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Luke Georghiou | |
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| Born | 1955 |
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| Main interests | Innovation policy |
Luke Georghiou (born 1955) is Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Manchester. He is also professor of science and technology policy and management at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at Manchester Business School.
Georghiou is active in research and policy advice in the fields of research and innovation policy,foresight,and evaluation. He has advocated greater use of demand-side innovation policies,notably public procurement,to stimulate innovation and the alignment of research and innovation systems to address "grand challenges" such as sustainability,food and energy security and the aging society.
In 2011 he was elected to the Academia Europaea and from 2016 chairs the European Universities Association Council for Doctoral Education representing universities in 47 countries. He was Co-Champion of the 2016 EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF),Europe's largest pan-disciplinary science conference. He is a director of Manchester Science Partnerships and UMI3 the University's technology transfer and intellectual property company.
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Research funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research,in the areas of natural science,technology,and social science. Different methods can be used to disburse funding,but the term often connotes funding obtained through a competitive process,in which potential research projects are evaluated and only the most promising receive funding. It is often measured via Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD).
Nesta is an innovation foundation based in the UK.
Alliance Manchester Business School is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester,England. One of the most prestigious business schools in the United Kingdom,it is also the second oldest in the UK,and provides education to undergraduates,postgraduates and executives.
Strategic foresight is a planning-oriented discipline related to futures studies. In a business context,a more action-oriented approach has become well known as corporate foresight.
In futurology,especially in Europe,the term foresight has become widely used to describe activities such as:
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Daniele Archibugi is an Italian economic and political theorist. He works on the economics and policy of innovation and technological change,on the political theory of international relations and on political and technological globalisation.
Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) is a research centre based at University of Sussex in Falmer,near Brighton,UK. It focuses on long term transformative change,science policy and innovation across different sectors,societies and structures. It was one of the first interdisciplinary research centres in the field of science and technology policy and at the forefront of the development of innovation as an academic discipline. Alongside internationally renowned research,SPRU also offers a range of MSc courses,as well as PhD research degrees.
Geoffrey Nigel Gilbert is a British sociologist and a pioneer in the use of agent-based models in the social sciences. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation,author of several books on computational social science,social simulation and social research and past editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS),the leading journal in the field.
Steve Rayner was James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at Oxford University and Director of the Institute for Science,Innovation and Society,a member of the Oxford Martin School. He described himself as an "undisciplined social scientist" having been trained in philosophy,comparative religion and political anthropology.
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Charles Edquist is a Swedish researcher in Innovation,one of the founders and the first Director (2004-2011) of CIRCLE at Lund University,Sweden,and the holder of the Ruben Rausing Chair in Innovation Research at CIRCLE. Some of his most noted research contributions have been on the ‘Systems of Innovation approach’,the ‘Swedish Paradox’and ‘Innovation Policy’. His early contributions to the ‘public procurement for innovation’literature are among his most cited works to date.
The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic(TA CR) is a Czech government agency,founded in 2009 to enhance and encourage cooperation between research organizations supported by the state and the business sector. Within its programmes,projects of applied research,experimental development and innovations are elected and financed.
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