Designing Creative Spaces for Idea Generation and Start-up Experiments

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Curley ◽  
Piero Formica
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Primary Focus

The role of universities is changing. In the last century the primary focus of universities was on education and research, with the key goals of creating and diffusing information and knowledge. A third and equally important role is now emerging, with its accompanying expectations and responsibilities – that of value creation. ‘Value’ in this context refers to both business value and societal value. With tertiary sector funding coming under increasing scrutiny, governments and the public alike are demanding more accountability and proof of added value from universities. A ‘university ecosystem’ approach can unleash much of the potential energy in universities and transform it into kinetic energy, with graduates emerging not just in a state of readiness to be employees, but often as highly motivated entrepreneurs with business or social innovation initiatives in flight. An ecosystem can be defined in this context as a network of interdependent organizations or people in a specific environment with partly shared perspectives, resources, aspirations and directions. This new form of positioning equates to what Etzkowitz (2004) and Andersson et al (2010) have called the ‘entrepreneurial university’.

scholarly journals Knowledge Mobilization, Collaboration, and Social Innovation: Leveraging Investments in Higher Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Nichols ◽  
David Phipps ◽  
Johanne Provencal ◽  
Allyson Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Literature Synthesis ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Qualitative Literature

ABSTRACT This article is a qualitative literature synthesis in the areas of community-campus collaborations, knowledge mobilization and social innovation. The article aims to be useful to people who work in academic settings, community organizations, public institutions, and government. The authors utilized a purposive sampling methodology to explore the following questions: 1. How can university-based knowledge mobilization leverage investments in higher education research and development (R&D) through community-campus collaboration and social innovation? 2. What is the role of university-wide knowledge mobilization projects in supporting community-campus connections and ultimately social innovation strategies that contribute to the public good? Our review indicates considerable interplay between community-campus collaborations, knowledge mobilization and social innovation given that knowledge mobilization facilitates – and is facilitated by – collaboration. With sufficient knowledge mobilization, community-campus collaborations stimulate social innovation. The article concludes with recommendations based on our review of the literature. RÉSUMÉ Cet article se fonde sur une synthèse littéraire qualitative portant sur les collaborations communautaires/académiques, la mobilisation du savoir et l’innovation sociale. Il se veut utile pour toute personne travaillant dans un milieu académique, un organisme communautaire ou une institution publique. Les auteurs ont recours à une méthode d’échantillonnage raisonné pour répondre aux questions suivantes : 1. Comment la mobilisation du savoir universitaire – au moyen de la collaboration communautaire/académique et de l’innovation sociale – peut-elle faire augmenter les investissements en recherche et développement dans l’enseignement supérieur? 2. Comment les projets de mobilisation du savoir universitaire peuvent-ils resserrer les liens entre campus et communauté et, en fin de compte, appuyer des stratégies d’innovation sociale qui contribuent au bien commun? Notre évaluation indique qu’il y a beaucoup d’influences réciproques entre les collaborations communautaires/académiques, la mobilisation du savoir et l’innovation sociale, surtout que la mobilisation du savoir facilite la collaboration et vice versa. En effet, avec une mobilisation du savoir suffisante, les collaborations communautaires/académiques stimulent l’innovation sociale. Cet article se termine par des recommandations provenant de notre analyse documentaire.

Going Beyond GDP

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyithan Ahmet Ates ◽  
Muradiye Ateş ◽  
Murat Ali Yülek
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Alternative Measure ◽  
Economic Methods ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Monetary Term ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Economic Vitality

A redirection towards wellbeing with a view to produce lasting social and economic vitality for the global civilization necessitates moving from conventional economic methods towards innovative solutions, which are necessary to face challenges of today and the future to foster sustainable growth. Social innovation and its agents can be considered as a toolbox which may facilitate a transition by positively influencing wellbeing, developing ways of integrating it into policy, and promoting it as an alternative measure of progress. Social innovation may increase the role of civil society in solving social problems, while sustaining and improving people's wellbeing beyond increasing their welfare in monetary term. By providing up-to-date solutions to challenges ranging from global warming to fair income distribution, and from social innovative entrepreneurs to grass-rooted innovation, social innovation seems to be capable of transforming the society in a way to tackle with a new kind of societal problems, and of exploring new ways to create added value for the economy.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Social Innovation and Active Mobility Public Services

