This document discusses perspectives on social and societal renewal, including creating a knowledge society and learning society. It addresses how to boost renewal capital through creativity, innovation and reform. It advocates for shared contexts for innovation like future centers and living labs to address challenges. It also discusses mapping a nation's intellectual capital and closing the innovation divide between regions. Overall, the document promotes the development of innovation ecosystems and enabling workspaces to foster continuous learning, innovation and competitiveness.
Plenary session keynote at Tangerang Selatan Global Innovation Forum 21.9.2016Ilkka Kakko
How to support and develop innovation-oriented entrepreneurship in turbulent VUCA conditions? Ecosystem development, platform thinking and serendipity management as key drivers to improve vucability.
"Platform thinking within the Third Generation Science Park Concept"; UNESCO ...Ilkka Kakko
ABSTRACT:
This paper will describe shortly a new STP concept called 3GSP (Third Generation Science Park), which is gaining momentum in Finland. It explains the fundamental changes in the global innovation environment and explains why the platform thinking is becoming an essential element in ecosystem development. The theoretical background and classifications of platforms are described and the benefits from the STP perspective highlighted. The paper emphasizes especially the role of so called ‘competence platforms’ and explains the main characteristics of a fully working competence platform. The role of competence platforms in understanding serendipity and as a fundamental factor in the team building is highlighted.
The paper analyses from STP perspective several practical elements, where platform thinking supports the emergence of new innovation environments, including Urban Mill (Finland) and Meetberlage (Netherlands). The requirements for comprehensive competence platform services are presented and their potential to support community building and therefore ecosystem development is illustrated.
This analysis will give the STP practitioners new models of applying the quadruple helix-principles and help in the co-creation, open innovation and serendipity management practices. The case studies, which are presented in the paper, will help the STP management teams to evaluate the benefits of platform thinking in different contexts
Platform Thinking within the Third Generation Science Park Concept: Emerging ...Ilkka Kakko
This paper is intended as an opening of a dialog on how to apply platform thinking in the development of innovation environments. It will brie y describe a new STP (Science and Technology Park) concept called 3GSP (Third Generation Science Park), which is gaining momentum in Finland. The paper explains the fundamental changes that are currently taking place in the global innovation environment and explains why platform thinking is becoming an essen- tial element in ecosystem development. The theoretical background and classi cations of platforms are described and the bene ts to be gained from STP perspective are highlighted. The paper emphasizes especially the role of so called ‘competence platforms’ and explains the main characteristics of a fully working competence platform. The role of competence platforms in understanding serendipity and as a fundamental factor in building the team is also highlighted. The paper analyses from STP perspective several practical examples, where platform thinking supports the emergence of new innovation environments, including Urban Mill (Finland) and Meetberlage (Netherlands). The requirements for comprehensive competence platform services are presented and their potential to support community building and therefore ecosystem development is illustrated. This analysis will provide STP practi- tioners with new models for applying platform thinking and will help to establish co-creation, open innovation and serendipity management practices. The case studies presented will help STP management teams to evaluate the bene ts of competence platforms in different contexts.
Plenary session keynote at Tangerang Selatan Global Innovation Forum 21.9.2016Ilkka Kakko
How to support and develop innovation-oriented entrepreneurship in turbulent VUCA conditions? Ecosystem development, platform thinking and serendipity management as key drivers to improve vucability.
"Platform thinking within the Third Generation Science Park Concept"; UNESCO ...Ilkka Kakko
ABSTRACT:
This paper will describe shortly a new STP concept called 3GSP (Third Generation Science Park), which is gaining momentum in Finland. It explains the fundamental changes in the global innovation environment and explains why the platform thinking is becoming an essential element in ecosystem development. The theoretical background and classifications of platforms are described and the benefits from the STP perspective highlighted. The paper emphasizes especially the role of so called ‘competence platforms’ and explains the main characteristics of a fully working competence platform. The role of competence platforms in understanding serendipity and as a fundamental factor in the team building is highlighted.
The paper analyses from STP perspective several practical elements, where platform thinking supports the emergence of new innovation environments, including Urban Mill (Finland) and Meetberlage (Netherlands). The requirements for comprehensive competence platform services are presented and their potential to support community building and therefore ecosystem development is illustrated.
