Each day combines expert insights, engagement with local stakeholders and interactive sessions, offering participants diverse perspectives on innovation and futures thinking.
Participants have opportunities to meet with local companies and entrepreneurs, observe a circular bioeconomy in the making and test their own assumptions about future needs and solutions.
Questions? Contact us at ylp@efi.int.
Tentative Programme
- Setting the Scene: A Systems View of Innovation and Futures
- Why think about systems?
- How are the systems in which futures and innovation take shape changing?
- What can we learn from actors in the forest industries?
- Inside and Beyond Regional Innovation Ecosystems
- What kinds of innovation support are available?
- How can innovation transcend localities?
- How to achieve innovation adoption readiness?
- Excursion: Meet Innovators and Explore the Opportunities Held by the Forest
- What can we learn from successful local innovators – start-ups and self-disrupting companies?
- What can we learn from the local forest ecosystem?
- Entrepreneurship, Foresight and Anticipatory Innovation
- How to foster entrepreneurship?
- What are futures, what is foresight and how does anticipatory innovation work?
- Applying Power Skills for Effective Futures and Innovation Leadership
- Developing innovative solutions for relevant futures in the local context: applying lessons learnt, honing skills and creating real value.