Wave guidebook

TCBL HANDBOOKS

WAVE IDEA DEVELOPMENT SERVICE

Co-funded by Horizon 2020

TCBL 646133 –ANNEX III TO D5.3 28th February 2018

INTRODUCTION Wave is a tool to foster open innovation processes where the close collaboration between different contributors is the driver to create social and economic value. The open innovation concept is an essential part of an innovative ecosystem and, for this reason, Wave promotes the entrepreneurial discovery of opportunities and markets triggered by the transformation of the T&C sector. Wave allows to post new ideas and challenges and comment, replay and engage to unlock entrepreneurial innovation potential for new value-added products.

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PURPOSE AND SCOPE

The goal of WAVE is to establish a dynamic space of collaboration inspired by the open innovation philosophy, where the need and the offer of skills, ideas and creativity can match.

WAVE’s developers believe in the power of collective intelligence and we offer to solution seekers a space for publishing their call, in the form of project or challenge.

The community will discuss the case, even voting and sharing it externally. All the members will be allowed to suggest pieces of information that could be useful for the topic, as well as to propose detailed ideas as possible solutions. The process will informally generate new links and partnerships, which may finally be consolidated by starting a new venture, signing R&D contracts or license agreements. By promoting challenges, large or even smaller companies, as well as public bodies, we can boost the creativity of young professionals and researchers, awarding the emerging local talents and attracting new ones from outside.

The schema below shows what you can do with WAVE.

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WAVE: Idea Development Service TCBL Handbooks Textile & Clothing Business Labs

In WAVE, innovators can post or find projects and challenges about specific Categories of interest, as shown in the screenshot below:

The sequence for development and co-design of a project idea is as follows:

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USING WAVE

WAVE is linked with TCBL’s project via the Login with TCBL function (the SSO orSingle Sign On feature); with a TCBL account you can share your projects and ideas related to the textile and clothing sector. Once inside the platform, you will find a customized section for ideas related to TCBL. Innovators can choose between the following options.

CHALLENGES A challenge is a competition where you can offer a prize for presenting the best solution to a problem. If you are a solver you can participate in Challenges. A great variety of problems are looking for solution. Apply your expertise, stretch your creative boundaries, and win different kinds of awards. If you are a company in the WAVE community you can look for high-profile solutions, just publishing a Challenge call, with the task description and the kind of awards you will assign.

PROJECTS Share a project outline and look for partners, investors, skills and contributions for its further development.

BRAINSTORM In a brainstorming context you can discuss a topic or look for a solution to a specific problem, with the help from the WAVE community. You can collect open technical knowledge around either a business or social task for do surveys, but you can also conduct a context analysis or a market research investigation that is preliminary to the development of a new business idea.

The sequence above is shown in the following diagram:

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BENEFITS AND ISSUES

OPEN INNOVATION Open innovation has been defined as “a paradigm wherein firms can and should use external ideas, as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology”.1 Open innovation is not only about sourcing external knowledge (“outside-in”). Companies also look for ways to generate additional revenue from in-house innovations (“inside-out”), especially when the technology has future potential but is not part of the firm’s core strategy. Companies also increasingly use venturing to find external partners for commercialising innovations that are not used internally (spin-out, spin-off).

Starting from this concept, ARCA consortium decided to create a tool in order to catch the benefits of an open innovation environment taking advantage of a much larger base of ideas and technologies from which to derive innovation and growth. Beyond that, companies and especially startups also recognise open innovation as a strategic tool to explore new growth opportunities with less risk. Open technology sourcing offers companies more flexibility and responsiveness without necessarily implying huge costs.

Overall, the main benefits of open innovation are 2: • • • •

the ability to leverage R&D developed outside: extended reach and capability for new ideas and technologies; the opportunity to refocus some internal resources on finding, screening and managing implementation; the ability to conduct strategic experiments with less risk and fewer resources, in order to extend the core business and create new sources of growth.

W ORK IN PROGRESS You can retrieve the WAVE platform at the following URL: http://wave.consorzioarca.it/ Being a prototype, there can be still some issues to report about. Please do so by contacting us at the email address on the following page.

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Chesbrough, H., Vanhaverbeke W. and West, J. (Eds.) (2006a), Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Docherty, M. (2006b). Primer on “Open Innovation”: Principles and Practice. PDMA Visions XXX(2): 1317. Retrieved online in February 2018 at: http://venture2.com/wpcontent/uploads/2016/03/Primer_on_open_Innovation_Visions_April06.pdf 2

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4. CONTACT AND REFERENCES For further information, brochures and screencasts of the service please contact ARCA Consortium at tcbl.prj@consorzioarca.it

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DOCUMENT INFORMATION REVISION HISTORY This document is Annex Ii to TCBL Deliverable 5.3, “Business Process Users and Models: Version 2”.

Authors: Dieter Stellmach and Marcus Winkler (DITF). This Annex in particular is written by Luca Leonardi (ARCA).

REVISION Version 1 Version 2

DATE 28.02.2018 01.03.2018

AUTHOR Luca Leonardi Jesse Marsh

ORGANISATION

DESCRIPTION

ARCA Prato

First draft for review Layout for publication

STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise.

Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.

COPYRIGHT This work is licensed by the TCBL Consortium under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, 2015-2016. For details, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The TCBL Consortium, consisting of: Municipality of Prato (PRATO) Italy; German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research - Center for Management Research (DITF) Germany; Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) Italy; Skillaware (SKILL) Italy; Oxford Brookes University (OBU) UK; imec (IMEC) Belgium; Tavistock Institute (TAVI) UK; Materials Industrial Research & Technology Center S.A. (MIRTEC) Greece; Waag Society (WAAG) Netherlands; Huddersfield & District Textile Training Company Ltd (TCOE) UK; eZavod (eZAVOD) Slovenia; Consorzio Arca (ARCA) Italy; Unioncamere del Veneto (UCV) Italy; Hellenic Clothing Industry Association (HCIA) Greece; Sanjotec - Centro Empresarial e Tecnológico (SANJO) Portugal; Clear Communication Associates Ltd (CCA) UK, Reginnova NE (Reginnova) Romania, Centexbel (CTB) Belgium, Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) France, IAAC (FabTextiles) Spain, Cleviria (Cleviria) Italy, and Sqetch (Sqetch) Netherlands..

DISCLAIMER All information included in this document is subject to change without notice. The Members of the TCBL Consortium make no warranty of any kind with regard to this document, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Members of the TCBL Consortium shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The TCBL project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme for research, technology development, and innovation under Grant Agreement n.646133.

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