2020 ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Silvia Cruz ◽  
Sonia Paulino
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to discuss the relationship between social innovation and public services on active mobility. Two active mobility initiatives are considered in the city of São Paulo, and analyzed based on 11 variables that characterize social innovation. Through the mapping of recent Brazilian regulatory frameworks for active mobility and a low-carbon economy, we can propose the following relationship: the more local (municipal) the public policy, the greater its social influence and participation. However, despite the advances indicated by both experiences of active mobility analyzed (highlighting the role of organized civil society), and by the progress in the regulatory framework, until now innovative practices in the local context have been restricted to the treatment of pedestrian spaces. Therefore, there exists a great potential for the continued introduction of innovations in the improvement and scale of public services for pedestrian mobility, following the paradigm of sustainable urban mobility, and based on social participation.

scholarly journals NEW POLICY AND LEGISLATION FOR SOCIAL ECONOMY IN BULGARIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Maria Ilcheva
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Report

In 2018 the Bulgarian Government has launched a new legislation on the enterprises of social and solidarity economy as a political sign for the recognition of the role of social economy sector in the country. This was an expected result from the recent trend of development of the social economy in Bulgaria and the growing visibility of the sector and its consolidation with the policies of the European Union. At European policy level social economy and social enterprises are identified as a key instrument for employment and innovations which have a major role in overcoming the poverty and social exclusion. The aim of the law is to regulate the public relations related with the social and solidarity economy, the types of social enterprises and the measures for their support as well as the conditions and the requirements for the activities of social enterprises. As this is the first Bulgarian law on social economy it provides the bases for a public policy which stimulates the development of sector and establishes clear rules for a registry of social enterprises and a methodology for measuring the social added value. Тhe purpose of the current report is to provide an overview of the new policy and legislation in Bulgaria and to analyze the expected effects on the development of the social economy sector.

scholarly journals The Role of Accountability Arrangements in Social Innovations: Evidence from the UK and Slovakia

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juraj Nemec ◽  
Marta Orviska ◽  
Colin Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Available Information

AbstractOur research focuses on selected accountability mechanisms in the two countries. In Slovakia these are the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) and the Ombudsman. In the UK, at the national level we chose the Committee of Public Accounts (PAC), the National Audit Office (NAO) and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) and on the local level the relatively recently introduced local government system of Scrutiny and Overview.The goal of our article is to assess the potential contribution of these accountability arrangements to the anchoring of social innovation in the public sector. The theory anticipates that accountability institutions such as the SAO and Ombudsman may create feedback loops supporting public innovations. We undertook detailed checks on the concrete situation in the Slovak Republic and in the UK. On the basis of the comprehensive set of data reviewed, including reports, interviews and more generally available information, we can confidently conclude that while in Slovakia such a feedback loop barely functions, in the UK it does function on a limited but still significant scale. In the last part we provide selected arguments why the Slovak situation is less positive.

scholarly journals The Crowdfunding: A New Financial Instrument for the Start-Ups?

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Marina Damilano ◽  
Cristina Rovera
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Added Value ◽  
International Level ◽  
Financial Instrument ◽  
First Semester ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Legal Document ◽  
Start Ups

Start-ups are new businesses, which need a good amount of equity to finance investments. Crowdfunding is an alternative instrument to collect money. It does not need the intervention of a bank, but allows to obtain the funds directly from the public by network platforms. This article focuses on the possibility for a start-up to raise capital through crowdfunding. The argument is quite known on an international level, even if scholars often focus on specific problems or on particular moments of the life cycle of the start-up. On the contrary, the two arguments are really new in Italy. The Italian crowdfunding market is young – the main increase in the platforms number (+63%) is between 2013 and 2014 - and the national regulation which allows to finance start-ups by crowdfunding is even more recent (latest legal document in 2017). The novelty of the topic explains the added value of this article. To the best of our knowledge, no previous study focused on the Italian start-ups financed by crowdfunding. We analyze the phenomenon from the birth of the different platforms (2005 for the first one) since the end of the first semester 2018.

scholarly journals The Role of Translation in Citizen Science to Foster Social Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Heinisch
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations

