The document discusses challenges facing Europe like financial crisis, climate change, and democratic deficit. It proposes place-based innovation and smart specialization to address these issues through a participatory and emergent process focusing on social, technical, and territorial innovation. Social innovation involves responding to social needs through innovations that benefit vulnerable groups in society. Territorial innovation involves articulating regional strengths and macro-regional ecosystems. The creative cities and regions framework shows how innovation can be fostered through diversity, safety, identity, linkages, and organizational capacity. Innovation policy should be a creative and learning process that harnesses community resources and energies.
How and under what conditions can visibility and recognition tools facilitate...OECD CFE
The capacity building seminar will gather the main stakeholders who are concerned with building conducive ecosystems for social enterprises: policy makers and administrators, networks of social enterprises and social economy actors, social finance players.
The Joint Actions on Climate Change Conference will consist of representatives of governments, industry, retailers, researchers as well as NGOs, consumer organisations and the financial sector. It will bring these stakeholders together with the aim of fostering a fruitful dialogue and bridging gaps in views and positions on how innovation and design can tackle the crisis of climate change. This conference will be a building block towards setting targets for the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
How and under what conditions can visibility and recognition tools facilitate...OECD CFE
The capacity building seminar will gather the main stakeholders who are concerned with building conducive ecosystems for social enterprises: policy makers and administrators, networks of social enterprises and social economy actors, social finance players.
The Joint Actions on Climate Change Conference will consist of representatives of governments, industry, retailers, researchers as well as NGOs, consumer organisations and the financial sector. It will bring these stakeholders together with the aim of fostering a fruitful dialogue and bridging gaps in views and positions on how innovation and design can tackle the crisis of climate change. This conference will be a building block towards setting targets for the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
Developing Regional Innovation Ecosystems through RIS3, Horizon 2020 and Euro...VLC/CAMPUS
Slides from Markku Markkula presenting how to develop regional innovation ecosystems through RIS3, Horizon 2020 and European partnerships. Those slides are part of the conference "Position and strategies of the universities in the new European scenario of R&D and innovation: Horizon 2020, KICs and RIS3" held at Universitat Politècnica de València last December 18th 2013 as part of the VLC/CAMPUS activities
Applying Project Management to the Cultural and Creative Industries: A tool ...Global Expert Systems Inc.
Breaking the cycle of underdevelopment has been the major preoccupation for governments and populations in the developing world over the last one hundred years. With developmental models currently under revision, developing countries have been advised to look for other possible alternatives of sustainable development.
The one area that is gaining significant attention is that of the Cultural and Creative Industries. In recent years, the UN and its specialized agencies have been spelling the good fortune of these industries. However, there is very scant literature to show how best to manage these industries. This paper therefore proposes to show how Project Management as a tool can be used to take these industries to a desirable level to produce tangible results for developing countries.
In addition to standard research based on the existing literature and debates, the Case Study methodology will be used to show at least how one country is making steps and strides with the application of Project Management. It must be noted however, that the paper will be heavily focused on project management methodologies and recommendations for action.
There are three approaches that come to mind for immediate application: the use of the Logical Framework Approach for Project and Program Planning; standardizing project management methodologies across the infrastructure of the cultural and creative industries; and a model for creating a centralized Cultural Project Management Office (CPMO).
#TCI2019 Break - out sessions: An exploratory study of developing a cluster p...TCI Network
An exploratory study of developing a cluster policy in a peripheral regional economy: evidence from key stakeholders in key growth sectors
by Linda Jamison and Prof.Rodney McAdam
Building conductive Ecosystems for social EnterprisesOECD CFE
The capacity building seminar will gather the main stakeholders who are concerned with building conducive ecosystems for social enterprises: policy makers and administrators, networks of social enterprises and social economy actors, social finance players.
A solution for regions? Smart internationalisation | Ron BoschmaOECD CFE
Presentation by Ron BOSCHMA, Professor of Regional Economics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands at the 14th Spatial Productivity Lab meeting of the OECD Trento Centre in cooperation with Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum held in virtual format on 8 September 2021.
Creative Urban Renewal Knowledge Event (CURE); Creative Zone Innovator Model. Urban Development in North West of Europe. Development in times of Crisis: more Dash than Cash.
Developing Regional Innovation Ecosystems through RIS3, Horizon 2020 and Euro...VLC/CAMPUS
Slides from Markku Markkula presenting how to develop regional innovation ecosystems through RIS3, Horizon 2020 and European partnerships. Those slides are part of the conference "Position and strategies of the universities in the new European scenario of R&D and innovation: Horizon 2020, KICs and RIS3" held at Universitat Politècnica de València last December 18th 2013 as part of the VLC/CAMPUS activities
Applying Project Management to the Cultural and Creative Industries: A tool ...Global Expert Systems Inc.
Breaking the cycle of underdevelopment has been the major preoccupation for governments and populations in the developing world over the last one hundred years. With developmental models currently under revision, developing countries have been advised to look for other possible alternatives of sustainable development.
The one area that is gaining significant attention is that of the Cultural and Creative Industries. In recent years, the UN and its specialized agencies have been spelling the good fortune of these industries. However, there is very scant literature to show how best to manage these industries. This paper therefore proposes to show how Project Management as a tool can be used to take these industries to a desirable level to produce tangible results for developing countries.
In addition to standard research based on the existing literature and debates, the Case Study methodology will be used to show at least how one country is making steps and strides with the application of Project Management. It must be noted however, that the paper will be heavily focused on project management methodologies and recommendations for action.
There are three approaches that come to mind for immediate application: the use of the Logical Framework Approach for Project and Program Planning; standardizing project management methodologies across the infrastructure of the cultural and creative industries; and a model for creating a centralized Cultural Project Management Office (CPMO).
