In a recent report on risk and innovation 1 the UK Government scientific adviser, Mark Walport, states that debates about risk are also debates about values, ethics and choices and fairness,
References 1. Annual Report of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (2014) Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It The Government office for Science, London. 2. Ayres, C. J. 2012.
Some Member States have taken action to attract ICT experts from third countries. Bringing in outside expertise is costly,
and use consultants to help prepare for the organisational changes required by e-business. Complexity of regulations Although today's regulatory environment seems to accommodate ebusiness satisfactorily at national level,
Unlike larger companies, with their teams of lawyers and consultants, SMES tend to avoid the legal risks of engaging in cross-border commerce.
Sum-variable measuring the importance of different network relations for innovation Customers Suppliers and subcontractors Competitors Sales and delivery organizations Business service firms and consultants Accounting companies
are, in fact, as much experts in innovation and technological development as they are potential sources of finance and funding.
2. 2 Patent databases 82 4. 2. 3 Data availability according to EUMIDA 83 4. 2. 4 Expert view on data availability in non
Availability of U multirank data elements in countries'national databases according to experts in 6 countries (Argentina/AR, Australia/AU, Canada/CA, Saudi arabia/SA, South africa/ZA
Education and Culture but other experts drawn from student organisations, employer organisations, the OECD, the Bologna Follow-up Group and a number of Associations of Universities.
An international expert panel composed of six international experts in the field of mapping, ranking and transparency instruments in higher education and research.
The consortium members benefitted from a strong network of national higher education experts in over 50 countries who were invaluable in suggesting a diverse group of institutions from their countries to be invited to participate in the pilot study.
and underlying database to produce authoritative expert institutional and field based rankings for particular groups of comparable institutions on dimensions particularly relevant to their activity profiles.
Recent reports on rankings such as the report of the Assessment of University-Based Research Expert Group (AUBR Expert Group, 2009) which defined a number of principles for sustainable collection of research data,
rankings and indicator experts, field experts (for the field-based rankings) and regional/national experts.
The design choices made here are in accordance with both the Berlin Principles and the recommendations by the Expert Group on the Assessment of University-based Research.
The AUBR Expert Group5 (a o.)underlines the importance of stakeholders'needs and involvement, as well as the principles of purposefulness, contextuality,
Based on our design context, in the following chapters we report on the construction of U multirank. 5 Expert Group on Assessment of University-Based Research (2010),
This first list was exposed for feedback to stakeholders as well as to groups of specialist experts. Stakeholders were asked to give their views on the relative relevance of various indicators
we invited feedback from international experts in higher education and research and from the Advisory board of the U multirank project.
To facilitate the consultation process we showed an expert view on the 50 indicators (making use of the feedback from the expert group consultation) in
Literature review Review of existing rankings Review of existing databases First selection Stakeholder consultation Expert advice Second selection Pre-test Revision Selection
Based on the various stakeholders'and experts'assessments of the indicators as well as on our analyses using the four additional criteria,
The Expert Group on Assessment of University Based Research12 defines research output as referring to individual journal articles, conference publications, book chapters, artistic performances, films, etc.
and experts) against the criteria discussed in the first section of this chapter. The indicators in the table are used in the pilot test (chapters 5 and 6). The majority of the indicators are normalized by taking into account measures of an institution's (or a department's) size that is:
together with in the right hand column some of the pros and cons of the indicators expressed by experts and stakeholders during the indicator selection process.
An important reference is published the report in 2009 by the Expert Group on Knowledge Transfer Metrics (EGKTM) set up by DG Research of the European commission. 17 Table 3-4:
Our analysis on data availability was completed with a brief online consultation with the group of international experts connected to U multirank (see section 4. 2. 5). The international experts were asked to give their assessment of the 21 The U multirank project was granted access to the preliminary
) Expert view on data availability in non-European countries 4. 2. 5the Expert Board of the U multirank project was consulted to assess for their six countries all from outside Europe the availability of data
Availability of U multirank data elements in countries'national databases according to experts in 6 countries (Argentina/AR, Australia/AU, Canada/CA, Saudi arabia/SA, South africa/ZA
According to the experts consulted, more data can probably be found in institutional databases. However, if that is the case, there is always a risk that different institutions may use different definitions
or other), our experts stressed that it is not always easy to obtain that information (for instance in case of data relating to the dimension Regional Engagement).
and making use of the advice of external experts and national correspondents in the testing and further execution of the survey is yet another part of the provision that needs to be part of the data collection strategy. 5 Testing UTESTING U Testing U
which are classified in turn by Thomson Reuters experts into one or more Journal Categories. The Journal Categories, sometimes referred to as Subject Categories,
and/or experts have expressed some doubts regarding one or two selection criteria. The‘relevance'criterion has been the major reason to keep these indicators on the list for the pilot study.
