Innovation Strategy Design
An Interactive Workshop for Research Groups
Academic Image:
External Image:
Effect o
n Research:
Impact o
n Society:
Assets &
Processes:
Target Groups:
Concepts:
RESEARCH TEAM:
”Tools of the trade”
IAVIntellectual Asset
Verification
F2RFreedom2Research
URAUtilization Role
Analysis
Innovation Strategy Design
IAIIntellectual Assets
Inventory
What responsibility? What can we utilize? How can we utilize?
R3
Research Resilience Review
Why a Strategy?
Strategy
Vision
NowStrengths
Opportunities
Workshop Process
• One area at a time• Make sure every voice is heard• Co-create concepts and words• Speak for your own ideas, not against others’
• The process manager holds both the baton and the pen
• We’ll cover some ground but perhaps not all the way• There’s more support if we would like
Before We Start
• My name is…
• I feel like a (anonymous)– Prisoner – I don’t want to be here and I will have a
negative impact if I can!– Vacationer – Nice to be away from everyday work so
don’t ask me to contribute!– Shopper – This might be interesting and I’m sure I’ll
find something worth taking home!– Explorer – I really enjoy exploring this and I promise
to contribute as much as I possible can!
1. CONCEPTSInnovation Strategy
Questions - Concepts
• What does ”Innovation” and ”Research Utilization” mean to us in our research group?
• Why should we be involved in innovation as researchers?
• Please note that this concerns innovation as academic practice, not innovation as a research topic!
Innovation
What responsibility for utilization, should we take?
What is being utilized?
What forms of utilization should we choose?
Research outcomes Benefit in society
From Research to Utilization
!?
An innovation is utilized research based knowledge.
Innovation is the process that leads to the utilization of research based knowledge.
An invention is a kind of intellectual asset, and thus not an innovation.
What is innovation in an academic context?
2. IMPACTInnovation Strategy
Questions – Impact (external)
• What kinds of impact on or results in other organisations (private, public, NGO) would we like our utilization to lead to?
• What have we achieved so far?• What are we really good at?• What kind of results do we not want to see?
• Examples:• ”Our innovation aims at supporting product development and new
business opportunities for the large telecommunication companies.”• ”Our research results will first and foremost be utilized by small and
medium sized companies wanting to improve their productivity.”
3. TARGET GROUPSInnovation Strategy
Questions – Target Groups
• Who should be the prime receivers of our research results?• What have we achieved so far?• What are we really good at?• What kind of stakeholders do we not want to exploit our
research results?
• Examples:• ”Our research has the biggest positive impact potential in
society through a close collaboration with larger private and public healthcare institutions.”
• ”Our research provides an important fundament for decision-makers in the Swedish government.”
4. ASSETS & PROCESSESInnovation Strategy
Question - Processes
• What and how should we utilize our research?• What have we achieved so far?• What are we really good at?• What kind of processes do we not want to use?
• Examples:• ”We will make sure always to investigate possible
IPR options for the results we produce.”• ”Our strategic ambition is to make our research
results available as Open Source.”
What is being utilized?
Sorry, no ideas at the moment, too busy interpreting the data I
got from the computer algorithm I wrote that runs the measuring
equipment I designed during lunch break…
Fotograf: Johan Wingborg
Belief
Fotograf: Johan Wingborg
InventionModelDesign
SoftwareMethod
DataFotograf: Johan Wingborg
Reality
Some Ways To Utilize Research
5. EFFECTSInnovation Strategy
Questions – Effects (internal)
• What kinds of positive effects from utilization would we like to see on our own research?
• What have we achieved so far?• What are we really good at?• What kind of effects do we not want to have?
• Examples:• ”We would like our research utilization to lead to closer collaboration with
more stakeholders in order to be able to widen our research to new areas.”• ”Through more attention in the media we can attract many more
prominent researchers.”• ”By fulfilling our innovation objectives, our research becomes more
competitive and can attract more funding by more industrial collaboration.”
6. IMAGEInnovation Strategy
Questions – Image
• How do we want to be perceived from an innovation perspective?– By the academic world?– By others?
• What do we have to offer and who is interested in that?• What have we achieved so far?• What are we really good at?• How do we not want to be perceived?
• Examples:• ”We are regarded as the leading Swedish research unit producing research
results that will make the IT infrastructure in public organisations significantly more efficient.”
• ”We want to be regarded as a research group contributing to lower the cost of drug R&D and thereby making more medicine available to people with low income.”
NEXT STEPInnovation Strategy
Appreciation of Today’s Workshop
Relation To Other Strategies
• The Innovation Strategy should be aligned to other policies such as:– IP– Equal Opportunities– Sustainability– Ethics
• And of course, the research group’s Research Strategy!
Other Tools Available
IAVIntellectual Asset
Verification
F2RFreedom2Research
URAUtilization RoleAnalysis
Innovation Strategy Design
IAIIntellectual Assets
Inventory
What responsibility? What can we utilize? How can we utilize?
R3
Research Resilience Review
Do We Have the People Needed?
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