Complex regional innovation networks and HEI engagement the case of Chicago

This article considers how HEIs engage within local complex development networks in order to develop the urban metropolis, using the case of Chicago as a specific example. It focuses on three main issues: how collaboration occurs amongst regional stakeholders; how goals are set and how shared goals have been created; and the extent to which there exist conflicting views amongst stakeholders, and their capability to create solutions where there are disagreements and clashing purposes. Chicago is in the middle of making a paradigm shift, with at its core an open system approach that includes a variety of ways to engage citizen-users as co-creators, including through user-driven innovation and digitalised services. In the metropolitan area there is a widely shared goal amongst stakeholders to develop and improve novel approaches for regional engagement to enhance innovativeness and competitiveness. The paradigm shift in regional engagement from building co-operation clusters to one of organisational betweenness and open systemic thinking requires new skills in management and leadership centred on interaction, co-creation and sharing of knowledge

Public value and public services in the post-virus economy

This article explores public value and public management through the lens of economic factors – an unusual stance since public management research mostly features the economy as background rather than foreground. Responding to calls for deeper investigations into public value, it argues that public value is not confined to the formal public sector and should also include use-values created and distributed by households, the third-sector and informal associations. Arguing that economic context is paid insufficient attention in public management research, the paper shows how alternative models are possible based on social reproduction, Regulation Theory, and Modern Monetary Theory as an alternative to traditional Keynesianism – favouring a balanced economy above balanced budget

Critical Reassessment: The European Cloud University Platform and New Challenges of the Quartet Helix Collaboration in the European University System

The European Commission has presented how it intends to give Europe a lead in the data-driven economy by enabling cloud-based services and world-class infrastructures for industry, scientists, and public services. In 2011 we discussed and proposed the cloud university platform for the European Union in the European Inte-gration Studies. The purpose of the study is to deliver a critical reassessment of the European Cloud University Platform. Today a new European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will offer Europe's 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals a virtual environment to store, share and re-use the large vol-umes of information generated by the big data revolution. The EOSC will be underpinned by the European Data Infrastructure, deploying the high-bandwidth networks and super-computer capacity necessary to effectively access and process large datasets stored in the cloud. There is also a target to build a single market for the Internet of Things: with the right standards for interoperability, and open cross-sector platforms for IoT devices and services to connect seamlessly, and scale-up, up anywhere in the EU. Our assessment is focused on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and its operational functioning and implementation process. The study is based on conventional assessment methods and tools. The methodology is a mostly mixed methodology (with both qualitative and quantitative data analytics) and it pays attention to argumentation logic and actual policy planning process and operational implementation of the EOSC.The role of Research Infrastructures (RIs), as well as cross-border innovation management approach are emphasized in recent transnational European research and innovation policy. Support for RIs form important pillars in the Horizon 2020-framework, as well as in the Horizon Europe-framework based on the idea that modern science requires unique global competitive capabilities, which individual institutions, or even individu-al European countries, often cannot provide by themselves. There are very good reasons to perform a critical assessment, because according to the European Cloud Initiative, over the coming 5 years, the European Com-mission will put forward proposals to meet the euro 4.7 billion investment need to integrate and consolidate data infrastructure. These vital proposals will bring together the EU and other sources, including Member States and private investments. By 2017, all scientific data produced by projects under the euro 77 billion within the Hori-zon 2020 research and innovation programme will become open by default to ensure that the scientific com-munity can re-use the enormous amount of data they generate. This change is not marginal and needs more reflective discussions. The primary database of reassessment is the documents of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and (1) associated European Commission work programme (overview of institution-wide deliv-erables), (2) the strategic plan (department strategy, objectives for 2016-2020) and (3) other EU management plans and scientific discussion associated with platform economy research. These EU documents were pub-lished after our original EIS article.The key results of critical reassessment are: (1) There are concrete needs to strengthen links between the European Open Science Cloud, Industry 4.0 strategy and Industry 4.0 Curriculum in Europe, (2) the concept of platform needs more discussion in the future developments of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), (3) country-level university and research community participation in the EOSC requires more discussion and more updated operational implementation plans and programs, and (4) there is need to plan symbiotic dig-italized innovation eco-system policy and economic growth policy framework for the European Union. We summarise our critical reassessment with a critical note that there are big integration challenges of the Eu-ropean Open Science Cloud.</p

A Critical Reassessment : The European Cloud University Platform and New Challenges of the Quartet Helix Collaboration in the European University System

