Workshop 5: Research priorities in the private sector
3rd & 4th November, 2005
The fourth and fifth workshops address similar questions, both being concerned with the mechanisms and criteria involved in establishing research priorities outside the university context. There are two reasons for holding a workshop devoted to private sector research. First, it is instructive to draw comparisons between experiences of interactive agenda-setting in public and private sector contexts. Second, it provides an opportunity to consider the circulation of research priorities between the public and the private sector. This is not just a matter of distinguishing between competitive and pre-competitive research; the aim was to learn how public and private sector research priorities interact, at what levels and through what channels and routes. This was achieved by examining the design and development of a number of corporate research and development programmes/priorities.
As well as academics experienced in responding to public and private sector research agendas, participants included people from relevant research and development groups from the commercial world, including some who have experience of steering and setting research priorities.
Resources
Private sector workshop agenda (105 k)
Private sector workshop discussion paper (69 k)
Social Sciences and R & D at EDF, presentation by Sylvie Douzou, EDF (696 k)
Social Science as a Business, presentation by Carole Lehman, MORI (2177 k)
The Change Leadership Network, presentation by Jean Irvine (76 k)
AIM, Shared Agenda-Setting, presentation by Andy Neely, AIM (674 k)
Social Research with, and for Business, presentation by Robin Wensley, AIM (615 k)
CASE studentships, presentation by Chris Harty, University of Lancaster (191 k)
Interactive Agenda-Setting, presentation by Eamonn Molloy, Said Business School (93 k)
Private sector workshop report (89 k)
Video
Vicki Nash interviews Eamonn Molloy from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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