Third publication on Open innovation 2012 is available

The European Commission has issued a third Open Innovation book. The 3 parts of the book focus on

  • policy development
  • trends and weak signals in service innovation
  • cases and open innovation development in EU countries and regions
What strikes me in the third part is that one of the case is about cloud computing that can take service innovation to next level. Let's see what does that means exactly...

Cloud computing will boost our European economy with an accelerated time to market for new applications (installation time of a Database is today around 12 minutes; the deployment of new applications passed from some months to some days...), rapid information delivery and efficient data analysis.

For the non service economy, enhanced connectivity and cloud solutions can help to bring local products faster to the local markets, in a more efficient way (think on logistics and transport).

On the regulatory side, the European Union needs to harmonize the different national legal environment and propose a standardized ICT policy, with Open standards (non proprietary) for the Cloud industry.
The Open Innovation book can be downloaded here.

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