The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

With the 1945 publication of Science: The Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush established an intellectual architecture that helped define a set of public science institutions that were dramatically different from what came before yet largely remain in place today.  Now, at the start of the 21st century, many aspects of the science and innovation system ­ …

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Journal of Service Science and Management – open access

Journal of Service Science and Management  December, 2011 Volume 4, Number 4 – contents  http://www.scirp.org/journal/jssm/ Enabling Innovation in Complex Welfare Service Systems Harri Jalonen, Pekka Juntunen FDI and Economic Development: Evidence from Mainland China Liyan Liu Service Value Stream Management (SVSM): Developing Lean Thinking in the Service Industry Andrea Bonaccorsi, Gionata Carmignani, Francesco Zammori Dynamic …

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Social Media Evolution & Regional Upward Spirals

Social Media Evolution & Regional Upward Spirals Happy New Year 2012! Here are a few thoughts on social media evolution from a service science perspective. I try to relate social media evolution to regional upward spirals of technology, skills, jobs, and quality-of-life. Daily Social Media Time Seems more and more of us are using social …

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2013 Boston area Internet of Things conference

Pre-Announcement for the IEEE Boston Section Reflector: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Building the Internet of Things: Technologies and Tools [Working title] Time: [TBD April – June 2013]  Location: [TBD Greater Boston] Introduction: This conference is focused on providing a venue and forum for researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the Internet of Things …

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SRII global conference reminder

The Service Research and Innovation Institute (SRII) annual conference deadline for abstrracts is Nov 30th. The conference is July 24-27, 2012 in San Jose, CA USA. You are invited to submit an abstract….including Smarter Cities & Service Innovation, Cloud Computing & Analytics/BIG-DATA/DEEP-QA, Smarter Service Systems in Emerging Markets, etc. http://www.thesrii.org https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=srii2012  https://service-science.info/archives/1737