Innovation in Context
The word 鈥渋nnovation鈥� pops up everywhere.聽It refers to everything from technology to services to economic growth 鈥� but聽is innovation just about goods and services or does it depend on who we are, our institutions, culture and education? To highlight the social context of innovation, the CIPP and CIGI are organizing a one-day interdisciplinary workshop,聽in association with 平特五不中鈥檚 Innovation Week.聽
Open to students, entrepreneurs, policy-makers and community leaders we will explore together聽the fundamental role that human structures, attitudes, skills and knowledge have in determining the impact of innovation.聽
鈥婳ur panels will examine how innovation is as much as social phenomenon as a technological聽one.聽The bias towards鈥痶echnology ignores the reality that many of the most significant鈥痠nnovations are either not related to technology or are only peripherally so.聽Great technologies that don鈥檛 meet聽social聽needs聽will fail; important social changes can have substantial impact even without technologies.聽
鈥婾ltimately, our event will explore what conditions in society lead people not only to create but to turn those creations into innovations. Idea-driven goods and services pose new challenges for our societies. As they disrupt conventional聽economic, political, and social聽structures, they create tremendous uncertainty. How can countries maximize the benefits of innovation? How聽should聽society adapt technology to its need? How do innovations transform聽us and our聽social interactions?聽聽In all these questions, we cannot forget the importance of the social to the success or failure of innovation and the relationship between people and their innovations.鈥�
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