Innovation Ecosystems: The Future of Civilizations and the Civilization of the Future

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Our current situation, marked simultaneously by the Anthropocene, global warming, digitization and exponential artificial intelligence, leads us to sudden and total change in global civilization and, de facto, to rebuilding the foundations of the international economy. Innovation Ecosystems explores the risks and opportunities facing the contemporary world by analyzing, comparing and categorizing the world’s most dynamic innovation ecosystems by region and city. This includes the identification of key characteristics – common or original – and learning from them in terms of culture, management, system and structure, in order to meet current challenges and think about civilizations of the future. Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Looking Backwards To Look Forwards: Why a Change of Civilization? 1.1. What is a civilization? 1.2. The great waves of civilization in history 1.2.1. The notion of dominant activity 1.2.2. The characteristic domains of each era 1.2.3. The evolution grid 1.2.4. The era of creation and communication 1.3. Considerations on the evolution of civilizations 1.3.1. An exponential evolution 1.3.2. From mass duplication to customized production 1.3.3. Questions around the creation–communication era 1.3.4. Evolution and fragmentation of value systems and representations of the world 1.3.5. The couple as a matrix of societal transformations 1.3.6. The alternative of blocking or fleeing 1.3.7. Moving towards the future Chapter 2. Creation and Communication as the Basis of the Civilization of the Future 2.1. The value of otherness 2.2. The creative strategy 2.3. Personal development, knowing how to create and communicate around our vocation: the mutation of professions 2.4. Information literacy and creativity 2.4.1. Freeing up time to be 2.4.2. Differentiation of ego, personality and genius in the creative process 2.4.3. The three levels of consciousness 2.4.4. Materialism and idealism back to back Chapter 3. The Transformation of Organizations Towards More Collective Intelligence 3.1. Let human imagination and inspiration take over 3.1.1. The evolution of human beings’ position and their reference points 3.1.2. The four relational principles 3.1.3. Culture, management, systems and structures 3.1.4. Evolution of companies 3.1.5. Missions of the human resources function 3.1.6. Attitudes towards the customer 3.1.7. Old laws and avant-garde organization 3.2. Mimicry and singularity 3.2.1. Mimicry, a still under-exploited force 3.2.2. A mimicry that benefits the leader, but for how long? 3.3. Singularity and creative strategy 3.3.1. Ideological enterprises 3.3.2. How can we develop creative emergences? 3.3.3. The leader between mimicry and singularity: the art of overcoming paradoxes 3.4. The extended enterprise Chapter 4. International Foresight on Innovative Ecosystems 4.1. Why a forward-looking view? 4.2. Why innovation? 4.3. Why have an international foresight institute on innovative ecosystems? 4.4. Introduction to innovative ecosystems 4.5. The importance of startups and venture capital 4.6. Criteria for measuring innovative startup ecosystems 4.6.1. Rankings to measure the dynamics of territorial innovation Chapter 5. A Global Overview of Innovative Ecosystems 5.1. Silicon Valley, the digital capital 5.1.1. Spectacular and preserved nature 5.1.2. An international reference and an outstanding position 5.1.3. The largest concentration of start-ups and venture capital in the world 5.1.4. Focus on Palo Alto 5.1.5. The home of GAFAM 5.1.6. Focus on San Francisco 5.1.7. The cradle of an emerging culture: a culture of adventure and exploration 5.1.8. The cost of living and soaring real estate prices 5.2. New York: the capital of the world of finance, media, art, publishing and advertising 5.2.1. History 5.2.2. General description 5.2.3. Museums 5.2.4. Talents 5.2.5. Universities 5.3. London, capital of the British Empire 5.4. Beijing: capital of the Chinese Empire 5.5. Boston: the capital of strategy and consulting 5.6. Berlin: