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CPROST forthcoming seminars - please contact Brian Wixted brian_wixted@sfu.ca.
Fred Gault, Statistics Canada. 15 February 2007, 2pm: "The future of science, technology and innovation indicators".
William Leiss. 28 February, 7pm: "The new science of the mind and brain."Already in the early 17th century, partisans of the new science of nature envisioned a series of innovations that would revolutionize the conditions of human life. Until now we have experienced them largely as external technologies. With the coming of genomics, however, science gets personal and intimate and, I suggest, the meaning of science for us changes dramatically as a result.
William Leiss. 14 March 2007, 7pm: "Science and Society in the Modern Period"
William Leiss. 21 March 2007, 7pm: "Science and Ethics: The Choices that confront us"
Anthony Arundel, OECD. 29 March 2007, 2pm: topic to be advised.
For further information please contact Dr. Brian Wixted at <brian_wixted@sfu.ca>.
The Digest - A CPROST student initiative, nurtured by Richard Smith (publisher) and Roman Onufrijchuk (Executive Editor).
CPROST will running a monthly seminar series this year. The first seminar will be on Oct. 20th, with Dr. Jeremy Hall of the University of Calgary. For further information please contact Dr. Brian Wixted at <brian_wixted@sfu.ca>. Watch this page as we firm up the schedule.
Return of our founder, Dr. Bill Leiss, for the winter term 10/06
CPROST is very pleased to announce the return of our founder, Dr. Bill Leiss, for the winter term. He will be based in room HC 3557 and will be giving a graduate class (CMNS 856).
Report on Privacy Rights and Prepaid Communication Services 04/06
Dr. Gordon Gow's report, Privacy Rights and Prepaid Communication Services, is now available.
CPROST is pleased to announce that the Creative City Network's Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities has been co-located with CPROST.
For more information see: http://www.creativecity.ca
The Leonardo Summer Institute 10/05
The Leonardo Summer Institute, a summer workshop run by the Faculty of Applied Sciences for PhD candidates within the faculty is run by members of CPROST.
A complete description can be found at: http://fas.sfu.ca/leonardo
The website for Dr. Gordon Gow’s study on Prepaid Mobile Phones and Privacy Rights is posted. Members of the public are invited to comment.
SFU's Vice-President Research To Assume Directorship of CPROST
On September 1, 2004, Dr. Bruce Clayman will assume the role of Director of SFU's Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST), at the same time as he hands over the reins as Vice-President, Research at Simon Fraser University to Dr. Mario Pinto.
Established in 1988, CPROST engages in research on the relationship between public policy and technology. It brings together practitioners and scholars to study the interaction of advanced in science and technology, their implementation in the marketplace, and their impacts on community and individuals.
Dr. Clayman's 11 years as Vice-President, Research at SFU provides the ability to contribute substantially as a member of the CPROST team. He is author of reports on various aspects of the commercialization of university research in Canada and around the world plus over 100 articles on condensed matter physics.
ISRN 2004 Conference 10/03
The ISRN 2004 Conference web site is now available. The site will allow people to upload their papers/presentations as well as allow commentary on the papers.
Defining Clusters: A Popular Pastime 10/03
Prof. J. Adam Holbrook has written an article for eSynapse (published by the Innovation and Science Council of British Columbia).
CPROST welcomes new members, Gordon Gow, LSE, and Bruce Clayman, SFU 10/03
Bruce Clayman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science Vice President, Research at Simon Fraser University.
Gordon A. Gow, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr. Chung from Sejong University in Seoul, Korea was a guest of CPROST 07/03
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On July 24th, 2003, Dr. Sunyang Chung, Professor of Technology Management, School of Business Administration and Director, Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI), at Sejong University in Seoul, Korea was a guest of CPROST and gave a talk on the National System of Innovation in Korea with a view to the past, present, and future.
Gordon Gow Graduates (Vancouver) 05/03
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CPROST faculty and students would like to congratulate Gordon Gow (left) on his successful PhD defence on April 28. Senior supervisor Pete Anderson (right) and committee members Richard Smith and David Mitchell (Calgary) were pleased to have external examiner Robin Mansell in from London for the defence as well as internal examiner Adam Holbrook, from CPROST. Gordon's dissertation is on the policy implications that emerge from a study of emergency 911 system for wireless telephones.
InnoCom meeting, (Harbour Centre and Bowen Island, Vancouver) 09/02
IP video-conferencing, (Calgary) 06/02InnoCom, the western sub-network of the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN), sponsored by SSHRC, held a meeting at SFU -Harbour Centre and Bowen Island, September 19 & 20, 2002. Principal investigators provided updates on their activities. Graduate students associated with the InnoCom/ISRN program also provided presentations on their activities. Dr. Maryann Feldman, of Johns Hopkins University was a guest speaker and outlined her research on the Baltimore/Washington DC innovation system. Dr. Ricardo Arechevala, of the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, spoke on research being carried out by his team on regional systems of innovation in Mexico. Present for the entire meeting was a team of scholars and civil servants from South American nations, sponsored by the Organization of American States, who participated actively in the discussions, and made presentations.
ISRN National Meeting (Quebec City) 05/02CPROST, in cooperation with InSite, a project of the School of Communication at the University of Calgary, sponsored by CANARIE, has implemented and tested a video-conference link between CPROST at Harbour Centre and the InSite laboratory in Calgary. The system has been demonstrated to provide cheap and effective two-way video-conferencing which has allowed the principal investigators from InnoCom to confer and jointly manage their ongoing research. The system has also been used to mount joint lectures and seminars between the two locations. The most recent was a lecture by Dr. Koen Frenken of the University of Utrecht on complexity theory models of product innovation.
InnoCom meeting at (Kananaskis) 02/02
InnoCom, the western sub-network of the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN), sponsored by SSHRC, met on February 22-23, 2002 in Kananaskis, Alberta. At this meeting InnoCom/ISRN researchers laid out their preliminary results from their research into the sources of, and barriers to, technological innovation in specific industrial clusters in Alberta and BC. Graduate students involved with InnoCom/ISRN projects also made presentation on their contributions to the studies. Dr. David Wolfe, of the University of Toronto and the national head of ISRN was the guest speaker. Dr. Edna Einseidel of the University of Calgary led a master class on the ethical problems arising from the study of innovation and innovation systems.
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