This analysis will give the STP practitioners new models of applying the quadruple helix-principles and help in the co-creation, open innovation and serendipity management practices. The case studies, which are presented in the paper, will help the STP management teams to evaluate the benefits of platform thinking in different contexts
Platform Thinking within the Third Generation Science Park Concept: Emerging ...Ilkka Kakko
This paper is intended as an opening of a dialog on how to apply platform thinking in the development of innovation environments. It will brie y describe a new STP (Science and Technology Park) concept called 3GSP (Third Generation Science Park), which is gaining momentum in Finland. The paper explains the fundamental changes that are currently taking place in the global innovation environment and explains why platform thinking is becoming an essen- tial element in ecosystem development. The theoretical background and classi cations of platforms are described and the bene ts to be gained from STP perspective are highlighted. The paper emphasizes especially the role of so called ‘competence platforms’ and explains the main characteristics of a fully working competence platform. The role of competence platforms in understanding serendipity and as a fundamental factor in building the team is also highlighted. The paper analyses from STP perspective several practical examples, where platform thinking supports the emergence of new innovation environments, including Urban Mill (Finland) and Meetberlage (Netherlands). The requirements for comprehensive competence platform services are presented and their potential to support community building and therefore ecosystem development is illustrated. This analysis will provide STP practi- tioners with new models for applying platform thinking and will help to establish co-creation, open innovation and serendipity management practices. The case studies presented will help STP management teams to evaluate the bene ts of competence platforms in different contexts.
“How to Support and Develop the Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turb...Kari Mikkelä
Ilkka Kakko, Jari Kaivo-oja, Kari Mikkelä:
“How to Support and Develop the Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turbulent VUCA conditions?”
The most urgent problems of our times – concerning innovation management processes – are complex and turbulent in nature. In this article we define the vucability approach to innovation management. The VUCA refers to volatile (V), uncertain (U), complex (C) and ambiguous (A) times we are today facing. Many innovation management models do not take these Postnormal Era requirements into consideration. Uncertain and complex VUCA conditions are the fundamental reason to elaborate a new approach for innovation management. Our novel approach focuses in three essential dimensions of innovation management: (1) the density of serendipity thinking, (2) platform utilisation (including business model variety) and (3) innovation ecosystem. We claim that in the evolutionary development of science and technology parks (STPs), professionals on innovation management and governance should aim to highest sophistication in these three critical fields of innovation management. In this paper we present the foundations of the ‘vucability’ approach. We also note that in the development of STPs, professionals should evaluate the sophistication level of serendipity thinking, platform utilisation and innovation ecosystem development. Systemic evaluation and development activities will lead eventually to the highest level of vucability excellence. The evaluation and mapping system (EMS-VUCA 1.0) of the vucability approach will be presented in a robust form in our article.
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
Présentation faite dans le cadre de l'Innovation Ecosystems Agora le 2/12/2014 par Bror Salmelin : Open Innovation 2.0 – creating ecosystems! European response
www.innovation-ecosystems-agora.com
Lecture on 18 March 2010 at Georgetown University to the Communications, Culture & Technology course on "Creating a Culture of Innovation," taught by Dr. Mike Nelson.
Fundraising as Main Problem for Entrepreneur 2012Vasily Ryzhonkov
1. What is the main bottleneck in startups funding?
2. How much venture and angel capital do we have available in the world? What is the demand for it?
3. Do all early-stage entrepreneurs have sufficient access to capital?
4. Could we change situation with financing not 1% of entrepreneurs, but more? If yes, how?
These questions and many others have been answered in current presentation. Careful analysis and research of VC industry have been done to guide audience through the early-stage entrepreneurs' main problem - ACCESS to CAPITAL.
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Map of Jordan 2015Jamil AlKhatib
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Map of Jordan 2015. Developed for Internal purposes of the German Jordanian University Program Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Innovation is Everywhere - Hong Kong innovation ecosystemAgence Tesla
Hong Kong is a very particular place in China. After a long British rule, it's "Chinese" again, but keeps its identity as the financial hub of Asia.
How Hong Kong is trying to become a startup Hub for both China and Asia? What are the best practices of the local tech ecosystem? What are the startups to remember?
