Declaration Of
Open Standard For Innovation Entrepreneurship (v1.2)
Challenges in The Current Ecosystem Development
Founders looking for co-founders, talent looking for ideas and support, investors looking to invest, companies looking for partners, lenders looking to provide working capital, corporates looking new innovations to existing problems and opportunities for their customers and markets. The list goes on and on.
Everyone and anyone trying to find what they are looking for from innovation entrepreneurship ecosystems - suffer from fragmented and limited information and access to data about the things they are looking to understand and about people and companies they are looking to connect and do business with.
New technologies now are ready to break down ecosystem silos and make data flow to build effective interactions among different ecosystem items automatically. Much of the data you would need to create those connections is already generated. However, often the data required is not yet available in a form which is easy to use and share.
Highly Controlled Conditions
The concept of ecosystem development has emerged in “recent” years as a framework to understand the nature of places in which innovation entrepreneurship activity flourishes, consolidates and succeeds. It is therefore becoming an art, but also a science, and as such it requires as much open standards as possible of many of the factors that influence in getting big volume of quality companies as the ultimate metric to measure ecosystem performance and success.
Ecosystems are invisible infrastructure, where data is core to feed ecosystem analytics and benchmarking and ecosystem for data-driven policy making, measure service performance, define funding decisions, enable matchmaking and more. Digital transformation in ecosystems is the approach to get as much objective and granular data as possible to help any ecosystem player gets the expected outcomes. As such, iImplementing and developing successful, competitive and data-driven ecosystems for entrepreneurship and innovation, that become digitally enabled, should be considered as collective infrastructure projects, requiring a proper and careful planning for shared structure with a systematic and long term mission between the involved parties.
Ecosystem Data and Data Sharing
Ecosystem data is information generated within the ecosystem via various different activities, interactions and applications. This data is something that can be shared under different terms and forms, to be used, enhanced, re-used and redistributed by others in various different ways and formats for new and additional value creation, beyond its original source or use.
It can enhance:
From Connectivity to Interoperability
Interoperability is important because it allows for different components, services, applications etc. to work together. This ability to componentize and to ‘plug together’ these components is essential to enhancing collaborations and building digitally connected ecosystems.
Open Standards
Open standards are publicly available standards with proven implementation success. These standards are built on the principles of openness, transparency and consensus and are developed, adopted and maintained by a community to enable interoperability, or connected systems, across ecosystem actors and to prevent dependence on any single vendor. Open standards have proven to be an important facilitator for innovation. By providing an agreed, reliable and globally valid base of knowledge, technology and data, open standards allow ecosystem actors and users to develop highly competitive, innovative solutions and companies that are based on these open standards.
In short, open standards is where business creators, support providers, ecosystem builders /developers and operators align and where everyone is sure to benefit.
Scalability
Having open standards over multiple factors allows best practices to be carefully repeated around the world with target to reproduce the same result over and over again. Multiple ecosystem operators, builders/developers, support providers and business creators on different continents, countries and cities should find the exact same results if they precisely adopted and implemented commons models, processes, best practices and tools.
Ecosystem user-centric approach
Following and aligned with MyData principles and approach, providing ecosystem level 'user accounts' to individuals, as an way to enable control and portability of individuals personal data between different ecosystem services or applications that uses the data. Ecosystem user accounts can include or be separate from personal data storage (PDS) solutions, that enable storing data in a secure place under the direct control of an individual custodian.
Open Standard Data Models, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and other similar solutions, enable interaction between data sources (services & applications) and data users (individuals and/or their entities like 'startups'). Open standard compliant data models based APIs can provide data in a machine readable format and can enable the data sources and users to exchange information via and with the ecosystem level user account. As a result, it is possible to build a centralized ecosystem user account services with dashboards, where the individual may control their data, grant access and give or cancel permissions for their data and transfer of data between services.
In other words, ecosystem users will be empowered by owning, controlling and activating their personal ecosystem information.
Towards Frictionless Ecosystems
By reimagining the models, processes, tools, documentation and the way we work to develop ecosystems, we can create something we call frictionless ecosystem: fully open, connected and scalable ecosystem to serve all ecosystem players and stakeholders as a platform to smartly drive innovation and bring prosperity to societies.
Founders looking for co-founders, talent looking for ideas and support, investors looking to invest, companies looking for partners, lenders looking to provide working capital, corporates looking new innovations to existing problems and opportunities for their customers and markets. The list goes on and on.
Everyone and anyone trying to find what they are looking for from innovation entrepreneurship ecosystems - suffer from fragmented and limited information and access to data about the things they are looking to understand and about people and companies they are looking to connect and do business with.
New technologies now are ready to break down ecosystem silos and make data flow to build effective interactions among different ecosystem items automatically. Much of the data you would need to create those connections is already generated. However, often the data required is not yet available in a form which is easy to use and share.
