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Monieson Exchange Seminar - Enabling Innovation |
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Enabling Innovation – How Rural Areas Can Optimise their Economic Futures – A UK Perspective
- March 21, 2011
- Goodes Halll, Room 301, Queen's University
- Noon-1pm
- Free (Free light lunch at 11:45)
 As part of its Knowledge Exchange Seminar series, The Monieson Centre is pleased to host Rob Hindle for an international perspective on rural economic development.
The UK is going through a significant transition as it seeks to re-balance and diversify its economy. Businesses across the UK need to become more innovative in order to boost productivity. Research conducted for England’s Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs suggests that whilst there are opportunities to increase the performance of rural firms and local economies through innovation, there are barriers to innovation associated with the spatial context in which firms operate. These are partly structural – relating to limited access to Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) and innovation networks, poor broadband speed and lack of agglomeration - and partly human – owner’s objectives, poor graduate retention, access to skills and a limited labour pool.
Rob’s presentation will use the findings from this research, work into rural economic futures for One North East (a regional development agency), experience from Rob’s local community and economic development work in the UK, and insight from Dave Ivan’s “Can Small Towns be Cool?” project to consider how rural areas should position and organise themselves to address barriers to innovation and so optimise their economic futures.
Rob Hindle is a rural development practitioner in the UK. He runs a small consultancy business – Rural Innovation – and provides research, planning and economic development advice to communities, business and government.
A light lunch will be available at 11:45. Those wishing to discuss Mr. Hindle's presentation further are welcome to join a discussion session at 1pm in the Monieson Centre Board Room, Rm. 444, Goodes Hall.
Please RSVP:
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1Opportunities And Barriers To Business Innovation In Rural Areas: Theory And Evidence; Hindle R, Huggins R and Wilkinson C, December 2010 |
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Creative Economy Seminar Series |
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Ontario's economy is undergoing a transformation as businesses rely less on physical and routinized tasks, and compete increasingly using talent and technology. In winter/spring 2010, The Monieson Centre presents a public lecture series exploring how rural businesses and communities can thrive in this new economy. Topics include: - The Creative Economy: Fact and Fiction
- The Rural Creative Economy: Issues and Challenges
- The Creative Economy in Ontario: A Prince Edward County Case Example
- The Creative Economy: Rural Policy Implications
- The Rural Creative Economy: Agenda for Research
Featuring an impressive cadre of speakers drawn from industry, government and top Ontario universities, you won't want to miss this series! Up-to-date details, including registration information are available on The Monieson Centre website. This seminar series is graciously sponsored by the Prince Edward/Lennox & Addington Community Futures Development Corporation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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 On Nov. 24, 2009, Dr. Susan Christopherson, gave a lecture at Queen's School of Business hosted by The Monieson Centre entitled, "The Green Phoenix: How Green Energy Investments can Renew Old Manufacturing Regions." The lecture explores how the green economy “push” provides an unusual opportunity to target and build both the capacity and markets for advanced manufacturing industries in the U.S. and Canada, potentially expanding high value exports and renewing old industrial regions. Professor Christopherson is J. Thomas Clark Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University who has published over 50 articles in professional journals and books and 24 policy reports over the course of her career.
Download the lecture in audio mp3 format (right click and select "Save Target As..." to download) as well as the presentation slides.
DVDs of the lecture are available for loan upon request. |
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Knowledge Exchange Seminars |
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The Monieson Centre hosts periodic hour-long lunchtime sessions to present research ideas, research in progress, and business problems to researchers, faculty, students and community practitioners. The sessions are interactive and the topics diverse. In Nov. 2008, Dr. Robert Greenwood, Director of the Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development, Memorial University, led a series of seminars on his centre's work on rural economic development. With his gracious permission, we are pleased to offer his presentation slides, as well as other related information: For more information on Knowledge Exchange Seminars, please visit The Monieson Centre's website. |
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