'International Ranking Expert Group 2006; principle 15. U multirank, as any ranking, will have to find a balance between the need to reduce the complexity of information on the one hand and, at the same time,
therefore that rankings would be operated (initially) on a project basis by existing professional organizations with a strong involvement of both stakeholder and expert advisory bodies.
Stakeholder and expert advisory councils should be installed in a form that could continue to operate after the two years'project Phase in order to support the development of a viable business plan a partnership with professional
and expert advisory structure remaining in place. This structure also allows the commercial unit to operate as a joint venture with for-profit partners.
Methods for Regionalisation, Sector Allocation and Name Harmonisation',Methodologies & Working papers, Publications Office of the European union, Luxembourg, 2011, ISBN 978-92-79-20237-7. Expert
relying on evidence of (an unmatched amount of) facts rather than intuition by experts or individuals.
and analytics to get evidence of facts rather than intuition by experts or individuals. However, as shown by Lavalle et al. 28 in a research on more than 3, 000 business executives in 108 countries and more than 30 industries,
and employing more experienced consultants in this field, which would have a better response time for the future emerging demands. 4. Professional and geographically dispersed service,
with several rounds of anonymous written questionnaire surveys conducted to ask for experts'opinion 21. FDM has the following properties:
The experts involved with the prediction process do not see each other, remain anonymous and don't know how many experts are involved.
This helps to prevent them from influencing and encourages objectivity. 2. Feedback: The survey feedback gives the participants an idea about the main ideas in the group.
The top is the majority consensus (50%experts) representing the prediction team's opinion. The top and bottom quarter percentile (each representing 25%of the experts) represent the prediction deviation. 4. Convergence:
Through multiple reverse feedback make the final prediction results converge. The purpose of the Delphi Method is to achieve a consensus among the experts on the subject being evaluated.
When used with one-to-many objectives, multiprinciple, multi-proposal and multi-participant decision-making problems,
the method not only serves to draw on a large body of opinion but also meets the requirement for independence in the experts'judgment 21.
and providers Validate with cloud subject matter experts Documented understanding of what will be achieved by comparing the strategic requirements with the available services and providers Table 2. 3 Phase 1,
including advertising as well as mobile marketing experts. 9 For further details on the impacts of sensor technologies on business innovation,
and regarded by the experts who follow the enterprise social networking market. The employees who use Yammer can set up user profiles,
Also, contributors can also achieve some benefits for themselves by interacting with experts, since they can practice their unprofessional skills
Hyman pointed out also that the following identity-related motivations security experts see as constraints and causes for a limited accuracy of costs estimations 8: 134 7 Digital Business Identity
The framework, resulting from a comprehensive literature review and findings from a qualitative expert interview study, uses Balanced Scorecard (BSC) 16,17 concept as a basis for a decision support approach
and business stakeholders but also the web managers within the organization and deep and rich support infrastructure that can include legal department, business experts and ICT specialists as well as external vendors.
and a serious security issue as various consultants and subcontractors were working with highly confidential citizens'data.
consultants and managers 8. In fact, the business model was established as the independent unit of analysis of business
The management team is composed of data scientists, mathematicians, security experts and industry specialist, supported by the investments of some of the founders and CEOS of Google, Paypal, Verisign and Sun microsystems.
The management team is made up of financial experts kids entertainment professionals, software developers, startup experts and creative.
The idea of a financial education tool for children has been developed also by other companies, but with a somewhat lower level of user experience.
compared with traditional expert recognition of emotions, lay in a higher objectivity, the ability to capture all the micro-expressions,
hiring a consultant from a prominent franchising firm. The consultant helped Doggis standardize operations and build a franchising model.
By 2005, with 100 restaurants, Doggis had become the biggest franchise chain in Chile. In recent years, Oscar and Ricardo began pursuing a portfolio strategy.
I LOVE NEW YORK. Prior to that she was Director of Business Planning at Louis vuitton, Vice president at Pearson and Senior Consultant at William Kent International (WKI).
and business consultant. He earned his undergraduate and masters degrees from Penn State university USA and his Ph d. from the University of Connecticut, USA.
Rottenberg is considered one of the world's most dynamic experts on entrepreneurship and emerging markets
She currently serves as an adviser to Abraaj Capital, a leading private equity investor in global growth markets.
Morris worked as a consultant at Bain & Company. There, he was engaged on a variety of projects focused on international growth strategy development, customer segmentation and acquisition,
Jeremy began his career with the strategy consultants Mckinsey and Company. He was educated at Harvard university
in addition to 1, 132 survey respondents and numerous global and European experts from academia and civil society.
advisers and enablers who transfer know-how and create opportunities for growth. Figure 4: A Life cycle Model for Entrepreneurship6 Source:
and only 41%perceived them as somewhat or very favourable (see Figure 7). These results are more positive than many experts engaged in the project expected.
