Innovation Biosphere

Eunika Mercier-Laurent is Associate Researcher at IAE Lyon University as well as being the founder of an international enterprise dedicated to knowledge and innovation management, and the dissemination of a culture of innovation for the knowledge economy. She is also an expert for French and European institutions.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ixFOREWORD xiINTRODUCTION xvABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xxiCHAPTER 1. INNOVATION LANDSCAPE AND FIELDS 11.1. From intensive industrialization to intensive innovation: consequences of global business 11.2. Computer sciences, the Internet and mass media 71.2.1. Example of applying environmental principles 111.2.2. Artificial intelligence 171.3. Medicine and biotechnologies 231.3.1. Human spare parts and augmented human 251.3.2. Ambient assisted living 261.3.3. Biotechnology 271.4. Nanotechnologies 301.4.1. Biological risks of nanoparticles 321.5. Agriculture and food industry 331.6. Knowledge city, smart city, green city and wise city 381.7. Tourism and business travel 411.8. Fashion victims 411.9. Responsible innovation? 431.9.1. What alternative? 45CHAPTER 2. INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS  492.1. The innovation biosphere 492.2. Some definitions 522.3. Innovation life  582.3.1. Continuous innovation and its context  582.3.2. Innovation dynamics 602.3.3. Balance: conditions for sustainable success 632.3.4. Role of knowledge and skills  702.4. Barriers, constraints and paradoxes 742.5 Some paradoxes 762.6. Measuring benefits782.7. Trends and future innovation 79CHAPTER 3. CHALLENGES AND INNOVATION POLICIES 813.1. Challenges for the next decades     813.2. Main challenges: global, European and French perspectives 833.2.1. Challenges for Europe 853.2.2. Unemployment paradoxes and quick fixes 873.2.3. Challenge for France 913.2.4. Best practices in matching offer and demand 943.3. Innovation policy 953.3.1. Innovation policies in Europe  1003.3.2. French innovation policy 1133.4. Matching policy and challenges     118CHAPTER 4. EXPERIMENTATIONS AND RESULTS  1234.1. Ubiquitous or sustainable innovation 1234.2. Selected actions around the world    1244.2.1. Open Systems Science: Tokyo and Paris 1294.2.2. Qatar Foundation 1354.3. Europe    1374.3.1. From Living Labs and Enoll to Innovation 2.0 1374.3.2. Future Centers 1444.3.3. Green and eco-innovation 1504.3.4. Social and service innovation  1524.4. Experiments in France  1534.4.1. Merging for multidisciplinary (and cost saving) 1564.5. Results and perspectives 157CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS 1595.1. Know, appreciate and protect what we have 1595.2. Problem solving 1615.2.1. Motivation  1625.2.2. Understanding the problem to solve 1635.2.3. Solutions from the past and alternative solutions 1635.3. Innovating in harmony with environmental intelligence   1645.3.1. Minds of plants 1655.3.2. Copying nature: biomimicry  1675.4. Conditions for sustainable success    1735.4.1. Removing the barriers 1775.4.2. New professions: perspective for jobs  179CONDITIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE 181BIBLIOGRAPHY 185INDEX   201