European Community of Practice

Workshop 4: Promoting and evluating innovation

We hard from Tony Tyrell about the framework from the CoP for Programme management, Louis Vervloet about PCM for innovation projects, and Piotr Sarecki about identifying innovation in National Thematic Networks. The key issues to come from this workshop were:

• The importance of communication (horizintal and vertical) and clarity of focus. The question is: How do we connect those two between the different layers of management?
• The need to know the market before innovation as well as having a supporting structure for that innovation.
• A question: how do you set the criteria for the innovtive part of the project?
• Every product/process has to be adopted to the particular context.
• Programme Managers should include a quality approach, not just a financial one.
• The marriage between innovation and mainstreaming. Mainstreaming proposals should include that marriage.
• The responsibility for Programme Managers to provide networking solutions.