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My vision for NL 2020: open, flexible and stochastic. And above all: fair and sustainable! #innovatieplatform by @igorkluin

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RT @liekelamb: Ook bij grote innovatieve bedrijven geldt; decision makers zijn niet de innovaters!! #innovatieplatform #penw

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RT @liekelamb: Ook bij grote innovatieve bedrijven geldt; decision makers zijn niet de innovaters!! #innovatieplatform #penw

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Ook bij grote innovatieve bedrijven geldt; decision makers zijn niet de innovaters!! #innovatieplatform #penw

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RT @igorkluin Oh, one last thing: we do away with countries. The concept is obsolete. Local meets global. #innovatieplatform

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We're getting creative here dreaming of the Netherlands in 2020 #innovatieplatform http://yfrog.com/4aymjdj

Very very creative... #innovatieplatform http://yfrog.com/3nfj0j

My vision for NL 2020: open, flexible and stochastic. And above all: fair and sustainable! #innovatieplatform

Oh, one last thing: we do away with countries. The concept is obsolete. Local meets global. #innovatieplatform

   

Sikko Gerkema

sustainable for me is just as dead as other words...its too long, its not simple, its doesn;t feel right

to make it work it shoudl be more as a brand
the problem with sustainable is that it van easily be abussed for the wrong commercial reasons...

igorkluin

Igor Kluin is tweeting from a Brainstorm session of the InovatiePlatform on the competative advantages of the Netherlands. 

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First an analysis of NL economic data... Bad slides to be honest. #innovatieplatform http://yfrog.com/1d5oehj

Innovation IS the competative advantage if you ask me... #innovatieplatform about 2 hours ago from Tweetie

On my way to a brainstorm session about the Dutch economic competative advantage. #innovatieplatform about 2 hours ago from Tweetie

Carolien Hoogland

Do away with with the should's and ought's... Start listening to what people . Help them find that truely fulfill these needs. Thus create sustainable development without even using the S-word... :P

Find the 15 minute Competitive Advantage

The case for creating long term (durable) trends by taking baby steps: http://tinyurl.com/yl9hhxo (via @Enviu)

Michaela Hogenboom

To add to that, I would suggest that education should become more demand-driven: people should be stimulated to think holistically (in systems) and are challenged to seek answers for the complex issues we’re coping with nowadays, like the food crisis, economic crisis and climate change. Furthermore I believe that the link between education, the public and the private sector should be strengthened in knowledge development so that the sectors become mutually reinforcing.

Ana Maria Palaghi

In addition to all above :), I would say:

-By investing more in R&D
-Enhancing/boosting collaboration between knowledge institutes and companies
-Focus on incorporating sustainability into financial aspects(i.e.investments,long-term focus)
-Focus on traditional strenghts and on the strategic positioning, scout and innovate new possibilities... See More
-Investing in education

Economy Transformers!

With our project partner Embassy of the Earth, we have designed a learn & work process of 1,5 years. Using social innovative tools like Theory U, Presencing, and open systems thinking models,  this process facilitates a few hundred dedicated and committed individuals - cross-sector and cross-interest - to work together to come up with values, models, ideas and practices for a new economy.

http://www.economytransformers.com/Home/Welcome.html 

Wubbo Ockels at TED Amsterdam on HIS IDEA...

The Danish Welfare Machine...

The Danish approach to being a top knowledge economy. How would this model, in YOUR opinion, look like for the Netherlands?

Josine Janssen from Facebook

Any best practices or examples from our international network maybe that we can borrow? Sweden, USA, Switzerland, Singapore and Denmark are in the top 5 for example. What's happening there?

Herman Jongejan

By keep on introducing significant WOW-projects."little birds find the food before bigger once can eat"

Ingrid de vries

i like your thinking.. the adding of the last 5 points. Regarding the first, let's go for a cradle to cradle Delta and maybe even incorporate Zeeland in there.

Wouter Kersten

Some thoughts:
* focus on traditional strengths (water, greenery etc) or new ones (nanotech, bio-economy, fin services, life sciences, embedded software, etc)
* specialise (see above) or more integral approach?... Lees verder
* isolated approach (geographically) or integrated. I mean the randstad is as big as London, so why not position it as such, but then for real
* USE the aspects that are mostly considered to be negative: open economy (immigration), cultural diversity, the 'silver economy' (ie ageing), etc....

Gabi Helfert

They need to open up more to international concepts, people, ideas. A lot of knowledge-intensive/ innovation work is still very much focused on Dutch collaborations, organizations and the like. The country in itself is too small to play a major role without international collaboration. I can't understand e.g. why a lot of conferences, events etc. ... See Morein the area of innovation are still predominantly held in Dutch - which excludes the majority of other Europeans or players beyond. Even regional networks should be more open to international players, since e.g. the big players in Rotterdam, the harbor etc. are international companies who employ a lot of brilliant international people - who just don't happen to be fluent in Dutch. Just a few examples: Idealize, SenterNovem, openinnovatie.nl, Innovatief Nederland,
Zorg Innovatie Forum, Centrum voor Innovatie Management (CIM) - all exclusively Dutch clubs, with Dutch websites, newsletters, meetings etc. Not very inviting for a large part of the 50% of people with non-Dutch roots living in the area...