hwechtla-tl: Public survey on Net Innovation for the Work Programme 2016-2017

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A. Net Innovation priorities for the Work Programme 2016-2017

1. What topics should be supported by the next "Horizon 2020" Work Programme 2016-2017 to accelerate new forms of Internet-based innovation throughout Europe?

supported how?

• open data, meaning data that has no intermediate steps (payments, registrations, etc) prior to download
• technology that can be used to circumvent or prevent control on the internet
• replacements of closed, secret and proprietary technologies with those whose specifications and/or source code are open, easily accessible and easily deployable
• availability of cheap, open (modifiable), low-end hardware

2. What would you like to see as outcomes from the projects funded through "Net Innovation" calls for proposals 2016-2017?

• union-wide data sharing
• union-wide citizen participation
• layered services that transform openly available resources into other openly available resources

3. Which are the main barriers preventing new forms of Internet-based innovation throughout Europe?

• software patents (vastaus patenttikyselyyn)
• abuse of control channels that are designed for use by authorities
• closed government (and union, and municipal) data, procurements and decision-making
• authors (and publishers, other parties) usurping copyright to publicly funded work

4. Do you recognise the trends, opportunities, and key issues described in the reference documents (see consultation page, under "Reference documents") as essential to Net Innovation?

Yes, but some essential elements are missing (Please specify)

entrepreneurship is not nearly as important as the work that hobbyists do on their spare time and specialists as a side product of their work. When technically skilled people start their own enterprise, over half of their working time is wasted on searching customers, applying for funding, running the enterprise bureaucracy and coordinating other work. As a result, it is much easier to gain innovation just by increasing the free time available to people as individuals, and to employees of big enterprises to make their work properly.

Central coordination is useless (but not detrimental) to innovation because innovation is the one thing that cannot be coordinated. Innovation is about making new ideas, and it's not really useful to try and set directions on what people should come up with. If you want some specific things done, fine, you can encourage that, but that's not innovation, it is the process of implementing innovations already done.

5. At present Net Innovation supports research and innovation actions in the areas of a) Future Internet Public-Private Partnership, b) Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation, c) Web Entrepreneurship, and d) Digital Business Innovation. In your view what further actions will be required in these areas?

FI-PPP: the role of the public sector is simply to provide all tax-funded products (data, software, social networks) to the general public in an open, well-documented and well-maintained way. From this, both hobbyists and entrepreneurs can build the kind of refined products they like.

CAPS: one key focus in this should be the use of available research (and statistical) data to develop positional political wars into empirical investigations about what works and what doesn't. Discussion on the 'net is educating to some degree; but the link to actual data is what makes a really cultivating enrollment possible.

7. Do you have further comments?

The Internet has thrived from its early beginnings on a free economy, fueled by people's passion and not their money-making. It is not bad to make money, but it is also essential to understand that in an information economy, controls such as payments just make things slower. Everything must be free for innovation to really take place, because for the first time in history, the marginal costs of providing the same product for yet another consumer nears zero. This is essentially the reason why hobbyist products such as Linux and Apache are dominating the competition even if they didn't have any kind of monetary incentive.

Pikalinkit:

• 1. What topics should be supported by the next "Horizon 2020" Work Programme 2016-2017 to accelerate new forms of Internet-based innovation throughout Europe?
• 2. What would you like to see as outcomes from the projects funded through "Net Innovation" calls for proposals 2016-2017?
• 3. Which are the main barriers preventing new forms of Internet-based innovation throughout Europe?
• 4. Do you recognise the trends, opportunities, and key issues described in the reference documents (see consultation page, under "Reference documents") as essential to Net Innovation?
• 5. At present Net Innovation supports research and innovation actions in the areas of a) Future Internet Public-Private Partnership, b) Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation, c) Web Entrepreneurship, and d) Digital Business Innovation. In your view what further actions will be required in these areas?
• 7. Do you have further comments?