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Catalysing connected approaches to innovation

Catalysing connected approaches to innovation. Pam Waddell Innovation Futures Summit March 14 th 2011. Market-led demonstrators. Innovation infrastructure. Wealth Opportunity Worth. Innovation in Business. People - skills and attitudes. U nderpinning R&D.

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Catalysing connected approaches to innovation

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  1. Catalysing connected approaches to innovation Pam Waddell Innovation Futures Summit March 14th 2011

  2. Market-led demonstrators Innovation infrastructure Wealth Opportunity Worth Innovation in Business People - skills and attitudes Underpinning R&D Communication & promotion

  3. Aim of discussion • To give you an opportunity to contribute here and now to thinking on what collective actions can support WOW objectives • To identify 2 ideas in each action area that we can develop further collectively and pursue • To kick start discussion on the Innovation Futures for the West Midlands LinkedIn group

  4. Discussion instructions • 10 minutes to individually come up with 2 or 3 ideas for cooperative activities against any of 6 areas • A table for each of 6 action areas: Stick post-it notes with ideas on the posters by most relevant table • After 10 minutes sit at table of your choice to participate in a collective discussion (spread out please!) • Spend 20 minutes grouping suggestions and coming up with two top ideas for cooperative activities • Chair from each table will feed back the two agreed priority ideas

  5. Innovation infrastructure: Provision of physical and virtual infrastructure to support innovation e.g. science parks, broadband access, business finance, technical, financial and legal services. • People –skills and attitudes: Equippingindividuals of all ages with the necessary aspirations, qualifications and skills to contribute to and benefit from science and its exploitation. • Underpinning R &D: Development of an excellent, outward facing pure and applied research base and industrial R&D capacity, focussed on strategic themes. • Innovation in business: Stimulation of transfer, development and commercialisation of technical knowledge through companies, clusters, industries and supply chains, existing and new. • Demonstrators – solving problems and creating markets: Tackling technical and market challenges in the public or private sector, through demonstrator projects or outcome-based procurement. • Communication, networking and promotion: Collective demonstration of excellence, confidence and shared goals and approaches.

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