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INNOVATION & ICT
VRiSBI International Research Project Ireland 2007
Study Association VRiSBIErasmus University RotterdamSponsored by Ernst & Young NetherlandsExtended abstracts – CD-Rom contains full reports and presentations
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COLOFON
Study Association VRiSBI
Kamer H11-02Postbus 17383000 DR ROTTERDAMEmail:info@vrisbi.nl Internet:www.vrisbi.nl Tel: +31-10-408 8846
Emiel Caron
Assistant Professor Room H10-19P.O.Box 17383000 DR RotterdamThe NetherlandsEmail:caron@few.eur.nl Tel. +31-10-4081342Fax. +31-10-408 9162VRiSBI is the study association for the study Economics & Informatics at the Erasmus UniversityRotterdam. We have over 350 members and there are around 100 students currently in their final year of the bachelor or master program.One of our most important tasks is to connect students of Economics & Informatics with companies togive them an inside look how it is in the field. We try to do this by regularly organizing different kindsof activities in association with interested companies.The development and the pleasure of learning for the student is important to us. We do this byorganizing all kinds of activities like company visits, study trips, symposia, etc. etc.Informatics & Economics is a unique study. It combines the best of both worlds. Unique, that is also aterm we would like to use to describe our members.This report in front of you contains the extended abstracts. The CD-Rom in the back contains the fullreports and the presentations from the symposium ‘Innovation & ICT’.ISBN: 978-90-812660-1-7
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FOREWORD
The Lisbon Agenda is an action anddevelopment plan for the European Union.It was set out by the European Council onMarch 2000. The strategic goal of theagenda for 2010 is to make the Europeaneconomy the world's most competitive anddynamic knowledge economy. This, it isargued, will produce sustainable economicgrowth with more and better jobs andgreater social cohesion. The Lisbon Agendais heavily based on the idea that
innovation
is the motor for economic change (based onthe writings of Joseph Schumpeter). Thatthe Council takes this plan seriously is, for example, illustrated by the fact that in September of this year the European Parliament agreed to set upa European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The institute's overall budget is an estimated
€
2.4 billion for the first six years.Most European countries want to comply with this plan and have developed all kinds of nationalinitiatives. The Netherlands have established, for example, the Innovation Platform to develop proposals to increase the country’s innovative potential. At the moment the platform has led to few practical results but the Platform has made the Dutch public aware of the importance of innovation.Moreover, it is interesting to know how other European countries are dealing with the Lisbon Agenda.Therefore, a group of Economics & Informatics students have made a research visit to Ireland to learnabout its innovation initiatives. Ireland is an interesting country for a research trip, because itseconomy has transformed (with success) in recent years from an agricultural focus to one dependenton trade, industry and investment. Economic growth in Ireland averaged an exceptional 10% from1995–2000, and 6% from 2001–2006. Maybe The Netherlands can learn something from Ireland?Beside the fact that Ireland has a favorable tax climate, it has also introduced numerous other measures to ensure that Ireland is a good choice for investment and for establishing a company. For example, by creating a favorable climate for research and development and the presence of highlyskilled people.The students have focused on four research tracks in the Innovation & ICT domain: macro-economicanalysis of the impact of ICT, developments in innovation & management, business processinnovation, and innovation in the telecom sector. To support their research a large number of visits ismade, in the past two months, to Dutch and Irish organizations and companies. For example,Vodafone, Ammeon, Greenwich Consulting, ProCam, University College Dublin, Tilburg University, NovaUCD, Centre for Innovation Technology and Organisation, Dublin port, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Ireland), the Department of the Taoiseach (Ireland) and the DutchEmbassy all have been visited by the research group.
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