How To Build Research-Industry Networks

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COINs 2010 Opening Conversation

Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

How To Build Research-Industry Networks with Conversations, Communications, and Collaboration

 Written by Betsey Merkel

Research-industry networks develop knowledge in research and business for collaboration and capacity building. The COINs 2010 Conference is an example of how to build this type of strategic engagement for competitive network advantage.

As a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference, I-Open worked in collaboration with the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, and Wayne State University College of Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, in Savannah, GA USA.

This second international and highly interactive program presented training, workshops, paper presentations, and keynote conversations of research and industry leaders focused on aspects of the emerging Science of Collaboration. 

As a result of the committee's support, we were able to dedicate a six-month pre-conference period to share specialized communications and develop on-line  community.

Broadcast Conversations

I-Open introduced the concept of broadcast interviews and conference conversations to the COINs steering committee to strengthen programming and develop conference experience.  

We chose Livestream as our provider, having worked the toolset to broadcast Northeast Ohio conversations since 2006. Livestream offers a sophisticated  library widget (shown below) which is easily copied to blogs and websites.

 Within less than 30 days of uploading content to the COINs Conference channel, archive broadcast programming had attracted nearly 100,000 viewer minutes.

Technology tools, like the Livestream widget, enable sharing knowledge at levels appropriate to the development of networked collaborative communities.

What the Livestream Channel looks like when embedded: 

Communications

Frameworks are a good first step to organize strategic communications in environments that are otherwise information complex.  

Frameworks establish community values, roles and relationships. They serve as a high-level perspective on categories of investment, and offer starting points to community engagement.

The Swarm Creativity Framework was designed to loosely guide the organization of knowledge shared by the COINs 2010 conference community in support of the emerging Science of Collaboration.

 The Swarm Creativity Framework is a heuristic model of investment based on categories of knowledge  important to strengthen the discipline, Swarm Creativity.  Categories are associated here for the purpose of generating creative economies, of which collaboration is an integral capacity.

The Framework is featured in the COINs 2010 Conference Instructions document below and is a transfer of the Innovation Framework, a successful model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.   COINs 2010 Conference Instructions

 

In addition to what we share, how we share information is important.  

Contextual transmedia communications distributes information across dedicated social media infrastructure. Each platform has it's own thematic community, interests and preferred multimedia.

The publishing process used to engage with the tools, leverages values-based storytelling. This influences strategic thinking and social behavoirs of the 'meta' community.

The map shown below visualizes how information was shared to attract and connect COINs 2010 online community.

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Collaboration

Collaborative workspaces develop community by sharing communications, connecting resources, increasing transparency, and organizing project work.  

Workspaces sustain and amplify conversations between meet ups so project development can continue. 

The Swarm Creativity workspace sponsored by I-Open for conference collaborators, is shown below.

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In Summary

The development of research-industry networks is paramount to engage locally based, globally connected economies for competitive regional advantage.

Further, investment in the strategic orchestration and management of dedicated process to support creative approaches to knowledge sharing is critical. This, coupled with data management, content marketing, and continuous technology innovation cultivate collective intelligence.

The COINs 2010 Conference offers a tested, comprehensive and sophisticated example of how research-industry conversations, communications and collaboration access the innovation capacity of community.

Working this way, universities and colleges can act in partnership with business and government, each occupying a unique leadership position within a larger, collaborative initiative.

My highest praise goes to the COINs Steering Committee, academic leaders from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Collective Intelligence, Savannah College of Art & Design, and Wayne State University's College of Engineering, who despite unknown outcomes, supported and adopted these creative ideas early in conference planning.

Hub Contributions to COINs2010: Hub MILAN on Vimeo

The three founders of The Hub contributed video interviews about their work to the COINs 2010 community in celebration of the COINs 2010 Conference hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design located in Savannah, Georgia, October 7-9, 2010.

Alberto Masetti, founder of Hub Milan, shares an interview with us about Milan's creative space and talks about the spread of collective intelligence.

Hub Milan is an example of investing in Quality, Connected Place - one of five areas of innovation investment in Open Source Economic Development.

Hub Milan is one of a network of 27 Hub models, each a distinctive example of how to   identify and connect place-based interests and assets.

Founders of Hub Zurich and Hub Sao Paulo also contributed interviews and we'll be posting them to this blog subsequently.

You can learn more about Hub Milan at this site. 

Learn about COINs 2010 at this site. 

COINS 2010 “Lybba - Unleashing swarm creativity to make open-source healthcare a reality”

In his opening keynote, Jesse Dylan, award winning director of the Obama campaign video "Yes we can" and Peter Gloor, MIT Research Scientist, talk together about Lybba - an open source approach to knowledge sharing and caring - is helping give life to the open source healthcare movement.

Lybba's mission is to connect people with the community, information, and resources they need to take care of themselves and one another. Lybba creates online environments, media campaigns, and social experiments that forge meaningful relationships between hospitals and schools, doctors and patients, researchers and policy-makers. The organization takes an ethical and ecological approach to every challenge it faces. It combines media, design, science, and technology to make a difference, free for all, free of commercial interest.

