LPS seminar and workshop: ‘Publish or perish’ was yesterday; today, we ‘innovate or fade’!
Frank Zenker
LPS seminar and workshop: ‘Publish or perish’ was yesterday; today, we ‘innovate or fade’!
WHEN: 4 May 2015; 13.15 to 16.45 (until 15.30h presentations, discussion, networking; from 15.30 hands-on group work, limited to 25 participants on a competitive basis)
WHERE: LUX building; Helgonavägen 3, room LUX:B152; Map: https://goo.gl/maps/qrDXi
REGISTER: at http://goo.gl/i91ixC Registration deadline: 30 APRIL 2015
Organizer: Lund PostDoc Society (LPS) in cooperation with Lund University Innovation Systems
Description
With the term innovation
being the new buzzword, you would have wondered how knowledge of innovation
principles can help to boost your career. This three hour seminar and workshop
1) introduces participants to key concepts such as ‘value creation’ and ‘value
proposition’, ‘business model’ or ‘customer/stakeholder need’, 2) brings
audience members in contact with those who have successfully started companies
based on research ideas, and 3) provides opportunities for networking. Around an hour is set aside for hands-on exercises
in small groups to familiarize participants
with widely applicable innovation processes that are
useful, for instance, to further develop ideas or generate new ones, but
also to improve on extant processes by focusing on the needs of those served by such (aka ‘user-oriented thinking’).
Learning outcomes can be directly applied towards writing the next grant
proposal, for instance, but also to analyze strengths
and weaknesses of one’s research group. In
addition, members of LU Innovation System present services and funding schemes
that can be drawn on to bring an idea (closer) to the market.
The seminar is free of charge (thanks to LU Innovation System) and open to all LU pre and postdocs, broadly conceived. Those curious about innovation, or entertaining a specific idea for starting an activity, particularly in the area of social innovation, are encouraged to attend, especially from fields one might traditionally not immediately think of in this context: the humanities and social sciences.
Nota bene: hands-on group work starts after the coffee break and is limited to 25 participants on a competitive basis; any open slots are assigned on the basis of a lottery among interested members of the general audience.
PROGRAM
13.15 Welcome, Overview (Maryam Olsson (LU Innovation System) and Frank Zenker (LPS))
13.25 Why developed societies require (more) innovation: the global picture (Frank Zenker, LU, Dpt. of Philosophy)
13.35 Q&A
13.50 The Innovation process: key concepts, barriers, sponsors, examples (Anders Bohamn, LU Innovation System AB)
14.10 Q&A
14.25 Break
14.30 From research to market: How we did it, and how we (now think we) should have done it (Associate Prof. Måns Svensson, FinjaFIve AB (http://finjafive.se), Prof. Kenneth M. Persson, WaterSprint AB (http://watersprint.com)
14.45 Q&A
15.00 How to move on from here: Services and available funding (Maryam Olsson, LU Innovation System)
15.10 Coffee Break
15.30 Guided Group Work Overview (Maryam Olsson) LIMITED TO 25 PARTICIPANTS
15.40 Group work 1 (Workshop leader to be announced)
16.10 Break
16.15 Group work 2 (Workshop leader to be announced)
16.45 End