Mixing an analysis of the history of technological innovation, present-day trends and identifying both top connectors and good ideas to foster entrepreneurship, this report aims to give a broad overview of what's happening in Hong Kong right now in 2014.
Innovation is Everywhere is a project where we visit one country per month to discover, explore and share stories on local innovation, startup, and the tech ecosystem.
Follow us on www.innovationiseverywhere.com to get more reports, we also publish our news in tech blogs here and there.
Toward a grounded theory of effective business incubation 2008Vasily Ryzhonkov
Business incubators are found all over the world. Yet, to date, no viable integrative
theory of effective business incubation exists. This essay outlines a grounded theory
of incubation, driven by case studies, empirical results, and field work, based on
three main principles that generalize across countries and cultures. They are:
• The paradox of market emulation:Successful incubators both emulate market con-ditions and shield their ‘infants’ from them. Managing this paradox is fraught
with difficulty, not the least because it is often not explicitly recognized.
• Resolving the key make-or-break constraint:In every country, there are many con-straints that hinder ultimate business success of incubator projects, but there is
one key constraint that always ‘resonates’, i.e., that dominates the attention and
concern of project managers. In India, this constraint is funding. In Israel, where
the VC industry is mature and liquid, funding is not a major constraint (though
as always and everywhere, raising money is a major challenge), but experienced
managerial capacity is the resonating factor. Hence, a theory of incubation should
include principles that guide identification of the key ‘resonating’ constraint and
provide direction toward reducing or eliminating it.
• Alignment with local and national cultures:Culture is a shared, learned, symbolic
system of values, beliefs, and attitudes that shapes and influences perception
and behaviour. Culture is how values drive behaviour. In national studies of
incubation, it is strongly evident how powerfully national culture acts as a medi-ating variable between, for instance, incubator operations and processes and the
national and global business environment. Hence, a theory of incubation should
include answers to the following question:
How can incubator processes align well with elements of national and local culture, in order
to:
• reinforce those aspects of the culture that act positively to help incubator projects
attain success
• mitigate or eliminate those aspects of culture that act negatively, and lead to
failure?
Innovation is everywhere - Hong Kong Innovation Ecosystem and Startup SceneInnovation is Everywhere
Hong Kong is dubbed "Asia's world city", and would also love to be the tech capital of the most dynamic and populous region of the world, halfway between the North Asia giant (China, South Korea, Japan) and the fast-growing South-East Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam...).
With 8m inhabitants, a British past and a recent come-back into China, can Hong Kong be the hub it is already financially? To be true, there's a world between Hong Kong and China, and it makes of the city-island-state-special administrative area quite an isolated dot.
Of course, the manufacture and financial history and expertise of the city can be seen quite vividly in its startup scene, where "fintech" is quite advanced.
In this review, you will see how Hong Kong has turned into an innovation hub mostly thanks to a small community of determined entrepreneurs, its best practices as an ecosystem, and its strengths and weaknesses as well.
Read more about us as we roam the world to explore the emerging markets startups scenes, from Iran to Chile, from China to Nigeria.
Reach us at: martin@innovationiseverywhere
www.innovationiseverywhere.com
5 creative advertising every company should also doTom Van der Staay
Creativity. Some argue that it cannot truly exist in a commercial context such as marketing, but I disagree. Marketing is a hotbed of creative innovation, and nowhere is this more evident than creative technology. In my opinion creativity distinguishes between a good marketing campaign and a great one. Here's some examples I have come across lately.
“How to Support and Develop the Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turb...Kari Mikkelä
Ilkka Kakko, Jari Kaivo-oja, Kari Mikkelä:
“How to Support and Develop the Innovation-oriented Entrepreneurship in Turbulent VUCA conditions?”
