Initiatives
For the nations of the 21st century there is a need to raise awareness of globalization and to promote more collaborative participation between business, government, academia, and citizens to strengthen their territorial skills around innovation, promote regional knowledge economies, preserve the environment, and raise the level of quality of life of their social communities. A Knowledge Society (KS) is one that offers capabilities to identify, produce, transform, process, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate information, creating, sharing, and applying knowledge to foster innovation, human development and the prosperity and well-being of its people. A Knowledge Society Entity (KSEn) offers these capabilities to a select group of stakeholders. A Knowledge Society Ecosystem (KSEco) integrates multiple KSEn’s. A knowledge network (KN) is an online social ecosystem where groups of members with common interests, purposes, values, or beliefs can connect, collaborate, create, consume, and share information, contacts, and experience around a professional or social specific context, interpreting the meaning of information in the same way as a key element to understand, direct, and control better their presence in social media and interact in more relevant, precise, useful, productive, and enjoyable ways.
Project Spribo introduced the use of knowledge networking for the Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise (MSME), as a Contextual Knowledge Society Entity (CKSEn), with improved capabilities to represent and interpret the meaning of information exchanged via the network. A Contextual Knowledge Society Network (CKSNet) empowers members of a KSEn entity to create and exploit a knowledge base generated by the online community of interest (CoI), identifying patterns of social behavior, preferences, and market trends, as well as interpreting and assessing the meaning of content contributed collectively by members of the network around specific contexts and purposes.
The Knowledge Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise Living Lab (KMSME LL) was created by QoS Labs and endorsed by the European Network of Living Labs ENOLL in 2012 around these principles. The main KMSME Living Lab objective is to build a KSEco conformed by a plurality of MSME knowledge networks (CKSNets) that span across and within Mexico, Europe, and Latin America, taking advantage of open innovation methodologies. All the iCluster initiatives were developed using the KMSME methodological framework.
The iCluster Ecosystem defined its strategy on high-impact entrepreneurship based on the KMSME Living Lab vision, offering pilot users knowledge contextualization capabilities through the Pepe y Toño, Ana y Mary web page managed by the National Communications Council of Mexico defining entrepreneurship and innovation objectives compatible with the High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) signed between the governments of Mexico and the United States.
The KMSME Living Lab adopts the 'Born Global, Born Digital' principle promoted by the OECD as a reference to innovative entrepreneurship, with a scope and direct impacts on the end user (user-driven innovation) that span to different knowledge domains. It defines the evolution of the public-private entailment from the physical environment to the virtual environment through Cloud Computing with cross-domain interaction through knowledge representation standards—allowing to establish a common language to respond to the conditions, diversity and characteristics of distinct business environments in diverse regions.
