Stephan Gutzeit - Stiftung Charite - Stanford Engineering - Feb 6 2012 - V2
1. „Edelweiss“ vs. „Thomanerchor“
Innovation in Germany
Stephan Gutzeit, Executive Director, Stiftung Charité
Stanford School of Engineering
European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders Speakers Series
February 6, 2012
2. A Tale Of Two Innovation Systems
To Boldly Go Where No One has Gone Before
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3. Kinds Of Innovation Compared
• MIELE: Shallow, continuous, low but steady growth, close to customers;
moats: tradition, loyalty, cohesion, craftsmanship, family ownership.
• APPLE: Deep, discontinuous, fast but unsteady growth, surprise customers;
moats: vision, creative A+ culture, conflict-friendly, congenial + anticyclical GPs,
innovator ownership.
innovator-ownership
• E-COMMERCE: Shallow, semi-continuous, fast and steady growth, close to customers;
moats: speed, lo-risk „industrialized innovation“, first-rate execution, procyclical GPs,
build-to-sell serial entrepreneurs, „accelerators“. Derivative: CLONES.
• DEEP TECHNOLOGY: Deep, discontinuous, slow growth/ hi potential, solve problem;
moats: mastered complexity relations with KOLs first mover IP
complexity, KOLs, IP.
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8. Berlin is #1 – in Clones
Source: Klaus Hommels Presentation at DLD 2012 Munich
Hommels, 2012,
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9. Philanthropists All i t Ill
Phil th i t Alleviate Ills Of The Past, But They Can Also
Th P t B t Th C Al
Build The Future …
• Christian tradition: Charity.
• Graeco-Roman tradition: Innovation.
• Prometheus: The forward thinker ( Vordenker“)
(„Vordenker“).
Also the first innovateur, and venture philanthropist,
of mankind?
• And yet: No good deed goes unpunished …
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11. The Testing Ground For Our Ideas: Stiftung Charité
• Benefactress: Johanna Quandt
• Founded December 2005
• Enables innovation in medicine (entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship)
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Partner: Ch ité – U i
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
ität di i B li
• Target group: Academic entrepreneurs
• Hybrid structure: Non-profit foundation and venture
capital fund (Charité Biomedical Fund)
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13. … And The Procedures He‘ll Displace in Creative Destruction
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14. Truly Original People Are Rare And Often Embattled …
Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature.
Compare Peter Drucker: „Monomaniacs with a Mission“ (Adventures of a Bystander).
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15. … Even In Universities!
Meet Innovateur Friedrich Koehler
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17. Systems Thinking Helps Us Understand Creativity
Creative Individual
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:
Creativity Flow and the Psychology
C ti it – Fl d th P h l
of Discovery and Invention.
Domain Field
• No one can make rules by himself (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations).
• If you think about it: No one can break rules (productively) by himself either.
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18. Meet Innovateurs Martin Stockmann And Karsten Heyne
For all of us with human,
not titanic livers!
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19. Next Iteration: Schumpeter Stiftung
• Healthcare Innovation System:
- Business Development Company
- Business Angel Syndicate
- Digital Health Hub
- Exchange (2-way) with Silicon Valley and Boston
- …
• Renew the Bauhaus:
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20. Stephan Gutzeit,
Executive Director
Stiftung Charité | Charitéplatz 1 | 10117 Berlin
Telefon: 030 450570-509 | Telefax: 030 450570-959
E-Mail: stephan.gutzeit@charite.de
www.charite-summit.de
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