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Second innovation seminar

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 Results of the Second Innovation Seminar
The results of the second innovation seminar have been published in Deliverable D5.3 in July 2009.

Preparations for the second innovation seminar included a survey of the state of the art of the existing ideas and pilots. The questionnaire summarised various questions such as vision, obstacles, legal problems, data availability, exploitability, business opportunities, primary and secondary target customers, and plan for work in 2009. The Technical Committee was used as the platform to discuss the guidelines and futures scenarios up to 2030 to be used in the seminar. Several advance material in addition to these was sent to participants to study in April-May 2009.

The session 1 was introductory including briefings from the guest speakers. The session 2 of the seminar discussed the state-of-the-art of the existing ideas and pilots in three (randomly selected) groups and plenary. The work for the remaining 10 months was discussed. In the session 3 the main session 4 was introduced, the alternative futures for 2030 discussed (prepared by the Millennium Project in 2008). The tasks of the session 4 were discussed at the preparatory Pub Session that was conducted in 9 small groups. In the final session 4 of Free Radicals, the three groups (grouping was done through random sampling) conducted a futures workshop under three alternative world scenarios. These scenarios were: 1) Business as Usual (not used in the seminar), 2) Environmental Backlash, 3) High-Tech Economy - Technology Push and 4) Political Turmoil.

The futures workshop used brainstorming in three groups and two evaluation cycles to find 5 best ideas as radical as possible for the future in 2030. There were 13 ideas shortlisted and evaluated. The five best of these (in order of preference) are:
  1. Semi-public transport Service production & support systems of advanced private & public transport services
  2. DYNAMOBI Cooperative dynamic navigation, multimodal and scalable
  3. No-man driving Autonomous driving
  4. Waste to energy Bio-waste used as energy for cars
  5. TRAWORK Travelling on offices - working on transport
The list above directly links to the Innovation Wiki for discussion of ideas and innovations. The evaluation of both ideas and the innovation procedures will be conducted in the work package 8. It will suffice here to quote Chief Evaluator’s report: “...the Dubrovnik seminar was conducted on a very high professional level.” (Kumpula 2009).