The most urgent problems of our times – concerning innovation management processes – are complex and turbulent in nature. In this article we define the vucability approach to innovation management. The VUCA refers to volatile (V), uncertain (U), complex (C) and ambiguous (A) times we are today facing. Many innovation management models do not take these Postnormal Era requirements into consideration. Uncertain and complex VUCA conditions are the fundamental reason to elaborate a new approach for innovation management. Our novel approach focuses in three essential dimensions of innovation management: (1) the density of serendipity thinking, (2) platform utilisation (including business model variety) and (3) innovation ecosystem. We claim that in the evolutionary development of science and technology parks (STPs), professionals on innovation management and governance should aim to highest sophistication in these three critical fields of innovation management. In this paper we present the foundations of the ‘vucability’ approach. We also note that in the development of STPs, professionals should evaluate the sophistication level of serendipity thinking, platform utilisation and innovation ecosystem development. Systemic evaluation and development activities will lead eventually to the highest level of vucability excellence. The evaluation and mapping system (EMS-VUCA 1.0) of the vucability approach will be presented in a robust form in our article.
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
Présentation faite dans le cadre de l'Innovation Ecosystems Agora le 2/12/2014 par Bror Salmelin : Open Innovation 2.0 – creating ecosystems! European response
www.innovation-ecosystems-agora.com
Lecture on 18 March 2010 at Georgetown University to the Communications, Culture & Technology course on "Creating a Culture of Innovation," taught by Dr. Mike Nelson.
Fundraising as Main Problem for Entrepreneur 2012Vasily Ryzhonkov
1. What is the main bottleneck in startups funding?
2. How much venture and angel capital do we have available in the world? What is the demand for it?
3. Do all early-stage entrepreneurs have sufficient access to capital?
4. Could we change situation with financing not 1% of entrepreneurs, but more? If yes, how?
These questions and many others have been answered in current presentation. Careful analysis and research of VC industry have been done to guide audience through the early-stage entrepreneurs' main problem - ACCESS to CAPITAL.
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Map of Jordan 2015Jamil AlKhatib
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Map of Jordan 2015. Developed for Internal purposes of the German Jordanian University Program Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Innovation is Everywhere - Hong Kong innovation ecosystemAgence Tesla
Hong Kong is a very particular place in China. After a long British rule, it's "Chinese" again, but keeps its identity as the financial hub of Asia.
How Hong Kong is trying to become a startup Hub for both China and Asia? What are the best practices of the local tech ecosystem? What are the startups to remember?
Mixing an analysis of the history of technological innovation, present-day trends and identifying both top connectors and good ideas to foster entrepreneurship, this report aims to give a broad overview of what's happening in Hong Kong right now in 2014.
Innovation is Everywhere is a project where we visit one country per month to discover, explore and share stories on local innovation, startup, and the tech ecosystem.
Follow us on www.innovationiseverywhere.com to get more reports, we also publish our news in tech blogs here and there.
Toward a grounded theory of effective business incubation 2008Vasily Ryzhonkov
Business incubators are found all over the world. Yet, to date, no viable integrative
theory of effective business incubation exists. This essay outlines a grounded theory
of incubation, driven by case studies, empirical results, and field work, based on
three main principles that generalize across countries and cultures. They are:
• The paradox of market emulation:Successful incubators both emulate market con-ditions and shield their ‘infants’ from them. Managing this paradox is fraught
with difficulty, not the least because it is often not explicitly recognized.
• Resolving the key make-or-break constraint:In every country, there are many con-straints that hinder ultimate business success of incubator projects, but there is
one key constraint that always ‘resonates’, i.e., that dominates the attention and
concern of project managers. In India, this constraint is funding. In Israel, where
the VC industry is mature and liquid, funding is not a major constraint (though
as always and everywhere, raising money is a major challenge), but experienced
managerial capacity is the resonating factor. Hence, a theory of incubation should
include principles that guide identification of the key ‘resonating’ constraint and
provide direction toward reducing or eliminating it.
• Alignment with local and national cultures:Culture is a shared, learned, symbolic
system of values, beliefs, and attitudes that shapes and influences perception
and behaviour. Culture is how values drive behaviour. In national studies of
incubation, it is strongly evident how powerfully national culture acts as a medi-ating variable between, for instance, incubator operations and processes and the
national and global business environment. Hence, a theory of incubation should
include answers to the following question:
How can incubator processes align well with elements of national and local culture, in order
to:
• reinforce those aspects of the culture that act positively to help incubator projects
attain success
• mitigate or eliminate those aspects of culture that act negatively, and lead to
failure?
Innovation is everywhere - Hong Kong Innovation Ecosystem and Startup SceneInnovation is Everywhere
Hong Kong is dubbed "Asia's world city", and would also love to be the tech capital of the most dynamic and populous region of the world, halfway between the North Asia giant (China, South Korea, Japan) and the fast-growing South-East Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam...).
