October 2010 offers a new start to some of the Civil Service, including me. Just before the silver watch, but who's counting, so now a chance to really push the importance of Innovation to the UK and to build its reputation and output.
Lets start with defining innovation as :- the delivery of new products and services to market; not to be confused with invention which is the production of new ideas and prototypes.
My stall has always been that the UK is good, really good at invention and innovation, so we need to celebrate success, whinge a little less and build on our strengths.
The first part is to understand the landscape under 12 key themes of funders, networks, government, infrastructure (physical and virtual), technology transfer organisations, business support, discussion fora, standards bodies, finance, research, learned societies, and industry c.f. UKTI Innovation Map
A good place to start is where you can see all of these people in one place and the Innovate 2010 event on Tuesday 12th October was one of the best. Created by the Technology Strategy Board and centred around their support mechanisms of Knowledge Transfer Networks, Innovation platforms, technology calls, Knowledge Transfer Programmes and others together with industry exhibitors and other innovation organisations. All under one roof and pursuing the possibilities inherent in the UK system.
And a last thought - the UK system is flexible, multifaceted, subtle but above all successful.
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