#TCI2019 Break - out sessions: An exploratory study of developing a cluster p...TCI Network
An exploratory study of developing a cluster policy in a peripheral regional economy: evidence from key stakeholders in key growth sectors
by Linda Jamison and Prof.Rodney McAdam
Building conductive Ecosystems for social EnterprisesOECD CFE
The capacity building seminar will gather the main stakeholders who are concerned with building conducive ecosystems for social enterprises: policy makers and administrators, networks of social enterprises and social economy actors, social finance players.
A solution for regions? Smart internationalisation | Ron BoschmaOECD CFE
Presentation by Ron BOSCHMA, Professor of Regional Economics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands at the 14th Spatial Productivity Lab meeting of the OECD Trento Centre in cooperation with Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum held in virtual format on 8 September 2021.
Creative Urban Renewal Knowledge Event (CURE); Creative Zone Innovator Model. Urban Development in North West of Europe. Development in times of Crisis: more Dash than Cash.
OuiShare Collaborative Economy - at European Economic and Social Committee - ...OuiShare
OuiShare presentation about Collabortive Economy - at European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) hearing about "collaborative or participative consumption" - Brussels 25/09/13. Further information: http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.events-and-activities-participative-consumption-21st
The challenges of scaling up local innovation FEANTSA
Presentation given by Marie Nordfeldt from Ersta Sköndal University College and the European WILCO consortium at the FEANTSA/HABITACT seminar "Tackling homelessness as a social investment for the future: Looking at the bigger picture", 12th June 2013, Amsterdam
Global Challenge, International Opportunity: Rehabilitation, Quality, Inclu...Alan Bruce
Presentation at NCRE Fall Conference in Washington, DC in November 2014. Focus on global dimesnions of rehabilitation education and international disability rights in professional best practice.
Conferencia en el marco de los Seminarios Internacionales del Master en Estrategias y Tecnologías para el Desarrollo, impartida por Gorka Espiau el 14 de diciembre de 2017.
Paper presented as a movie to the 2011 Univeristy of North Carolina student study tour organised by the Department of Information Studies, University College London. addition links and references can be found at http://tinyurl.com/69czo4t
Gil, O. 2015. “A model for innovation? Cities and the quest for citizen participation: Shanghai, cities in Japan, Iskandar, New York, Amsterdam and Tarragona.” International conference on Local Governance and Urban planning, Citizen Responsive Innovations in Europe and Africa. Organized by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal and the International Geographical Union – Commission ‘Geography of Governance’ Lisbon, 9-10 April 2015
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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Challenges
Severe financial crisis
Undermining the European social model
Climate change
Directly affecting everyday life
Democratic deficit
Barrier to engagement and trust-building
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Smart Specialisation
Focus on innovation to address crisis
Policy as a process
Orientation to results
Open, participatory, emergent
Social innovation
«Entrepreneurial discovery»
Place-based approach to specialisation
Regional strengths, macro-regional ecosystems
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Social Innovation
Social demand innovations
Respond to social demands that are traditionally not addressed
by the market or existing institutions and are directed towards
vulnerable groups in society.
Societal Challenges
Focuses on innovations of society as a whole through the
integration of the social, the economic, and the environmental.
Systemic change
The most ambitious and to an extent encompassing the other
two, is achieved through a process of organisational
development and changes in relations between institutions and
stakeholders.
BEPA, «Empowering people, driving change: Social innovation in the European Union», 2011
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Quadruple Helix
ARTICULATION OF
TERRITORIAL CAPITAL
POLITICAL COMMITMENT
OPEN GOVERNMENT
DEVELOPMENT OF
INNOVATION MODELS
ARTICULATION OF
INNOVATION DEMAND
TERRITORIAL
INNOVATION
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Stages of innnovation
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Looking Outwards
MED Space Smart Specialisation Potentials
Strengths Weaknesses
Climate, authenticity of lifestyles
Cultural diversity and identity
Creativity, artisan tradition
Emergent innovation capacity
Outdated infrastructures
Low level of trust in public sphere
Industrial fragmentation
Dependence on external finance
Opportunities Threats
Emergent economic models
Value of authenticity
Immigration
Maker economy
Destructive power of austerity
Regional conflicts
Vulnerability to climate change
Cultural homogeneisation
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MED Space Vision
Collective
Creativity
Trans-local
socio-economic
ecosystems
Territorial
innovation
Community
scale
partnerships
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Creative people
SCHNEIDERMANN 2000
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Creative Cities
Dimensions
Criteria
Economic Social Environ-
mental
Cultural
Critical mass
Diversity
Accessibility
Safety and security
Identity and
distinctiveness
Innovativeness
Linkage and synergy
Competitiveness
Organisational
Capacity
From Charles Landry/Comedia, “Helsinki: Towards a Creative City, Seizing the Opportunity and Maximising Potential”
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Creative Regions
Centrum Peripheria Mediterranea
Heritage Industrial ArtiCultural AgriCultural
Culture Conformity Diversity Interculturality
Target Large
organisations
Networked
organisations
Non-profits,
NGOs
Markets Mass markets Niche markets Barter
markets
Networks Capital-based Social
networks
Exchange-
based
Technology Transfer-
dominance
Adaptation-
autonomy
Ad-hocism
Policy Industrial Cohesion Social
Innovation
MARSH, DG XIII ACTS “ASIS” 1998-2000
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Creative Policy
Creative about anchoring research activities to the
region’s resources and needs
Creative about reading and harnessing hidden
energies in your communities
Creative about the opportunities for institutional
and process innovation
Creative about new models for employment, well-
being, and inclusiveness
Creative about addressing the challenges we face