Emerging African Innovation Leaders G7 Exchange & Empowerment Program for enabling Innovation within the Next Production Revolution Prof Paola Garrone, PoliMI Prof Pierluigi Leone, PoliTO Dr Susanna Sancassani, PoliMI Prof. Emanuela Colombo, PoliMI
Origin and Rational of the Initiative From G7 declaration to ICA background paper The G7 Italian Presidency wish to raise attention on the opportunity to announce at the Taormina Summit the introduction of an Emerging African Innovation Leaders G7 Exchange and Training Program, that could be built upon the following pillars: Human Capital 4 Innovation
Origin and Rational of the Initiative From G7 declaration to ICA background paper INNOVATION AS AN ASSET for PROSPERITY Global Level The 2030 Agenda calls for a transformative change in the socio-economic assets The Next Production Revolution is expected to reshape design, engineering & production Africa Physical and social Infrastructures development needs to comply with the climate change policy (Paris Agreement, Addis Ababa Action Agenda) Infrastructure development needs to be designed to avoid the risk of technological lock-in to configurations that may fail beyond 2050. Role of NPR for leapfrogging in Africa
Origin and Rational of the Initiative From G7 declaration to ICA background paper DIGITALISATION, DECARBONISATION & MOBILITY Decarbonisation & Mobility Clusters of emerging technologies are pivotal within the NPR and SDGs and may comply with Paris Agreement Africa may jump into this enabling stage for further leapfrogging opportunity Digital & Green Tech (Energy & mobility) appears as the most relevant Digitalisation Digital, Energy & Mobility match NPR & SDG
Emerging African Innovation Leaders: G7 Exchange & Empowerment Program for enabling Innovation within the NPR General Objective To boost Africa embracement of the Next Production Revolution while enforcing the EU-Au cooperation on the matter and the mutual benefit and socio-economic innovation that may come when coping this approach with Sustainable Development Goals to promote an equitable and long lasting prosperity in different countries. Specific Objective To accompany empowerment and ownership of selected African Countries toward the embracement of the NPR. The proposal will represent pilot experiences and benchmarking case study since it will be based on the selection of representative countries to test the approach in different regional frames
Emerging African Innovation Leaders: G7 Exchange & Empowerment Program for enabling Innovation within the NPR Expected Results A qualified community of AFRICA INNOVATION BROKERS (AIBs) is created as the seed for the next generation of African Leaders, equipped with the right and verified capacity and competences for boosting Africa leapfrogging within NPR 1 2 A platform for innovation, the AFRICA INNOVATION CRADLE is working as a digital tool to enable the AIBs to replicate and expand their pilot experience toward a larger number of local innovation networks.
Emerging African Innovation Leaders: G7 Exchange & Empowerment Program for enabling Innovation within the NPR The G7 Italian Presidency wish to raise attention on the opportunity to announce at the Taormina Summit the introduction of an Emerging African Innovation Leaders G7 Exchange and Training Program, that could be built upon the following pillars: Expected Results A qualified community of AFRICA INNOVATION BROKERS (AIBs) is created as the seed for the next generation of African Leaders, equipped with the right and verified capacity and competences for boosting Africa leapfrogging within NPR 1 A platform for innovation, the AFRICA INNOVATION CRADLE is working as a digital tool to enable the AIBs to replicate and expand their pilot experience toward a larger number of local innovation networks. 2 A cascade of benficiaries The 18 African Innovation Brokers The 18 National Institutions/administrations The 180 second generation AIBs trained by the 18 AIBs
The Sustainability Pillars Human capital first Restitution Phase for effective impact Centrality of Human Capital Blended learning for Competence & Capacity Thought a project of capacity building, the idea goes well beyond the delivery of training hours
The Sustainability Pillars The supply chain of empowerment PHYSICAL and VIRTUAL STRATEGY Restitution Phase for effective impact Centrality of Human Capital Blended learning for Competence & Capacity A proactive way to promote knowledge and technology transfer and activating opportunities for mutual learning
The Target Countries A pilot starting point for future extension PHYSICAL and VIRTUAL STRATEGY Tunisia Among the 22 Priority countries Niger Ethiopia Representative of African Regions G7 Outreach Countries in Taormina Nigeria Kenya Mozambique
The Direct and Indirect Beneficiaries A pilot starting point for future extension A CASCADE OF BENEFICIARIES The 18 African Innovation Brokers The 18 National Institutions/administrations The 180 second generation AIBs trained by the 18 AIBs AIBs selection process 1. Call for applications 2. Evaluation of applications and Interview 3. Grading Rubric and selection knowledge chain actors: National Extension Services, Universities & Research centres. existing networks supporting innovation & new economy SMEs citizens for innovation & local communities:
The Schematic Structure - The WPs Specific Objective To accompany empowerment and ownership of selected African Countries toward the embracement of the NPR. WP1 State of art analysis, Selection of AIBs, Creation of the network Analysis of the context at Political, social, and infrastructural level and selection of the actors involved in the pilot activities WP2 AFRICAN INNOVATION BROKERS (AIBs) empowerment Design, development and delivering of all the capacity building and interactive activities useful to empower AFRICAN INNOVATION BROKERS (AIBs) 18 AIBs trained + 180 innovators in Tunisia Niger, Nigeria, Kenya Ethiopia, Mozambique. WP3 AFRICAN INNOVATION CRADLE Design and development of the virtual laboratory (AFRICA INNOVATION CRADLE) useful to support the capacity building activities and the collaborative activities within the network in order to activate new innovative entrepreneurial opportunities in African countries at both national and international level. WP4 Project Dissemination, Quality and Sustainability A Dissemination Plan is organised to describe the activities to be performed to foster the sustainability of the project after the funding period. A Quality Management Process that the project team will follow to assure and control the quality of all procedures, processes and deliverables produced during the course of programme. A Sustainability Plan will be produced in order to guarantee the sustainability of the project after the funding period WP5 Project Management Project Managers, External Quality experts, M&E experts and Auditor Long term impact
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