This presentation on the Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project was given by Adrian Ely, of the STEPS Centre and SPRU on 28 January 2009 at the joint OECD-UNESCO International Workshop on Innovation for Development: Converting Knowledge to Value. The event was held at the OECD headquarters in Paris.
Unleashing innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe: People, places and poli...Totti Könnölä
Dr. Totti Könnölä (CEO of Insight Foresight Institute) gave an invited lecture on ‘Unleashing innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe: People, places and policies’ (building on the preliminary findings from the CEPS Taskforce) in the Enterprise and Innovation Community (EIC) meeting of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) at the Universiteit Leiden on 8, 2016.
Unleashing innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe: People, places and poli...Totti Könnölä
Dr. Totti Könnölä (CEO of Insight Foresight Institute) gave an invited lecture on ‘Unleashing innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe: People, places and policies’ (building on the preliminary findings from the CEPS Taskforce) in the Enterprise and Innovation Community (EIC) meeting of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) at the Universiteit Leiden on 8, 2016.
2019 - The 4th industrial revolution and science parks - Paper for 36th iasp ...Jacques Van Dinteren
During the fourth industrial revolution there could be competition between science parks and innovation districts. The latter seems to be a better answer to changing demand by innovative companies and knowledge workers. However, the science park concept is not static. We think the science park has its own position amidst industrial innovation campuses and innovation districts. But (old, depreciated) science parks need to adjust to the new era. Management of science parks might find inspiration in the characteristics of innovation districts. We propose three considerations that might help science parks to remain competitive:
Consider adding housing (including an impact on service level and reachability);
Consider a shift towards multiple target groups;
Consider to lay more emphasis on community management.
Especially with regard to the first two considerations one has to keep in mind that a science park is not a closed entity. Setting out new strategies also requires a re-orientation of the position and role of science parks in their urban and regional context.
Andy Stirling on The Direction Of InnovationSTEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling, co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre science director of SPRU on 'The Direction of Innovation and new challenges in the governance of technology'. This was presented to a conference on ‘Tilting perspectives on regulating technologies’
at TILT – Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University,
the Netherlands on 11 December 2008
EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY: POLICY EXPERIMENTATION FOR P...Totti Könnölä
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation TEKES and the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA organised in autumn 2016 an international workshop to compile international research data on developing ecosystems. Totti Könnölä, CEO of Insight Foresight Institute, presented the paper “Co-creating Pan-European Innovation Ecosystems: reflections from the EIT”.
Industrial Policy for New Growth Areas and
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Research workshop in Helsinki 28.-29. November 2016
Convenors: Timo Hämäläinen, Sitra and Antonio
Andreoni, SOAS University of London
Organizers: Sitra, Tekes & MEE
Invited lecture
Laboratorio "SMART PUGLIA: Verso la strategia di specializzazione intelligent...FormezPA - Capacity SUD
Il progetto Capacity SUD ha la finalità di migliorare la capacità istituzionale delle amministrazioni regionali aiutandole a programmare interventi che rispondano alle loro esigenze prioritarie e a dotarsi delle competenze, degli strumenti e delle tecnologie necessarie per la loro efficace attuazione. La capacità istituzionale, oltre a fornire un supporto strategico per una gestione maggiormente efficiente dei PO, assume un rilievo fondamentale in prospettiva della programmazione comunitaria nel quadro di Europa 2020.
Website: capacitaistituzionale.formez.it
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This was presented by Micheal Khan at the Innovation Festival at Spier Wine Estate on 8 and 9 March 2010. The sponsor was Cape Biotech Trust to raise funds for the Southern African Innovation Network (SAINe).
This presentation was presented at the Canadian Space Summit in Nov. 2010 in Ottawa, Canada. It is based on a workshop held in Sept 2010 in Prague, at the Space Generation Congress, where delegates discussed the prospects, challenges and potential hindrances of the development of the new generation of commercial space activities.
The role of science, industrial and technology parksAntonio Sfiligoj
presented at UNIDO workshop "Fostering inclusive and sustainable local industrial development in Europe and Central Asia" Ljubljana Slovenija April 8 2014
The Strategic Factors Shaping Competitiveness for Maritime Clusters: An OverviewPeter J Stavroulakis
Objective: Industrial clusters have been an enduring object of study from Alfred Marshall’s ‘localized industries’ to the point that scholars are still analyzing the framework and dynamics of agglomeration economies and their underlying factors. Industrial clusters are considered as a pillar of competitiveness, innovation and sustainability for today's economies, for they may hold viable competitive advantages for industries and nations. Maritime clusters in particular provide a very attractive analytical base within a strategic management perspective, for many strategic aspects such as innovation, knowledge creation and diffusion, network economies etc. have been found to bloom within said divide of industrial clusters. We venture to extract the strategic factors that instigate the mechanisms triggering these effects. The objective of this work is to provide a topology of factors concerning maritime clusters, their critical linkages with factors concerning other industrial clusters and their differentiation from said generic clusters, referencing the factors that render them unique and add to their exclusivity.
