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How Best Can We Achieve Most Effective Innovation?
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This Seminar will be held at The Royal Commonwealth Society in London
On Monday 22nd June 2009
Seminar reference INN/247 |
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In The UK Economy And Public Services: Strengthening Our Economy And Society Beyond The Recession
 How do we ensure the UK maintains world class innovation across the economy beyond the downturn?
What are the NAO's findings on Government's and RDA's' achievements to date?
What are Government's agenda and expectations following Innovation Nation?
How do we sustain maximum necessary investment in our science and technology base?
How do we galvanise effective innovation across government to ensure and sustain world class services?
How do we deliver most effective science and technology strategies to tackle crime and security?
How can the NHS maintain highest quality innovation in public health?
How can our cities attract world-class innovation with multiplier impacts?
How can we fundamentally re-engineer local government and increase citizens' expectations of public services?
How can we generate innovation in public services by deeper understanding of people's lives and expectations?
How do continue achieving successful innovation informed by research and delivered in partnership?
Where can we hope to be in ten years time?
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The fee for the day's Seminar is £195.00 plus VAT.
GENEROUS NEGOTIATED DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND FOR MULTIPLE BOOKINGS.
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CONTEXT
While we go through the economic downturn innovation both in the economy and public services is crucial to ensure excellence can be achieved in future years.
Innovation Nation in 2008 marked Government's ambition to make the UK the best place in the world for innovative business and public service. The global downturn has reinforced the importance of this message. The UK must harness innovation as the driver for future prosperity. We must continue to invest in talent, research and innovation to emerge in a stronger position and seize the opportunities.
In local government, IDeA says innovation had never been more so prominent in debates - from the shape of the new performance framework, to the National Improvement and Efficiency Strategy, from the government commitment to a Public Services Innovation Lab to the newly defined remit of the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships, innovation has moved to the heart of the UKs public policy agenda.
Many of the key challenges facing public services the continuing intractability of many social problems, the drive for greater efficiencies, and higher expectations from citizens require public bodies and their partners to develop new approaches to service delivery.
A new Whitehall Innovation Hub is disseminating good practice and ideas on public service innovation. NESTA has launched an Innovation Laboratory to experiment with different types of public sector innovation. The Design Council has set up a number of prototypes for its Public Services by Design programme
IDeA, NESTA and the Beacon Scheme's More than good ideas: the power of innovation in local government encapsulates some of thinking around public sector innovation to help stimulate further thought, discussion and best practice.
DIUS is leading work to increase demand for innovation. Every government department has to look at innovation as a tool to transform public services and create new markets through the Innovation Procurement Plans. The Technology Strategy Board is leading work on improving the Small Business Research Initiative.
Government is investing in new technologies. A £100m Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform will fund R&D and a fleet of up to 100 demonstration cars in 2009. £55m is being spent to reduce cases of illness caused by infectious diseases and £6bn pa by the NHS on treating them.
The Technology Strategy Board and Arts and Humanities Research Council have jointly established a programme to support creative industries with a £10m for collaborative R&D and a Knowledge Transfer Network.
The annual budget for science and research in the UK will rise to £6 billion in 2010/11. The UK is 3rd in the world after US and China on production of scientific papers. The UK has a 12% share of citations in leading scientific journals, second in the world after the US.
7.5k staff in HE are engaged in business development. The Higher Education Innovation Fund will increase to £150m. The average income generated from research, consultancy and licensing agreements by HE increased from £514m to £568m in three years. Patent applications have doubled in six years.
We now have better science teaching in schools and an increase in science A levels entries. More undergraduates and postgraduates are taking STEM subjects. STEM degree level qualifiers has increased by 36k and doctorate qualifiers by 2.6k in four years.
Business expenditure on R&D remains poor - 5th in the G7 but R&D performed by the largest UK companies increased by 5% between 2005 and 6. The UK has the second largest equity market in the world but only 4% of venture capital investment was in start up and early stage companies in 2007. As we exit the recess led by the financial sector, innovation in different sectors of the economy must be crucial.
