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Price £2100 GBP

Early bird rate £1950 GBP

(for confirmed bookings before 07 October 2016)

We are also happy to discuss the possibility of

delivering our course, or a customised version, to your

organisation.

For further information or to request an application

form contact:-

Siobhan Drugan

STIP Course Administrator

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research

(MIoIR)

Harold Hankins Building

The University of Manchester

Manchester M13 9PL

Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 0451

Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 0923

Email: siobhan.drugan@manchester.ac.uk

http://research.mbs.ac.uk/innovation/

31st

Oct – 04th Nov 2016

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research

M I o I R

Executive Education Course

Science Technology and

Innovation Policy : Key

Issues and Challenges

Who should attend?

• Policy makers, brokers, or implementers of

strategies

• Practitioners in research and research

funding organisations

• Professionals who work in the domain

science technology and innovation

Through participating in the course you will

learn about:

• Evolving policy mixes: contrasting evolutions

• A new horizon for research and innovation

policies: demand driven policies

• Policies for emerging science and

technologies and the case of nano

• Capacity building

• The ever increasing need for evaluation and

impact assessment

• Indicators: benchmarking, positioning and

the use of intelligent indicators for policy

analysis and strategy making

Aims of the course

This short course is aimed at briefing professionals who

work in the domain of science, technology and

innovation as policy makers, brokers or implementers of

strategies, either within single organisations or

coordinating innovation policies at a local, national or

regional level.

Attendees may have several years’ experience and seek

to share this with experts and peers in an international

environment, or may be newly in post, possibly changing

from a career in research to one in research and

innovation policy. During the week, leading experts will

provide briefings and lead interactive workshops to take

stock of the present transformations and dynamics and

to explore emerging strategies.

Course details

This course is timely, in that we see rapid changes

in the practice of scientific research, such as the

importance of cooperation, critical mass and

infrastructural investment, combined with

changes in the processes by which innovations

arise and are diffused throughout the economy.

We also see more complex governance of

research and innovation, through international

actions downwards to sub-national regions and

the impacts of globalisation of private sector

innovation.

Teaching is interactive, with short, focused

lectures complemented by hands-on, interactive

sessions in which real issues are tackled through

cases and knowledge sharing.

There will be site visits to examine research and

innovation in context, profiting from

Manchester’s rich industrial innovation history

and present growth in new technologies and its

world class scientific research.

Teaching staff

Jonathan Aylen: Director of MIoIR, Senior

Lecturer – innovation management

Kate Barker: Senior Lecturer – impacts of

research; roles of research organisations

Prof Jakob Edler: Executive Director of MIoIR,

Professor - innovation policy and the demand

side

Dr Kieron Flanagan: Lecturer - governance of

research and science policy

Prof Philippe Larédo: Visiting Professor -

knowledge dynamics and the organisation of

public sector research

Prof Maria Nedeva: Professor – science and

innovation dynamics and policy

Prof Philip Shapira: Director of MIoIR, Professor

- economic assessment and evaluation,

emerging fields (nano technology)

Dr Elvira Uyarra: Research Fellow - regional

innovation policy

The course covers the following

main elements:

• The dynamics of innovation and

knowledge production, in particular the

impacts of globalisation on research

and innovation activities

• Transformations in university and

non-university research, and strategic

responses of universities

• The importance of the local and

regional contexts for research and

innovation

• The use of ‘strategic intelligence’:

‘horizon scanning’, indicators,

evaluation and impact assessment and

their roles in the policy tool box

• Demand driven innovation policies

• Policies supporting emerging

technologies

• Evolving policy mixes and a changing

balance between direct and indirect

support