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What to consider before a conversation on place-based research (opens the original)
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If we are going to have a conversation about what is important for place-based research, what do we need to consider? This was the topic of a virtual session held on 18 August as input to a forum on place-based research on Day 3 of the Social Impact in the Regions conference in Stanthorpe, Queensland. Survey results to dateOur conversation began with a review of feedback from the current live pre-forum survey designed to include other voices. Insights from the results include:Interests: Top inte
Local approaches to national regional challenges: a personal and research review of challenge-led work (opens the original)
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I have long held a view that if we could just get the right people in the room under the right conditions, we would have what we need to address the complex situations in our society. I was attracted early on to initiatives like Random Hacks of Kindness, where I joined the Steering Committee, brought the model to Ipswich, Queensland, and continued to run hackathons every 2 to 3 months in the innovation hub I managed. Years later, I partnered with the challenge platform Nectir to run challenges a
Innovation in regional events as seen in Social Impact in the Regions (opens the original)
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Innovation: Something new that adds value to a group of people.This simple definition frames innovation beyond high-technology entrepreneurs to include anyone delivering something new across a wide range of contexts. Over the past ten years, my work in innovation and ‘innovation ecosystems’ has included managing an innovation hub, supporting the Office of the Queensland Chief Entrepreneur, mapping the national innovation ecosystem, founding and later chairing the Global Entrepreneurship Network
Place-based research needs better roads (opens the original)
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The renewed popularity of place-based development comes with the risk of the term being misunderstood, misused, and losing relevance. Research plays an essential role in providing clarity and advancing the work. Research can also be extractive, benefiting those outside the region by reducing community lived experience to objects of research and not translating research into practical local outcomes.I am thinking through what is meant by place-based research with a possible taxonomy for making se
Ready for what, and for whom? (opens the original)
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