Design-aware companies outperformed the FTSE 100 and FTSE All Share indices by more than 200% over ten years. Rapidly growing businesses are six times likelier than static ones to see design as integral to their operation.
The Council for Industry and Higher Education sees public procurement as the single most important lever Government has to encourage innovation. The Council for Science and Technology looks to a healthy engagement between academics and policy makers for informed, evidence based, world-class policy making. Engagement between academics and policy makers in the UK is not as strong as it might be.
The initiatives outlined in Governments recent paper Building Britains Future New Industry, New Jobs, aim to ensure high growth, high innovation firms get the financing they need as Britain moves out of the recession.
Cities provide ideal environments for innovation and are the focus for innovative activity within the private sector. NESTA's Innovation and the City explores how people, firms and organisations contribute to innovation within cities and presents two interlocking models for innovation.
An 'urban hubs' model applies to large cities with access to diverse and international markets, a strong skills base and a well-developed communications infrastructure. In the 'local links' model, specialist businesses tend to cluster together, establishing strong networks and links with local institutions.
Creating the right conditions for people, firms and organisations to innovate within a city requires a tailored approach that takes into account the city's existing markets, skills, institutions and networks.
Large cities will almost inevitably innovate but can't afford to rest on their laurels, as smaller cities have the capacity to provide strong competition. Developing policies that support and encourage innovation in cities is a vital part of transforming the UK's capacity for innovation.
The Work Foundation has conducted work on innovation in places what innovation means, how places can increase their innovation, what the conditions for innovation are, how places can enable innovation, and comparing the performance of different places.
The Budget announced new pilot city-regions for Greater Manchester and Leeds. These could well stimulate innovation through stronger integration of planning, housing, transport, regeneration, employment and skills programmes, increasing ability to drive sustainable growth and economic development
This CPPS seminar brings together key figures from across sectors in the important debate on how all sectors in the UK can develop innovation in both the economy and public services to ensure that the country emerges stronger after the recession.
The day encourages brief, focused presentations followed by engaged discussion by all attending in a relaxed setting. It is hoped that it will make a valuable contribution to taking forward the issues.
What people say about CPPS Seminars on Economic and Social Policy
Some very good comment and focus outside the focus of hysteria of the financial pages. Director of Policy and Regeneration, London Borough of Brent
High quality and value. Strategy Adviser, Audit Commission
May I congratulate CPPS for hosting this event at such an opportune moment and for bringing together such a strong cross section of those who are interested in the future of skills in the UK economy? & A very good and valuable day. Deputy Director General for Regions, Department of Trade and Industry
Round table structure excellent; food excellent; overall event very informative and topical; excellent networking opportunities. Researcher, Centre for Cities
Excellent. Particularly good chair. Head of Cultural Strategy, Manchester City Council
Please may I thank you and your colleagues for an excellent seminar. All speakers gave first class presentations; the format was good and stimulated discussion - Director, Energy Research Centre, University of Durham
The café table format enabled interaction. Overall format meant that speakers engaged with the audience. Each of the speakers in their own ways was illuminating and well presented. Chair, Salford Primary Care Trust
Excellent debate and update on a wide and diverse policy area. Head of Community and Economic Regeneration, Ashfield District Council
Excellent. All speakers were of a very high quality, very informative and interesting. Loved the structure also! Assistant Principal, Warrington Collegiate
Excellent seminar. Topic covered was stimulating. Fantastic networking and information exchange opportunities. Head of Strategic Neighbourhood Action Programme, Belfast City Council
Excellent organisation generally. Terrific inspirational messages. Director, Surrey Economic Partnership
Exceptionally valuable. Head of Strategic Growth, Opportunity Peterborough
Excellent, insightful - a good balance of speakers and opportunity for audience participation. Programme Director, University of Bedfordshire
I thought the value of the day was huge. All the presentations were very stimulating. Deputy Director, Government Office for the North West
This is the best event I have been to for a long time in terms of the speakers/presentations and the balance of speakers from a number of organisations. All presentations were excellent. Skills Development Director, Learning and Skills Council
It was an excellent forum for forward-thinking people to share and generate ideas - Headteacher, Wigan
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