With 8m inhabitants, a British past and a recent come-back into China, can Hong Kong be the hub it is already financially? To be true, there's a world between Hong Kong and China, and it makes of the city-island-state-special administrative area quite an isolated dot.
Of course, the manufacture and financial history and expertise of the city can be seen quite vividly in its startup scene, where "fintech" is quite advanced.
In this review, you will see how Hong Kong has turned into an innovation hub mostly thanks to a small community of determined entrepreneurs, its best practices as an ecosystem, and its strengths and weaknesses as well.
Read more about us as we roam the world to explore the emerging markets startups scenes, from Iran to Chile, from China to Nigeria.
Reach us at: martin@innovationiseverywhere
www.innovationiseverywhere.com
5 creative advertising every company should also doTom Van der Staay
Creativity. Some argue that it cannot truly exist in a commercial context such as marketing, but I disagree. Marketing is a hotbed of creative innovation, and nowhere is this more evident than creative technology. In my opinion creativity distinguishes between a good marketing campaign and a great one. Here's some examples I have come across lately.
Trouwen in Het Gouverneurshuis, Heusden aan de Maasmarjelve
Het Gouverneurshuis in Heusden biedt lokale cultuur, historie en allure als trouwlocatie. In deze slideshow nemen we u graag mee door ons museum, de gilde-trouw-zaal, het altaar onder de appelbomen in de tuin in de romantische setting van het Gouverneurshuis. De strenge catering selectie en de entourage maakt uw dag hoe dan ook onvergetelijk.
This is the slideshow from a presentation I gave to members of BizPro Networking (www.bizpronetworking.com) on using Social Media to power their small business sales and marketing efforts.
Filled with some great advice and case studies of companies who are doing the right (and some doing the wrong) things!
Enjoy!
Tim McMahon, Jr
MCM Social Media
ENoLL President Tuija Hirvikoski presented the European Network of Living Lab's vision on global opportunities through Living Labs at Cantillon 2017 event that was hosted in Ireland. Content of the presentation:
- strategy of Living Labs, how Living Labs work, ENoLL memberhsip and the 11th wave
- OI2 (open innovation)
- OpenLivingLab Days 2017
- LLs as Local Open Innovation
Ecosystems
- Living Lab examples (Finland - Laurea UAS)
Peter Ramsden gave an overview on the process and scope of social innovation. He pointed out the essential role of the public sector and emphasised the need to involve all the stakeholders – above all the target group – and to focus on results. Part of his presentation also focused on the chances of innovative financing.
Presentación marco para una conversación con STEPS Centre sobre cómo lograr que las organizaciones trabajen en red, a partir de la experiencia en el itdUPM
This is the presentation of the talk given in Lieje (Belgium) in the EMES Network Congress 3rd July 2013, specifically as the presentation of the Chapter Mondragon case from the Social Innovation by Edward Elgar. http://www.igorcalzada.com/mondragon-case-from-the-social-innovation-chapter-accepted-to-be-part-of-the-international-handbook-of-social-innovation-by-the-edward-elgar-publishing-editors-moulaert-maccallum-mehmood-hamdouch
Newsletter of Horizon 2020 and OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation | July 2016 | No. 1
News and Issues on Public Sector Innovation around the world and OPSI Horizon 2020 activities.
OPSI collects and analyses examples and shared experiences of public sector innovation to provide practical advice to countries on how to make innovations work.
Origin of Spaces - Research Source Book (screen) innovative practices for sus...Christiaan Weiler
Antonio Machado - Campos de Castilla - 1912
"... Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. ...”
1. Preface
It is dawning on many of us that the current pace and direction of society is difficult to keep up for very long. When in the post-world-war period the pursuit of (individual) achievement seemed the key force of collective development, now the nature of the achievement is very much at the heart of our concerns. Sharing and respecting the environment, be it social, capital or natural, must now regain a central position in community management. Simultaneously the means available for this common task are more and more distributed. More than ever must one ask what one can do for the community, rather than what the community can do for us.