Many European venture capital experts say the sector is stronger than the long-term data indicate. Today
Enterprise Estonia has established a network of salaried professional export advisers residing in major target markets,
Global Shapers Hub, Lisbon We should create a board of mentors and advisers for young European changemakers.
Papers, No. 9 Fostering Innovation-driven Entrepreneurship in Europe 59 Acknowledgements Adviser and Knowledge Partner:
Young Global Leader Luis Alvarez Satorre, Chief executive officer, Global Services, BT, United kingdom Tobias Schmidtke, Senior Consultant, A t. Kearney, Germany Bohuslav Sobotka
Co-Director, Centre on China Innovation, China Europe International Business school (CEIBS), People's republic of china Krisztina Z Holly, Adviser, National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
, USA Daniel Isenberg, Professor of Entrepreneurship Practice, Babson Executive Education, Babson college, USA Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, Director-Adviser, Innovation and Technology Sector, World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva Eric Kacou, Cofounder, Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners (ESPARTNERS), USA Harkesh Kumar Mittal, Adviser and Head, National Science
Also, a group of informal advisers provided comments to help us structure the work appropriately.
and academic and other experts to focus on competitiveness at the city level; and, to encourage a rich global dialogue on this issue
Santiago is implementing a complete streets programme that brings in urban planning experts to oversee new design concepts
with its new modern university, hold conferences on major issues of the day, with experts in science, math and letters.
and experts in diabetes the third, and so on. Intellectual stimulation could be added to spiritual activities. Medina could recapture an intellectual leadership role,
using the same players (methods, consultants, initiatives, among others), but only some of the approaches succeed.
500 foreign experts working in Ningbo, which has become one of the most preferred cities in China for overseas talent, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Azua, President and Chief executive officer, Enovatinglab, Spain Catalina Crane, High Presidential Adviser for Public and Private Affairs, Office of the President of Colombia, Colombia Mohamed El Dahshan
, Regional Economist, African Development Bank, Côte d'ivoire Janamitra Devan, Independent Adviser, Strategy and Leadership, USA Gao Changlin
Murphy is co-author of the World bank guide Clusters for Competitiveness, an adviser to competitiveness initiatives in 15 countries,
He is a Member of the Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness. 5. This case study was written by Jose Antonio Torre Medina, Rogelio Cortes and Marcia Campos, Adviser for Government and Public Policy and Professor
The three case studies from Malaysia, Philippines and Republic of korea (Penang, Cebu and Busan, respectively) were written by Janamitra Devan, Independent Adviser, Strategy and Leadership, USA.
Albania Institute for Contemporary Studies (ISB) Artan Hoxha, President Elira Jorgoni, Senior Expert Endrit Kapaj, Expert Algeria Centre de Recherche en
Director Gerhard Schwarz, Coordinator, Survey Department Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Marketing Society Fuad Aliyev, Deputy Chairman Ashraf Hajiyev, Consultant Bahrain Bahrain Economic
& Investment Randall Krantz, Strategy Adviser Bosnia and herzegovina MIT Center, School of economics and Business in Sarajevo, University of Sarajevo Zlatko Lagumdzija, Professor Zeljko Sain, Executive director Jasmina
Selimovic, Assistant Director Botswana Botswana National Productivity Centre Letsogile Batsetswe, Research Consultant and Statistician Baeti Molake, Executive director Phumzile Thobokwe, Manager, Information
Bulgaria Center for Economic Development Adriana Daganova, Expert, International Programmes and Projects Anelia Damianova, Senior Expert Burkina faso lnstitut Supérieure des Sciences de
National Competitiveness Council Jadranka Gable, Advisor Kresimir Jurlin, Research Fellow Cyprus European University Cyprus, Research center Maria Markidou-Georgiadou, Consultant Bambos
General manager Tegenge Teka, Senior Expert Finland ETLA The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy Markku Kotilainen, Research director Petri Rouvinen, Research director Vesa Vihriälä, Managing director
PDR Enterprise & Development Consultants Co.,Ltd Latvia Stockholm School of economics in Riga Arnis Sauka, Head of the Centre for Sustainable Development Lebanon Bader Young Entrepreneurs
Associate Nepal Centre for Economic Development and Administration (CEDA) Ramesh Chandra Chitrakar, Professor, Country Coordinator and Project Director Ram Chandra Dhakal, Executive director and Adviser
Consultant Maria Elena Baraybar, Project Assistant Luis Tenorio, Executive director Philippines Makati Business Club (MBC) Isabel A. Lopa, Deputy Executive director Michael B
Hassen, Executive Counsellor Turkey TUSIAD Sabanci University Competitiveness Forum Izak Atiyas, Director Ozan Bakis, Project Consultant Sezen Ugurlu, Project Specialist
Catalina Crane, High Presidential Adviser for Public and Private Affairs, Office of the President of Colombia, Colombia;
Janamitra Devan, Independent Adviser, Strategy and Leadership, USA; Gao Changlin, Deputy Director-General, Exchange, Development and Service Center for Science and Technology (STTC), People's republic of china;
This two-year process will gather insights from high-level experts in academia along with practitioners and business leaders to identify the improvements needed to capture the evolving nature of the drivers of competitiveness.
