Lotus flower has the capacity of survive on difficult environments, such as pantanous areas, hence it is frecuently associated with the complex vital processes that human being should face.
Most technology centres have been told phrases like “tell me about it and I´ll tell you if it adapts to what I need“, “find me a grant and we´ll set up a project that adapts” or ” when you have developed it and it works, we´ll talk”. These types of phrases are nothing more than a demonstration of, in general, the low innovative culture that we have in our environment, and of the non-existent strategic business policies based on innovation.
Technology centres are expert agents in incremental innovations, who are beholden to the demands of the market and who aim to generate social and economic benefit in the innovation systems to which we belong. We are, therefore, fundamental agents for achieving prosperity in the regions, given that our mission is to use science, transform it into technological solutions and transfer it to the market so that it can be exploited and generate value.
“Technology centres are fundamental agents for achieving prosperity in the regions”
We need each agent in the innovation system to fulfil its role because if each agent operates freely, in a market of perfect competition, where the only variable that is perceived to be considered is price, inconsistencies and inefficiencies arise that in many cases aren´t perceived in the short term, but in all cases are suffereed in the long term. Thus, innovation ecosystems can become real crops of “de-technology” of “de-valuation” and ultimately of “de-innovation” if each agent is not clear about our function and sphere of action, if we don´t operate seeking role monopolies and if a common objective not pursued as an ecossytem by all the agents that participate in the ecosystem.
Without going into who came first, the chicken or the egg, there are several examples that demonstrate the relationship between the competitiveness and prosperity of regions and the existence of strongly rooted technology centres, with a clearly defined role and supported by the ecosystem:
- These are ecosystems where innovation is economically and fiscally incentivised, and where there is a real culture of change for prosperity.
- Ecosystems that have a clear commitment on the part of public administrations to innovation, piloting strategic projects based on technology, investing in basal funding for technology centres and with monopolies on the roles of each agent that achieve the efficiency of the ecosystem.
- These are ecosystems with tax treatments that incentivise the generation of blue oceans in the long term and the purchase of technological innovation from their own agents in the short and medium term.
- They are culturally advanced ecosystems that seek for technological independence and therefore autonomy in decision-making.
- Ecosystems with mature technology and knowledge valorisation networks ready to exploit these assets.
- Ecosystems that create own talent and attracts foreign talent.
Knowing, therefore, the environmental variables that affect the establishment of an adequate innovation ecosystem: sustainable and prosperous, it is the duty of all the agents that make up the innovation ecosystems to fight to achieve fertile innovation environments, well equipped with resources and innovative culture, which serve as water and fertiliser, and not swamps in which each agent has to become lotus flowers seeking survival in an environment in which we compete on prices and which distances us from seeking the prosperity of our own regions, which can only be achieved by contriuting value according to our role.
Innovate for you, innovate for me, innovate for us.
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