If this project can establish the relevance of the multidisciplinary approach to global sustainability, it will be succesful. All participants, and all of their partners, will be dealing with our subject hands on. This means, once again, to break out of conventional silos so that professionals with different expertise can share insights and work side by side for the common goal.
Once the individual participants of the project recognise the shared motivation, the matter can be improved, embodied and disseminated - through the work in progress and the distribution of the results. Everyone will have the occasion to relay the subject in new links with organisations and city councils on local level, bringing together the actors within a common framework. The nature of 'change management' will need the implication of key-stake-holders on a regional level. Developping and distributing tested contents will convince captains of governance and industry to support the agents of the new models. The rich and diverse context of european culture will be a favourable background for innovating community-management with the resilience of a hybrid multi-faceted approach. When we come out with a 'best-practice'-based toolbox, developed on field work, we will be ready to share the expertise, and promote this complementary and crucial frame of innovation.
2. Research Outcomes
This research report is part of the Erasmus + project. It is the result of the initial phase, and concentrates on the task of assessing the existing practices of the five partners. The results of the research is be the basis of the second and final phase - the Toolbox development. The Toolbox is destined to enable other individuals or groups to learn the basics of setting up multidisciplinary social entrepreneur clusters.
Corporate culture can be defined as the values, norms, attitudes and behavior patterns, that are shared within an organization [Herzog, 2011]. Corporate culture can be seen as the personality of a company that influences people's behavior within the organization, regardless of size and field of action
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
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.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
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next
year
Changing
nature
of
work
and
work
spaces
Stressful
working
and
thinking
environments
Difficulty
to
introduce
new
ways
of
working
in
tradi*onal
ins*tu*ons
Inability
to
put
new
ideas
into
prac*ce
Compartmentalized
work
and
defending
your
turf
Our
ins*tu*ons
are
outdated
5. Is
the
system
broken?
A
structural
disconnect
exists
between:
• the
infinite
growth
impera*ve
and
the
finite
resources
of
planet
earth;
• the
Haves
and
the
Have
Not's;
• the
financial
and
the
real
economy;
• technology
and
real
societal
needs;
• ins*tu*onal
leadership
and
people;
• gross
domes*c
product
(GDP)
and
actual
well-‐being;
• governance
mechanisms
and
the
voiceless
in
our
systems;
• actual
ownership
forms
and
best
societal
use
of
property.
O`o
Scharmer
(2012):
Leading
from
the
Emerging
Future:
From
Ego-‐system
to
Eco-‐system
Economies
10. Report
on
Intellectual
Capital
of
Poland
In
2008
Poland
produced
a
Report
on
Intellectual
Capital
of
Poland.
This
ini*a*ve
was
intended
to
call
the
a`en*on
of
poli*cians,
the
media
and
opinion
leaders
to
the
importance
of
the
quality
and
level
of
intellectual
capital
in
the
long-‐term
development
of
Poland.
11.
12. Na*onal
Intellectual
Capital
Mapping
“intangible
assets”
Human
Capital
Market
Capital
Process
Capital
Renewal
Capital
Financial
Capital
48
countries
17
years
48
indicators
13. Renewal
Capital
How
well
a
country
or
organiza*on
can
u*lize
its
human,
structural
and
rela*onal
capital
in
order
to
foster
con8nuous
learning,
innova8on
and
development,
in
order
to
sustain
its
compe**veness
even
in
changing
condi*ons
14. “CLOSING
THE
INNOVATION
DIVIDE”
OPINION
of
the
Commi>ee
of
the
Regions
July
2013
“We
cannot
address
societal
challenges
through
minor
adjustments
and
conven*onal
management
methods.
BoosJng
renewal
capital
is
cri*cal
to
success:
crea*vity,
innova*on
and
the
confidence
to
innovate
and
reform
are
also
the
keys
to
success
for
local
and
regional
decision-‐
makers.”
“Regions need new arenas as hotspots for innovation co-creation.
These could be described as "innovation gardens" and
"challenge platforms", which together form a prototype
workspace for inventing the future.
These are needed to address challenges - from small local
challenges to major societal challenges at global level.”
