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Talk for Swedish Incubators and Science Parks Network: "Designing Spaces for Networked Innovation"
I haven't posted in the last month, but it's because I've been travelling extensively promoting the Science In Place program. On November 10, I had the pleasure of giving an invited talk for the annual conference of SiSP, the incubator and science parks asssocation of Sweden. The meeting took place in Lund, one of the oldest university towns in Scandinavia, and less than an hour's train ride across the Oresund from Copenhagen. This is in the Malmo region, home to SonyEriccson and numerous other high tech companies. Truly one of the world's great technopoles.
My talk was an overview of the global trends we are tracking in the Science In Place program - shifts in the places, topics and collaborative structure of R&D that will shape the next 10,20 and 50 years for everyone - corporate R&D managers, universities, startups and governments. I also focused specifically on what this means for science park and incubator developers and managers. This talk helped to organize some of my thinking for the upcoming project on the future of science and technology parks and innovation regions that we'll be doing in the first half of 2009 with support from North Carolina's Research Triangle Foundation.
I've posted the slides from my talk, with notes, to SlideShare. (view presentation)