ANNOUNCEMENT

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moderator

Hot topics in innovation – We need YOU!

Dear colleagues,

So far, the INNO-GRIPS team has managed to compile some 270 important items from the literature on innovation in our database. Please have a look at these and tell us what you think about the usefulness of the material and the overall approach. Also, in addition to the knowledge-base at the main GRIPS website, we are attempting to list the key literatures associated with each of our ministudies (Please check these by following the blogroll link on the right). We want this to remain a living site, recognising that the research field has not just come to an end when we completed our reviews!

Thus, we need to know and to collate more on these areas, and especially on emerging “hot topics”in innovation in your area – in other words, what do you consider to be the most interesting and productive recent and/or most debated subjects. We are also keen on new ‘grey literature’ you might have come across, or other missing sources that you think we (or this project) need to know.

Please let us know by leaving comments in this post or email us directly.

Thank you!

Young researchers workshop on Innodev

Recently, on 9-10 April 2008, in Manchester, the GRIPS team organised a workshop for young researchers across EU. The workshop focused on the “Innovation and Development” topic. Explore the workshop and join the discussion here.

GRIPS Newsletter available online

The INNO-GRIPS project’s newsletter –three issues so far– is available from the official GRIPS site. These 8 page newsletters, published bimonthly, typically highlight latest progress and updates of the project; provide a ‘digest’, i.e. an excerpt of materials relevant to the hot topics being discussed in each issue; and feature an interview with relevant world expert. Download them now, read them, and let us know what you think!

Ministudies going online …

Three ministudies (out of four) that were carried out by Manchester-based INNO-GRIPS team are now available online at the official GRIPS website: Gazelles, Skills for Innovation, and Society-Driven Innovation. We expect the fourth ministudy, Innovation Culture, to be put online soon. When it is, we will post the news on this blog. For now, you can browse those available online through this link, download, read and then discuss them in the related blogs that we have provided (see the “blogroll” section in this page). We do invite and welcome any exchange in views, ideas, thoughts, etc., so, please feel free to leave comments.

For sure, there are other ministudies that we are going to conduct in the future. So, keep in touch!

Innovation and world’s problems today: Report from Rabat

We know that today, more than one person in five subsists on less than $1 day in developing countries and it is estimated that there are 1.1 billion people living in extreme poverty. Despite technological advances, hunger and disease rates continue to increase in some countries, presenting a huge challenge to the international community. It is against this background that the INNOGRIPS project team, supported by the European Commission organised a high level Innovation Policy Workshop, the aim of which was to address the most important issues and engage in debate about the roles of innovation in the fight against poverty, hunger and disease.

List of topics (re-post)

Ian -the project leader at PREST- last year proposed these topics for the ministudies.

1. The innovative firm; innovation and entrepreneurship
2. Clusters, networks and systems of innovators (subcategories: National / Sectoral systems of innovation)
3. Managing the process of innovation

Purpose of this blog … (re-post)

This blog serves as research notes or research logs. Please post anything you think relevant and important for other team members to know.

In order to do so, each of the team member needs to register to www.wordpress.com. Once registered, you can have blog of your own as well — but the most important thing for this project is that: let me know the email address you use to register to wordpress. Only by doing so I can invite you as the administrator of this blog and other relevant blogs for this project. Then you can start posting, editing, etc.

Mini Studies’s blogs created

In addition to gazelles blog, two other blogs are created to stimulate discussion among InnoGRIPS team member. They are socio-inno blog which aims to host discussion about the second mini-study on Society-driven Innovation, and inno-skills blog which is meant to be the platform for exchange views, etc. on the third mini study Innovation Skills (they can be accessed from the links or “blogroll” on the side bar of this page).

So, please make use of these blogs and share whatever you have in mind, e.g. interesting/relevant literature, grey literature, contacts, etc.

EC proposed Ministudies

The EC has proposed that :

“For each MS, the following questions should be addressed:

• Is the subject discussed in the academic debates?
• Can it be considered as a trend? Which mega-trends underlie the subject?
• Is the subject linked to other issues or concepts?
• What is the language referring to the subject? Which semantics to be used?”