Mobile Vikings is about joining strong clusters and innovation milieus within Telecom/mobile applications into new ways of innovation activities. The purpose of the pilot project is to leverage the industrial strongholds within the sector by implementing new common methodologies and tools.
The idea is that Mobile Vikings will serve as a first step toward the long-term vision to capture the needs and ideas about future markets, technologies and societal mega trends into future scenarios that will guide the development of new products and services, and thus further strengthen the competitive position of the industrial players within the sector.
Mobile Vikings will experiment on how new innovation policies such as open innovation, open source, demand and user driven innovation can be implemented in cooperation between innovation milieus in the Baltic Sea Region. Activities and methodologies that will be used are test beds, where demand driven tool as innovative procurement will be tested. Developer communities will be invited to co-create on the test beds. SME’s will be involved in sharing the innovation activities.
Some of the objectives for the pilot project are to:
• Define a long term innovation strategy that considers the above mentioned methodologies and links to research activities through e.g. demand driven innovation.
• Test new methods and tools in the partnership to address sense-making, open innovation, technology test beds/platforms etc
• Identify the most promising grand potentials using new tools and methods in the telecom/mobile application sector in the Baltic Sea Region
• Develop and test exiting and new Business to Business Telecom/Mobile Communication solutions with a focus on efficient communication in the Baltic Sea Region
• Strengthen the links between strong clusters and innovation milieus in the Baltic Sea Region and to form a collaborative agenda when it comes to ICT in order to influence the EU agenda
• Work towards a real and unified Baltic Sea Region home market and to generate higher connectivity between SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Companies) and the larger multinationals.
The partners in Mobile Vikings are Mobile Heights (Sweden) – the lead partner, Öresund IT (Denmark, Sweden), Hermia (Finland), Visorial Information Technology (Lithuania) and the Latvia ICT Cluster (Latvia).
Associated partners are Trådlös Framtid/Oslo Teknopol (Norway), IKT Grenland (Norway), Forum Virium (Finland), Brains Business/ICT North Denmark (Denmark), Future Position X (Sweden), Mobkom.net (Germany), ICT West Pomerania (Poland), Wielkopolski Klaster Teleinformatyczny (Poland), Pomerania ICT Cluster (Poland).
Contact: Linda Karlsson, Mobile Heights, email: linda.karlsson(a)mobileheights.org, phone: +46 704 493548
