Past events

Past Freeman Centre events.

Seminar by Patrick Stacy (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Dec 10, 2010 02:15 PM to Dec 10, 2010 03:30 PM)

 

Seminar by Stuart Fraser (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Dec 03, 2010 02:15 PM to Dec 03, 2010 03:30 PM)

Stuart Fraser, Warwick Business School.

Seminar by Martha Burkle (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Nov 26, 2010 02:15 PM to Nov 26, 2010 03:30 PM)

Martha Burkle, SAIT Polytechnic (Canada).

Creativity, Creative Destruction and Development in Less Developed Countries (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Nov 19, 2010 02:15 PM to Nov 19, 2010 03:30 PM)

Seminar by Ivan Hernandez, National University of Colombia.

Seminar by Alex Coad (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Nov 12, 2010 02:15 PM to Nov 12, 2010 03:30 PM)

Alex Coad, Max Planck Institute, Jena

The Right Prescription for Therapeutic Innovation? (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Nov 05, 2010 02:15 PM to Nov 05, 2010 03:30 PM)

Seminar by Michael Hopkins, SPRU.

Freeman Centre seminar (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Oct 29, 2010 02:15 PM to Oct 29, 2010 03:30 PM)

Details to be confirmed.

SCImago Institutions Ranking: A new way to benchmark research institutions (Freeman Centre social space, from Oct 27, 2010 01:00 PM to Oct 27, 2010 02:00 PM)

The seminar will be given by visiting SPRU fellow Antonio Perianes-Rodríguez who is normally based at the department of Information Science, Carlos III University of Madrid. Prof Ben Martin will be his discussant.

Innovation Studies: The invention of a specialty (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Oct 22, 2010 02:15 PM to Oct 22, 2010 03:30 PM)

Seminar by Benoit Godin, INRS, Montreal.

Policy Support for Innovation and Learning in SMEs: The Cases of Profitnet and Profitnet Plus (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Oct 15, 2010 02:15 PM to Oct 15, 2010 03:30 PM)

There are a variety of programmes and schemes to support learning and innovation in SMEs. Most existing innovation policies have focused on specific groups — such as the new technology based firms, and the high growth ones — neglecting the majority of SMEs. In this seminar, CENTRIM's George Tsekouras and Despina Kanellou introduce a framework for classifying the various support systems addressed to small businesses.

Innovation: exploring the knowledge base (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Oct 08, 2010 02:15 PM to Oct 08, 2010 03:30 PM)

New types of knowledge, and new ways of organising the production of it, may emerge as knowledge producers respond to the challenges posed by a changing society. A study by Jan Fagerberg (TIK, University of Oslo, Norway), and Koson Sapprasert (CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden) will focus on the core knowledge of one such emerging field, namely, innovation studies, i.e. the attempt to understand the social process which enables the continuation of qualitative improvements of products, technologies, and the organisation of economic activities.

Technical Change: History, Economics and Policy (Freeman Centre, from Mar 29, 2010 09:00 AM to Mar 30, 2010 05:00 PM)

A Conference in Honour of Nick von Tunzelmann.

Doing Road Works on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Reflections of an Academic Navvy (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Mar 19, 2010 02:00 PM to Mar 19, 2010 03:30 PM)

Seminar by Professor Gordon Murray, Exeter University.

What Happens in Global Value Chains when the Market Shifts from North to South? (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Mar 12, 2010 02:00 PM to Mar 12, 2010 03:30 PM)

The combination of rapid growth trajectories in China and India, and prolonged slowdown in the North, means that for many developing countries their major markets shift from high income consumers in the north to low income consumers in the south. What implications does this hold for value chains in low income countries? Will it affect the degree of value they add to their exported resources? What implications does it hold for product and process standards? Raphie Kaplinsky presents …

Business, Management and Economics postgraduate open day 2010 (Freeman Centre, and across campus, from Mar 10, 2010 01:00 PM to Mar 10, 2010 04:00 PM)

An unmissable opportunity to find out about the School's range of outstanding MSc degrees.

Users, Super-Users and Innovation Policy: mapping and measuring the terrain of user innovation (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Mar 05, 2010 02:15 PM to Mar 05, 2010 03:30 PM)

User innovation is a widespread phenomenon and has begun to attract the attention of policymakers in many countries. Although there has been an early attempt to frame policy in this area, policymakers are still some distance from being in a position to developed informed and effective policy concerning user innovation.

What is unique about designers? (Freeman Centre room G22, from Mar 04, 2010 01:00 PM to Mar 04, 2010 02:30 PM)

In preparation for 'Design and the Creative Industries Conference: Working Together with Universities', Mike Hobday and Andrew Grantham would like to present some ideas to colleagues relating to innovation and design.

Towards a More Effective Science Policy Process (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, from Feb 26, 2010 02:15 PM to Feb 26, 2010 03:30 PM)

The widely stated calls in science policy circles for increases in community and scientific input into the science policy development process are addressed. Cognitive maps are used to identify the perceived causal relationships influencing achievement of some policy goal(s).

Design Capabilities — Learning How to Design a City which is Zero Carbon and in China (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, University of Sussex campus, from Feb 12, 2010 02:15 PM to Feb 12, 2010 03:30 PM)

This seminar explores one of the most complex forms of systems integration (Hobday et al., 2005). Andrew Davies and Lars Frederiksen examine how Arup, the engineering and design consultancy, developed the capabilities to design a new city with zero carbon emissions.

Human Security (Freeman Centre rooms G24/25, University of Sussex campus, from Feb 05, 2010 02:15 PM to Feb 05, 2010 03:30 PM)

Why we need to restructure defence budgets away from national security, involving conventional military force aimed at the defence of borders towards human security.