Apple announced the iPhone yesterday.

Steve Job's keynote

Some of the iPhone's capabilities-

This device seems to represent a big step towards digital convergence, and as such might be expected to have an important impact on the way creative content is produced and delivered.

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This blog contains interesting news pertaining the European Creative Content Industries in the context of the EPIS06 project.

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Overall, a very stimulating event. I particularly enjoyed (with links to the programme and a sketch of my reasons):

-The debate on University commercialisation activities- mostly because of the passion displayed by participants and public. An important topic that, contrary to some opinions, I think needs to be discussed. I would have liked, as David Hart pointed out, a stronger emphasis on the influence of commercialisation on directions of research, one of the emergent issues (innovation as a vector not a scalar) that were signalled by Andy Stirling in his closing remarks for the Conference.

-Sheila Jasanoff's keynote speech- very inspiring and a nice balance to Franco Malerba's slightly more "traditional" analysis of sectoral systems of innovation.

-Science Fiction references: Daniele Archibugi and his suggestion ("don't send good innovative ideas to papers as they won't publish them- instead put them in a movie or a videogame") and Ed Steinmueller in his brilliant closing remarks comparing SPRU and Star Trek (which is also celebrating its 40th Anniversary).

-Best papers I saw presented:

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People usually say “Life starts at 40”…
Taking a first look, this may sound quite presumptuous or a simple nonsense. How could someone consider that all these long years could be suddenly simply ignored? Well, certainly, that is not what people imply by this popular saying, and thinking about the SPRU 40th Anniversary, we should reflect a bit more about its meaning...

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The SPRU 40th birthday party was many things, but foremost it served as a homecoming and a chance to look back at SPRU's past before turning to the conference itself, which is intended to be very forward-facing.

As someone who is still fairly new to SPRU (entering my third year at SPRU and second year of my PhD), the impact and importance of SPRU in the STI community historically still tends to surprise me. Perhaps one of the best reflections of SPRU's legacy is the legacy of SPRU's students. For those readers who have not explored the Freeman Centre, I would highly recommend visiting the Pavitt Library and looking at a poster on one of the walls. It shows the impact of Keith Pavitt through his students, and the contributions of that network (of which I am also a part, my supervisor having been one of Pavitt's students). Considering both Keith's contributions and the truly incredible work of Chris Freeman, one begins to understand the importance of SPRU to the development of this field.

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10th September 2006

Happy Birthday SPRU!

After nearly 4 years being a student in SPRU, it is indeed a privilege to witness the expression of those who has been involved in the development of this organisation and institution after 40 years.

In the days I have spent here, I have heard stories of success, joy, collaboration, certainties... but, indeed, there were also stories of failures, headaches, disintegration and doubts - both fundamental in creating what is best (or worse) of SPRU over the years.

But today, I felt the spirit of what is best about SPRU was celebrated and they are apparent in the "words" that has been expressed on the day... on what SPRU has been and perhaps, aspire to enhance in the future:

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It seems to me that it was a meeting of friends, old friends, it could be. The kick off was on citations. It was an interesting tool to look at the influence of others in research, but the conversation went somewhere else: How do others perceive SPRU vs. how do we perceive SPRU?

We talked about leadership, passion for research (or striving for true?), empowering others, non-hierarchy, sense of community, “all contributors are important”, etc. Values or drivers or both?

Opened places are important to exchange ideas, but I thought, opened hearts to listen to others are more important when exhausted brains need some understanding.

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