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First report on five national laboratories After surveying five national laboratories over the past two years, the Center has just released its first report comparing five of our nations prestigious scientific laboratories. As part of an NSF grant designed to measure innovation and the conditions that impact innovation, the study is part of a continuing effort to develop a Science of Science Policy. Click here to see the report. Converting Indian Bureaucracies into Learning Organizations. Special trip to consult for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Professor Hage recently returned from a trip to India as a consultant to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine requested a pilot study be conducted on issues and solutions for organizational responsiveness and village acceptance of the use of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling as a method to reduce malaria in the state of Odisha. Click here to read more. In May, Stanford University Press Published Restoring the Innovative Edge: Driving the Evolution of Science and Technology Professor Hage's newest book provides possible remedies for eight key obstacles that the U.S. faces in restoring its innovative edge. The book offers specific recommendations for new forms of data collection, fresh ideas about cooperation between the public and private sectors in manufacturing research, and a policy evaluation model that measures technical progress -and obstacles to it -in real time. Click here for more information and ordering details.
Renewal of Research Projects The STAR division of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency has again renewed our one-year contract to work on problems that the division faces. Jeff Lucas is a partner in this research. New Relationships and Potential Research Projects The Center for Innovation and the Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton Counties Community Health Services, Inc. (BJHCHS) have formed a relationship to raise money to evaluate the effectiveness of creating social networks and community mobilization on reducing obesity in a predominately African-American community, Sheldon Township. Effectively reducing obesity would reduce health care costs, lengthen the duration of life, and provide a better quality of life as well. Wilbur Hadden and Jerald Hage were invited down to Sheldon Township to observe the various efforts that are made and to meet with the leadership council and the medical council. Presently the Center for Innovation is seeking funding to evaluate the impact of social networks on health care. The School of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England has asked Jerald Hage to develop a strategy so that the information feedback from the use of LQAS would be better utilized in the elimination of malaria in Orissa State, India. The intent is to create inter-organizational relationships between the villages and the districts of the state government for determining the obstacles that prevent the use of nets and sprays in particular villages. This research project is funded and Hage will travel to India during the month of December to collect data and suggest experiments for raising more money and increasing the efficacy of LQAS. The Center for Innovation and the University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile are exploring the possibility of a joint research project to use university extension to stimulate innovation in the small and medium businesses in Chile. If funded, this project would start in January, 2012. International Doctoral Committees: Jerald Hage, University of Liverpool, School of Public Health, Liverpool, England, U.K. Jerald Hage, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands Upcoming Presentations... Jerald Hage. Major Panel Discussion on the new policy model contained in Restoring the Innovative Edge American Evaluation Association annual meetings, Anaheim, CA, 3 November 2011 Jerald Hage. Major Policy Presentation on the new policy contained in Restoring the Innovative Edge Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, D.C., 29 November, 2011 Jerald Hage. Major invited address: “Solving Communication Gaps in Diverse Research Teams” Department of Speech and Hearing, George Washington University, George Washington, D.C., 1 December, 2011 Jerald Hage. Major invited address: A New Socio-Economic Paradigm: The Evolution of Complex Adaptive Societies, Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania, to be scheduled this winter. Jerald Hage. Invited lecture: Topic to be selected, Agricultural Research Center, U.S.D.A., Beltsville, MD, January 5th, 2012
Recent Presentations... Jerald Hage, “On a New Socio-Economic Paradigm”, Sociology Department, Emory University, 28 January, 2011 Jerald Hage, “On a New Socio-Economic Paradigm” , Social Theory, annual conference, Cork, Ireland, 17 June, 2011 Jerald Hage, “On a New Socio-Economic Paradigm”, Society for the Advance of Socio-Economics, annual conference, Madrid, Spain, 24 June, 2011 Mote, Jonathan. "Few Projects are Islands." Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Boston, MA. November 2010. Hage, Jerald. "The Evolution of Science and Technology and the Need for a New Policy Model." Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Princeton, NJ. November 2010. American Evaluation Assoc. Multipaper Session. November 12, 2010. Jerald Hage, Chair.
Hage, Jerald. "The Evolution of Science and Technology and the Need for a New Policy Model." Science and Technology Policy Institute. Washington, DC. October 2010. Clark, Aleia. "Public Health and Profit in Vaccine Science: The Making of Gardasil." Science and Technology in Society Conference. AAAS. Washington, DC. April 2010. Clark, Aleia. "Biomedical Innovation and the Politics of Scientific Knowledge: A Case Study of Gardasil." Eastern Sociological Society. Boston. March 2010.
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