The document summarizes an interim report on the MEGS-KT Research Project. It outlines the project's aims to address skills shortages and business development needs in the renewable energy sector through collaboration between SMEs and higher education. Methods used include literature reviews, interviews, surveys, and workshops. Initial findings revealed a lack of research on SME needs, difficulties engaging SMEs, and concerns about sharing commercial information. However, there was also positive support from academics and government. Next steps include further workshops and linking findings to training programs to overcome barriers to SME growth in renewable energy.
Nemode Research Workshop Report, AAM and Staffordshire UniversityAAM_Associates
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This report highlights the key areas of discussion.
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Nemode Research Workshop Report, AAM and Staffordshire UniversityAAM_Associates
In February 2015 we held a discursive research workshop inviting industry professionals from the creative arts sector to interrogate and discuss the statement: Exploring the barriers to developing new data-driven business models in the creative arts sector.
This report highlights the key areas of discussion.
Engineering Futures through Engineering EducationGary Wood
Keynote talk from UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network workshop 'What happens post-COVID? How engineering education has evolved for a digital future'. Thursday, 8 September 2021.
Kornelia Konrad-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).
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Allyn Radford | What disruption really meansCampusReview
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DRIVE | orchestrating value chains for sustainability in npdCLICKNL
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2008 Head Teacher's Conference, National SCITT in Outstanding Primary SchoolsAndrea Wheeler
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Kornelia Konrad-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).
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.
Allyn Radford | What disruption really meansCampusReview
Allyn Radford is chief executive of DeakinDigital, a subsidiary of Deakin University focused on credentialing as an alternative to traditional higher education. Allyn is experienced in innovative business models and infrastructure. He has led projects in private enterprise and education in Australia, the United States, Mexico and South Korea.
DRIVE | orchestrating value chains for sustainability in npdCLICKNL
The Tool for Orchestrating Value Networks (TOV) aims to help organizations achieve sustainable outcomes and stable relations with their partners and stakeholders in their value network. The guidelines and management approaches provide a structured analysis of relevant aspects that organisations need to prepare for when setting up sustainable collaboration, and the challenges they may face during the collaboration. They address negotiating a fair allocation of costs and benefits in the value network for sustainable innovation, and managing other types of value networks that go beyond traditional supply chains. The guidelines consist of a range of questions that help an organization to identify what issues they could encounter in the dynamic development process, and tips & tricks that indicate what practices or activities might be undertaken in the non-predictable collaboration.
Using a lens of feedback and engagement this paper discusses the relationships between people, organisations, and energy use in workplaces. It reflects on two projects that explored participatory energy practices in public and private organisations. The first, “Working with Infrastructure, Creation of Knowledge, and Energy strategy Development (WICKED)”, explored energy management practices in a range of different retail companies. The second, ‘Gooddeeds’ aimed to collaboratively create an ICT based tool and related social processes with a city municipality. The paper concludes, firstly, that energy management sits against the backdrop of competing organisational, institutional and political priorities and the core strategy of an organisation matters. Second, we need to move beyond the ‘them and us’ culture and ‘information-deficit’ approach intrinsic in the notion of dashboards and feedback to appreciate the positive contribution all can make to energy efficiency. Finally, there are still large discrepancies across organisations with regards to energy management capabilities and metering technologies. In conclusion we note that relationships and partnerships are central in moving forward.
2008 Head Teacher's Conference, National SCITT in Outstanding Primary SchoolsAndrea Wheeler
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This was presented at the MEGS Christmas conference that was held in December 2012. It addressed the project MEGS-KT that I had an opportunity to work on.
ISSIP Service Design Speaker Series
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Filipe Lima
https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipedelima/
Dr. Lisa Malmberg
Ana Kustrak Korper
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-kustrak-korper-835b726/
Dr. Daniela Sangiorgi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-sangiorgi-6749aa1b/
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Reflecting on Yesterday, Understanding Today, Planning for Tomorrowlisbk
Slides for a paper on "Reflecting on Yesterday, Understanding Today, Planning for Tomorrow" presented by Brian Kelly at the Umbrella 2013 conference in Manchester on 2 July 2013.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/umbrella-2013/
The paper analyzes the architecture of two regions in South-East Asia namely Kashmir, a state in Northern India, and Bhutan, a country located on the southern slopes of the Eastern Himalayas to challenge the uncritical adoption of values and building techniques associated with Western architecture, often inappropriate for climate and local labor, to question the notion of benefit from the perspective of sustainability. In doing so it seeks to support the cause of vernacular Architecture and also further its incorporation in contemporary sustainable building design.
2. Contents
• Context
• Aims
• Methods
• Results (achievements to note and initial
technical development)
• Barriers, limitations and the next stage
(WP3, WP4)
• Transferability, sustainability, social impact
and other benefits
3. MEGS-KT - Aims
• Skills shortage in the renewable energy sector.
• Business development needs in the energy sector
to support the growth of low carbon communities
• An opportunity for innovative collaboration SMEs
with the HEI sector
4. Objectives
• Construct a visual representation that describes the
social nature of the SME community.
• Explore and evaluate the potential of specific social
network-based facilities and the role of networks in
knowledge identification and transfer within the SME
community.
• Develop an exemplar for an e-learning environment
5. Mixed Methods
• Literature review
• Interviews with professionals from the industry
• Distributed paper questionnaires and online surveys
• Visual methods
• Ethnographic methods/ work shadowing
• Collaborative workshops and “co-design” activities (WP3 and WP4)
6. Resources
• 10 paper filled questionnaires
• 18 online surveys
• 16 transcribed interviews
• 1 work-shadowing days
• 4 planned Service Design / “co-design”
collaborative workshops
7.
8. Question 1
What would you say are the main difficulties to
overcome in your role at the present time?
9. Question 2
What are the most important work related
questions in your mind right now?
12. Insights
SMEs do not have defined roles like larger companies.
SMEs have little time to research and improve their businesses
No-one understands the Green Deal (May 2012)?
SMEs cannot communicate well their needs, when asked.
In the current climate there is a lack of work/ of projects (architects lack
projects, construction companies lack projects).
Bureaucratic methods for getting accredited discourages
peoples/companies from accreditation (subsequent lack of jobs, loss of
tenders).
Many people are interested in the DIY section of the sector.
The construction industry is poor in terms of QA.
With the Green Deal approaching there is a need for up-skilling the retro-fit
industry.
Low carbon and renewable energy technologies need to be marketed to
the average client.
13. Summary Barriers and Limitations
• Little previous research to explore the
needs of SMEs in the sector (no literature)
• Hard to engage SMEs
• Professional bodies/networks limiting
access to SMEs by “outsiders”.
• Concerns about sharing commercial
information from SMEs – “I prefer not to
say”
14. Positives
• Positive support from academics,
professionals, Government bodies
• Interest from many different sectors –
academics.
• Engagement with key figures working in
the field.
15. Each of the speakers represents a factor
identified in the research, which aims both to
uncover the barriers to the growth of these
companies and to provide a training solution.
Robin Nicholson is an architect and has
worked closely with Government and policy
makers heading Think Tanks about
sustainable buildings and urban
infrastructure. He will be exploring the
barriers to business growth from an urban
and policy perspective.
Russell Smith will be telling his story about
setting up his own award winning company in
this field and why he had to take the
approach he did to meet the needs of
householders.
Terry McGiven will be talking about
innovative training opportunities he has set
up with European Commission funds for
companies in London at the Institute for
Sustainability
John Davis a highly inspirational speaker
will be talking about the Green Deal.