The Innovation Week of San Sebastian is a key event of the year given that it makes visible the fact that it is a city that innovates in different sectors and at different levels: companies, research centers, associations or entrepreneurs. In addition, it allows transferring to the socio-economic fabric the initiatives and projects that arise in the city around innovation.
The Innovation Week, Donostia WeekINN contains a complete program of activities around the innovation strategy that takes place in the city, from different business sectors, educational institutions, public bodies, research and technology centers, entrepreneurs and citizens in general. It is about offering a space for visibility, contrast, training, information and learning around this attitude and commitment to innovation in Donostia. In collaboration with the entities and agents of the local innovation ecosystem, activities are organized throughout the week to share experiences on innovation.
The Donostia WeekINN 2016 had a complete program of activities around the innovation strategy that takes place in the city, from different business sectors, educational entities, public bodies, research and technology centers, entrepreneurs and citizenry in general. The objective was to offer a space of visibility, contrast, training, information and learning around this attitude and commitment to innovation in Donostia. In fact, this type of initiative is key to fostering vocations, providing practical information to young people about the current market, generating curiosity, etc.
In collaboration with more than 70 organizations and agents, activities were organized throughout the week to share experiences on innovation.
The main topic was that the cities should be committed to developing, retaining and attracting talent. Therefore, the central theme was the promotion of Talent, as a basis for innovation, with people as a fundamental basis. In 2015, a year with a change of local government with a strong political will to develop the concept of innovation, a clear commitment with the person as the key driver of the innovation model was taken in San Sebastian. The people, the citizens in a wider sense, are in the core of everything that the city is doing. It generated a clear evolution of the operative tools and programmes towards the person as a central element in 2016, thanks to the inputs from the different agents involved in the ecosystem, that were received and analyzed by FSS.
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Image: Different moments of the 2016 WeekINN
The new Connecting Talent Strategy is an attempt to change the old paradigm based on investment and jobs to attract people into a scheme in which people and talent attract capital and employment. And this principle guides the commitment of Donostia, particularly from 2016 onwards, with their innovation driving force, where the ideas come: the citizens and their talent. This unique bet was the main topic for the 2016 WeekINN.
Image: Companies “Ikusi” (“Established Enterprise” category ) and “Nem Solutions” (“Young Enterprise” category) receive the 2016 DonostiaINN Awards
The Week of Innovation, Donostia WeekINN 2017 will contain a complete program of activities around the city's innovation strategy, continuing with the work carried out in the three previous editions to visualize this "attitude" and focus on different sectors, types of entities, segments of society, etc. Fomento San Sebastián will work to offer a space of visibility, contrast, training, information and learning around innovation.
2016 Donostia Innovation Week´s main metrics:
- More than 2.600 citizens took part in the 2016 edition.
- 1.100 visits to the 2016 Tent City.
- The city´s rich innovation ecosystem gives the possibility to organise a week full of activities related to this topic.
- About 35 different events around Innovation.
- Multiple locations. Innovation is present all around the city.
- International experts. Renowned speakers.
- Activities in collaboration with more than 70 strategic partners of the city.
- Wide media coverage.
- Citizens mobilization and sensibilization.
- Two different prizes in the frame of the Innovative Enterprise DonostiaINN 2016 award: “Established Enterprise” and “Young Enterprise”.
- The city´s innovative ecosystem mobilization (enterpises, technological centres, etc.).
- The educational sector mobilization (Schools, Vocational Training Centres, Universities, etc.).
- The exposure of the innovative framework of San Sebastian.
Links:
http://www.fomentosansebastian.eus/donostiainn/eshttp://www.fomentosansebastian.eus/donostiainn/es/noticias/2261-los-premios-donostiainn-para-ikusi-y-nem-solutions-y-la-carpa-de-urdaneta-grandes-hitos-de-la-semana-de-la-innovacion
http://www.fomentosansebastian.eus/donostiainn/es/donostia-weekinn-2016
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=hTASZsBWbOk&feature=youtu.be
https://storify.com/FomentoSS/donostia-week-inn-2016/preview
