Manchester Knowledge Capital

This is the place to find:
PREST/CRIC The Institute of Innovation Research, 2006 (Sally Randles, Elvira Uyarra, Evita Paraskevopoulou, Brian Eaton, Ian Miles, Jeremy Howells)
The Use and Limitations of Indicators in the Context of City-Region Development Strategy: A Discussion Paper
prepared for Manchester: Knowledge Capital 24 May 2006

At the conference website for "The Measurement and Analysis of Innovation and Productivity Growth" 10-11 November 2005, Groningen GGDC Dseries
you'll find my paper:
Ian Miles “Services and R&D: Measurement and More”
http://www.ggdc.net/conf/wp9_conference/miles.pdf
Powerpoints for this are also available at http://www.ggdc.net/conf/wp9_conference/miles.ppt

Foresight
at http://www.foresight.gov.uk/Publications/Current%20round%20General%20Publications/Foresight_Evaluation_2006/Foresight_Evaluation_Final_Report_June_2006.pdf
PREST 2006 (Hugh Cameron, Luke Georghiou, Michael Keenan, Ian Miles, Ozcan Saritas)
Evaluation of the United Kingdom Foresight Programme: Final Report
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Mismatches in Priorities for Health Research
Carol M. Grant-Pearce, Ian Miles and Philip Hills 1998
Mismatches in Priorities for Health Research between Professionals and Consumers
Report to the Standing Advisory Group on Consumer Involvement in the NHS R&D Programme,
PREST mimeo, September 1998
Available online at: http://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/centres/engineering-policy/publications/reports.htm

CORDIS: Innovation Portal::

Three publications here:
Ian Miles and Paul Cunningham (with inputs from Deborah Cox, Christina Crowe and Khaleel Malik) 2006
Smart Innovation: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Innovation Programmes
Luxembourg, European Commission, available at:
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/innovation/docs/sar1_smartinnovation_master2.pdf
accompanied by ANRT/LLA/PREST reports (multiauthored)
Draft Terms of Reference for an EC Pilot Initiative
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/innovation/docs/sar2_draft_terms_ec_pilot_initiative_master2.pdf
Supporting the Monitoring and Evaluation of Innovation Programmes – Final Report
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/innovation/docs/smeip_finalreport_master2.pdf

Publin, innovation in the public sector, reports
and another report is contained here, mainly written by Paul to be honest (I did some interviews and a lot of editing, but he wrote 90% of this):
NHS Direct, An Innovation in Social Trust
By Paul Cunningham, Lawrence Green, Ian Miles and John Rigby
at
http://www.step.no/publin/reports/d12-3ukum.pdf

Publin, innovation in the public sector, reports

Here is the report for the PUBLIN project:
Thomas Halvorsen, Johan Hauknes, Ian Miles and Rannveig Røste - On the differences between public and private sector innovation
at:
http://www.step.no/publin/reports/d9differences.pdf
and in which is the chapter:
Rannveig Røste and Ian Miles, 2005, "Differences between public and private sector innovation" pp22-39

FISTERA@IPTS
5.104 R Popper &I Miles “IST and Europe's Objectives - a Survey of Expert Opinion” Chapter 5 PP87-103
5.103 L Green & I Miles “Applying IST to European Goals - Developing and Deploying Alternative Scenarios” Chapter 10 PP 183-201
in Corina Pascu and Florin Gheorghe Filip (eds) 2005 Visions on the Future of Information Society in an Enlarged Europe Bucharest, Academia Romana, The Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, ISBN: 973-271199-X available at: http://fistera.jrc.es/pages/books/content%20bucharest%20book/Visions%20book.htm

Ian Miles, 2005: "Service Innovation and the European Economy: from Lisbon to London"
Presented at Nordic Conference: Innovation and Value Creation in the Service Economy Soria Moria, Oslo, 25-26 October 2005 (Research Council of Norway) Available at: http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/BlobServer?blobcol=urlvedleggfil&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=Vedlegg&blobwhere=1130177852192

UNIDO - Technology ForeSight from this you can delve down to the following three chapters in the indicated document!

