in 1986
  •  Nobel prize winners
  •  Set the stage for nanotechnology
• World Wide Web at CERN in 1989
• Formation of Opera Software in 1994
• The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
  •  Being built at CERN near Geneva
  •  Largest scientific instrument on the planet
  •  Begins operations in 2007
  •  Will produce roughly 15 Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) of data annually
  •  5000 scientists in some 500 research institutes and universities worldwide
  •  Mission of the LHC Computing Project (LCG) is to build and maintain a data storage and analysis infrastructure
  •  For the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC.
• CERN openlab
  •  Collaboration between CERN and industrial partners
  •  Develop data-intensive Grid solutions
  •  To be used by the worldwide community of scientists working at the LHC
  •  Data – several million gigabytes a year
  •  Computing environment thousands of times more powerful
• The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project
  •  Funded by the European Commission
  •  Aims to build on recent advances in grid technology
  •  A service grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day
  •  The Drug Discovery application running on EGEE aims to find potential new drugs to combat malaria
  •  Healthcare@Home
  •  e-diamond

Although not new, we must change the way we innovate

• More open
  •  Most innovations of the current century were developed in relative isolation
  •  Age of transparency is here
  •  First generation of digital children
  •  Not as many secrets as there used to be
  •  More openness leads to more competitiveness
  •  Compete on execution and customer service
• Standards based
  •  Zebra printer example
  •  2 kilo laptop; 5 kilos of phone and power adapters
  •  Cars with different steering and trains with different sized tracks
  •  XML Espanol; XML Deutsch
  •  Proprietary is a thing of the past
  •  Adopt open standards and compete on execution and customer service
• More collaborative
  •  Silos need to go away
  •  The more we share, the more we gain
  •  Gamers are leading the way: butterfly.net
  •  Borrow a kid and learn from them
• More global
  •  The best ideas can come from anywhere
  •  Key is to act on them; not necessarily to own them
  •  Chinese idea, Romanian developers, American capital, German company, Scandinavian marketing
• Inside Out instead of Outside in
  •  Power to the people
  •  The Internet has transferred power. Walk in their shoes.
  •  Ever get the feeling that some web sites are designed for the needs of the organization not the user?

Role of government?

• Can help but can’t stop
• Expo 2008 and ZH2O good examples of European governments leading
• LHC and eGee funded by EU