Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony took place at the very nicht Wouzhou Guest House facilities:

Opening Ceremony - Wang Rong

Wang Rong, the acting mayor of Shenzen was opening the 2nd knowledge summit in the Wouzhou Guest House.

Opening Ceremony - Leif Edvinsson

• The Creative Industries.
• Knowledge Cities have to have a "Knowledge Harbour".
• Cultivate and Renew Urban Capital with a Mindzone (Urban Capital includes Human Capital, Relational Capital, Social Capital and Structural Capital)
• To build the Urban Capital we need Future Centers.
• Top IC Countries Benchmark done by Carol Y.Y. (Journal of Intellectual Capital).
• Aalto Camp on Societal and Social Innovations on June 28 - July 06 2010 to design the 3-leged chair: academical, political and business entrepreneurship (Comment: see also the Social Innovations Camps).

Opening Ceremony - Wang Weiguang

Wang Weiguang (Executive Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences):

• China wants to be a creative country and a learning society.
• Shenzhen is the representative of knowledge cities in china.

Opening Ceremony - Chen Jin

Chen Jin (Deputy Director of Party Literature Research Center):

• Knowledge Cities are a great concept for creating the learning society to build a innovative nation

Opening Ceremony - Le Zheng

• Speakter: Le Zheng (President of Shenzen Academy of Social Sciences)
• Francis Bacon: "Knowledge is power" (Comment: "... and with great power comes great responsibility").
• 1/4 mobile phones and 1/4 watches is made in Shenzhen.
• Shenzhen: China's largest entry and exit port, china's largest exporter, world's largest container terminal.
• Ranking of top 10 financial centers: Shenzhen is No. 5.
• Shenzhen is the youngest metropolis in the world (citizens' average age is less than 30).
• Five Elements for Innovation: Leaders, Groups, Philosophy, Structure and Environment.
• Creative Industries Top 10 Cities: Shenzhen No. 5 (FDI Intelligence City Benchmarking).
• Shenzhen is 16th member of UNESCO's Creative Cities Network
• > 1 Mio. full-time students in Shenzhen.

MAKCi Awards Presentation Ceremony

• Presenter: F. Javier Carrillo (World Capital Institute), Blanca Garcia

  
   

• Goal of the Most Admired Knowledge City (MAKCi) Award is to promote knowledge based development throughout all cities in the world.
• MAKCi Award Principles derived from the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Award (MAKE), which uses an adapted Delphi Methodology with three rounds of expert consultation.
• MAKCi = MAKE + Generic Capitals System (GCS).
• Eight Capital Criteria: Identity, Intelligence, Financial, Relational, Human Individual, Human Collective and Instrumental Capital.
• MAKCi Governance: Executive Commitee, International Advisory Board, Panel of Expert (renewed and confirmed by direct invitation only on an annual basis), MAKCi Consultation Facilitator, Technical Secretary.
• MAKCi Experts come from ICKS, World Bank Network, KBUD, KBD Network, The New Club of Paris.
• MAKCi Process
  • January-February: Consultation Exercise
  • March-April: Data analysis
  • May-June: Report preparation
  • July-September: Contact MAKCi Winner Cities to attend conference
  • 20th September: Presentation of the Report
• MAKCi Finalists in the last three years
  • 2007: Barcelona, Bilbao, Boston, Ottawa, Singapore
  • 2008: Bangalore, Manchester, Montreal, Ottawa, Singapore, Valencia
  • 2009: Barcelona, Boston, Istambul, Manchester, Melbourne, Montreal, Shenzhen, Valencia

    
     

Participative Innovation as Driver for Knowledge Intense Services

• Speaker: Bror Salmelin (European Commission)

  
   

• Developing "our" Information Society.
• Source: Perez: Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital.
• Pervasive Network: by 2011 2 Billion people will be online
• Interactive Capabilities increasing exponentially: Web 2.0, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds.
• 4 Ps: Public Private People Partnerships are the key to innovation.
• Helsinki Manifesto (2006), European Network of Living Labs (about 200 cities) and Open Innovation.
• "Knowledge Management is the Key".
• Users becoming Innovators: Consumers (Industry R&D Led) - Contributers - Innovators.
• Closed Innovation - Open Innovation - Innovation Networks.
• "Lean Markets Thinking" (Comment: see also Lean Thinking)
• More information at: http://ec.europa.eu/fp7/ict, Facebook Group OISPG, Wiki at http://oispg.pbwiki.com.

Hong Kong-Shenzhen Forum

• Participants: WB Lee (Director of the Knowledge Management Research Center, Hong Kong PolyU), Liu Yingli (Science Consultant of Shenzen Mayor), Samson Tam (Member of the Legislative Council of HKSAR) and Anthony Wu (Chairman of the Bauhinia Foundation Research Center)

  
   

Melbourne: Australia's Knowledge Capital - Vision to Reality

• Speaker: Helen Steel (Manager of the Office of Knowledge Capital (see also Report, PDF), Melbourne Government)

  
   

• Melbourne Metropolitan Region 3.7 Mio. People (2006)
• MAKCi 2009 in Top 10, Global University Index etc.
• Components of the Knowledge City: Office of Knowledge Capital (launched in August 2008), Knowlede City Strategy, Future Melbourne Plan.
• Mission of the Office of Knowledge Capital:
  • Develop and Promote Melbourne as Australia's Knowledge City.
  • Foster Collaboration across the tertiary education and industry.
• Knowledge Cycle: Knowledge Base, Office of Knowledge Capital, Innovation Ecosystem.
• "A Knowledge City would attract and keep people who would do a lot for the city, the region and the country"
• Retain: from student to knowledge worker (Comment: I like that!)
• Pascal Universities and Regional Engagement Project (PURE)
• Next Challenge: Develop a Knowledge Melbourne Portal.

Towards Knowledge and Innovation Cities

• Speaker: Markku Markkula (Aalto University and former MP of Parliament of Finland), see also presentations at the 19th ICDE World Conference and at the SoL Global Forum (they are similar to the one showen in Shenzhen).

  
   

• "The Learning City is the key to sustainable creativity" (Charles Laundry: "The Creative City" (2000), "The Art of City Making" (2006))
• Harvard Business Review (March 2009): Tapping the World's Innovation Hot Spots: #1 United States #2 Finland
• In 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index Finland is #1
• A Finnish Road to Success 1998: "Knowledge Management Plays a Crucial Role", Finnish National Action Plans on the Way to the Knowledge Society (Implementing Lifelong Learning Strategy, Developing National Innovation System, Increasing Investments in R&D, Operating as an Information Society Laboratory within the EU), Success Factors defined by the Parliament
• The Finnish Innovation Strategy has been renewed 2008-2009, the ten sets of measurements include: a learning environment motivating innovation (ICT Cluster Finland Review 2009).
• Aalto University is formed by merging the opersations of Helsinky University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics, University of Art and Design.
• Aalto & T3 Innovation Hub (www.otaniemi.fi), Aalto Factory Park (Source otaniemi.fi):

  

• Knowledge Triangle: Innovation, Research and Education.
• Aalto Camp Mission: global talents working on the second generation innovation agenda.
• The role of cities is changing from traditional service provider to networking, orchestration and strategic alliances.