Citizen science has become a world-wide phenomenon. Especially for citizen science projects that have a global reach, translation is crucial to overcome language and cultural barriers to reach members of the public. Translation, understood as the transfer of meaning (of a text) from one language into another language, is crucial for the transmission of information, knowledge and (social) innovations. Therefore, this paper examines the role of translation and terminology used in citizen science projects and how translation can foster (or impede) social innovation through citizen science activities. Based on a set of predefined criteria derived from the social innovation literature, this paper analyzes the factors that contribute to (social) innovation in citizen science by means of translation. A specific focus of the case study is on the aspects of agency, institutions, and social systems. The results demonstrate that translation in citizen science may support a change of social practices as ingredients of social innovations. Additional research is needed to further understand the implications of translation in citizen science and its effects on social innovation. Nevertheless, this work has been one of the first attempts to examine the relation between translation, citizen science and social innovation.

scholarly journals 5.G. Round table: Influencers or Followers? The Role of National Public Health Institutes in LMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Public ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Abstract Objectives To discuss the added value of locally developed health policies and strategies in the context of Global Sustainable Development Goals. To discuss the capabilities, opportunities and limitations of public health institutes in low- and middle-income countries in contributing to health policies and strategies in their countries vis-à-vis the global policies, promoted by multilateral and UN institutions. To formulate recommendations for strengthening the role of local health research institutions in low- and middle-income countries in formulating evidence-based policies and strategies for achieving Sustainable Development Goals, in their countries and beyond their borders. Five panellists from public health and research institutes in Bangladesh, Laos, DR Congo, Uganda and Haiti, and one representative from the European Commission, discuss their experiences in the Support to Public Health Institutes Programme (financed by the European Union), and what they have achieved in influencing policy and practice. Have they been able to leave their ivory tower of science, and have they been able to enter into real dialogue with politicians, practitioners and users of health services? How have they dealt with scepticism in the era mistrust in science? How did they bridge the gap between science and politics, and what tangible products did they deliver to make an impact on health of the population through policy advice or strategy formulation? Did they really make a difference and if yes, how? How did the public health institutes relate to the global giants in health policy and strategies? Did they get support or encouragement for following a local route? Have the public health institutes been able to contribute to global development? Has an international exchange facilitated by the European Commission contributed to strengthening the institutes? After short introductions by the panelists about their work in the last five years, there will be answers to questions from the panel leader and the delegates in the workshop. Delegates are invited to share experiences from their countries. Most of the time of the workshop will be used for a discussion among all participants in the workshop: how can public health institutes and research institutions play a stronger role in policy advice and strategy development in the health sector in their country? What should change within the institutions? How can they demonstrate their added value? What should change in ministries of health and parliaments? What should change in decision-makers in health services? Which best practices do we know, can serve as an example? At the end of the workshop the participants will formulate concrete recommendations, to be presented to the global health community. Key messages Public health institutes and research institutions in low- and middle-income countries have a hidden potential to contribute to local solutions for global health problems. A paradigm shift in relations between academic institutions is needed to unleash the potential of public health institutes.

scholarly journals Analysis of the start-up environment in Wroclaw and the role of the urban infrastructure in development of innovation projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Anna Brdulak
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Development Agency ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Innovation Projects ◽  
Start Ups

The study aims to analyze the start-up environment in Wroclaw and describe the role of the infrastructure in the development of innovation ventures. In her deliberations, the author deploys both the quantitative and qualitative research carried out in the period between December 2016 and August 2017 in cooperation with the Wroclaw Agglomeration Development Agency, (Agencja Rozwoju Aglomeracji Wrocławskiej S.A., ARAW). The results of the research constitute added value as this is the first study in Poland dedicated exclusively to Wroclaw start-ups. The author hopes to continue her research, hence the obtained data is dynamic in its nature.

Evaluating Science and Technology Parks in France

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 349-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Bruhat
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Principal Characteristics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science And Technology Parks ◽  
Technology Parks

In this paper, Thierry Bruhat considers the experience to date of the development of science and technology parks, or technopoles, in France. He discusses the different approaches to their establishment, their principal characteristics, and the ways in which the performance and significance of the technopoles can be fully evaluated. He stresses the ‘added value’ of the parks — their contribution to the endogenous economic development of their regions. With specific examples, he analyses their role as networking agents at the public—private sector interface, and catalysts in the innovation process, emphasizing the issues of site preparation, technopole structure, and the role of participants. The key to economic success, argues the author, is the pooling of the information and skills ‘which are often trapped in the compartmentalized worlds of industry, technology, and academia.’

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