My observation is that as human beings we don’t listen to each other. We tell people we have no time to do something even what`s more giving very good reasons to underpin our request not to be disturbed until the date of a deadline we have to meet and the full details how behind we are in realistically meeting this deadline and they still try to persuade us to do things for them! This is exactly the same when you tell someone you don’t drink and the person in question tries to force a glass of wine in your hands saying `juts this time, please`. Come on lovely people please do try to use your ears for what it was meant to be created for to listen and your understanding for the purpose it supposed to serve recognising the meaning of a sentence that was spoken out of the mouth of the person who is very behind on her thesis and she has a deadline to meet on the 7th December.
I am ruthlessly cutting away stuff from the thesis, that is not needed, still have 120 pages and more than 45.000 words, which needs to be scaled down to 15.000 good ones. I managed to cut out more than 10 pages from the following 2 sections of practical research (I still need to do the referencing in Harvard style, but that can wait until the final editing stage:
London Business School
`By taking part in the New Creative Ventures Masters Elective at London Business School, studying with MBA students the writer came to realise through case studies and a practical business plan writing process for an innovative product, that the driving force of innovation is profit and growth. Therefore the writer’s desire to come up with a new exciting business model for a social enterprise to help Hungarian artisans to start up was abolished in a considerable short amount of time by simply realising that economists want growth and businessmen profit.
Innovation Management
To be able to familiarise the current state of Innovation Management in Hungary the writer took part in Innostart`s Innovation Manager e-learning course. In contrast with London Business School where the lectures based on case studies and discussions the Innovation Management course was heavily text based with very few case studies to relate to, therefore the knowledge gained was less useful than desired.
Innovation, business and economics are symbiotic driving factors of the world economy. Tomorrow’s growth is based on the foundations of policy making around this symbiosis today. Hungary on one hand is praised for for its achievements in innovation and support of innovative businesses during the 17. Europen Business Network Conference on the other hand (Janos Pakucs, Kulcsár László). Gale, Cengage `OECD Economic Survey on Hungary pointed out in 2005 the level of innovation activity and performance has remained relatively low by international standards. This is attributable to both lagging innovation capabilities in the business sector and an insufficient contribution of public research organisations to the innovation system. There is a need for more stable governance of the innovation system and a more evidence-based approach to policy making in the area of science, technology and innovation policy. ‘Healthy general business conditions are the precondition for Hungarian innovation to take off. This should be a key consideration in overall thinking on innovation policy.’ (OECD, 2005d, p. 15) www.nih.gov.hu.
`The conception of innovation has evolved significantly over the last forty years. During the 1950s, innovation was considered a discrete development resulting from studies carried out by isolated researchers. Nowadays, innovation is no longer conceived as a specific result of individual actions, but more as a problem-solving process. Innovation as defined by the European Commission is «the renewal and enlargement of the range of products and services and the associated markets; the establishment of new methods of production, supply and distribution; the introduction of changes in management, work organisation, and the working conditions and skills of the workforce».` Kline, S.J. and Rosenberg, N. (1986).European Commission’s 1995 Green Paper on Innovation COM.
As the world moved away from knowledge-based economy, to knowledge- driven economy within the EU knowledge-driven activity is not restricted to a few glamorous industries, but applies to all European industry sectors 5 World Bank (1998). The nature of concentrating funds on a few industries can at the same time bring more significant results: biochemistry and Nano technology. The nature of EU’s economy the high(?) numbers of SME’s could play a significant part in innovative, competitive advantages. Therefore EU is giving high priority to Innovation to increase its competiveness in the world market. Even though the number of excellent scientists and the quality of publications are high, these facts don’t have the desired effect on the EU`s economic growths. The ‘knowledge’ within the EU is up to the world`s standard, but its application is slow and the number of patents are low compared to those in America and Japan. This is stressed by the strengthening Chinese and Indian competition. For that reason the EU set out in the Lisbon Program 2001 – 2010 to improve the competitive advantages of innovation. But the half – term Kok report hasn’t realised much improvement and concluded that the import of cheap Chinese and Indian products are increasing the EU’s disadvantages. This increase of disadvantage has brought significant changes within the EU not only in the field of Innovation, but hand-craft as well.`
I really need to write the Economic, Politics and Policy Making sub heading today!
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