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16.00hrs: - Introduction of agenda and explanation of goal of today
- Short intro of participants: Who’s who?
- Innovation platform presentation
Questions for online participants:
• Please introduce yourself with name, age, background/ job, nationality and where are you now?
• Is the objective of today clear? If you have any questions please let us know through the chat!
16.45hrs: - Plenary we will discuss and answer the following discussion:
1) For whom do we want to increase quality/value with a vision on competitive power?
2) What kind of value should the competitive power create?
e.g. economic value in € or social value or cultural value or what?
3) What kind of economy would we like to be while being a competitive economy/country?
e.g. What are basic principles of that future economy we find important...or see arising...no longer growth maximisation, but...
Online: Please join the discussion through the chat.
17.00hrs: - Gather and organise answers on homework/ preparation questions:
1. What are the current strong assets of the competitiveness of the Dutch economy?
2. What are the weak elements of the competitiveness of the Dutch economy?
3. From your expertise and focus what should be interesting areas for the Dutch economy to develop further?
Questions for online participants:
• Please send us your answers on the Qs above if you have not yet done that through the chat
- Select 3 topics: Think about why is this key for the Dutch competitiveness? Choose the 3 that you think are most relevant, important.
Online: We will have a Polldaddy.com ready where you can choose your theme as well. Please vote for maximum 3!
Together we come up with a top 3, to work on further for this brainstorm.
17.20hrs: - Brainstorm I: Split up in groups of 5 persons per theme. Dive deeper in your theme, what are the elements/ associations within this theme (mindmap), who are the stakeholders involved, answer the following questions:
1. What are the general trends and developments worldwide regarding this topic?
2. What elements are key/influential for this topic to enhance/increase the Dutch competitiveness?
3. What pitfalls/challenges, ‘bears’ can be identified preventing the competitiveness?
4. What opportunities ‘suns’ can be identified this topic will bring along?
5. What could be concrete targets for NL within this topic?
Online: As we now split up in groups it will be a bit more difficult to cover everything what is happening physically. Therefore we would like to ask you to also come up with answers to the questions above, which we can use as well. Please choose 1 of the 3 themes and make clear for which theme you are answering the questions.
Besides, our moderator will go by the groups and see if they might have questions for you to answer and help them further.
18.05hrs: BREAK
18.15hrs: Energizer (just watch and laugh…)
18.20hrs: Brainstorm II: based on the input from the sessions before, the groups will select the main elements they want to go further with as basis for the vision of their theme.
Enrich ideas with different creative methods to develop vision further (e.g. visuals, personification, imagination 2020).
Online: Please try to develop your own ideas further within your chosen theme. You can use also online brainstorm methods, like browsing through Flickr and see what ideas you come up with through inspiration by random visuals or you can of course also browse the internet and see what is already out there in other countries.
Again our moderator will go by the groups and see if they might have questions for you to answer and help them further.
18.35hrs: Vision finalization: Each group prepares a presentation about the gathered ideas and elements regarding their topic/subject and the main question: HOW can the Netherlands can increase its competitive power for 2010? Write out a vision statement with:
- Where are we now? (main suns and bears)
- Where do we want to go? (give a few concrete examples with:
- What are the main goals/ targets?
- Who is involved?)
- Come up with good tagline/ inspiring sentence that summarizes your vision.
You can visualize it or write it out, whatever you like, you will have 10 min per group max. to present.
Online: Please work out your own vision statement and post it on our blog, or email: Josine@enviu.org. Again our moderator will go by the groups and see if they might have questions for you to answer and help them further.
19.00hrs: Presentations and feedback.
Online: Let us know what you think about the pitches and please give your feedback, comments or suggestions through the chat.
19.40hrs: Plenary wrap up and reflection: What stands out, what are overarching elements, etc.
Online: Let us know what you think and please give your feedback, comments or suggestions through the chat.
19.50hrs: Evaluation and closing
Online: We will have a separate more thorough evaluation about your online participation, later on through email, as we are very curious how this worked out for you and if you have any ideas on improvements.
It's lowland position, along with experience building the Delta Works and Zuiderzee Works, means it's in a perfect position to build extensive tidal flow energy generation facilities. Rising tides will be used to inundate vast reservoirs, filling them via sluices through inlet turbines. When the tide recedes again the reservoirs would drain through through outlet turbines. To manage and store peak performance and cover times when tidal conditions require the turbines to be closed off, spare electricity generation capacity during the night will be used to pump water to additional reservoirs that stand above the high tide line - these can be drained to cover shortfalls in capacity at a higher energy yield than the tidal reservoirs due to the increased 'drop' on the water held in them. An extensive network of tidal energy generation of this nature would fit perfectly with the Netherlands' ongoing requirement to protect against high tides and storm surges from the North Sea, provide energy independence into the future and possibly create enough power to export throughout Europe.
If this technology was to be exported then cheap tidal power generation stations could be established around the world's coasts. This would make short hop 100% electrically powered ships economically viable, as they would only have to be able to reach the next station, where the lower cost electricity would be available to recharge their batteries. Who would make these high tech ships? The Netherlands, of course...
Even with electric cargo ships, it's clear that the future will be one where goods travel short distances from production to consumption, without a fuel as cheap as oil it's obvious that physical goods will not be carried halfway around the world. At the same time, people will travel such distances less as the cost of flights increases. This will create a situation where ideas are no longer transmitted around the world as rapidly as we have become used to. Luckily we already have the Internet, which is excellent for piping any form of data around the world, but rarely useful information. Even today, with telecommunications systems being better than ever, a common way that products and ideas move around the world is by businessmen and entrepreneurs seeing products in different countries, realising their potential in another market and then taking them there. Without today's levels of travel this process will be stifled.
Assuming that commercialisation remains the primary incentive for manufacturing products around the world then the licensing of designs will become more important than a single company expanding its production and exporting its goods and this process will need to be facilitated in some way. Only the web offers a platform where this could possibly occur but even on the Internet the laws of a country define how well it can support different web activities, for instance the UK has gambling laws that make it better suited to supporting gambling websites than most countries, but the royalties system on music impedes the commercial viability of web radio there. If the Netherlands were to tune its laws and legislation appropriately (perhaps automatically honouring foreign patents as rights protection within the country) then it could become the international hub for trading in product licenses over the Internet, acting as a matchmaker and clearing house for ideas from around the world. Money would be made on commissions and fractional side royalties from the system in much the same way that stock market trading does. Indeed, the trade in ideas could naturally draw investment markets to the Netherlands, increasing that side of the economy.