Overview

The Open Innovation Center in Klosterøya Skien and the idea of a Global Open Innovation Alliance, is a project being developed by Telemark County Council, The Grenland Collaboration and Telemark University College. The work i organized through IKT Grenland, a membership based Software Cluster in Telemark Norway . The core development work for the center is being performed by Tor-Arne Bellika of Innovation Performance AS and Zak Greant of Foo Associates Inc.

The initial work on the initiative has been funded by the Telemark County Council, the Telemark University College, Innovation Norway, Vekst i Grenland and by IKT Grenland members. The current work is funded by IKT Grenland and member companies eZ Systems AS, as well as by Innovation Performance AS and Foo Associates.

The center will serve to build Norwegian competence in Open Innovation and on the Electronic Frontier. The center will work to collaborate with and support the offerings of other related initiatives such as the Finnish Center for Open Source Solutions and the Norwegian National Center for Free Software.

In keeping with the focus of the center, work on center is being done in an open and collaborative fashion. Meeting notes are openly published, as are draft plans, information on participants and so on. Visit the About page to learn more.

Participation

There are many ways to participate in the project, from collaborating with the team up to providing funding for the center. You can easily get in touch with the team on the public InnoCenter mailing list. If you need to contact us privately, write to mailto:innocenter-private@googlegroups.com

News

2007-10-22 Public InnoCenter Mailing List
2007-10-21 Open Innovation Center Website Goes Online
2007-10-01 eZ Systems Provides 4500 EUR Seed Funding for the Open Innovation Center

Projects

HiT Masters in Open Source Program An exploratory project focused on the idea of developing a Masters of Open Source program at the Telemark University College (aka HiT)
Ministry Funding Application A project to develop grant proposals for InnoCenter projects. The proposals would focus on the FLOSS funding available from the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and Reform.
MOIOS The Municipality Open Innovation & Open Source workshops are a series of two day events that will help municipalities build practical (and cost-saving skills) in Open Source and Open Innovation.
Open Innovation Incubator The incubator exists to provide Electronic Frontier-focused Norwegian startups with coaching, networking and funding.
Open Funding Service & Community Development Development of a FLOSS-based marketplace for prioritizing and co-funding development projects.

Resources

Links A collection of various useful links
Norwegian Public Sector FLOSS Pioneers A list of people pioneering the use of FLOSS in Norwegian municipalities and regional governments
Nordic Electronic Frontierists A partial list of people working on the electronic frontier in the Nordic Region
Nordic Electronic Frontier Initiatives and Organizations A partial list of organizations focused on the electronic frontier in the Nordic region

Participants

Aleksander Farstad CEO and co-founder of eZ Systems and the originator of the vision of an Competency Center focused on Open Innovation at Klosterøya, Skien. He has contributed both his time, ideas and some eZ Systems money to make this international center happen.
Karin Finnerud Head of Development, Skien Municipality. Owner of the Open Innovation Incubator project.
Tor-Arne Bellika Norwegian Open Innovation specialist. CEO of Innovation Performance.
Vidar Top CEO and founder of OneonOne, former VP Sales and marketing of eZ Systems and a true promoter of innovation through new ways of doing sales.
Zak Greant Canadian Electronic Frontierist. Founder of Foo Associates electronic frontier consultancy and Mozilla Foundation staff.

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