Transcript I. Regional intelligence

Regional or Territorial Intelligence
Nicos Komninos
URENIO Research Unit
www.urenio.org
Stratinc Meeting
Thessaloniki, 7-8 October 2004
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Four sections:
I. Regional intelligence
II. Early forms
III. Principal informational modules
IV. Information integration
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I. Regional intelligence
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Learning regions and regional intelligence
REGIONAL SYSTEM OF
INNOVATION
Universities /
Research
Institutes
Technology Transfer
Organisations
Tech Parks, Tech Networks,
Brokers, Consultants
Public R&D
Laboratories
CLUSTERS
Group of companies in cooperation
Vertical / Horizontal
Innovation Financing
Banks, Business Angels,
Venture Capital, Regional
Incentives
Private R&D
Departments
and Centres
Technological Information System
Patents, Standards, Technical
Publications, Emerging Markets,
Foresight
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Regional Intelligence
Regional intelligence belongs to a new
family of concepts, such as business
intelligence, territorial competitive
intelligence, strategic economic
intelligence, distributed intelligence, social
or collective intelligence, emphasizing the
organized and systemic collection,
analysis, and dissemination of information
for business and development purposes.
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Business Intelligence
• Business intelligence is the basis for this
conceptual setting. It is defined as an activity
to overview the internal and external
environment of a company, with the intention
of finding information that can be
incorporated into management processes. It
is an organized procedure in the service of the
strategic management of the company, aiming to
improve its competitiveness by the collection,
treatment and dissemination of information
useful for controlling its environment.
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Business Intelligence
• Business intelligence is mainly a company
activity. It has evolved out of traditional decisionsupport systems which gradually incorporated
in-house databases (~ 1985), data warehousing
(~1995), customer relationship management
(~2000), and integrated business intelligence
applications (~ 2003). From this evolution, it has
the potential to deliver enormous payback to the
company, but demands unprecedented
integration of knowledge about customers,
competition, market conditions, vendors,
products, and the entire supply chain [22].
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Regional Intelligence
At the other side of business intelligence is
regional or territorial intelligence. This may
be defined as an informational nexus
linking the actors of a locality. It is a
network allowing ‘an observation strategy
towards the competitors, the markets and
the environment. These practices lead to
an economic intelligence approach, which,
when applied to the territory, is called
territorial intelligence’.
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Business / Regional Intelligence
Internal company
Information
External company
Information
Business
Intelligence
developed by
the company
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Company audit
Relational databases
Data mining
Balance scorecards
Modeling
Optimization
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Markets and products
watch
Technology watch
Competition watch
Materials prices watch
Consumer trends
Regional
Intelligence
developed by
third party
organizations
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Company benchmarking
Business excellence models
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Business statistics
Regional indicators
Regional benchmarking
R&D results
Patents
Regional foresight
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Regional Intelligence Definition
• It is a localized network of distributed
informational modules;
• It is developed by third party organizations for
the welfare of a territory, locality or region;
• It uses human and artificial intelligence in the
collection, processing, and dissemination of
information;
• It communicates via the Internet; and
• It is integrated so effectively that its constituting
parties become indistinguishable for the external
user.
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II. Early forms
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Regional observatories: East of England
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Regional observatories: East Midlands
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Regional observatories: Yorkshire
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Regional observatories: South East England
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Regional observatories: Wales
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Regional Innovation Portals: Central Macedonia
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Regional Innovation Portal: Thessaly
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Regional Innovation Portal: Thessaly
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Technology watch: Lorraine
Παρακολούθηση αγορών / τεχνολογιών
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Regional Informational System: Peloponnese
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III. Principal informational modules
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1. Regional R&D Dissemination: Madrid
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1. Regional R&D Dissemination: C. Macedonia
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2. Competition analysis and benchmarking
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2. Competition analysis and benchmarking
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3. Technology / Market Watch
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3. Technology / Market Watch
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4. Regional Foresight
RF can be defined as a systematic, participatory
process, involving gathering intelligence and
building visions for the medium-to-long-term
future, and aimed at informing present-day
decisions and mobilizing joint actions.
RF involves thinking about emerging opportunities,
challenges, trends and discontinuities; however,
the aim is not to produce insights about the
future, but to bring together key regional actors
and regional sources of knowledge and develop
strategic visions and anticipatory intelligence.
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IV. Information integration
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• Ex-ante integration is centralized integration and
presupposes early stage co-ordination between the
partners involved. The agreement starts from the
design of the core informational modules in order to
allow interoperability and common standards in data
entry, data communication and exchange, and search
functions.
• Meta-search integration is lower level integration,
less centralized, but more open and expandable.
Regional organizations develop the core information
modules separately, but allow agents and integration
servers to work on their system.
• Targeted integration is a step forward. It is based on
centralized or decentralized structuring of
informational modules, but also includes an active
information processing team which creates new
content from the combination of distributed
information.
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Public informational modules integration
Company
Data Base
Company
Company
Company
Data Base
Data Base
Data Base
Company
Data Base
Company
Market
Watch
Company
Data Base
R&D
results
Data Base
CORE
Company
Performance
Public
Content
Company
Regional
Foresight
Company
Data Base
Data Base
Regional Performance
Company
Data Base
Company
Data Base
Internal
Benchmark
Data
Mining
Balance
Scorecard
Process
Modeling
Inside the Company Data Base
Reporting
Managem.
Company
Data Base
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Public – Private integration
EXTERNAL REGIONAL DATA-BASES
R&D Results,
Prototypes,
Patents
Data Mining
Company
Performance Data
Company
Benchmarking
Reporting to
Management
Regional SocioEconomic Data
Regional
Benchmarking
Balance Scorecard
Market and
Technology
Watch
Regional
Foresight
Future Trends
Internal
Benchmarking
Modeling
INTERNAL BUSINESS DATA-BASE
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Targeted integration and reporting
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