eLab, a Personal Learning Environment for the Green Open Innovation Platform

Open Innovation is a relatively new concept which involves a change of paradigm in the R+D+i processes of companies whose aim is to create new technologies or new processes. If to this change, we add the need for innovation in the new green and sustainability economy, and we set out to create a collaborative platform with a learning space where this can happen, we will be facing an overwhelming challenge which requires the application of intelligent programming technologies and languages at the service of education. The aim of the Green IDI (Green Open Innovation) ¿ Economic development and job creation vector in SMEs, based on the environment and sustainability project is to create a platform where companies and individual researchers can perform open innovation processes in the field of sustainability and the environment. The Green IDI (Green Open Innovation) project is funded under the program INNPACTO by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain and is being developed through a consortium formed by the following institutions: GRUPO ICA; COMPARTIA; GRUPO INTERCOM; CETAQUA and the Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial (IIIA) from Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Also the consortium include FUNDACIÓ PRIVADA BARCELONA DIGITAL; PIMEC and UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA (UOC). Sustainability and positive action for the environment are considered the principle vector of economic development for companies. As Nicolás Scoli says (2007) ¿in short, preventing unnecessary consumption and the efficient consumption of resources means producing greater wealth with less. Both effects lead to reduced pollution linked to production and consumption¿. The Spanish Sustainable Development Strategy (EEDS) plan defends consumption and sustainable production linked to social and economic development by adhering to the commitment not to endanger ecosystems and abolishing the idea that economic growth is directly proportional to the deterioration of the environment. Uniting the Open Innovation and New Green Economy concepts leads to the "Green Open Innovation¿ Platform creation project. This article analyses the concept of open innovation and defines the importance of the new green and sustainable economy. Lastly, it proposes the creation of eLab. The eLab is defined as an Open Green Innovation Platform personal and collaborative education space which is fed by the interactions of users and which enables innovation processes based on new green economy concepts to be carried out. The creation of a personal learning environment such as eLab on the Green Open Innovation Platform meets the need to offer a collaborative space where platform users can improve their skills regarding the environment and sustainability based on collaborative synergies through Information and Communication Technologies.La Innovación Abierta es un concepto relativamente nuevo que implica un cambio de paradigma en los procesos de I+D+i de las empresas que pretenden crear nuevas tecnologías o nuevos procesos. Si a este cambio le añadimos la necesidad de realizar innovación en el ámbito de la nueva economía verde y de la sostenibilidad, y pretendemos crear una plataforma colaborativa con un espacio de aprendizaje donde realizarlo, estamos delante de un reto de grandes magnitudes que requiere la aplicación de tecnologías y lenguajes de programación inteligentes al servicio de la formación. El proyecto Green IDI (Green Open Innovation) ¿ Vector de desarrollo económico y de creación de empleo en PYMES, basado en el medio ambiente y en sostenibilidad, tiene como objetivo la creación de una plataforma en la que las empresas y los investigadores individuales puedan llevar a cabo procesos de innovación abierta en el ámbito de la sostenibilidad y el medio ambiente. El presente artículo analiza el concepto de innovación abierta y define la importancia de la nueva economía verde y sostenible. Finalmente propone la creación de eLab, un sistema inteligente basado en un modelo constructivista y se propone un modelo pedagógico constructivista de interacción para la creación de un espacio personal de aprendizaje en la plataforma Green Open Innovation