Bring recovery to young people: the development of a “discovery college” in Ireland

Purpose Discovery Colleges are new, exciting innovations. The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of developing and implementing the first pilot of a Discovery College for young people in Ireland. This paper aims to assist in providing direction for future comparable projects. Design/methodology/approach The author takes a narrative approach to highlight the rationale for introducing the Discovery College model into an Irish context and to outline the project phases and participant feedback. Findings The pilot project is outlined and the key learnings are explained. Originality/value Recovery Education is a growing model both nationally and internationally, and this pilot was an innovative project, the first of its kind to bring Recovery Education to a younger audience in Ireland. This paper aims to assist in providing direction for future comparable projects.

Methodological tools for managing intellectual resources: overcoming limited resource potential

Intellectual resources, in the form of human (labor) and information resources are increasingly important in an economic environment wherein firms limited resource potential impedes innovation. Their assessment, analysis, accounting and distribution are necessary for the effective implementation of innovation activities. However, Russias regions differ in the number of staff engaged in research and development and firm innovativeness. Furthermore, geography can present barriers to innovation that undermine firm competitiveness, which ultimately aggravates the socio-economic development of Russia. This problem can be solved by transforming the methodological tools used in the regional development strategy. Whilst each region is distinctive, the authors propose a methodology for assessing the minimum acceptable levels of available intellectual resources necessary for the implementation of an innovative project. This methodology considers activity at different project stages and can be scaled to any economic level and innovative project. The proposed method evaluates the minimum optimal distribution of intellectual resources necessary for the successful implementation of innovative activities, which are considered necessary for transforming the Russian economy and building resource potential. This methodology also allows to assess the sufficiency of available intellectual resources, create a system of metrics for their accounting and replenishment, and utilize intellectual resources across multiple innovative projects simultaneously.

The Hypotheses Testing Method for Evaluation of Startup Projects

This paper suggests new perspective to evaluating innovation projects and understanding the nature of startup risks. Author consider five principal hypotheses that underlie every innovative project that comprise a bunch of respective assumptions to manage startup risks in a proactive manner. Suggested approach spots the light on a project’s uncertainties and risks, embedded investment and managerial options, and enables more comprehensive and accurate evaluation of innovation. The Hypotheses Testing Method enables to estimate risks and attractiveness of a startup project in a clear and fast manner. It replaces unclear traditional techniques like NPV and DCF, avoiding heavy cash flow modelling.

Improvement of Innovative Projects Management and Revival of Innovation Activities of Ukrainian Enterp

Introduction. The wider application of the benefits of project management in the organization of innovation is seen as an effective tool for revitalizing the innovation activities of modern enterprises. Innovative project is a modern form of organization of innovation processes, which allows to generate intellectual added value to increase innovation and competitiveness of enterprises. The expediency of improving the management of innovative projects on the basis of increasing their intelligence to increase the innovation and competitiveness of enterprises is substantiated.Purpose is to substantiate the directions of improving the management of innovative projects to revive the innovative activity of Ukrainian enterprises.Methods. In the process of research a set of general scientific and special methods was used. In particular, historical and logical methods were to study theoretical foundations of project management approaches in the organization of innovation; analysis and synthesis - to compare the main approaches to the interpretation of concepts and methods of calculating the rate of intelligence of an innovative project; correlation-regression analysis - to build predictive models of changes in innovation activity of industrial enterprises and sales of innovative products; graphic method - for visual presentation of the results of analytical research; abstract-logical - for theoretical generalization and formulation of conclusions.Results. Research proves that innovative projects are a modern form of organizing innovative activities in the context of increasing crisis, rapid digitalization and globalization of economic processes, which can provide a constant increase in innovation and competitiveness of enterprises. The implementation of an innovative model of doing business requires the search for progressive ways to improve the management of innovative projects of enterprises. The concept of “management of innovative projects as an impact on groups of people in order to organize and coordinate their activities aimed at strengthening the intellectual capacity of the project, which provides intellectual added value, increasing innovation and competitiveness of the enterprise” has been clarified. The forecast models of changes of innovatively-active industrial enterprises of Ukraine and dynamics of realization of innovative production of the enterprises for an estimation of efficiency of the organization of innovative activity at micro level are constructed. The necessity of reviving the processes of development and implementation of innovative projects as an important factor in increasing the innovative activity of enterprises is proved. The factors that have a negative impact on the interest of enterprises in the implementation of innovative projects, which exacerbates the decline in innovation activity in the Ukrainian business sector, have been systematized. The directions for improvement of innovative projects management aimed at strengthening the intellectual capacity of the project, generating intellectual added value, which allows to intellectualize production and commercial processes, revive innovation activity and increase the innovation of the enterprise are substantiated.Discussion. Transformation of economic systems, increasing the number and scale of today’s challenges will require further strengthening of enterprise innovation, due to the need to form competitive advantages, increase the environmental and social component of business as a result of innovative projects. The expediency of project management development in the organization of innovative activity of Ukrainian enterprises is actualized. The directions for improvement of innovative projects management in order to increase their intellectual and science-intensiveness for the decision of problems of revival of innovative activity of the enterprises are substantiated.

SYNTHESIS OF EFFECTIVE IDEAS OF INNOVATIVE PROJECTS DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EIGHTH TECHNOLOGICAL ORDER

The subject of the article is the synthesis of ideas of innovative projects during the formation of the eighth technological order; the object of the article is innovative activity during the eighth technological order; the purpose of the work is to increase the efficiency of the synthesis of innovative ideas during the transition to the eighth technological order; to achieve this goal, the following tasks are solved: research and clarification of the concept and essence of innovative ideas; analysis of factors and methods of synthesis of innovative ideas in the process of development of a new technological order; formation of methods for the analysis of innovative ideas; description of modeling processes and business planning of projects for the implementation of these ideas; scientific methods in the article are: synthesis theory; theory of technological order, modeling theory, expert assessments, heuristic synthesis, structural and logical analysis of projects; scientific novelty of the article is associated with the development of methods for the synthesis and analysis of the effectiveness of innovative project ideas in the conditions of the formation of the eighth technological order.

Modern Approaches to the Risk Management of the Retailers` Innovative Projects in the Context of a Pandemic

The relevance of the research is due to the fact that in the conditions of the pandemic the priority for the retailers is to do business through the innovative projects implementation. These processes are associated with the various risks when it is required to choose a competent approach to their management. There are many different modern approaches, but it is necessary to choose the most effective one, which will not entail serious losses. In the article the concepts of an innovative project and risk management are discussed, the modern approaches to risk management are explored and their classification is considered. It has been carried out the analysis of the developed and implemented innovative projects by the largest Russian retailer X5 Retail Group in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical data on the implementation of innovative projects are presented, problems in the risk management of innovative projects are identified and recommendations for solving these problems are proposed.

INTEGRATING MEDIATION IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

The report presents the main positions in mediation, the necessary skills of the mediator and the types of mediators in the specifics of preschool education. The possibilities for introducing mediation in the system are presented. Our research on the topic and our attempt to create an innovative project "Mediation in kindergarten".