Andy Stirling - Royal Society Policy Lab STEPS Centre
Presentation by Prof Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre at the Royal Society Policy Lab on 14 June 2010.
Prof Stirling is a co-director of the STEPS Centre. For more information on the Manifesto project mentioned in the presentation, visit www.anewmanifesto.org
Direction, Distribution, Diversity! pluralising progress in innovation, susta...STEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling to a seminar at
Department of Innovation Sciences
Technical University Eindhoven, 15th April, 2010.
For more about Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto see http://www.anewmanifesto.org
In this talk for the students of IIM Udaipur, I have discussed how AI as technology needs to deliver business value in order for AI as a discipline to be seen as relevant to business. I have also spoken briefly about my own research work.
Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNE...Graciela Mariani
The Second call for Papers (Extended Abstracts) for the 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development has been officially launched.
Tech4Dev 2018, gives you an opportunity to:
Ø Present your research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
Ø Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the Global South.
Ø Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders – academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners, and social scientists- interested in technological innovation in the Global South.
Ø Participate in the fabulous social event of the conference that will take place in the Lavaux Vineyards, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ø Build capacity among students and young professionals to engage in multidisciplinary problem solving for social impact.
Tech4Dev 2018 invites researchers, students, practitioners, industry or anyone interested in critical issues in Technologies for Development to submit proposals for Papers (Extended Abstracts). Submissions should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and economic development.
Further information, templates and material can be found on the conference website https://cooperation.epfl.ch/Tech4Dev2018.
2019 - The 4th industrial revolution and science parks - Paper for 36th iasp ...Jacques Van Dinteren
During the fourth industrial revolution there could be competition between science parks and innovation districts. The latter seems to be a better answer to changing demand by innovative companies and knowledge workers. However, the science park concept is not static. We think the science park has its own position amidst industrial innovation campuses and innovation districts. But (old, depreciated) science parks need to adjust to the new era. Management of science parks might find inspiration in the characteristics of innovation districts. We propose three considerations that might help science parks to remain competitive:
Consider adding housing (including an impact on service level and reachability);
Consider a shift towards multiple target groups;
Consider to lay more emphasis on community management.
Especially with regard to the first two considerations one has to keep in mind that a science park is not a closed entity. Setting out new strategies also requires a re-orientation of the position and role of science parks in their urban and regional context.
Andy Stirling on The Direction Of InnovationSTEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling, co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre science director of SPRU on 'The Direction of Innovation and new challenges in the governance of technology'. This was presented to a conference on ‘Tilting perspectives on regulating technologies’
at TILT – Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University,
the Netherlands on 11 December 2008
EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY: POLICY EXPERIMENTATION FOR P...Totti Könnölä
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation TEKES and the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA organised in autumn 2016 an international workshop to compile international research data on developing ecosystems. Totti Könnölä, CEO of Insight Foresight Institute, presented the paper “Co-creating Pan-European Innovation Ecosystems: reflections from the EIT”.
Industrial Policy for New Growth Areas and
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Research workshop in Helsinki 28.-29. November 2016
Convenors: Timo Hämäläinen, Sitra and Antonio
Andreoni, SOAS University of London
Organizers: Sitra, Tekes & MEE
Invited lecture
Laboratorio "SMART PUGLIA: Verso la strategia di specializzazione intelligent...FormezPA - Capacity SUD
Il progetto Capacity SUD ha la finalità di migliorare la capacità istituzionale delle amministrazioni regionali aiutandole a programmare interventi che rispondano alle loro esigenze prioritarie e a dotarsi delle competenze, degli strumenti e delle tecnologie necessarie per la loro efficace attuazione. La capacità istituzionale, oltre a fornire un supporto strategico per una gestione maggiormente efficiente dei PO, assume un rilievo fondamentale in prospettiva della programmazione comunitaria nel quadro di Europa 2020.
Website: capacitaistituzionale.formez.it
Totti Könnölä-La empresa y las políticas de innovación transformadorasFundación Ramón Areces
El 25 de abril de 2017 organizamos en la Fundación Ramón Areces una mesa redonda sobre 'La empresa y las políticas de innovación transformadoras'. En este foro participaron, entre otros, Totti Konnola, CEO de Insight Foresight Institute; Luis Fernando Álvarez-Gascón Pérez, Director General GMV secure eSolutions; y Francisco Marín, Director General del CDTI. Esta actividad se celebró en colaboración con el Grupo de Investigación en Economía y Política de la Innovación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (GRINEI-UCM) y el Foro de Empresas Innovadoras (FEI).
