第20集 - 新欧盟创新议程的愿景与区域创新谷地

凭借人才、创新、多样性，以及合作伙伴关系与协作，我们必定能超越他人预期，实现更多成就。在此表示感谢。

With talent, with innovation, with diversity, but with partnerships and collaboration, definitely we can achieve much more than expected and expected by others, not us. So thank you.

我们怀揣雄心壮志。

We are ambitious.

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关注桥梁，与行业领袖对话。

Mind the bridge, chat with industry leaders.

这是我第一次主持与前欧盟专员及未来总理的‘心智对话’，可谓开创先河。说实话我也不太清楚具体该怎么做，但非常荣幸能有这个机会。因为今天与我对话的玛丽亚·加布里埃尔不仅是前欧盟创新研究专员（当时您的头衔非常长），如今更是保加利亚副总理兼外交部长，并将成为下任总理。能与我尊敬的朋友进行这场对话，使其更具特殊意义。

So it's the first time that I'm running a Minded Chat with former European Commissioner and a future Prime Minister. So I think it's the first of a kind. So I don't know exactly how to do that. I'm super happy to have the opportunity because beyond having with me today Maria Gabriel, who is the former European Commission for Innovation Research and many other things, again you have a very very long title at those times, And currently he's the deputy prime minister for Bulgaria and also minister of foreign affairs and will be the next prime minister for Bulgaria. So, I'm really honored and I think as also a dear friend and this makes this conversation even more relevant and important.

玛丽亚，我们曾在布鲁塞尔共事，目睹您为推动创新在欧洲议程中的地位所付出的努力。可以说，正是由于您，欧盟如今才有了真正的创新议程。能否分享您在布鲁塞尔的经历，以及如何促成这一重大进展？

So Maria, we have met at the time in Brussels and we have seen the work that you have done for trying to pushing innovation a bit higher on the European innovation agenda. And actually today, the European Union has an innovation agenda, I would say, because of you. Can you tell us a bit your experience in Brussels and what you have done for making this pretty huge progress?

首先非常感谢你，亲爱的朋友。我们确实是好友，我也要衷心赞赏你的奉献与热忱。或许我可以从一项创新举措谈起——当时我作为委员首次同时分管研究、创新与教育、文化、青年事务这两个截然不同的领域。这正体现了创新就是要打破壁垒，我们必须学会真正以团队方式协作。

Well, first of all, thank you very much, dear friend, because yes, we are friends and I would like really to congratulate you for your dedication and enthusiasm. I think that I can start with an innovation. The innovation was that I was commissioner for research, innovation and education, culture and youth. And that was the first time that two completely different portfolios were under the umbrella of one single commissioner. So you can see that with innovation we break silos and we need really to work and to learn how to work as a team.

我认为对我来说最重要的是，如今我们有了新的欧洲创新议程，初创企业被列入欧盟议程，是因为我能领导一个团队，因为我拥有一个团队。我们必须始终保持这种相互沟通、合作协作、朝着共同方向努力以相互支持的能力。下一件事是，我们该如何推进？欧盟上一份创新议程还是2011年制定的。恕我直言，我们已不再生活在同一个星球上。因此对我来说，这次创新议程不能由某个机构强行推行至关重要。

And I think that that's the most important thing for me is that if today we have the new European Innovation Agenda, if today startups are on the agenda of the European Union, it's because I can lead a team, because I have a team. And I think that it's really important always to preserve this capacity to talk to each other, to cooperate, to collaborate, to look at the same direction to support simply each other. I think that the next thing was that, well, how can proceed? There is no last innovation agenda of the European Union was in 2011. We are not living anymore on the same planet, if I may So, for me, it was important that this time an innovation agenda is not imposed by an institution.

我们始终需要自下而上的方法，需要像初创企业教我们的那样共同创造解决方案。我和团队在不到一年时间里进行了200多次会议，接触了独角兽企业、初创公司、女性创始人群组，这种非凡的多样性令人惊叹。最终成果是一份由创新生态系统共同制定的新欧洲创新议程，包含五大支柱、25项行动。今天我传达的信息是：无论你是否是专员，每个人都能贡献力量。作为副总理兼外交部长，我的目标是加速实现这25项行动计划。

We need always a bottom up approach and we need to co create solutions together, like startups are learning us. And I must say that together with my team we had more than 200 meetings in less than one year and we met unicorns, startups, women founders group, and that was amazing to see the extraordinary diversity that we have. The final result, it was a new European innovation agenda co created by the innovation ecosystem and with the innovation ecosystem with very clear five pillars, 25 actions. And my message today is that it doesn't matter if you are commissioner or not. I am now deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs, what I want to do is to accelerate the realization of those 25 factions.

