4 Jul 2015

Do Startups have the Monopoly of Innovation?

Session 8

Startups are constantly in the news and always being related to innovations in technology, organisation, institutions and finance almost invariably backed by the social media ecosystem. Have they achieved a monopoly or to some degree taken a leading role in the very forces that move innovation? This round table is tasked with answering several questions: Is there a way to measure the contribution of startups and how it has changed within the innovation movement as a whole? Are startups not causing a qualitative change in the innovation movement?

What are the main categories of innovation that startups focus on? Which countries do they come from (rich countries, developing countries)? Are the innovations they create qualitatively different? Are they disruptive, do they address a (social, societal, sustainability) responsibility, openness, interaction with consumers and their specific requirements?

Are the startup movement and the innovations that startups generate capable of changing the very concept of work and how it is organised? Can we infer a leap-frogging effect and accelerated development?

Introduction


Neil GERSHENFELD

Director of The Center for Bits and Atoms

MIT

Biography

Coordination


Jean-Marie CHEVALIER

Member

Cercle des économistes

Biography

Moderator


Sabine DELANGLADE

Columnist

Les Echos

Biography

Speakers


Senén BARRO

Full Professor –Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence-

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Biography

Nicolas COLIN

Co-Founder & Partner

TheFamily

Biography

Michel COMBES

CEO

Alcatel-Lucent

Biography

Fabien CURTO MILLET

Senior Economist

Google

Biography

Patrick HUBERT

Partner

Clifford Chance

Biography
All the speakers

Contributions

Sénen Barro – Mind the gap, Europe !