Selection of posts categorized ‘Beta Results’

What is research? What is alfa, beta and final research? Below you’ll find the blog posts that I have categorized as ‘beta results’. Please comment!

Understanding collaboration academy, business and government for innovation

January 13, 2012

The triple helix thesis is an important basis for innovation that the European Union supports. Starting point for the triple helix thesis, or the knowledge triangle as it is also called, is that collaboration between academia, industry and government is a good precondition for fostering innovation (Etzkowitz, 2002; Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, Lissenburgh and Harding, 2000). [...]

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Scandinavia as a World Leading Participatory Innovation System?

December 20, 2011

The trend in innovation for media development is collaborative production, consumption and produsage. Open innovation in particular linked to open source emerges as an important aspect. It explains that the more open source-oriented, the more distrust of authority, and more faith in open processes. There is a strong academic foundation in the form of Program [...]

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My academic blogging as insight to knowledge production on media, innovation and participation

October 24, 2011

Communicating this project has been, well… a project of it’s own. It is no wonder because an important starting point for this project is contact/outreach/linkages to understand collaboration between academia, industry and government (the classic triple-helix triangle). Since starting August 17th 2009 I have explored how different forms of social networked media, mainly two different [...]

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Meaningful communication of results

October 18, 2011

During these years (started August 2009) I have included communication as an important aspect of both understanding innovation and accomplishing some kind of collaborative knowledge production on the matter. Starting the project I tried to explore as many communication possibilities as I could: participating in conversation wherever I could, and was allowed and welcomed to. [...]

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Network by doing > testing beta results

September 14, 2011

Drawing on tentative results from six months work during 2009-2011, I will test the idea of “network by doing” by creating an event that takes place September 21st 2011. This event aims at connecting different women networks by, during a couple of hours, engage in Arduino-prototyping. It is an effort to: – Meet and enhance [...]

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Exploring Twitter as a network site for research on and in social innovation

June 28, 2011

This is an abstract for the conference NordMedia 2011 being presented in August. In my work in this project I study local participatory innovation practices. A lot of people and institutions are wondering and pondering on where innovation takes place and how to understand different forms of innovation. In this paper I try to show [...]

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Open innovation and Collaboration

December 6, 2010

In the project Local Participatory Innovation Practices, I among other things study conferences and events for media development that has to do with the triple-helix thesis. In this text I present some thoughts deriving from these experiences. In innovation studies open innovation is the paradigm of today. Professor Henry Chesborough and others, in this way [...]

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