Data Call

Source: BOE n º 85, April 8, 2008

Date of Completion: 09/05/2008

Theme: A ccesibilidad

Call Type: National Calls - Aid

Convening Agency: Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism

Deadline for Submission: One month from the day following the publication of this Order in the Official Gazette

Summary

The European Commission has announced that he would like that 2009 was the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

SOURCE | CORDIS: Information Service in R & D Community

Europe is striving to become the knowledge-based economy, the world's largest by the end of 2010. Everyone agrees that to achieve this goal it is necessary to encourage people to develop skills in a number of key areas to build a knowledge-oriented society.

The innovation is to transform knowledge into wealth, in turn know how to cash flow. The innovative ideas are the fruit of knowledge people have of an organization, the expertise, knowledge of environment, networking .... Alfons Cornella speech, in his book "The Alchemy of Innovation", namely the hybridization of knowledge as a source of the best innovations.

Either way, what is high and clear is that the origin of which flows the spring, it involves people. In many organizations are created groups generating ideas using sometimes creativity techniques to promote the emergence of breakthrough ideas.

Like the human species has adapted to environmental changes over thousands of years, organizations adapt to their changing environment through radical innovations, surprising or shocking.

Some even themselves cause changes in the game competitive through innovations in business models: Ikea, Zara or Google itself, are banners of these tidal waves in the markets.

Not enough that companies generate profits, but it is interesting to do so through systematic innovation and minimizing the environmental impact of its processes (zero footprint).

The momentum of the environment as a variable in our development is one of the main themes that underpin the major macroeconomic policies of our government today. Citizens and governments themselves have become aware that the current economic development can not mortgage the future.

"Word of fashion or, perhaps, magic potion? Is it simply is what it should be mentioned in any seminar / article / conference that price or we really are facing a new scenario in which the main way for organizations to innovate to be competitive passes?

It seems that just discovered the Innovation as if until now had not existed or was an isolated, even anecdotal. What has happened? What paradigm has changed?