This was presented by Micheal Khan at the Innovation Festival at Spier Wine Estate on 8 and 9 March 2010. The sponsor was Cape Biotech Trust to raise funds for the Southern African Innovation Network (SAINe).
This presentation was presented at the Canadian Space Summit in Nov. 2010 in Ottawa, Canada. It is based on a workshop held in Sept 2010 in Prague, at the Space Generation Congress, where delegates discussed the prospects, challenges and potential hindrances of the development of the new generation of commercial space activities.
The role of science, industrial and technology parksAntonio Sfiligoj
presented at UNIDO workshop "Fostering inclusive and sustainable local industrial development in Europe and Central Asia" Ljubljana Slovenija April 8 2014
The Strategic Factors Shaping Competitiveness for Maritime Clusters: An OverviewPeter J Stavroulakis
Objective: Industrial clusters have been an enduring object of study from Alfred Marshall’s ‘localized industries’ to the point that scholars are still analyzing the framework and dynamics of agglomeration economies and their underlying factors. Industrial clusters are considered as a pillar of competitiveness, innovation and sustainability for today's economies, for they may hold viable competitive advantages for industries and nations. Maritime clusters in particular provide a very attractive analytical base within a strategic management perspective, for many strategic aspects such as innovation, knowledge creation and diffusion, network economies etc. have been found to bloom within said divide of industrial clusters. We venture to extract the strategic factors that instigate the mechanisms triggering these effects. The objective of this work is to provide a topology of factors concerning maritime clusters, their critical linkages with factors concerning other industrial clusters and their differentiation from said generic clusters, referencing the factors that render them unique and add to their exclusivity.
Andy Stirling - Royal Society Policy Lab STEPS Centre
Presentation by Prof Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre at the Royal Society Policy Lab on 14 June 2010.
Prof Stirling is a co-director of the STEPS Centre. For more information on the Manifesto project mentioned in the presentation, visit www.anewmanifesto.org
Direction, Distribution, Diversity! pluralising progress in innovation, susta...STEPS Centre
Presentation by Andy Stirling to a seminar at
Department of Innovation Sciences
Technical University Eindhoven, 15th April, 2010.
For more about Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto see http://www.anewmanifesto.org
In this talk for the students of IIM Udaipur, I have discussed how AI as technology needs to deliver business value in order for AI as a discipline to be seen as relevant to business. I have also spoken briefly about my own research work.
Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNE...Graciela Mariani
The Second call for Papers (Extended Abstracts) for the 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development has been officially launched.
Tech4Dev 2018, gives you an opportunity to:
Ø Present your research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
Ø Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the Global South.
Ø Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders – academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners, and social scientists- interested in technological innovation in the Global South.
Ø Participate in the fabulous social event of the conference that will take place in the Lavaux Vineyards, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ø Build capacity among students and young professionals to engage in multidisciplinary problem solving for social impact.
Tech4Dev 2018 invites researchers, students, practitioners, industry or anyone interested in critical issues in Technologies for Development to submit proposals for Papers (Extended Abstracts). Submissions should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and economic development.
Further information, templates and material can be found on the conference website https://cooperation.epfl.ch/Tech4Dev2018.
Knowledge Generation, Use and Management in Sustainable Infrastructure Engine...William Hall
Engineers (and many others) have difficulties understanding intangible stuff like “knowledge”.
Engineers are good at establishing and applying formal rules and standards to discover and build solutions for well analyzed problems, but they are not so good at solving problems involving people or other chaotic components. Engineers work in and with organizations comprised of people who are inherently error prone and sometimes chaotic. By recognizing these problems of knowledge and organization, engineers can build systems to minimize uncertainty and manage knowledge.
This presentation covers some key frameworks of understanding for sustainability practice:
* The "tragedy of the commons"
- Garrett Hardin
- Elinor Ostrom (Nobel Laureate)
Models of governance
* Herbert Simon (Nobel Laureate)
- Theoretical basis for decision support
- Theory of hierarchically complex systems
* Intersecting theories of organization and knowledge
Engineering for sustainability unavoidably involves understanding the social use of resources
* People, communities and their imperatives
* Social systems & infrastructure
Knowledge & decision support
Adrian Ely - Manifesto - Reflections on an (ongoing) experiment in the politi...STEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
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.
Coloniality in Transformation: decolonising methods for activist scholarship ...STEPS Centre
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https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
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https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
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https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
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19 March 2019, Institute of Development Studies
Seminar organised by the Resource Politics and Rural Futures Clusters, in association with the STEPS Centre’s PASTRES project
Speaker: Mathilde Gingembre
https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-mathilde-gingembre-bringing-moral-economy-into-the-study-of-land-deals-reflections-from-madagascar/
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More information: https://steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network/
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http://systemchangehive.org/
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http://systemchangehive.org/
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Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Suraje Dessai - Uncertainty from above and encounters in the middleSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar - Uncertainty from withinSTEPS Centre
Workshop on climate change and uncertainty from below and above, Delhi. http://steps-centre.org/2016/blog/climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
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Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto by Adrian Ely
1.
