Dr Rafael Popper Research Fellow, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (UK) Innovation Director & CEO, Futures Diamond (Czech Republic) [email protected]- [email protected](with inputs from Prof Luke Georghiou, Vice-President for Research and Innovation) Opportunities for Engagement with the University of Manchester & Futures Diamond UK Science and Innovation Delegation to Colombia Bogota-Medellin-Cali, Colombia (16-20 April 2012)
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Dr Rafael PopperResearch Fellow, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (UK)
3rd or 4th in RAE2008 – depending on measures used
Major improvement in total third-party investment in University intellectual property as evidenced by the dramatic increase in invention disclosures (up 56%) and licenses issued (up 123%);
Substantial transformation of the physical infrastructure of the campus with more than £400m invested through the largest capital programme ever undertaken by a UK university in modern times
Quality
Manchester: Britain's greatest university?It now has more working Nobel Laureates than any university in the country – and a history of discoveries that have shaped the world, writes Jonathan Brown - 9 October 2010
Some key themes
Dalton Nuclear Institute
Manchester Cancer Research Centre
Brooks World Poverty Institute
How we see the world
Band 1 China, Europe, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea
and U.S.A.
Band 2 Australia, Brazil, Canada, Gulf States, Israel, Mexico,
6. Innovation, innovation systems and economic development
MIoIR Short Courses / Executive Education
1. Evaluation of Science and Technology Policies
2. Foresight: Horizon-scanning and Scenarios
3. Key Issues and Strategies
4. Science Technology and Innovation Policy
MBS Masters Courses1. MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship2. MSc Accounting and Finance3. MSc Analytics: Operational Research and Risk Analysis4. MSc Chinese Business and Management5. MSc Corporate Communications and Reputation Management6. MSc Finance and Business Economics7. MSc Finance8. MBus Global Business Analysis9. MSc Healthcare Management10. MSc Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations11. MSc Human Resource Management and Comparative Industrial Relations
(International)12. MSc Information Systems: Business IT13. MSc Information Systems: e-business Technology14. MSc Information Systems: Organisations and Management15. MSc International Business and Management16. MSc Management17. MSc Managerial Psychology18. MSc Marketing19. MSc Operations, Project and Supply Chain Management20. MSc Organisational Psychology21. MSc Quantitative Finance: Financial Engineering22. MSc Quantitative Finance: Risk Management
Duration: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time
Our masters looks at how:
new ideas become successful products
entrepreneurial expertise creates growth
companies harness knowledge to remain competitive
knowledge shapes society and vice versa
climate change can be tackled with new technology
to overcome the practical challenges associated with creating a new entrepreneurial venture
economies can be transformed through successive gales of creative destruction?
Top 10 actions for Universities & City-Regions as a Knowledge Capital (1 of 2) Georghiou & Cassingena Harper (2008)
1. Target and build-up centers of excellence in universities,
2. Bring business and HEI cultures closer by ensuring that business and academic leaders network and that this is matched by networking at middle rank.
3. The universities should develop concerted strategy for interacting with business networks and helping to create new networks where they do not exist. They should also be prepared to drop those that outlived their purpose.
4. The City-Regional Development Agency along with businesses and universities should consider mapping and evaluating their networks as first step to broader proactive strategy. More systematic use made of existing networks to get access to prime movers and shakers nationally and worldwide.
5. Universities provide physical space for networks at their entrepreneurial interfaces such as incubators.
Top 10 actions for Universities & City-Regions as a Knowledge Capital (2 of 2) Georghiou & Cassingena Harper (2008)
6. Engage locally based business education in developing leaders and managers equipped to work in networked knowledge capital.
7. Engage business in mentoring university staff in terms of understanding the business environment.
8. Focus on a knowledge-based inward investment strategy
9. Promote the ‘Knowledge Capital’10.Foster a ‘can-do’ culture
New Horizon Scanning concept(Popper, 2011)
Horizon Scanning (HS) is a structured and continuous activity aimed at monitoring, analysing and positioning (MAP) ‘frontier issues’ that are relevant for policy, research and strategic agendas. The types of issues mapped by HS include new/emerging: trends, policies, products, services, stakeholders, technologies, practices, behaviours, attitudes, ‘surprises’ (wild cards) and ‘seeds of change’ (weak signals).
NEF Issues New Emerging Frontier
MAP Monitoring Analysing Positioning
Agendas Policy Research Strategy
New Foresight concept(Popper, 2011)
Foresight is a systematic, participatory, prospective and policy-oriented process which, with the support of environmental and horizon scanning approaches, is aimed to actively engage key stakeholders into a wide range of activities anticipating, recommending and transforming (ART) technological, economic, environmental, political, social and ethical (TEEPSE) futures.
Key/Emerging/Frontier Issues Environmental
Scanning Horizon Scanning
ART Anticipating Recommending Transforming
TEEPSE futures Technological Economic Environmental Political Social Ethical
New Weak Signal concept(Popper, 2011)
Weak Signals are ambiguous events, often referred to as “seeds of change”, providing advance intelligence or “hints” about potentially important futures, e.g. Wild Cards, challenges and opportunities. Weak Signals lie in the eye of the beholder and are often influenced by the mental frameworks and subjective interpretations of individuals with limited information about emerging trends, developments or issues in a particular time and context. Their “weakness” is directly proportional to levels of uncertainty about their interpretations, importance and implications in the short-medium-to-long-term. Weak Signals are unclear observables warning us about the possibility of future “game changing” events.
Nomination1. source2. theme3. sub-theme4. references5. short name / headline6. abstractDescription7. manifestation8. potential implications9. importanceAnalysis10. filters11. main drivers12. risks & opportunities13. stakeholders’ actionsInterconnection14. Grand Challenges15. thematic relevance16. ERA relevance17. research-friendly
strategies18. RTD & STI policy
relevance
Nomination1. source2. theme3. sub-theme4. references5. short name / headline6. Abstract7. likelihoodDescription8. typology9. importanceAnalysis10. early indicators11. main drivers12. risks & opportunities13. stakeholders’ actionsInterconnection14. Grand Challenges15. thematic relevance16. ERA relevance17. research-friendly
From farmer to consumer: Diversifying cropproduction and consumption.Overreliance on a few core crops (e.g. wheat) makes food production and consumption vulnerable to any type of disruption. Were a new wheat disease to develop it could have severe implications for food markets worldwide, which could have unforeseen consequences such as starvation, civil unrest and high food prices. There is a need to prepare for diversifying food production and consumption in order to avoid such consequences. Farmers need to be assisted in order to better diversify their crops and consumers should be made aware of a greater variety of food products…
New Horizon Scanning System delivering products & services which meet the needs of senior leaders and workforce planners in health & social care in the UK
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The course is aimed at: sponsors of foresight projects foresight practitioners entrepreneurs senior managers company directors
Course fee The full residential fee is £1,950 per person fee includes all the course materials,
accommodation for five nights (June 26th to June 30th inclusive) and all meals.
Discount for early bookings and Colombian nationals This year we are offering a discount to participants whose application is received before
16th April. For applications received by this date the course fee will be reduced to £1,800 GBP. Colombian nationals will receive the same discount for registrations before 22nd May.
Registration Please use the downloadable registration form and return it to Lisa Gledhill by