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Innovation Index Admin Investment in Intangible Assets - new survey findings published

NESTA’s Innovation Index provides a more accurate measure of the investment in innovation in the UK. However, there were gaps in the available data. This report presents the innovative new survey we commissioned alongside the Office for National Statistics and Imper

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Added by Innovation Index Admin on July 19, 2010 at 10:08am — No Comments

Richard Ferrers Wikipedia on Innovation, NESTA Innov Index included

I updated the Wikipedia page on Innovation to include the pilot NESTA Innovation metric. I encourage other NESTA/InnovIndex contributors to share your innovation knowledge, by updating missing important innovation issues on Wikipedia. Continue

Added by Richard Ferrers on July 13, 2010 at 2:57am — No Comments

Kate McKenzie Education leadership in touch times

We're entering a new phase for the education sector. A phase when our skills to lead, inspire and learn will be tested to the hilt. I'd like to start a debate looking at what leadership may mean in the new world and how we can equip ourselves to meet the challenges that will face us.
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Added by Kate McKenzie on July 1, 2010 at 1:38pm — No Comments

Kate McKenzie Education capital investment in the budget

The budget on 22 June 2010 mapped the new Government’s intentions in relation to a wide range of issues. In particular, a focus on reducing public sector spending through a series of different measures including freezing public sector pay and looking at ways of curtailing the public sector pension liabilities. In terms of education, the picture relating to revenue included a freeze to teachers pay (starting after this September’s uplift), and the cessation of a number of flagship projects such a… Continue

Added by Kate McKenzie on June 23, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Mike Morrison Innovation Index - is it relevant?

Innovation Index – is it relevant to 99% of businesses?

Innovation, we all are being asked to deliver it, but can we agree on what it is? Does it even matt

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Added by Mike Morrison on May 24, 2010 at 12:52pm — 3 Comments

Innovation Index Admin The importance of innovation in the public sector

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Added by Innovation Index Admin on April 22, 2010 at 10:16am — 1 Comment

Kate McKenzie Article for Westminster Forum

Appleyards
Experience Trust
The future of the programme of capital investment in education
The Westminster Forum debate on 4 February sparked off a number of thoughts for Dr Kate
Reynolds, Appleyards Strategic Development Director, about the future of the
programme of capital investment in education - be it BSF, Building Colleges or even primary
capital. Kate discusses below.

The Westminster Forum
debate on 4 February sparked
off a number of thoughts for… Continue

Added by Kate McKenzie on April 5, 2010 at 11:29am — 2 Comments

Kate McKenzie Article from Government Technology 2009

Future gazing is a difficult art form and the likelihood of getting it right is very low. Reading from today into tomorrow is notorious for many hostages to fortune – most of us get it wrong! There are however, a number of relative certainties that can provide a structure for looking at how society might develop and what the role of schools in the future might be. There are a number of things we know now that will impact on our society and economy and that will shape how we develop schools to em… Continue

Added by Kate McKenzie on January 9, 2010 at 5:36pm — 1 Comment

Ashish Lall An Interesting Metaphor

"Innovation is like a coral reef. Marine biologists don’t fully understand what causes reefs to form ... but we do know that human actions can nurture or harm the process. The same is true for innovation—a natural, chaotic, unpredictable process that is hard, perhaps even impossible, for well-meaning outsiders to foster. If we try to control or micromanage innovation, we risk squeezing out the very life forces that give rise to successful new ideas. Instead, we must focus on finding ways to nurt… Continue

Added by Ashish Lall on November 24, 2009 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Kate McKenzie Innovation in Education

One of the most exciting project I'm currently involved with is the creation of a learning campus on the Isle of Wight. The campus will contain a new secondary school whose teaching and learning structure is based in a different way of approaching the curriculum. The building will support a focus on vocational skills, expecting young people to ready and prepared for the world of work and ground them in learning techniques which will enable them to have confidence to meet the challenges of the wo… Continue

Added by Kate McKenzie on November 7, 2009 at 10:09am — 9 Comments

Richard Ferrers President Obama gives innovation speech, outlines US innovation policy

See Obama speech (21 Sept 09) and white paper written by National Economic Council - Larry Summers at http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nec/StrategyforAmericanInnovation/ Speech linked to blog post - http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/A-Vision-for-Innovation-Growth-and-Qualit… Continue