Jesse's ultimate goal is to bring together every patient looking for answers and provide a platform so that every stakeholder in chronic and rare diseases has a voice to create a community where innovation, empowerment, and compassion flourish.

Conversations such as the COINs 2010 Opening Keynote, are examples of sharing knowledge to advance creativity and dialogue widely for global industry competitive advantage.

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Trustees Theater, beautiful restored theater and Savannah College of Art & Design facility, site of COINs 2010 Opening Keynote Conversation.

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Ken Riopelle, Ph.D., Conversation Moderator and Research Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

 

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Jesse Dylan, CEO and Creative Director, Lybba and Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence in conversation with the audience about the future of open source health care resources.

Images by Alice Merkel

 Dylan is a filmmaker and CEO and creative director of FreeForm, a full-service  production company with a focus on corporate social responsibility and social media. In addition, he is a prolific director behind some of the most successful campaigns in commercial television, print and interactive advertising. Dylan has created award-winning commercials for clients, including the Barack Obama administration, Nike, Nintendo, Motorola, American Express, the National Football League and MTV.

I-Open, with Galaxy Advisors, was a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference.

COINs 2010 Conference Survey

(Post updated 10-21-10)

We've posted a COINs 2010 Conference Survey to the new Facebook landing page Collaborative Innovation Networks: COINs Conference. 

Help us to improve your access to knowledge and innovation at future COINs Conferences by responding to the survey questions below:

1)    How did you learn about COINs 2010?

a.    Facebook

b.    Twitter

c.    Friend or colleague

d.    Other

2)    What did you like most about your COINs 2010 Conference Face2Face and Online experiences?

3)    Who would you like to connect to at COINs 2011 who you are not?

4)    What would you like to see happen at COINs 2011?

5)    Is there anything you would like to add?

6)    If you have any photos from the COINs 2010 Conference that you would like to share, please send them to coinsconference@gmail.com

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Please add your responses in the comment window located below this post.

COINs 2010 Conference and City of Savannah Images [swarm creativity] : Strategy-Nets

This is the collection of images from the COINs 2010 Conference hosted at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in the City of Savannah, Georgia.

Images work in conjunction with other web 2.0 tools by helping us to visualize a broader context for our social and economic investments in Open Source Economic Development.

Images here include the City of Savannah, SCAD facility, conference speakers, keynotes, workshops, informal gatherings, and paper presentations.

COINs 2011 will be hosted by the HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design in Basel, Switzerland.

Images contributed by Alice Merkel on Flickr.

 

COINs 2010 Conference Video Library Widget

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Photo © Alice Merkel 

Digital media, both creative and social, is an invaluable communication tool to translate and share experiences.

The COINs Conference video library widget - shown below - contains all COINs 2010 keynotes, workshops, paper presentations, and interviews.

Click on "Grab Widget" to be taken to the COINs Conference channel. From there, you can copy widget code for pasting to your website or blog and share the library with people you know.

The COINs Conference digital library provides open access for people to learn deeply and share knowledge widely.

Watch live streaming video from coinsconference at livestream.com

 

COINs 2010 Conference Instructions

COINs 2010 Conference Instructions 

Translations available at: http://tiny.cc/ljhqt

The Swarm Creativity Framework is a guide to help entrepreneurs, scientists and business leaders successfully navigate a shift in mindset from scarcity to abundance. Swarm creativity is a discipline driven by the laws of natural systems, and is designed to catalyze individual creativity, communication and collaboration, ultimately leading to flourishing cultures of innovation.

Swarm Creativity powers the COINs 2010 community and with it the Science of Collaboration. Researchers and industry leaders share insights and innovations in health care, design, the creative industries, engineering and technology. The community generates a collective intelligence to solve the social, economic and environmental challenges of the world.

This is the value of I-Open interviews and conversations.

Featured Workshop COINs 2010 Blog: Basics of Social Network Analysis: Network Analysis 101

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This is an interactive workshop for social network newbies to the field of Social Network Analysis including a brief history, the basic vocabulary, professional associations, software tools, example studies across multiple disciplines, and cutting edge developments and trends.

Instructor: Prof. Ken Riopelle, Wayne State University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

SIGN ME UP for this workshop!

Stay connected to the COINs Conference Community:

The COINs 2010 conference, Oct. 7–9, 2010, is presented by I-Open and the COINs Collaborative, an initiative of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Wayne State University College of Engineering's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Collective Intelligence. The collaborative builds open knowledge networks to advance the emerging science of collaboration for research and industry competitive advantage. Hosted by SCAD. For more information about the COINs 2010 conference, visit http://www.coins2010.com

COINs2010: Conversations in Health Care

 

 

 

The 2nd Annual International COINs2010 Conference  is coming to Savannah, Ga., USA  | Oct. 7-9

REGISTER ONLINE at COINs2010.com

Registration rate is $180 (US Dollars) and includes pre-conference full day Coolhunting Workshop and Condor three-month trial.