Michael Keenan and Ian Miles 2003
“Organising a Technology Foresight Exercise” ppD1 – D23

Michael Keenan and Ian Miles 2003
“Overview of Methods used in Foresight” pp E1 – E16

Ian Miles 2003
“Scenario building” pp G1 – G30

all in UNIDO (ed) Technology Foresight for Organizers - TRAINING COURSE for Black Sea Economic Cooperation Countries and the Newly Independent States Vienna: United Nations Industrial Scientific and Technical Research, and Development Organization Council Of Turkey
http://www.unido.org/file-storage/download/?file_id=21456

emcc - The knowledge-intensive business services sector - what future?:
Unattributed but authored by IM: "The knowledge-intensive business services sector - what future?" 2005 European Foundation, EMCC sector studies series. (First of three)

FISTERA@IPTS: "20” FISTERA Paper: “'From Delphi to Lisbon: European views of IST Futures" Ian Miles Powerpoint presentation of Delphi results. See this site more generally for other FISTERA and guest presentations, some excellent!

Evento ponencias-sesion 2- 2004
Foresight – La Prospectiva
Invited lecture at Corporation Andino de Fomento conference, el Encuentro CAF por la Competitividad Caracas, Venezuela, 19 October 2004
Powerpoints available at: http://www.competitividadandina.org/attach/4/default/IanMiles-EncuentroCAFporlaCompetitividad.pdf
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Ian Miles y Rafael Popper: La meta del foresight es la integraci�n regional: "Ian Miles y Rafael Popper: La meta del foresight es la integracion regional" interview (in Spanish) on CAF website, 2004

Locating the Personal this is the overall Pinpoint site, the paper is
Ian Miles, Lawrence Green, Rafael Popper (PREST) and Jane Galsworthy (QUOTEC) 2004, Locating the Personal: Report of a workshop exploring the social and technological opportunities and challenges of emerging personal location systems; PREST for the PINPOINT Faraday Partnership, published on PINPOINT website at http://www.pinpoint-faraday.org.uk/downloads/prest_29062004_workshop_report.pdf

Challenges of innovation in public services
This is a talk I gave in January 2005 at the PRIME conference in Manchester. The pdf of the powerpoints is downloadable here

Synthesis Report
This is THE FISTERA SYNTHESIS REPORT KEY FACTORS DRIVING THE FUTURE INFORMATION SOCIETY
IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA edited by RAMON COMPAÑÓ, CORINA PASCU, & JEAN-CLAUDE BURGELMAN
and drawing on material from MICHAEL RADER, KNUD BOEHLE (ITAS-FZK)
ROBERTO SARACCO, GRAZIELLA SPINELLI (TILAB)
BERNHARD DACHS, MATTHIAS WEBER, SAMI MAHROUM (ARC-SYS)
and RAFAEL POPPER, IAN MILES, LAWRENCE GREEN (PREST)
contents include:
SOCIAL DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES - Changing Social Relationships; Leisure and Recreation; Ageing Population; Health:Cultural Diversity and Migration' Transport and Mobility' Learning and Education; Social Welfare / Public Services; Government; Security;
THE HUMAN FACTOR Skills Shortages etc.
THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT inc Foresight Studies in the EU Member States
TECHNOLOGICAL DRIVERS Trajectories; European Position in ICT; Technology Disruptions etc.

IanMiles-EncuentroCAFporlaCompetitividad.pdf (application/pdf Object)
this is the pdf version of my powerpoint presentation "Foresight" at the recent CAF Conference in Caracas. The focus is on drawing lessons from Foresight experience in Europe for the Latin American activity in the are - especially as applied to competitiveness.

FISTERA workshop report
This is Ian Miles, Rafael Popper, Lawrence Green 2003
Exploring Emerging Applications: Report of the FISTERA Trends, Drivers & Challenges Workshop (workshop held on 16th - 17th June 2004, Seville, Spain)

A draft report - still waiting for feedback from participants, and a little more structuring underway. Scenhario workshop concerning IT applications a decade otr so hence, esp.in fields like ageing, culture... Contents are:

The Key Results of the Workshop

The Workshop Process

Technology Functions and Applications

Scenarios and Issues

Research Needs

Conclusions

Annexe 1 – Participants and Agenda

Annexe 2 – Detailed Quantitative Results

Annexe 3 – Detailed Qualitative Results

Annexe 4 – IST Delphi

Annexe 5 – Instructions and Other Material Used in Workshop

Annexe 6 – Evaluation of the Workshop

Combatting The Surveillance Industrial Complex

This is an ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union - report on
The Privatization of Surveillance

"The U.S. security establishment is rapidly increasing its ability to monitor average Americans by hiring or compelling private-sector corporations to provide billions of customer records. The explosive growth in surveillance by government and business is creating a "Surveillance Industrial Complex" that threatens all of our privacy"