Sánchez-Ocaña Alejandro Suárez. TIME-sector employer since 1998 CEO of the Group Publispain, the network of blogs Entertainment Networks SL and Leisure Blogs, Chairman of Inversora Foley, Director and Founding Partner of Yes.fm, advisor and investor in several companies in innovation, new technologies and internet.
Innovating is gerund
The Tribune was published in the Diario de Navarra on Sunday.
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Innovating is gerund
In these times of global economic crisis, where competition between companies reach the point of being a life or death battle is a key concept that allows us to differentiate ourselves, continue to grow and to develop a competitive advantage with business and globally with countries of our environment is innovation.
Historically, Spain has been an innovative country in the last 50 years, quite the opposite, one of the great black holes of the companies in our country are very poor results of R & D especially in SMEs.
Entry observed a confusing concept. SAR is according to Innovate "the creation and modification of a product and its introduction into a market" and in our country heading to innovate on many occasions and not just imitating but by applying gestated and internationally validated models to apply them to the market local. That is, rarely get Spanish companies in R & D results, we simply clone import technology and ideas from abroad 12 or 24 months later.
That is one of the Achilles heels of a Spanish company, low risk, low investment in R & D and on the rare occasions that this exists (as in the case of some Spanish universities), this is limited to a theoretical exercise without calling no commercial future, sometimes just once developed in a drawer without fulfilling what should be his goal, finishing in marketing and production cycle.
It is true that in the last 10 years the government has sought to encourage through all kinds of aid and grants all it stands for innovation, but the result is very limited today. The culprit? Possibly a lack of entrepreneurial and innovative culture, a search of the immediate economic result and often the hand of Venture Capital in Spain, which paradoxically makes the "Capital" and very little "risk" literally nothing, and without this last variable no possibility of innovation in private enterprise can not afford to live only for capital and innovation grants. The R & D is a bet and must be determined and sustained over the medium term especially if we are minimally interesting results.
One of the significant scales to measure a country's innovation is the number of patents filed. This indicator shows for years a trend moving from Japan and Anglo-Saxon market to fast-growing northeastern Asia. According to reports by the World Intellectual Property Organization that the country is Japan in 2005 (latest year for which comprehensive studies are available), has the largest number of patents per capita in 2876 per million population, our country is literally light years in the post 25 when countries like Ukraine, Singapore, Kazakhstan with 70 patents per million inhabitants and a very moderate annual growth of 4%, below the global average, we do every year fall into the list innovation, with countries like China with huge growth of over 40% in the number of patents.
Importantly, not an economic problem but a cultural and conceptual problem, there is "innovation culture" in our country, even while economic boom in 2006, Spain was at the tail of innovation in the European Union , ranked 16 according to data from the European Commission itself, in the little honorable group of countries that are losing ground annually in innovation with Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. European leaders are Sweden, Finland, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland.
Of all the indicators analyzed by the EU emphasizes the so-called "aggressiveness" key to force innovation and creating new companies where our country goes to a disastrous position 22 within the EU-25.
The economic crisis must be understood and seen as the perfect excuse to open my eyes, innovate, develop R & D departments in order to establish synergies and linkages between innovative organizations themselves, as some universities, and the business.
In our hand is in a few years to reverse the situation and to put our country into a real competitive basis with the countries around us
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Strongly agree with the bottom of the post, but do not share the idea of innovation that is passed on it, and therefore in the SAR.
In the company where I work, we define innovation as "any change based on the knowledge that brings value both to the user (customer) and the company."
Sometimes we confuse innovation with "ideas of a single day." A brilliant idea that is not based on observation and knowledge of customer needs (and resting on the pillars of knowledge), is generated by the rejection of the innovation by those with the power of decision.
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But that's not innovation, Fabian. Innovation is to bring something new (hence the word), not daily decisions, that all companies do every day. Innovation requires a project (innovation), previous research rather long time (development).
Innvar in this country is almost impossible, and almost always done at the university level (totally agree Article: most university projects end up in a forgotten drawer, although their development has invested much money and much time, never see the market).
In that regard, I am reminded of a patent for Galicia, which was an indicator of safety for canned goods (though not enough, this is a very serious issue for the canneries, and Galicia is one of the pillars of this industry in Spain). Well, unfortunately, the idea, although it was economically and technically feasible, never came to market. The author of the project was unfortunate some time ago in a radio interview on the subject.
why join a technology innovation? perhaps not the lollipop was innovative? and mop? post it maybe? In tourism, my industry, were major milestones in innovation, eg, breakfast buffet, the all-inclusive or TTOO model ... that have nothing to do with technology.
For me, the mistake is to associate Innovation labs and white coats ...
This does not mean that is not fully aligned with the bottom of the post and your opinion, but shading the dot, for my essential.
There is a fundamental problem in innovation that has much to do with the entrepreneurial spirit and, down another step, wanting to be an entrepreneur.
There are many young people who want to start their own "business", those are few who "undertake" the road risking much time and effort, and this small group, much less those that also innovate.
If the base of this pyramid is small because what is "taught" in Andalusia (as always at the bottom of everything) and trade unions repeated every day, yesterday for example, is that the employer is a wretch who gets rich exploiting their employees, because we started poorly.
The quarry from which the innovators are nurtured not encouraged, by contrast, is discredited.
Anyway, as you could see in the "Initiator Granada" there is an interesting generation of young people are not fooled by these demagogic politicians who govern us.
By the way, I saved repeat your experience with Ryan Air because the plane did not even reach.