15. Pioneering
Innova*on
Regions
1. Entrepreneurial
discovery
2. Challenge
plaoorms
3. Bo`om-‐up
ci*zen
engagement
4. Circular
Economies
of
Knowledge
5. Science
–
Society
Dialogue
6. Innova*on
environments
and
methodologies
18. Europe
seeks
“Capital
of
innova*on”
• InnovaJve
–
concepts,
processes,
tools
• Inspiring
–
a`rac*ng
talent,
investment,
ci*zens’
engagement
• Integrated
–
with
Europe
2020
strategy:
smart,
sustainable
and
inclusive
• InteracJve
–
community
for
innova*on
in
the
city
&
with
other
ci*es
19. Visual
Ecosystem
Profiles
to
IdenJfy,
Analyze
and
Plan
for
Real
Impact
Case: Silicon Valley, CA USA
Anchors
100
90
Growth SMEs
Start-ups
90
100
Incubation Environments
Case: Otaniemi, Finland
80
Living Labs / Test-Beds
Case: Shanghai, China
60
Cluster Policies & Programs
Research & Development Activities
90
100
Education (elementary to university)
90
Physical Infrastructure and Service Structures
80
National /Regional Innovation Policy
100
Anchors
60
Growth SMEs
50 Start-ups
50
Incubation Environments
30Living Labs / Test-Beds
40 Cluster Policies & Programs
Research & Development Activities
70
Education (elementary to university)
70
80
Physical Infrastructure and Service Structures
National /Regional90
Innovation Policy
Copyright and all rights reserved.
21. 12
POTENTIALLY
ECONOMIC
DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Mobile
Internet
Automa*on
of
knowledge
work
The
Internet
of
Things
Cloud
technology
Advanced
robo*cs
Autonomous
vehicles
Next-‐genera*on
genomics
Energy
storage
3-‐D
prin*ng
Advanced
materials
Advanced
oil
&
gas
explora*on
and
recovery
Renewable
energy
McKinsey
Global
Ins8tute,
May
2013
26. FuncJons
Future
Centers
fulfil
Skandia
Future
Center
(Sweden):
1st
modern
FC
(1996)
InnovaJon
Future
OrientaJon
Knowledge
CreaJon
&
Use
Prototyping
space
Encounters
with
people
and
ideas
Talent,
EducaJon
&
IncubaJon
Anchoring
results
26
27. LEF
future
center
Department
of
Public
Works
&
Water
Management,
Netherlands
27
33. 15
Future
Center
iniJaJves
in
Japan
AcJve
co-‐learning
network
Future-‐thinking
sessions
all
over
the
country
33
34. Why
do
Future
Centers
work?
Diversity
of
stakeholders
working
together
Explicit
link
between
past-‐present-‐
and-‐future
Combine
dreaming,
thinking
and
doing
MulJ-‐perspecJve
thinking
Asking
challenging
quesJons
Examine
the
consequences
of
opJons
&
choices
Issues
that
ma`er
to
people
Focus
on
concrete
results
35. A
Living
Lab
is
a
place
for
experimenta*on
and
co-‐crea*on
with
real
users
in
real
life
environments,
Users
together
with
researchers,
firms
and
public
ins*tu*ons
look
for
new
solu*ons,
new
products,
new
services
or
new
business
models
Living
Labs
offer
services
which
enable
users
to
take
ac*ve
part
in
research
and
innova*on.
38. Third
Spaces:
where
the
boundaries
of
physical
and
virtual
merge
39. AcJon
learning
camps
as
InnovaJon-‐Enabling
Space
ACSI: Aalto Camp for
Societal Innovation
(2010-2013)
40. Prototyping
Societal
Change:
Learning
from
Prac*ce
2010-‐2012
in
Finland
2013
in
Sweden
2012-‐2013
in
South
Africa
41. International learning camp
4-8 day event + follow-through
Distributed intelligence in
global networks
Real-life challenges of
regions, cities, organizations
Based on:
Societal innovation
Self-organization
Thinking in outcomes
Knowledge Triangle
42. Inclusive
Society:
Espoo,
Malmo,
Amsterdam
The
Challenge
In
3
countries
ACSI
2012
43. Innova*on
culture
Five
perspecJves
New
kinds
of
collabora*on
Urban
test-‐beds
Demonstra*ons
in
Real
life
&
Virtual
reality
ICT
Cluster
Revolu*on
&
Job
crea*on
44. ACSI
2013:
The
Aalto
Camp
for
Societal
Innova*on
Malmö
Sweden
Societal
InnovaJon
for
Sustainable
Urban
Development
10
challenges
100
par*cipants
addressing
these
challenges
and
crea*ng
prototypes
4
days
intensive
innova*on.