Added by Richard Ferrers on September 22, 2009 at 3:29am — 5 Comments

Charles William Blake Innovating using intangibles

Moons ago I ran a number of intellectual property audits for a major UK defense research organisation. In the process I developed a measure of innovation. It started with the goals of the group or sector. The ideal condition of seven sets intangible assets for the achievement of the goals was predicted with the help fo the management. These assets were defined as culture, capability, infrastructure, market, human centered, process and intellectual property. Measuring their existing state against… Continue

Added by Charles William Blake on September 11, 2009 at 11:34am — 2 Comments

Vadim Grinevich Innovation performance score

McKinsey's Jens-Olaf Berwig, Nathan Marston, Lauri Pukkinen, and Lothar Stein present their method for measuring a firm's innovation performance Continue

Added by Vadim Grinevich on September 8, 2009 at 2:33pm — 1 Comment

Richard Ferrers Innovation Census - Tasmania (Aug 2008)

At a conference at Melbourne University, I attended this week (Creating the Knowledge Economy), Professor Johnathan Ross of the AIRC (www.airc.org.au) - Australian Innovation Research Centre, based at the University of Tasmania announced his work on a Tasmanian Innovation Census, which involved talking to every firm in Tasmania with more than five people, to find out about their innovation. See their report here - http://www.airc.org.au/extras/949.AIRC9007%20Inno%20Tas%20Report_Small_Fil… Continue

Added by Richard Ferrers on August 6, 2009 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Mike Morrison Innovation Index - measuring the unmeasurable or re-inventing the wheel?

Innovation - product, technology or attitude and culture... Innovation means so many things to so many people, so first we need to have a common understanding of what innovation is. Dr Richard Byrd from the University of Minnesota in the 1960s and 70s undertook some interesting work (see A Personal Guide to Risk Taking Richard E Byrd, AMACOM 1974), which has been further developed by Dr Jacqueline Byrd from a tool that now looks at the innovation capacity of individuals as well as teams and or… Continue

Added by Mike Morrison on July 31, 2009 at 10:39am — 2 Comments

Ashish Lall Innovation Index

An Innovation Index from the National Association of Manufacturers in the U.S. released a couple of months ago. Download: http://www.nam.org/~/media/AboutUs/ManufacturingInstitute/innovationreport.ashx Continue

Added by Ashish Lall on June 9, 2009 at 5:01pm — No Comments

Richard Ferrers Jul 2008 - Melbourne Institure reports Australian Business Innovation Measures

See the press release (30.07.2008) for the 2008 Aust Innovation Report here - http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/news/news/media_releases/2008/IBMMELB2008.html and the pdf report here - http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/publications/innovation/IBM_MI_Innovation_Index_2nd_Ed.pdf Covers business in… Continue

Added by Richard Ferrers on March 30, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Chris Farrell Within R&D, not Beyond R&D

Richard Ferrers has drawn attention to the latest briefing from the BEA on their treatment of R&D as capital for possibly connecting it to GDP growth – a connection essential to the rigor of any putative innovation metric. However NESTA has stated, in its glossary entry on R&D, that this indicator ‘poorly reflects the true level of innovative activity’. It has also identified the need to go ‘beyond R&D’. But if R is separated from D these approaches can be reconciled, especially if D… Continue

Added by Chris Farrell on February 26, 2009 at 9:26am — No Comments

Richard Ferrers Jan 09 - US Dept of Commerce (BEA) releases paper on innovation measurement

See US Dept of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis) latest consideration of measuring innovation and related intangibles in satellite national accounts, including measuring human capital, what is innovation, and deflator's to treating innovation/intangibles as investment. Definition of innovation considered from ASTRA (Innovation Vital Signs project 2007 - online at http://www.usinnovation.org/files/Defining_Innovation807.pdf). Report at http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2009/01%20January/0109_inno… Continue

Added by Richard Ferrers on February 23, 2009 at 5:58am — No Comments

John Cummins University Interaction Index

To begin, there are many indices that could be used to 'measure innovation'. My particular area of interest concerns the interactions between universities and 'industry' (or more accurately, those organisations external to universities). My suggested index concerns the extent of these interactions. The underlying hypothesis is that an innovative environment is characterised (among other things) by extensive interactions between universities and external organisations. The index is: INCOME DER… Continue

Added by John Cummins on February 21, 2009 at 10:26am — No Comments

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