CE Ecosystems: Key Insights
Listen to highlights and extended discussion on strengthening innovation ecosystems for the circular economy.
Main Takeaways
Understanding Ecosystems
Innovation ecosystems are evolving sets of actors, activities, and institutions crucial for innovative performance — spanning entrepreneurial, innovation-oriented, and mission-driven types.
Stakeholder Model
Five key stakeholders drive ecosystem performance: Universities, Entrepreneurs, Risk Capital, Corporates, and Government — each with unique roles and limitations.
Ecosystem Mapping
A structured methodology to observe, analyse, and visualize the entrepreneurial ecosystem through research design, data collection, analysis, validation, and activity.
AI-InnoScEnCE Approach
A two-phase approach combining AI-based ecosystem mapping with capacity strengthening through stakeholder workshops, Invention Labs, and a Community of Best Practice.
Ecosystem Strengthening Benefits
- Shared vision for circular economy with shared technology infrastructures, test beds, and access to funds for local innovators.
- Strengthened communication infrastructures with improved collaboration, expanded information flows, and prevention of redundancies.
- More favorable policy for CE innovations through regulatory changes, supportive institutional climate, and government programmes.
- Strengthened capabilities by expanding multi-actor innovation chains and multi-stakeholder governance policies.
- Process enhancement through improved knowledge sharing, mutual learning, and adaptive governance for ecosystem resilience.