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December 2014

Dear reader, we have pleasure in enclosing Ingenio's newsletter, a periodic summary of the institute's activities including recent events, scientific production and wider engagement. This is what we have been up to over the last four months. If you want to suscribe to our newsletter, click here.

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Innovator Catalyst: Boosting transition in water management

22 - 29 November 2014, Valencia

Climate‑KIC promotes innovation to address the multiple challenges associated to climate change and environmental sustainability. Needless to say, people and their skills are crucial to the goal of unleashing the innovative potential of both the private and the public spheres.

Last November Climate-KIC in cooperation with Ingenio offered Innovator Catalyst, a training program aimed at the next generation of experts, the professionals who will be responsible for tomorrow´s sustainable innovation. Cristian Matti coordinated a panel of 35 professionals from 15 countries working in the private sector and in academia such as Jan Jonkers, Anne Wieczorek, Todd Gartner, Richard Woolley and Fernando Díaz López. This 8 day course provided a platform of competences on a broad spectrum of topics including strategy, regulation, instruments for financing, technological solutions and behavioral changes. Attendees enjoyed direct access to expert leaders and their real world experiences in the area of sustainable innovation. More info on Innovator Catalyst here.

Publications

‘Turning the tables’: regions shaping university performance
Sánchez-Barrioluengo, M.
Regional Studies, Regional Science
 
Articulating the ‘three-missions’ in Spanish universities
Sánchez-Barrioluengo, M.
Research Policy
 
Immigrant Associations and Co-development Policies. Among the Opportunities for Strengthening and the Risks of Cooptation in the Case of Valencia Region (Spain)
Lacomba, Joan; Boni, Alejandra; Cloquell, Alexis; Soledad, Carlos
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
 
Exploring accountability discourses and practices in the Spanish aid system
Alejandra Boni, Jordi Peris, Rosemary McGee, Míriam Acebillo-Baqué and Andrés Hueso
Journal of International Development
 
Innovation and skill dynamics: a life-cycle approach
Vona, F., Consoli, D.
Industrial and Corporate Change
 
Negotiating conventions and creating community: the case of Cartoon and European animation
Alexander Cole; José David Barberá Tomás
Journal of Economic Geography
 
Modeling decision making as a support tool for policy making on renewable energy development
Marco Cannemia, Mónica García-Melón, Pablo Aragonés-Beltránb, Tomás Gómez-Navarro
Energy Policy
 
An AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process)/ANP (Analytic Network Process)-based multi-criteria decision approach for the selection of solar-thermal power plant investment projects
Pablo Aragonés-Beltrán, Fidel Chaparro-González, Juan-Pascual Pastor-Ferrando, Andrea Pla-Rubio
Energy
 
The role of human capital in lowering barriers to engage in innovation: evidence from the Spanish innovation survey
Pablo D'Este, Francesco Rentocchini, Jaider Vega-Jurado
Industry and Innovation
 
Activist science education
Edwards-Schachter, M.
Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource
 
Innovation: Myths and Prospects (book review)
Consoli, D.
Science
 
Evolucion de las habilidades y la estructura ocupacional: un estudio del sector de I+D
Elche, D., Consoli, D.
Economia Industrial
 
¿Innovaciones ocultas en enfermedades raras? Analizando las diversas formas de retorno social de la investigación clínica.
David Barberá-Tomás, Francesc Palau, Africa Villanueva, Richard Woolley
SEBBM
 
Investigación traslacional e innovación médica: el caso de las redes CIBER
Oscar Llopis, Pablo D’Este
SEBBM
 
El nuevo contrato social de la ciencia
Jordi Molas Gallart
SEBBM
 
El retorno social de la investigación científica
Ignacio Fernández de Lucio
SEBBM
 
Características de las interacciones con la sociedad de los investigadores de humanidades y ciencias sociales a partir de estudios empíricos
Elena Castro-Martínez; Julia Olmos-Peñuela
Revista CTS
 

INGENIO Working Papers Series

Resolving tensions of research utilization: The value of a usability-based approach
Paul Benneworth, Julia Olmos-Peñuela
 
Agglomerations and firm performance: how does it work, who benefits and how much?
Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Francisca Sempere-Ripoll
 
Clusters and industrial districts: where is the literature going? Identifying emerging sub-fields of research
Jose Luis Hervas Oliver, Gregorio Gonzalez and Pedro Caja
 

Projects

2014
RISIS - Research Infraestructure for Science and Innovation Studies
 
2014 to 2016
El enfoque basado en derechos en las prácticas de las ONG de desarrollo. Elementos para la innovación social. EBDIS
 
2014 to 2016
3E4Youth.Education, Employability and Empowerment of the Youth.
 
2014 to 2016
EXTRA. Scientific excellence and knowledge transfer, two riding together? organisational factors, individual antecedents and societal impact.
 
