ACSI 2.0
ACSI 2.0 - ACSI as an Accelerator for System Level Changes
Project Duration: 2012-2013 (Tekes)
The ACSI 2.0 project studies emergence of self-renewing innovation ecosystems and focuses on societal innovations. The aim of the project is 1) to find means to support emergence of innovative flows and dynamics, 2) to identify their systemic patterns and bottlenecks, and 3) to develop follow up and evaluation methods for output, outcomes and impacts of innovation initiatives. ACSI 2.0 benefits from the research results of the first phase of ACSI and continues to develop ACSI as a new generation innovation agenda, global platform for societal innovations and a novel research instrument for both the university and multidisciplinary research communities. The ACSI 2.0 project builds on a micro level perspective of innovation systems, and it is complemented by and functionally connected to two other projects.
ACSI 2.0 is linked in the partnership of with 6th Wave (lead by prof. Markku Willenius, University of Turku). The overall goal of these parallel projects is to help Finland to identify and meet the new global challenges in a systemic way. The projects produce together knowledge and tools to upgrade the Finnish innovation system, and contribute to policies that are needed in order to initiate and manage innovation practices and ecosystems. The projects’ outcome will cover new business possibilities, new management tools for innovation ecosystems, the changing roles of institutional and other stakeholders, regions as innovation ecosystems and societal innovations. The projects aim to expand understanding of innovation (eco)systems and create new awareness of the new antecedents of innovativeness for the future.