Innovation policy and the Covid-19 pandemic: What role for co-creation and crowdsourcing instruments? (CIMR Debates and Workshops in Public Policy)
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Join the Centre for Innovation Management Research on Wednesday 19 October for our online seminar: Innovation policy and the Covid-19 pandemic: What role for co-creation and crowdsourcing instruments? The online debate is part of the CIMR Debates and Workshops in Public Policy series.
The rapid spread of the pandemic has forced governments to implement multiple, and sometimes unprecedented, measures to prevent the collapse of the health system and of national economies worldwide. Many of these measures have involved the participation of multiple stakeholders, under frameworks such as co-creation – defined as the process of joint production of innovation between industry, research and other stakeholders, such as civil society – and crowdsourcing – that is the use of internet-based platforms to elicit ideas and promote collaboration. The present workshop provides an opportunity to discuss government’s use of multi-stakeholder participatory approaches such as co-creation and crowdsourcing in the context of Covid-19, identifying best practices, limitations and lessons that can be carried forward into the future.
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Introduction – Dr Federica Rossi, Birkbeck, University of London
Co-creation during Covid-19: Insights and policy lessons from international initiatives – Prof. Muthu De Silva, Birkbeck, University of London
Governments’ use of crowdsourcing during the Covid-19 pandemic – Prof. Ana Colovic, NEOMA Business School, and Dr Annalisa Caloffi, University of Firenze
Discussant: Dr. Laura Kreiling, OECD Science and Technology Policy (STP) division
BIOGRAPHIES
Dr. Annalisa Caloffi is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence (Italy). Her main research interests include the analysis and evaluation of innovation policies; R&D networks; industrial districts and clusters. She has been involved in a number of international research projects on innovation policies and clusters, including EU-funded Research Framework projects, as well as in several projects funded by national and regional agencies. Her works have been presented in several conferences worldwide and published in peer-reviewed journals, books and other national and international outlets including Research Policy, Journal of Economic Geography, Technology Forecasting and Social Change and Journal of Technology Transfer.
Dr. Anna Colovic, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, NEOMA Business School, France. Her research interests include business models, industrial clusters, innovation ecosystems and innovation policy. She has been involved in projects focusing on cluster policies in several countries. She has conducted research at the National Institute for Science and Technology Policy (Tokyo, Japan), and the National Association for Technological Research (Paris, France). She is a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Prof. Muthu De Silva is a Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Assistant Dean (Research) at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her research advances our understanding on co-creation. In particular, she has contributed to our knowledge on how actors in an ecosystem engaged in co-creation, and associated good practices, capabilities, intellectual property and impacts. She has published in world-leading journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, British Journal of Management, R&D Management, and Technovation, among others. She has secured major grants from Innovate UK, Intellectual Property Office, EU and British Academy/Leverhulme, OECD, and British Academy of Management. She is a fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. She is in the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Management.
Dr. Laura Kreiling is Policy Analyst at the OECD Science and Technology Policy (STP) division with a great interest in topics at the intersections of the public, private and societal sectors. Currently, she works on governance issues of emerging technologies in the Secretariat of the Working Party on Bio-, Nano- and Converging Technologies (BNCT). Among other projects, she manages the implementation of the OECD Recommendation on Responsible Innovation in Neurotechnology. In previous work, she investigated collaborative platforms for converging technologies as well as knowledge co-creation. Laura joined the OECD in 2019 with a PhD in management science from University Paris-Saclay. She has five years of work experience in the private sector as project manager in the automotive industry and in strategic healthcare management. In her academic research, she investigated and published on managerial practices, metrics and performance of innovation intermediary organisations in Europe.
Dr. Federica Rossi is Reader in Innovation Policy and Management at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests focus on science and technology policy, the economics and management of intellectual property rights, innovation activities of firms and networks of firms, the economics and governance of higher education. She has contributed to numerous research projects for, among others, the OECD, the UK's Intellectual Property Office, the EC/Eurostat and regional development agencies. She has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and books.
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