Elmar Stroomer

totally agree! We should increase facilities that stimulate and challenge the creative mind.. I am not talking about coffeeshops. I am talking about frablabs, playgrounds, good (technical) universities, open, solid and solidary society and government..

m4ximoe

#youenvisionwelisten @nickygrunfeld that is quite provocative and asocial but considering our reality, well...

nickygrunfeld

Irreverence #youenvisionwelisten

nickygrunfeld

RT @Enviu: What is today’s greatest strenght of the Netherlands, which we should embrace and keep for a bright future? #youenvisionwelisten

Carolien Hoogland

Water engineering & Dutch Design.

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What is today’s greatest strenght of the Netherlands, which we should embrace and keep for a bright future?

Pieter Parmentier

By far the best way to accelerate innovation in sustainability is to improve our networking. That is why I am working on a sustainability advanced network (SAN) in which people can find the expertise they are looking for. It will be a backbone to connect all networks and initiatives that focus on sustainability.enf@planet.nl

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Borrow good ideas like there's no tomorrow. Progress may lie less in invention than in useful application.

Herman Jongejan

No change ADD and ADD more that is a change and a chance

Thanks Denise to be connected

Maxim Asomov

Main problem in implementation of sustainable development projects in the Netherlands is a too much of unsystemized talks between government, developers and citizens. Such a talks reducing econimical and environmental prosperity. Government and develpers stuck in salvation of risk problems- how to share them. Citizens and governement stuck in salvation what we want and how to achieve.

I would Introduce new bottop-up - top-down approach\framework of communication between government, developers and citizens. Where government and developers could agree on goals, define and quantify risks (which means risks could KNOWN) and could found solution to share risks or prevent them.
Government and citizens could agree on ambitions, ways to live and sustain (how far they would like to go.).As well as gov-t has to give a sufficient knowledge - what they are talking about...
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If to make proper tool it could be easier to change=save the World

Denise van der Linden-morris

I agree with Herman about feeling connected to the world. Focus on shared interests from people (who doesn't want a healthy planet?) instead of the current focus on the differences - especially religion related - between people around the world, so we can together come to creative ideas and create an exciting and sustainable world

Herman Jongejan

Feel responsable and connected to the rest of the world as your neighbour

The Issues are Global and dont stop at any border they effect us all, in negative and possitive sence
The wind can blow from any direction but always comes from abrought

Marleen van der Werf

Accountability as the new responsibility. Hence; transparency.

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Think big even if being small: we can make a difference

Emile Voogt

Positivity!

Ana Maria Palaghi

Less complaints and more do'ers

Sikko Gerkema

the lack of ambition

Michaela Hogenboom

instead of striving for more and more income, striving for a higher quality of living

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We are trying to figure out how YOU think the Netherlands can become one of the Top 5 Knowledge economies in the world.


Our question of today is: 

What is that one thing you would like to change in the Dutch society?

Kayode Olowoofoyeku

Focusing on power of intellectual capital that ignites value,rather than mineral resources.

Marleen van der Werf

No longer at the cost of the world's poorest people.

Michaela Hogenboom

by not putting the empasis on earning money, but on creating value

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How will the Netherlands earn its money in 2020?

Egon De Bruin

Hun fractieleider van Eerste Kamer heeft daar laatst hele spannende dingen over gezegd.

Egon De Bruin

Watch the ChristenUnie in this closely

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Also refer to the Beyond GDP project by the EU: http://www.beyond-gdp.eu/

(this may be what you were referring to as well?)
But yes, why not take the lead in this..

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Thanks Egon for your thoughts! We will continue more indepth discussions on your ideas about specializing in water and a new economic measurement and try to take the ideas further!

Egon De Bruin

Some thoughts:

* Specialize in only a few sectors.
* Transform economic measurements beyond GDP (like national balance scorecard for 'triple p' sustainable performance). If we will be a experimenting guiding country within the EU, everybody will look at us and would like to our expertise/knowledge
* Specialize in water, even more than we already do. Will be one of the major global issues in the coming decades.... See More
* Get more young people from abroad!
* Away with patent laws :- ) (just a wild idea, about 100 years ago we did without, and those were the days for Philips and Unilever to 'sprout')

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And another set of thoughts: innovation is not about having knowledge but about using knowledge, and preferably in other ways that others. How to foster that (building on the previous thoughts)? By encouraging to make different links, e.g., by asking different questions. And connecting 'unusual suspects' And where better than in a traditionally ... See Moreopen, multi-cultural society. Let that work for the good.
Competitive knowledge economy may be about fostering the differences, to come up with new distinguishing solutions.

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Yes, bulding RELEVANT knowledge bottom up: find out what it menas there and develop relevant directions for research and implementation from there. But also realise that to be useful for others at some point links with the broader context than just NL is important.

Sikko Gerkema

yup I agree

Carolien Hoogland

Here we are: back to the relations bit: build relationships with the people you want to involve, and empathise with what S means to them. So for instance to my mum, S means a stable income and connecting to her friends and the people around her... I won't bore her with "thou should not driveth" anymore...

Sikko Gerkema

It should be something I can have a relation with...the more we talk about it the more boring it gets

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Thanks Sikko but could be more specific, what exactly do you mean with it should be more like a brand?

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What is today’s greatest strenght of the Netherlands which we should embrace and keep for our future?