capital of the German Empire 5.7. Shanghai: the international capital of Asia 5.8. Los Angeles: the film capital of the world 5.9. Seattle: capital of the Microsoft empire 5.10. Paris: capital of culture, humanism and luxury 5.11. Singapore: the financial capital of Asia 5.12. Tokyo: capital of Japan 5.13. Stockholm: capital of perfectionism 5.14. Munich: the capital of expertise 5.15. Copenhagen: capital of happiness 5.16. Taipei: capital of manufacturing 5.17. Geneva: the international capital of NGOs Chapter 6. Learning from Global Innovation Systems 6.1. Digitalization: technological convergence and artificial intelligence 6.2. Concentration 6.3. The Triad: epicenter of global innovation 6.3.1. North America 6.3.2. Western Europe 6.3.3. East Asia 6.3.4. What do the poles of the Triad have in common? 6.4. Center and periphery 6.4.1. Africa 6.4.2. South America 6.4.3. India 6.4.4. Australia 6.4.5. Living in the ocean? 6.4.6. The conquest of space: colonizing the Moon and Mars 6.5. The shared values of the Triad 6.5.1. Think global and act local 6.5.2. Team and process 6.5.3. The importance of the pitch 6.6. The “11 Fs” culture 6.6.1. The “5 F’s” according to Rosabeth Moss Kanter 6.6.2. The other “Fs” observed 6.6.3. The dark side of the “Fs” 6.7. The middleground 6.8. The triple helix 6.8.1. Repetitive innovation 6.8.2. From closed to open innovation 6.8.3. From technological innovation to systemic innovation 6.8.4. From individual innovation to collaborative and interdisciplinary innovation 6.8.5. From spontaneous to systematic innovation 6.8.6. From exchange-based innovation to co-creation in innovation spaces 6.8.7. Innovation projects with common innovation cultures 6.9. The one-man band Chapter 7. Systemic Risks and the Emergence of the New Civilization 7.1. Demography, urbanization and economic disparities 7.2. The Anthropocene 7.3. The end of oil 7.4. Global governance and the rise of extremes 7.5. The limits of planetary resources 7.6. Evolutionary scenarios 7.6.1. The scenarios of decline 7.6.2. Scenarios that do not have an environmental priority 7.6.3. Voluntary scenarios with an environmental priority Chapter 8. The Beginnings of the New Civilization 8.1. How should we respond to existential systemic risks? 8.2. Towards a clash of civilizations or a new civilization? 8.3. Draw me a happy and sustainable humanity 8.3.1. Infinite exponential growth? 8.3.2. Present and future manifestations of the crisis 8.3.3. What can be done? 8.3.4. Imagining a new sustainable social and ecological economic system 8.4. Six axes of development for an ecological civilization 8.4.1. Radically increase raw material productivity 8.4.2. Practicing production models inspired by nature: biomimicry 8.4.3. Establishing a service and rental economy 8.4.4. Investing in natural capital 8.4.5. Dematerialization of production 8.4.6. Digital virtualization 8.5. Reconciling economic, social and ecological objectives 8.6. A plural interpretation of the civilization of the future 8.7. Innovative ecosystems as the cradle of the new civilization, but how? 8.8. The new civilization: a puzzle in the making 8.8.1. Seventeen goals for sustainable development 8.8.2. Auroville 8.8.3. Information society 8.8.4. Biomimicry 8.8.5. Circular economy 8.8.6. Sharing economy 8.8.7. Complementary and alternative currencies 8.8.8. Basic income 8.8.9. Club of Rome 8.8.10. Fondation 2100 8.8.11. Drawdown organization 8.8.12. Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) 8.8.13. Transhumanism 8.8.14. Burning Man 8.8.15. The Factory of the Future 8.8.16. Tellus Institute 8.8.17. Mosaic 8.8.18. Université Catholique de Lille 8.9. The new civilization: a patchwork of eclectic personalities 8.9.1. Sri Aurobindo 8.9.2. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 8.9.3. Alvin Toffler 8.9.4. Edgar Morin 8.9.5. Ervin László 8.9.6. Manuel Castells 8.9.7. Jarett Diamond 8.9.8. Duane Elgin 8.9.9. Gunter Pauli 8.9.10. Bruno Latour 8.9.11. Joël de Rosnay 8.9.12. Jeremy Rifkin 8.9.13. Paul Hawken 8.9.14. Kenneth Wilber 8.9.15. Yuval Noah Harari Conclusion References Index Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management