 

FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKER

SCAD presents second COINs conference with keynote speaker Jesse Dylan

Filmmaker unleashes creativity to make open-source healthcare a reality

READ THE PRESS RELEASE!


 

FEATURED WORKSHOP

Basics of social network analysis: Network Analysis 101

An interactive workshop for social network newbies to the field of Social Network Analysis including a brief history, the basic vocabulary, professional associations, software tools, example studies across multiple disciplines and cutting-edge developments and trends.

Professor Ken Riopelle, Wayne State University, department of industrial and systems engineering, instructor

SIGN ME UP for this workshop!


FEATURED COINs2010 ABSTRACT

Measuring Social Network Structure of Clinical Teams Caring for Patients with Complex Conditions

Authors: Francesca Grippa (University of Salento), Margaret Palazzolo, Andrea Booth, Stacy Rechner, John Bucuvalas (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center), Julia Gluesing (Wayne State University), Peter Gloor (MIT Center for Collective Intelligence)

Social network analysis suggests that the relationships and ties among team members impact productivity across multiple industries. Complex health conditions require effective interdisciplinary teams to achieve best outcomes.

READ COINS 2010 ABSTRACTS on Scribd!

 

FEATURED INTERVIEW

The Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Builds Models of Collaborative Health Care

Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Health Care Quality, Cincinnati, Ohio, shares his passion to improve quality systems health care delivery for children, his view of health care systems, and the value strengthening social network practice, mapping and analysis offers to industry innovation.

WATCH THE INTERVIEW on the COINs Conference Livestream Channel!


FEATURED CONVERSATION

A Civic Perspective: Health Care and Justice

Representatives of two Ohio health care advocate networks review the primary challenge in U.S. and world health care: access. Their interview prepares for a civic conversation to identify business innovation opportunities for science, technology and design.

WATCH THE CONVERSATION on Vimeo!

 

REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS

Networking 101 | Collaborative Change | Bodystorming | Coolfarming | Service Design | Virtual Global Teaming

 

BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS

Special conference rates are available through the COINs2010 conference website.

 

 

 

This is a COINs2010 + DESIGN ETHOS Intersection Event

 

 


Register to join us face-to-face or online for live streaming of conference programming!

Register for COINs 2010 Conference here.

Keynotes presented by research and industry thought leaders in filmmaking, technology, and design.

Check out Speakers here.

Skills training workshops in social network mapping and analysis, collaborative and virtual teaming, social innovation, and design.

Learn more about Skills Training here.

Interactive research paper presentations in cutting edge industry discovery.

Plus lots of time to network and connect to new opportunities!

Click through to the COINs 2010 Conference site to learn and connect!

Join us at COINs 2010, Oct 7-9, at Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia!

A Civic Perspective: Health Care and Justice

Gwen Fischer, Prof. Emeritus, Hiram College, Single-Payer Action Networks (SPAN) of Ohio and Debbie Silverstein, Single-Payer Action Networks (SPAN) of Ohio talk about the deteriorating state of health care access for U.S. citizens over the last generation. Gwen and Debbie share health care advocacy and personal perspectives in preparation for the March 2009 Midtown Brews civic forum, “The New Landscape of Health Care Reform,” in Cleveland, Ohio. (You can learn more about I-Open civic conversations at Midtown Brews)

Gwen and Debbie’s conversation is not unique; it is one of a million conversations going on now that identify new opportunities for whole system change. Conversations like these illuminate how to improve patient and family care, information access and service delivery, and large scale implementation of preventative medicine, disease evaluation and diagnosis.

Our opportunity is to connect civic, research and industry leaders to advance innovations targeted to health care delivery and preventative medicine for US citizens and the world.

At the October COINs conference, filmmaker Jesse Dylan will explore questions and solutions in his conference keynote address and talk about Lybba, the open source health care resource he founded.

The COINs 2010 conference brings leaders like Jesse in health care with others in design, technology, government, education, and transportation to share knowledge. It is in such a culture of openness, transparency, and compassion that global transformational advances will be discovered.

Join us to be part of the experience. Begin by signing in to become a member of the COINs 2010 Friendship Map. Register for Savannah, Georgia conference workshops so you can learn about discoveries in the emerging science of collaboration for competitive advantage in your work. Register here.

For those unable to join us face-to-face, conference sessions will be streamed on the COINs Conference Channel with the generous support of our broadcast partner, Livestream. Archive sessions will be available immediately following the live presentations. We'll be posting broadcast updates here for you soon.

Whether face-to-face or online, plan to connect with us Thu Oct 7th, Fri 8th, and Sat 9th, 2010 and share your insights for transformation in this brave new world.

Connect to the COINs 2010 Conference community: 

  • Conference hashtag #COINS2010


The COINs 2010 conference, Oct. 7–9, 2010 is presented in collaboration by I-Open and the COINs Collaborative, an initiative of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Wayne State University College of Engineering, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Collective Intelligence. The collaborative builds open knowledge networks to advance the emerging science of collaboration for research and industry competitive advantage. For more information and to register for the COINs 2010 conference, visit www.coins2010.com