Since 2010, the World Economic Forum in collaboration with a multi-stakeholder Advisory board of international experts (Box1) has embarked on an effort to integrate the concept of sustainability into its competitiveness work.
the Forum has continued to work closely with experts at Yale's Center for Environmental law and Policy (YCELP), with the Center for International Earth science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University's Earth Institute,
and are based on best practices in the field of survey administration and on discussions with survey experts.
An initial external audit by a team of survey experts from Gallup was performed in 2008.
We also conduct interviews of local experts and consider the latest developments in a country
He is a consultant on growth and competitiveness for a number of countries, international institutions, and corporations.
and academic organizations'experts who contributed outstanding chapters. We also wish to thank the editors of the Report Soumitra Dutta at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate school of Management at Cornell University, Bruno Lanvin at INSEAD,
after two years of research and consultations with ICT practitioners, policy and industry experts, and academia, the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) introduced a new subindex on ICT impacts that aimed at holistically assessing the way that countries go about leveraging ICTS
and the constantly additive benefits of all data allows experts to be able to explore data to find their value.
Some experts argue that it is better to adopt a light-touch approach in a technologically dynamic world because detailed,
Such questions can spur the functional experts themselves to start asking the more fundamental questions that can unlock the value of data.
Big data initiatives require multidisciplinary teams of business and technology experts. Every team member business analyst, programmer, data scientist,
A US-based provider of business outsourcing solutions has set up an innovation lab where subject experts from different industries
and learning programs for Mckinsey's consultants globally. Mr Beardsley was a Henry S. Dupont III Scholar (highest honors) for outstanding academic performance at the MIT Sloan School of management,
he was a consultant and lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications sector.
Sergio Sandoval Sergio Sandoval is a Senior Expert in Mckinsey & Company's Brussels Office.
Malin Strandell-Jansson Malin Strandell-Jansson is a Knowledge Expert in Mckinsey & Company's Stockholm Office, specializing in telecommunications regulation.
Albania Institute for Contemporary Studies (ISB) Artan Hoxha, President Elira Jorgoni, Senior Expert Endrit Kapaj, Expert Algeria Centre de Recherche en
Director Gerhard Schwarz, Coordinator, Survey Department Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Marketing Society Fuad Aliyev, Deputy Chairman Ashraf Hajiyev, Consultant Bahrain Bahrain Economic
Bhutan Bhutan Chamber of commerce & Industry Sherab Lhamo, Research Officer Phub Tshering, Secretary general Druk Holding & Investment Randall Krantz, Strategy Adviser Bosnia and herzegovina MIT
Centre Letsogile Batsetswe, Research Consultant and Statistician Baeti Molake, Executive director Phumzile Thobokwe, Manager, Information and Research Services Department Brazil Fundação Dom Cabral, Innovation Center Carlos Arruda, Associate dean for Business Partnership, Professor
Expert, International Programmes and Projects Anelia Damianova, Senior Expert Burkina faso lnstitut Supérieure des Sciences de la Population (ISSP), University of Ouagadougou Baya
Director Estonian Development Fund Tõnis Arro, Chief executive officer Ethiopia African Institute of Management, Development and Governance Zebenay Kifle, General manager Tegenge Teka, Senior Expert
Meruyert Shabakbayeva, Expert Analyst Vladislav Yezhov, Chairman Kenya Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi Paul Kamau, Senior Research Fellow Dorothy Mccormick
Program Coordinator Marat Tazabekov, Chairman Lao PDR Enterprise & Development Consultants Co.,Ltd Latvia Stockholm School of economics in Riga Karlis Kreslins, EMBA Programme
Executive director Nepal Centre for Economic Development and Administration (CEDA) Ramesh Chandra Chitrakar, Professor, Country Coordinator and Project Director Ram Chandra Dhakal, Executive director and Adviser
Research Foundation Salem Ben Nasser Al-Ismaily, Chairman Public Authority for Investment Promotion and Export Development (PAIPED) Mehdi Ali Juma, Expert for Economic
Director Ozan Bakis, Project Consultant Sezen Ugurlu, Project Specialist Uganda Kabano Research and development Centre Robert Apunyo, Program Manager Delius Asiimwe, Executive director
the Report brings together a range of leading academics, experts, and industry leaders. The full Report can be downloaded at www. weforum. org/gitr
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