Inside innovation. Year 2. An evaluation of the second year of delivery of a project promoting innovative thinking amongst Prison Service staff

The Inside Innovation programme is the result of a partnership between Media For Development (MFD) and UnLtd. The Inside Innovation programme forms part of MFD’s multi-award winning Inside Job initiative that operates within the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom. MFD staff are responsible for supporting applications to UnLtd for funded awards for good project ideas generated from staff working in the prison sector. In line with equivalent posts at UnLtd, the Development Manager supports Award Winners throughout the lifespan of their projects. During the first year of service delivery, Inside Innovation operated in two prisons, HMP Wandsworth and HMP Downview. During the second year of service delivery, Inside Innovation has been established in two further prisons, HMP Brixton and HMP Highdown

Maine Alumni Magazine, Volume 94, Number 2, Summer 2013

Contents: Becoming the Innovation University: How UMaine partners for progress in revitalizing the Maine economy --- Innovation Engineering at FCSI: The Foster Center for Student Innovation promotes teaching of Doug Hall\u27s system of Innovation Engineering --- Enhancing the Harvest: Jan and Dean Anderson create jobs in Belfast, ME, with innovative food processing plant --- Innovation, Collaboration and Neuroscience: Keri Sewell Seitz brings Innovation Engineering concepts to FHC, Inc. to create award-winning growth --- Star-Studded Service: Alumni Career Award honor Admiral Gregory Johnson Hon. L.H.D. for outstanding service to the nationhttps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/1567/thumbnail.jp

Financing of Competing Projects with Venture Capital

We analyze innovation race in a moral hazard setting. We develop a model in which two competing entrepreneurs work independently on the same project. The entrepreneurs do not possess any wealth of their own and their research is financed by a venture capitalist. The project, if successful, generates a prize, which is to be shared between the winning entrepreneur and the venture capitalist. The venture capitalist cannot observe the allocation of funds he provides, which creates a moral hazard problem. We compare a competitive setting with a benchmark case where the venture capitalist finances only one entrepreneur. We show that the venture capitalist can increase the efficiency of research (hence, his own expected profit from investments) and alleviate the moral hazard problem if he finances both entrepreneurs. This conclusion is unambiguous, when the entrepreneurs are at the same (the last) stage of R&D. It holds for a reasonably large range of parameters, when the entrepreneurs are at different stages of R&D.venture capital, moral hazard, optimal contract, innovation race

The All-Pay Auction with Nonmonotonic Payoff

I model innovation contests as an all-pay auction in which it is possible not to achieve successful innovation despite costly R&D investments, and as a result, there is no winner. In such a case, the winning payoff turns out to be nonmonotonic in own bid. I derive the sufficient conditions for the existence of pure strategy equilibria, and fully characterize the nondegenerate mixed strategy equilibrium. In the mixed strategy equilibrium, the support of the low-value bidder is not continuous, and both the high-value and the low-value bidders place an atom in the (distinct) lower bound of their respective support. Under symmetric valuation, both bidders place an atom at zero. These results can explain why one does not observe very low quality innovation in real life, or why even symmetric firms may stay out of an innovation contest

Winthrop Rebranding Video Wins Prestigious Regional Award

HIGHLIGHTS Winthrop’s award-winning video, entitled “Our Refreshed Look,” debuted at a Feb. 22, 2018, event to unveil the university’s first logo redesign in 25 years. Winthrop video projects have received several CASE awards, including a 2017 Award of Excellence in the Online Innovation/Experimentation category for “These Professors: Mark Hamilton – An Interactive Documentary Short” and a 2015 Grand Award for “This Campus.