2. Innovation, Sustainability, Development:
A New Manifesto
Dr. Adrian Ely
SPRU – Science and Technology Policy
University of Sussex, UK
“Innovation for Development: Converting Knowledge to Value”, 28th January 2009
3. History:
- Commissioned by UN
- Written by the Sussex Group:
Hans Singer (chair), Geoff Oldham,
Charles Cooper, R.C. Desai,
Christopher Freeman, Oscar Gish
and Stephen Hill
- Impact in UN circles, design of
IDRC, used in teaching
4. SPRU’s Critique of “The Limits to Growth“
Freeman et al (1973) “Models of Doom”
Technology, values and politics are as important as the growth/no
growth debate, but are neglected areas of analysis.
“Some types of growth are quite consistent not merely with
conservation of the environment, but with its enhancement. The
problem, in our view, is a socio-political one of stimulating this type
of growth and of more equitable distribution, both between
countries and within them.”
Freeman (1973) in “Models of Doom”
5. “Innovation for Development: Converting
Knowledge to Value”
What is “value” when associated with innovation?
- “Innovation” in economics has traditionally been linked to economic
growth, competitiveness (monetary value)… but is that all?
How do we deal with multiple and divergent values?
- universalised views neglect the importance of culture and context
Ideas of “value” differ with knowledge, experience and world
view (as do those of “sustainability”)
6. A “3D” Agenda
Directionality – of pathways towards specific Sustainability
objectives.
Distribution – more equitable distribution of benefits, costs
and risks associated with innovation.
Diversity – in socio-technical systems, in order to build robust
and resilient systems, mitigate lock-in and cater for seemingly
irreconcilable perspectives on value and sustainability.
7. space of technological
possibilities
time
conventional ‘linear’ understandings of technology change still
prevail in mainstream UK/EU technology governance
e.g. “For the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy to be properly attained …
pro-innovation action [is] a priority.” - European Parliament, 2006
e.g. “history is a race to advance technology” - UK Royal Academy of Engineering
8. space of technological
possibilities
time
Innovation as optimisation
Constrained by science, technical convergence and market
equilibrium - yields ‘optimal’ technological configurations
9. space of technological
possibilities
time
Literature describes many examples of momentum/path-dependence/
‘lock-in’ to sometimes poor choices:
VHS/ betamax
Qwerty keyboards
Urban transport
10. space of technological
possibilities
time
- politics of direction underlies many technological debates
eg: industrial agriculture / LEISA
centralised thermal power / distributed renewable energy
private urban automobiles / integrated public transportation
IP-driven pharmaceuticals / preventive open-source public health
11. space of technological
possibilities
time
- Negative impacts of technology change typically bear most acutely on the
least powerful social groups
- Closure on particular paths often reflects incumbent interests and excludes
others - compounds disempowerment, disappropriation
Determines the distribution of benefits, costs and risks from innovation
12. space of technological
possibilities
time
Importance of diversity in socio-techno-ecological systems
- Mitigates lock-in
- Fosters continuous innovation
- Hedges against ignorance
- Accommodates plurality of values
13. Elements of the Manifesto project
Background papers – identifying and engaging with current debates
•A Historical Review of UN Initiatives (Esha Shah)
•Innovation capabilities and directions of development (Martin Bell)
•Innovation Systems – evolving ideas and limitations in practice (Martin Bell)
•The Global Redistribution of Innovative Activities (Adrian Ely)
•Silver bullets, grand challenges and the new philanthropy (Sally Brooks)
•Centres of Excellence (Linda Waldman)
•Private Sector Innovation (Adrian Ely)
•Emerging Technologies and International Foresight (Paddy Van Zwanenberg)
14. Elements of the Manifesto project
Domain papers – linking these debates to sectoral problems
• Food and Agriculture
• Health and Disease
• Water and Sanitation
• Energy
15. Elements of the Manifesto project
New Manifesto Seminars
Annual STEPS Symposium, 24th September 2009
Round table events
Partners - Practical Action and Tribhuvan University, Nepal
African Centre for Technology Studies, Kenya
Tsinghua University, Beijing
Intstituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Scientificas
TU Delft, Netherlands
Fundacion Este Pais, Mexico
16. Launch May 2010
• multimedia manifesto – a living document
• focus on putting the manifesto recommendations into action,
Messages for this workshop
• Innovation strategies at regional, national or global levels must
incorporate considerations of direction as well as rate.
• Approaches to opening up the processes influencing this
directionality must be further developed and mainstreamed.