Highly Controlled Conditions
The concept of ecosystem development has emerged in “recent” years as a framework to understand the nature of places in which innovation entrepreneurship activity flourishes, consolidates and succeeds. It is therefore becoming an art, but also a science, and as such it requires as much open standards as possible of many of the factors that influence in getting big volume of quality companies as the ultimate metric to measure ecosystem performance and success.
Ecosystems are invisible infrastructure, where data is core to feed ecosystem analytics and benchmarking and ecosystem for data-driven policy making, measure service performance, define funding decisions, enable matchmaking and more. Digital transformation in ecosystems is the approach to get as much objective and granular data as possible to help any ecosystem player gets the expected outcomes. As such, iImplementing and developing successful, competitive and data-driven ecosystems for entrepreneurship and innovation, that become digitally enabled, should be considered as collective infrastructure projects, requiring a proper and careful planning for shared structure with a systematic and long term mission between the involved parties.
Ecosystem Data and Data Sharing
Ecosystem data is information generated within the ecosystem via various different activities, interactions and applications. This data is something that can be shared under different terms and forms, to be used, enhanced, re-used and redistributed by others in various different ways and formats for new and additional value creation, beyond its original source or use.
It can enhance:
- Ecosystem transparency and democratic consensus
- Participation
- Self-empowerment
- Improved or new private products and services
- Innovation
- Improved efficiency of ecosystem services
- Improved effectiveness of ecosystem services
- Impact measurement of policies
- New knowledge from combined data sources and patterns in large data volumes
- From Connectivity to Interoperability
- Interoperability denotes the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). In this case, it is the ability to interoperate - or intermix - different datasets.
From Connectivity to Interoperability
Interoperability is important because it allows for different components, services, applications etc. to work together. This ability to componentize and to ‘plug together’ these components is essential to enhancing collaborations and building digitally connected ecosystems.
Open Standards
Open standards are publicly available standards with proven implementation success. These standards are built on the principles of openness, transparency and consensus and are developed, adopted and maintained by a community to enable interoperability, or connected systems, across ecosystem actors and to prevent dependence on any single vendor. Open standards have proven to be an important facilitator for innovation. By providing an agreed, reliable and globally valid base of knowledge, technology and data, open standards allow ecosystem actors and users to develop highly competitive, innovative solutions and companies that are based on these open standards.
In short, open standards is where business creators, support providers, ecosystem builders /developers and operators align and where everyone is sure to benefit.
Scalability
Having open standards over multiple factors allows best practices to be carefully repeated around the world with target to reproduce the same result over and over again. Multiple ecosystem operators, builders/developers, support providers and business creators on different continents, countries and cities should find the exact same results if they precisely adopted and implemented commons models, processes, best practices and tools.
Ecosystem user-centric approach
Following and aligned with MyData principles and approach, providing ecosystem level 'user accounts' to individuals, as an way to enable control and portability of individuals personal data between different ecosystem services or applications that uses the data. Ecosystem user accounts can include or be separate from personal data storage (PDS) solutions, that enable storing data in a secure place under the direct control of an individual custodian.
Open Standard Data Models, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and other similar solutions, enable interaction between data sources (services & applications) and data users (individuals and/or their entities like 'startups'). Open standard compliant data models based APIs can provide data in a machine readable format and can enable the data sources and users to exchange information via and with the ecosystem level user account. As a result, it is possible to build a centralized ecosystem user account services with dashboards, where the individual may control their data, grant access and give or cancel permissions for their data and transfer of data between services.
In other words, ecosystem users will be empowered by owning, controlling and activating their personal ecosystem information.
Towards Frictionless Ecosystems
By reimagining the models, processes, tools, documentation and the way we work to develop ecosystems, we can create something we call frictionless ecosystem: fully open, connected and scalable ecosystem to serve all ecosystem players and stakeholders as a platform to smartly drive innovation and bring prosperity to societies.
The Principles
- Only things that can be understood, can be developed.
- Only things that can be measured, can be improved.
- From Isolation to Openness. Only by sharing things and making them visible, available and known about, can those become “commons”. Or, the same things will be repeatedly reinvented and duplicated over time.
- From Do it your own to Collaborative Development. If there are no “shared things” being worked on, there is no real “working together” and limited resources are dispersed.
- From Silo to Interoperability. Only things that are in shared use, can be benchmarked, scaled and developed together.
- From Product/Service to Ecosystem Users and Output focused
- Scalable, global and open standards cross geographies and/or business verticals
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Your Commitment
Sign the declaration if you believe in the principles above and you are committed to support it.
Bring your comments, suggestions and ideas about how you are currently implementing this open standard ecosystem framework or how you would like to get started.
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