Role of managerial leadership in promoting quality: Experience from Quality Award winning organization in UAE

Many quality experts believe that the key to successful management of quality begins at the top of the organization (Laskhman, 2006). So \u27leadership and \u27managerial\u27 roles have become important for quality and innovation within organizations. The implication and scope of managerial leadership are quite different everywhere. The purpose of this paper is to study the managerial leadership practices through an empirical investigation of an excellence award winning organization. It seeks to extradite the managerial leadership practices that have paved a way for winning \u27excellence\u27 award and for the sustenance of quality and continued customer focus. The overall aim of this paper is to present the insights of an organization that received Industry excellence award three times

Innovation capabilities in agribusiness : evidence from Brazil

Purpose – This paper aims to identify the winning combination of innovation capabilities for selected Brazilian agribusiness firms along different value chain links. Design/methodology/approach – Adopting a quantitative approach, the authors analyzed the relationship between innovation capabilities and innovative performance of 300 agribusiness firms through a multi-regression technique. Findings – The results showed that transaction, management and development capabilities can improve agribusiness firms’ performance in underdeveloped value chains. Research limitations/implications – For future research, the authors recommend analyzing further links such as traders and retailers to find the innovation capability for the entire agribusiness value chain. Practical implications – Upstream firms should adopt new management techniques and tools, efficiently using their resources, while downstream firms should absorb and transform new technologies into products and processes. Social implications – The authors suggest formulating public policies that propose the recombination of innovation capabilities to organize agribusiness firms and avoid commodity-oriented market dependence. Originality/value – The literature on agribusiness explains innovation at the chain level, based primarily on scientific advancements rather than on innovation at the firm level. In this sense, this study provides empirical evidence that can help boost innovation in agribusiness firms

Innovation capabilities in agribusiness: evidence from Brazil

Purpose – This paper aims to identify the winning combination of innovation capabilities for selected Brazilian agribusiness firms along different value chain links.Design/methodology/approach – Adopting a quantitative approach, the authors analyzed the relationship between innovation capabilities and innovative performance of 300 agribusiness firms through a multi-regression technique.Findings – The results showed that transaction, management and development capabilities can improve agribusiness firms’ performance in underdeveloped value chains.Research limitations/implications – For future research, the authors recommend analyzing further links such as traders and retailers to find the innovation capability for the entire agribusiness value chain.Practical implications – Upstream firms should adopt new management techniques and tools, efficiently using their resources, while downstream firms should absorb and transform new technologies into products and processes.Social implications – The authors suggest formulating public policies that propose the recombination of innovation capabilities to organize agribusiness firms and avoid commodity-oriented market dependence.Originality/value – The literature on agribusiness explains innovation at the chain level, based primarily on scientific advancements rather than on innovation at the firm level. In this sense, this study provides empirical evidence that can help boost innovation in agribusiness firms

Comparing Best Practice Public Service Innovation in East Java: Type, Distribution, and Consequences

Abstract: The Public Service Innovation Competition (KIPP) organized by the Kemenpan-RB has yielded numerous award-winning innovations since its inception in 2014. The competition attracts participation from government agencies at the national, local, and village levels. In particular, local governments in East Java have consistently produced the majority of winners in the Top 99 public service innovations category, partly due to the abundance of capable Regional Heads in the region who foster innovation. Given their superior performance, it is pertinent to assess the extent to which innovation has been adopted in East Java since 2014. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the type, distribution, and impact of public service innovation across all local governments in East Java. The researcher utilized best practices research methodology and analyzed the Kemenpan-RB's top 99 report documents on public service innovation. The findings reveal that there has been substantial progress in the development of public service innovation in East Java, with the Regency Government being the leading innovator. Moreover, innovation has been integrated into the core mission of local governments across East Java. However, there is a need for local governments at all levels to adopt digital innovation and engage in collaborative problem-solving with other institutions to meet the evolving needs of the public

The Nature of Inventive Activities: Evidence from a Data-Set of the Okouchi Prizes and a Comparison with the R&D 100 Awards

This paper conducts preliminary analysis on technological innovation by using prize and award data sets: the Okouchi Prizes and the R&D 100 Awards. It aims to outline longitudinal patterns of award-winning industries, organizational type, and inter-organizational collaboration. First, it shows that most awards in the 1960s were given in the area of electric appliances. The iron and steel industry was the second leading prize winner of the Okouchi Prizes. Meanwhile, the segment of transportation equipment, one of the Japan’s leading industries, fared poorly. Looking at the R&D 100 Awards, this segment’s presence has increased in Japan, while it has decreased in the U.S. since the 1970s. Lastly, the inter-organizational collaboration ratio was higher in Japan than in the U.S. until the 1980s. However, the U.S. showed an increase in the collaboration ratio starting in the 1980s, when the ratio dramatically dropped in Japan.