2014 to 2016
PrestEnce Spain: The Spanish University from Prestige to Excellence. An international comparison
 

Thesis

10/07/2014 Exploración de las prácticas docentes con enfoque de Educación para el desarrollo para la ciudadanía global: aproximación diagnóstica en los títulos de grado de las universidades españolas tras la implementación del EEES.
Ana Cano Ramírez
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
 
06/03/2014 Análisis del sistema nacional de innovación panameño desde el entorno universitario mediante el enfoque de redes sociales
Saúl Alejandro, Ardines González
Universidad de Salamanca
 

News

Alejandra Boni & Sergio Belda awarded for best paper presented at the "II Congreso Internacional de Estudios de Desarrollo"

They received the award for the paper "Las relaciones en la cooperación solidaria como procesos informales de aprendizaje para la construcción de ciudadanía: Elementos para repensar la Educación para el Desarrollo desde una perspectiva política". More info

End of PICK-ME European Project

Between 2011 and 2014 INGENIO was actively involved in a European Commission-financed project "Policy Incentives for Creation of Knowledge – Methods and Evidence" (PICK-ME). The broad objective of the project was to analyse the role of demand-driven innovation policies in supporting both established and emerging sectors. The core of PICK-ME is a wealth of empirical case studies that straddle institutional, sectoral and geographical boundaries and provide new evidence to inform policy on the governance of interactions between private business and public organizations. This is especially relevant in times like these, when growing pressures on fiscal budgets across most countries have rekindled interest in using demand-side innovation policies to boost innovation performance while increasing the productivity of public spending. The project recently came to a conclusion. Please find further information about the project and its main output here.

Seminars and other events

The influence of collaboration on firm publications: Evidence from pharmaceutical cancer research
Maureen Mc Kelvey - University of Gothenburg, Suecia

Theory of the innovation commons
Jason Potts - School of Economics, Finance & Marketing, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

The entrepreneurial Laureates
Pauline Mattsson - Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Forsaking Innovation: the Effect of Firm Failure on Exploratory and Exploitative Strategies
Chiara Marzocchi - Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR). The University of Manchester

New policy practices for a challenge-led, broad-based model of transformative innovation. Climate-KIC Transition Cities and the reconfiguring of situated sociotechnical networks.
Fred Steward - Policy Studies Institute, University of Westminster,London

Reframing the ‘impact’ debate: understanding what defines societally usable scientific knowledge
Paul Benneworth - Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente

Reproducción organizativa y formación de capacidades en el cluster de la cerámica de Castellón: Génesis, Spinoffs y formación de capacidades
María Lleó de Nalda - Universitat Politècnica de València. Dpto. de Organización de Empresas

How might higher education orient professionals towards social justice? The index of pro-public good capabiities in South Africa.
Melanie Walker - Director of Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development (CRHED), University of the Free Sate, South Africa.

Visiting Researchers

Paul Benneworth
Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente
"...The purpose of the October 2014 visit was principally related to university research valorisation ..." Read more
Melanie Walker
University of the Free Sate, South Africa
"In October 2014 I was fortunate to spend two weeks at Ingenio interacting with its researchers and doctoral students..." Read more

People

Matthew Wallace

Matthew has been with us for a year until September 2014. Here is a summary of his experience at the institute, in his own words:

If it weren’t for an Australian colleague, I would try to pass myself off as the member of INGENIO furthest from ‘home’. Perhaps I can settle for the title of ‘having undergone the largest temperature change’ (in the positive direction) through my move to Valencia. But perhaps some more relevant information about myself, and how I wound up in Valencia, is required. I don’t fit very well into ‘disciplinary’ categories, nor professional categories. My training is in physics, science and technology studies and history of science; my doctoral thesis focused on the development of new fields of research on a national level (specifically, atmospheric science in Canada). Before coming to INGENIO, I had been working for several years as an S&T policy advisor within the Canadian government. So overall, my main interest—in a professional or academic setting—is  in science policy, which involves first understanding the dynamics of science, or how it ‘works’ in terms of social networks, institutions, etc. But the term ‘science policy’ also implies a view of a science system that is not insulated from the rest of society. From economic growth to sound regulations, there is a continuous interplay between science and society, which is why ‘directing’ it through policy is has increasingly been recognized an important endeavour in recent decades.
Due to the nature of the problem, I think research in this area is inherently multidisciplinary and benefits from focusing on ‘real-world’ problems, hence part of the interest in coming to INGENIO as a more ‘applied’ research institute. I was also drawn by a great project led by Ismael Rafols on biomedical research. The project, which sought to shed light on how research is funded, was relevant both in terms of existing scholarship and in terms of potential applications by funding organizations. I was interested in looking at how public research is managed, by combining qualitative and quantitative techniques. Having extensively used scientometric approaches to ‘measure’ science in the past, I think new (big) data and analytical methods offer a wealth of possibilities for science policy scholars, but they need to be tampered by a healthy dose of criticism, a view shared by Ismael.
But aside from the research itself, INGENIO has been a great place to make new connections and exchange ideas with a diverse group of colleagues. In terms of unintended ‘spillovers’, I learned more than I ever wanted to know about econometrics (and a good deal of new jargon to go with it), got first-hand exposure to new Spanish and European research systems (truly fascinating for the science policy nerd in me), was exposed to a new—and some might say exotic—meal schedule, only tampered by taking advantage of the early ‘guiri-lunch’ option for foreigners. And then there are the subtleties of paella that only a stay in Valencia can impart… 

They say about us...

... I’ve just returned from a short working visit to the INGENIO research centre in Valencia, Spain, where I’ve been doing some work on university research exploitation.  One of the researchers there, Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo, has got a paper forthcoming in Regional Studies, Regional Science, our open access journal.
Mabel came through our mentored Early Career Route (where our latest call for papers has just sadly closed), and if it’s permitted to tip another journal, has a very interesting paper on university engagement missions just published in Research Policy.
The INGENIO research centre is specialised in research and innovation policy, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that RSRS now have a paper from one of their Ph.D. students.  Innovation has certainly been a strong theme amongst the papers we have published in our first year...
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