The European Commission has presented how it intends to give Europe a lead in the data-driven economy by enabling cloud-based services and world-class infrastructures for industry, scientists, and public services. In 2011 we discussed and proposed the cloud university platform for the European Union in the European Integration Studies. The purpose of the study is to deliver a critical reassessment of the European Cloud University Platform. Today a new European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will offer Europe's 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals a virtual environment to store, share and re-use the large volumes of information generated by the big data revolution. The EOSC will be underpinned by the European Data Infrastructure, deploying the high-bandwidth networks and super-computer capacity necessary to effectively access and process large datasets stored in the cloud. There is also a target to build a single market for the Internet of Things: with the right standards for interoperability, and open cross-sector platforms for IoT devices and services to connect seamlessly, and scale-up, up anywhere in the EU. Our assessment is focused on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and its operational functioning and implementation process. The study is based on conventional assessment methods and tools. The methodology is a mostly mixed methodology (with both qualitative and quantitative data analytics) and it pays attention to argumentation logic and actual policy planning process and operational implementation of the EOSC. The role of Research Infrastructures (RIs), as well as cross-border innovation management approach are emphasized in recent transnational European research and innovation policy. Support for RIs form important pillars in the Horizon 2020-framework, as well as in the Horizon Europe-framework based on the idea that modern science requires unique global competitive capabilities, which individual institutions, or even individual European countries, often cannot provide by themselves. There are very good reasons to perform a critical assessment, because according to the European Cloud Initiative, over the coming 5 years, the European Commission will put forward proposals to meet the €4.7 billion investment need to integrate and consolidate data infrastructure. These vital proposals will bring together the EU and other sources, including Member States and private investments. By 2017, all scientific data produced by projects under the €77 billion within the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme will become open by default to ensure that the scientific community can re-use the enormous amount of data they generate. This change is not marginal and needs more reflective discussions. The primary database of reassessment is the documents of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and (1) associated European Commission work programme (overview of institution-wide deliverables), (2) the strategic plan (department strategy, objectives for 2016-2020) and (3) other EU management plans and scientific discussion associated with platform economy research. These EU documents were published after our original EIS article. The key results of critical reassessment are: (1) There are concrete needs to strengthen links between the European Open Science Cloud, Industry 4.0 strategy and Industry 4.0 Curriculum in Europe, (2) the concept of platform needs more discussion in the future developments of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), (3) country-level university and research community participation in the EOSC requires more discussion and more updated operational implementation plans and programs, and (4) there is need to plan symbiotic digitalized innovation eco-system policy and economic growth policy framework for the European Union. We summarise our critical reassessment with a critical note that there are big integration challenges of the European Open Science Cloud.publishedVersionPeer reviewe

Kasvintuotannon tarkastuskeskuksen arviointiraportti 2001

Tämä Kasvintuotannon tarkastuskeskuksen (KTTK) arviointiraportti on laadittu maa- ja metsätalousministeriön toimeksiannosta. Tehtävänämme on arvioida, miten Kasvintuotannon tarkastuskeskuksen toiminnan laatu, organisaatio ja johtaminen vastaavat ympäristön asettamia vaatimuksia. Työ on valmisteltu syksyllä 2000 sekä kirjoitettu kevään ja kesän 2001 aikana. KTTK:n arvioinnin tarve syntyy muuttuvasta toimintaympäristöstä. Organisaatioratkaisuihin ja toimintatapoihin vaikuttavat paitsi alan kehitys, myös yleisemmät valtionhallinnon kehitystrendit. Julkishallinnossa eräänä keskeisenä haasteena on asiantuntijaorganisaatioiden ohjaaminen toteuttamaan entistä paremmin palvelutehtävää. Julkisilta organisaatioilta vaaditaan 2000-luvun Suomessa tehokkuuden lisäksi avoimuutta, johdonmukaisuutta ja vastuun selkeyttä. Julkisten organisaatioiden on tarjottava myös osallistumiskanavia asiakkailleen. KTTK:n organisaation on kehitettävä toimintaansa muuttuvista lähtökohdista käsin, ja arviointiraportti tarjoaa apuvälineen kehittämistyöhön. KTTK:n merkityksen voidaan perustellusti sanoa korostuneen yhteiskunnassa, koska suomalaiset arvostavat yhä enemmän puhtaita ja turvallisia elintarvikkeita. Arviointi on toteutettava aina jostakin näkökulmasta käsin. Tämän arvioinnin perusta on eurooppalaisen laatupalkinnon kriteereissä. Kiinnitämme huomiota KTTK:n ulkoiseen toimintaan ja sen kriittisiin menestystekijöihin. Toisena kokonaisuutena raportissamme on KTTK:n ulkoinen ohjaus ja sidosryhmätyö. Kolmas osuus käsittelee KTTK:n hallintoa. Raportin yhteenveto sisältää näkemyksemme asetettujen laatukriteerien toteutumisesta KTTK:ssa. Uusi näkökulma organisaation kehittämiseen on välttämätön toimintaympäristön muuttuessa. Aiemmat toimenpiteet ovat voineet ohjata organisaatiota edellisessä toimintaympäristössä oikeaan suuntaan. Näin on luultavasti ollut KTTK:n kohdalla, sillä kasvintuotannon suurilta vahingoilta on Suomessa vältytty. Uudessa suunnassa asetettujen kriteerien mittarit näyttävät alussa vähäisiä lukemia, mutta johdonmukaisesti edeten matka taittuu oikeaan suuntaan. Työtämme on tukenut ohjausryhmä, johon ovat kuuluneet hallintojohtaja Riitta Haanpää, johtaja Mirja Kartio, ylijohtaja Lauri Pölkki (31.3.2001 saakka), ylitarkastaja Sinikka Saari, maatalousneuvos Maria Teirikko (ja 1.4.2001 alkaen KTTK:n ylijohtaja) ja talousjohtaja Tuula Tenhula. Arviointitutkimus on suoritettu Tampereen yliopiston hallintotieteen laitoksella ja sen yhteydessä toimivassa ulkoisen palvelutoiminnan yksikössä, hallintotieteiden keskuksessa