Tay Jacobe (Idea Home)

Summary

This page is where Tay is keeping her ideas for future projects so she does not lose track of it all.

Project Ideas

General Ideas

• Setting innovation precedents in the workplace
• Innovators at Rice series
• Innovating Leadership- The Doerr Institute
• Get Out of your Innovation Box: The Importance of Innovating in Non-STEM Fields
• The types of Innovation
  • Empowering Change (using the work of Windrum, 2008) included six types of innovation in the public sector.
    • Services innovation—a new or improved service.
    • Service delivery innovation—a new or different way of providing a service.
    • Administrative or organisational innovation—a new process.
    • Conceptual innovation—a new way of looking at problems, challenging current assumptions, or both.
    • Policy innovation—a change to policy thinking or behavioural intentions.
    • Systemic innovation—a new or improved way for parts of the public sector to operate and interact with stakeholders
• Ask if you can edit the pieces already on the blog website; lots of typos and grammar issues

Innovation in the Public Sector series

• Innovation in the public sector: drafted first article
  • http://ash.harvard.edu/innovations-government
• I’d like to do another piece, specifically on where the R&D budget for the public sector is being allocated. Is it going solely to STEM? Are policy innovation and other less-stereotypical types of innovation being encouraged?
• potential to do an article on the commercialization of innovation in the public sector- often, innovators within the government do not commercializa their product even though they could probably benefit from it

Solutions and policy action

Blog Series: Women’s role in our innovation economy

• 1: Importance of women within the innovation economy
• Girls’ education as it relates to women in the workforce
• The Glass Cliff- explain the phenomenon, the problem, and potential solutions
  • http://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/research/glasscliff/research/
  • http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2015/10/20/the-glass-cliff-phenomenon-that-senior-female-leaders-face-today-and-how-to-avoid-it/#7324fc6980d5
• Resources in Houston for women in entrepreneurship
• What Does a Female Entrepreneur Look Like? (already drafted, Dylan Dickens)
• Women’s role in encouraging innovation in the workplace
  • http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/opinion/2015/03/06/women-for-innovation
  • “A study of entrepreneurship found start-ups led by women entrepreneurs tend to perform better. High technology firms established by women generated higher revenues and had higher survival rates. The reason? Women were found to be more resilient to setbacks and persevere in the face of adverse outcomes”
  • “A recent study in the academic review Science, examined the determinants of success in teams across a range of tasks – the researchers studied hundreds of teams and explored factors such as the intelligence level of individual team members. A critical factor of success? The proportion of females in the team. Researchers reason that a motivating factor behind success of teams is social sensitivity – or the abilities of team members to ascertain the spoken and unspoken needs of others and to be able to respond proactively to those needs. Researchers in a follow-up study ascribe the superior ability of women to read complex emotions to success in teamwork. Scientific research with more women researchers in teams is more likely to be breakthrough because the diversity brings about greater creativity and fresh approaches to look at the same problem in a new way.”
• Women in Entrepreneurship (already drafted, Ariel)
  • http://www.oecd.org/employment/50423364.pdf

Unused research/paragraphs

• From a broader societal perspective, having more women in the workforce benefits families greatly. According to data from the Half the Sky movement for women and girls, women reinvest 90% of their income in their families and are more likely than men to spend their earnings on food, education, and healthcare. Strictly from an economic perspective, involving more women in the workforce also increases productivity within the economy, increasing GDP.
• That is why the public sector must be encouraged to think outside of the box and innovate better methods for approaching challenges.
• There are some countries, like the Democratic Republic of Congo, in which 100% of all R&D expenditures are publicly-funded.

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