6
weeks
of
on-‐site
prototyping
h`p://socialinnova*on.se/en/news/acsi2013/
45. ACSI
2013
Challenges
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
CreaJng
sustainable
city
development
with
culture
as
a
driving
force
Halving
carbon
emissions
from
freight
traffic
in
ciJes
How
to
develop
open
test
beds
for
sustainable
energy
soluJons
Towards
New
Power
RelaJons
&
Co-‐producJon:
Users
as
experts
in
The
Sustainable
City
Local
innovaJon
to
drive
social
impact
Smart
LighJng
Commitment,
ConJnuity
and
CiJzen
Confidence
in
Urban
Development
Towards
New
Local
Democracy
AcceleraJng
City
and
EducaJonal
InsJtuJons
CollaboraJon
ConnecJng
Regional
InnovaJon
Hotspots
46. OUTPUT:
New perspectives, new understanding
Prototypes& promising ideas
Plans for testing in practice
Personal and professional insights
New international networks
Intangible outcomes
Continuing the collaboration
50. Borders
to
Cross
Conference
2013
learning
about
democra*c
and
social
innova*on
h`p://borderstocross.com/conference/
51. No
Smart
CiJes
without
Smart
CiJzens
UNESCO‘s
four
learning
dimensions
52. Building a living learning network
across European schools
Promotes
inquiry-‐based
learning
opportuni*es
–
and
especially
discovery
learning
–
for
young
learners.
Develops
crea*ve
thinking
skills
by
allowing
learners
to
find
different
ways
to
answer
a
ques*on,
learn
something
new,
solve
a
problem.
Supports
projects
by
schools
and
young
people
that
create
something
or
contribute
to
the
community.
53. The
Road
Ahead
• InnovaJon
Ecosystem
thinking
• Ramping
up
to
escape
gravity
• Open
service
innovaJon
for
sectors
and
ciJes
• CollaboraJon
across
communiJes
• Sharing
knowledge,
tools,
methods,
lessons
learned
• Seeing
around
corners
• Rapid
realizaJon
• More
impact
on
the
street
&
the
work
floor
• Regions
as
Future
Centers
•
Society
as
a
Living
Lab
53
54. Open
Ques*ons
• Innova*on
Economy?
• Limits
of
Connec*ng
Everything?
• Opportunity
Costs?
• Ignorance
or
stupidity?
• Black
Swans?
• How
Rapid
is
Rapid
Implementa*on?
• How
to
move
from
control
to
encouragement?
54
55. The
Future
is
Uncertain.
.
.
• Flat
world?
• Hot
world?
• Crisis
world?
• Fortress
economies?
• Diminishing
returns?
• Tsunami?
• Looking
in
the
right
direcJon?
• Boiled
frog?
• Not
invented
here?
If
the
future
is
a
moving
target…
…shouldn’t
we
move
with
it?
56. What
is
the
future
asking?
If
the
world
around
us
is
the
result
of
the
ques*ons
we
asked
yesterday….
What
ques*ons
should
we
be
asking
today?
56
58. The
Future
Center
Alliance
h`p://new-‐club-‐of-‐paris.org/
…
develops
the
knowledge
agenda
for
na8ons,
regions
and
ci8es
in
the
knowledge
economy
…
ac8vates
the
cul8va8on
of
societal
and
poli9cal
entrepreneurship
…
par8cipates
in
projects
and
plaQorm
development
for
crea8ng
global
societal
innova9on
h`p://www.fc-‐alliance.net/
…
is
a
global
community
of
Future
Centers
and
dedicated
innovaJon
environments
…
which
share
a
passion
for
creaJng
sustainable
soluJons
to
today’s
and
tomorrow’s
challenges
…
by
nurturing
collaboraJon
and
the
freedom
to
think
differently,
learn
from
culturally
diverse
wisdom,
share
concepts
and
produce
results
that
can
be
successfully
implemented.
