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Measuring the Impact of University Research on Innovation

Measuring the Impact of University Research on Innovation

by Cooper Langford

Science,Technology, and Society Program, Faculty of General Studies, University of Calgary

A summary list of the reasons universites engage in research can probably serve present purposes without detailed analysis:

C Prosperity Wireless - Telecom

C Prosperity Wireless - Telecom

by Bill Hews

Outline:

  • Where Are We?
  • Where Do We Want To Be?
  • How Can the C Prosperity Effort Help Us Get There?

Climate Change: What the Literature Says

Version 1.31, presented January 2003

Climate Change: What the Literature Says

by M. Hollinshead

Facing the Future Inc.

Canada's Technical Colleges

Canada's Technical Colleges: An Untapped Innovation Resource

by Dr. Alec M. Bialski

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Canada's technical colleges have traditionally been involved in education and training. There is an increasing trend towards involvement of faculty and students in innovation and technology department.

Complete Dissertation

Complete Dissertation

Differences in growth and earnings of knowledge-intensive firms have created the need for a better understanding of how to extract wealth from brainpower. 

The Complexity of Canadian Clusters Operating in Global Science

The Complexity of Canadian Clusters Operating in Global Science

by Cooper Langford & Jamie Wood - Science Technology, and Society Program

and Jeremy Hall - Haskayne School of Business

 

As part of the Innovation Systems Research Network national study of the role of regional clusters in innovation, studies are underway of the wireless telecommunications industry and the global positioning systems (GPS) industry in Calgary, Alberta; the wirless telecommunications industry in Vancouver, British Columbia; and the agriculture biotechnology activity in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 

Funding Strategic University Research in Canada

Funding Strategic University Research in Canada

by Cooper H. Langford and Martha W. Langford

Draft 10/01

Over the past twenty-five years, the funding of reasearch in universities and related research institutes in Canada has increasingly sought to encourage outcomes of significance to economic growth and quality of life directly rather than indirectly.   

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2002 Canadian Report

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2002 Canadian Report

by Nathaly Riverin

Director of  the GEM Canada/Quebec

HEC Montreal

Since 1997 the mission of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM0 has been to study the entrepreneurial activity of different countries the relationship between this activity, econonomic growth and the National characteristics having an influence upon it.

Dynamic Foresight

Dynamic Foresight

by Dr. J. Sylvan Katz

Katz Competitive Intelligence Ltd.

A Dynamic Foresight activity explores current and emerging opportunities and innovations in science and technology.  Privarily, a Dynamic Foresight activity uses the Internet, the World Wide Web and other computer-based methods.....

Industrial Design and Innovation Theory

Industrial Design and Innovation Theory: A bases for Describing the Experience of Innovation

by Barry Wylant

Industrial Design program, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary

Much of the current literature regarding innovation tends to cover either method of generating new ideas or identifying the steps required to develop and implement new ideas.

The Rise of Innovation Surveys

The Rise of Innovation Surveys: Measuring a Fuzzy Concept

by Benoit Godin

Project on the History and Sociology of S & T Statistics

Working Paper No. 16

Networking Support to Innovative Young Firms

Networking Support to Innovative Young Firms: Pathways of Knowledge

by Cooper H. Langford, Anne Tyrie, and Janet Peace

The economic advantage of networking and strategic partnership are well known.  This paper  attempts to go beyond the practical comments to interpret the process of knowledge flow....

Canada Challenged

Canada Challenged: Building a Culture of Adaptation and Innovation for 2020

by Stephen Murgatroyd

  • Current Status of Innovation in Canada
  • What's Canada's Current Innovation a & Adaptation Capacity?
  • The 2020 challenges
  • Barriers to Innovation & Adaptation in 2020
  • The Importance of Cultural Context

 

Outcomes of University Research in Canada

Outcomes of University Research in Canada: Innovation Policy and Indicators of Triple Helix Relationships

by Cooper H. Langford - The Centre for Innovation Studies; Jeremy Hall - Haskayne School of Business; Peter Josty - The Centre for Innovation Studies; Stelvia Matos - Haskayne School of Business; Astrid Jacobson - Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary

This paper analyses Canadian Government attempts to encourage and measure commercializatin of university knowledge for social improvement.

 

Canadian Approaches to Technology Commercialization

Canadian Approaches to Technology Commercialization: A Comparison of Alberta's Technology Commercializatin System with that of Other Provincial Jurisdictions

by Malcolm Allan; Jon Horsman; David Parkatti; Ioana Simion; Kim Sunyoung

MBA Technology Commercialization Program - School of Business - University of Alberta

Outline:

  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • Justification for Government Intervention in the Market
  • Provincial Systems
  • General Comparison
  • General Conclusions and Recommendations
  • References
  • Appendices

 

 

Alberta Technology Commercialization & Innovation Challenges & Solutions

Alberta Technology Commercialization & Innovation Challenges & Solutions

by John Masters

President & CEO

Calgary Technologies Inc.

Technology Commercializatin & Innovation

  • Public sector primary research funding dramatically increasing
  • Technology commercializtin infrastructure funding inadequate
  • Private sector technology commercialization opportunities desperately needs access to early stage risk-tolerant capital

 

Movement from Social to Market Oriented Universities

Movement from Social to Market Oriented Universities.  Is it a good move?

The growing tendency to view universities as "engines of R & D economic growth" has created concerns among some researcher including Rosenberg & Nelson (1994)...

 

Building the Pool of (Creative) Talent:

By: C Langford, B Li and C Ryan 

Presention of this paper at the ISRN Annual Conference (2008) as well as the 4S/EASST Conference in Rotterdam (August 2008).

Particular Study Cases for Pathways of Knowledge

Particular Study Cases for Pathways of Knowledge        

Project presented to the 2009 Ingenuity 601 e-Course by: Carlos Giraldo, Mohammad Fazaelizadeh, Ming Dong, and Jianjun (Ben) Zhou.                                                               

 

Knowledge Exchange Seldom Happens as Planned

Knowledge Exchange Seldom Happens as Planned

Project presented to the 2009 Ingenuity 601 e-Course by:  Pinaki Bose, Amin Emad and Joey Gallant

Thoughts on Succesful Research Collaborations

Thoughts on Succesful Research Collaborations

Project presented to the 2009 Ingenuity 601 e-Course by: Javed Ally, Shane Long, Vahid Mostafavi and Susan Ross

 

 

 

Forming Strong Ties with Industry

Forming Strong Ties with Industry - Alberta Ingenuity Centres for Research & Commercialization

Project presented to the 2009 Ingenuity 601 e-Course by: Sandra Ward, Maryam Malekshanian, Marc Evans and Michael Thomas

Innovation - Analysis of 6 Cases

Innovation - Analysis of 6 Cases

Project presented to the 2009 Ingenuity 601 e-Course by: Marc Beaudin, Chris Lerohl, Behrad Rashidi and Craig Pearce

 

 

Innovation from an oil and gas platform: Calgary

by Cooper H. Langford, Ben Li and Cami Ryan

Health Research Translation e-course

Papers presented to THECIS from the students of the Health Research Translation e-course - 2009/2010. 

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