Often times, the theory is one thing, and its application is something entirely different. Innovation policy is no exception, so that the transfer of conceptual ideas into practice is fraught with unpleasant surprise. I'd suggest two specific challenges to successful policy making in support of innovation: one is related to integrity, the other to competition.
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On international collaboration
Globalisation is the evolving background and increasingly becomes the driving factor for many of our considerations and actions; and science, technology, and innovation are no exceptions to this trend. Today, I'll focus on how globalisation provides entirely new means and opportunities to solve problems. How does globalisation help us so that 1 + 1 > 2 ? That's neither black magic nor strange mathematics ...
Integrating citizen science
The concept has many names: networked science, crowd-sourced science, crowd science, civic science, or citizen science. All these terms emphasise a specific aspect, and all those aspects play a more or less important role in the overall concept. Let's see.
What the innovator needs …
There's an abundance of management literature offering advice on how to foster innovation in a business context. However, there is very little discussion on how the innovator's success critically depend upon the boundary conditions defined outside the business context. Today, I'll focus on how that larger context is directly relevant for the innovator's success.
On leadership
Innovation is an investment. Considerable resources are put aside, often for a long time, in hopes of some dividend at a later stage. This entails risk, and that requires leadership to deal with.
understanding innovation 