当然，这在我的职权范围内，但每个人都可以且应该贡献力量。我们谈论的是人才——每个政府部门、每家企业、每个地区、每所大学都能为达成这一目标出力。我们希望能与各地区合作，比如在保加利亚和法国巴黎这样的地区之间建立联系。

Of course, in the field of my competencies, but everyone can and should contribute. We are talking about talents. Yes, everyone in every single ministry or in every company, in every region, in every university can contribute to the achievement of this goal. Yes, we would like to work with regions. Well, we need to establish links between those regions in Bulgaria, in France, like we are in Paris.

我们需要加强这种联系。同时必须建立合作伙伴关系，欧洲要发挥自身优势，但必须意识到这需要合作完成。我们并非孤立存在于世，这就是为什么作为外交部长，我在与美国的战略对话中首次引入创新议题如此重要。对方仅用几秒就回应道：'为什么我们之前没想到？'我说：'因为我想与大家共同进步。'

We need to strengthen that. The same, we need really to build partnerships and here Europe would like to insist on our strength, but we should really be aware that we can do that in partnership. We are not living isolated in this world and that's why, for example, it was important for me as Minister of Foreign Affairs in our strategic dialogue with The US for the first time to introduce innovation. And believe me, it took just a few seconds and our counterpart said, Why we didn't think before? I said, Well, I want to advance together.

今天这个奖项是对团队协作和我领导能力的认可。虽然我现在充满热情与喜悦，但并非所有时刻都如此。我们要从中汲取经验，共同前进。这是每个人的责任——无论身处何地、担任何职，都能推动创新不仅成为首要议程，更要让创新为民众日常生活带来切实改变。

So, I think that today a day of recognition with the award, of the teamwork and my capacity to lead this team to encourage them because, believe me, I'm speaking now with enthusiasm and joy, but not all moments were But only we have really to learn from this moment and to advance together. And now that's a responsibility. How? From the place where you are, the country, the position, you can contribute to see innovation not only on the top of the agenda, but to see how innovation can bring concrete benefits in the daily life of all our citizens.

这正是评委会授予您年度创业生态系统建设者奖项的原因。除了您作为欧盟专员的成就（您甚至没提及您推动的欧洲创新区域计划），这个孕育中的项目展现了前瞻性思维，虽然复杂但对欧洲至关重要。您工作中最受认可的是您变革的思维方式——角色虽变，但那份专注细节、推动多元、坚持正确事业的能量始终如一，这正是我们今天所表彰的。

Yeah, I think that's why I think the judging committee decided to award you as startup ecosystem staff for the year. And so I think beyond what you have achieved in your role of European Commissioner, and again, you have not mentioned the European innovation regions, that has been one of the baby that you were able to, again, to put and hopefully they will continue because it's been a visionary approach that is something so much complicated and so much needed for Europe. I believe that what has been really recognized from the work that you've been doing is essentially your mindset. That is mindset changing the role has not been changed at all. So again, I saw the same energy, the same level of commitment, so attention to details and diversity and pushing also for the right causes, I think that is the same that we are seeing and I think that's what we are recognizing today.

感谢您的工作，祝您在新岗位上再创佳绩（我知道任务艰巨）。三月在硅谷见面时您还在原职，但眼中的光芒与活力依旧。相信无论您做什么，都会继续关注创新、多元化和可持续性——这些本就是您使命的一部分。

So, thank you for the work that we've done, all the best for the new endeavors that I know are pretty tough. Again, when we met in Silicon Valley back in March, again, you were still in the former position, but again, the light in your eyes and the energy is the same, so I'm pretty sure that whatever you will do, they will also pay attention to innovation, diversity, sustainability, that is something that has already been part of your mandate. So

谢谢。非常感谢亲爱的Ovelte。对我来说，人才、创新、多样性固然重要，但通过伙伴关系和协作，我们绝对能取得超出他人预期（而非我们自己预期）的成就。确实如此。

thank you. Well, thank you very much dear Ovelte. So for me it's really important with talent, with innovation, with diversity, but with partnerships and collaboration, definitely we can achieve much more than expected and expected by others, not us. Exactly.

因为我们志存高远。

Because we are ambitious.

完全正确。

Absolutely.

非常感谢。

Thank you so much.

感谢各位今天的参与，我们下期《开放式创新对话：Mind the Bridge——与行业领袖对话》再见。

Thank you for being with us today, and see you in the next episode of Open Innovation Talks, Mind the Bridge, Chat with Industry Leaders.