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Innovation Journalism Vol.4 No.1, THE
INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AT STANFORD 2007 - KICKOFF WORKSHOP
PROGRAM
The final program from the kickoff workshop
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Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.5 PR AND THE INNOVATION COMMUNICATION
SYSTEM By David Nordfors. Public relations in
innovation companies can strengthen brand value by communicating innovation
processes and add value to innovation by developing narratives for new products and services in parallel with
technological and business development. The development of innovation
communication and PR will benefit from the emergence of independent
innovation journalism. Some new concepts are introduced: Communicators and
journalists can be seen as “attention workers”, driving the “innovation communication
system”, a subset of the innovation system, focusing on the flows of
communication and attention. (This
essay was written for the 10th SKOJ conference in |
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News Flash INNOVATION JOURNALISM GETS ACADEMIC
RESEARCH FUNDING How does journalism link innovation with the
public interest? How do innovation ecosystems engage journalists? These
questions are at the heart of a research initiative recently funded by
VINNOVA, the Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems. The project
will set the agenda for an international research workshop scheduled for
February 2007 at |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.4, THE THIRD CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM - PROCEEDINGS
The conference papers presented at The Third
Conference on Innovation Journalism, April
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Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.3, THE THIRD CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM - PROGRAM/ABSTRACTS/BIOS
The final conference program of the Third
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Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.2, INNOVATION JOURNALISM: TOWARDS RESEARCH ON THE INTERPLAY OF JOURNALISM
IN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS
By D.Nordfors, M. Ventresca, A. Hargadon, T. Uskali,
A. Ainamo, S. Jonsson, S. Grodal, A. Weinstein, M. Kennedy, P. Svensson, F.
Reid. This essay suggests Innovation Journalism as a useful theme through
which to explore the interplay of journalism in innovation ecosystems. This
involves investigating how journalism plays a part in connecting innovation
with public interests and how innovation processes and innovation ecosystems
interact with public attention, with news media as an actor. It may also be
of interest to study in which ways journalists cover innovation processes and
innovation ecosystems, the incentives that may drive innovation journalism
and how news organizations may be organized to perform the task. We outline
examples of research project topics to illustrate how this approach can inform
studies of innovation, studies of journalism as practice, and possible scipes
for the research theme. |
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News Flash THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION JOURNALISM DVD NOW AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE VIDEO The DVD “The Future of Innovation Journalism” (Innovation
Journalism Vol.2 No.12) is now available on Google Video. This DVD presents a roundtable discussion
about the future of journalism with the “Father of the Internet” Vint Cerf
(Google /ICANN), Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems), Amy Bernstein (Business
2.0), Lee Bruno (Red Herring), Dan Gillmor (Bayosphere), Anders Lotsson
(Computer Sweden), Frances Mann-Craik (Tornado Insider, Addison Marketing),
Harry McCracken (PC World), Tony Perkins (AlwayOn Network), Jan Sandred
(Biotech Sweden), Richard Allan Horning (Tomlinson Zisko LLP), Charles Wessner
(National Academies) and Stig Hagström (Stanford Center for Innovations in
Learning). Producer and moderator: David Nordfors (Stanford / VINNOVA) (click here
for the newsflash in PDF) |
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News Flash INTRODUCING THE
2006 INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWS The fellows represent influential newsrooms
in |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.1, THE INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AT STANFORD 2006 - KICKOFF
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
The final program from the kickoff workshop
for the Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program at Stanford |
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News Flash THE THIRD
CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM. STANFORD UNIVERSITY 5-7 APRIL 2006. Invitation for papers and participants to The
Third Conference on Innovation Journalism at We have already enlisted speakers and
delegations from the |
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News Flash PAKISTAN JOINS
INNOVATION JOURNALISM PROGRAM AT STANFORD Omar Ayub Khan, |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.12, THE FUTURE OF
INNOVATION JOURNALISM By David Nordfors. It’s innovation time for journalism! Traditional
news media are being challenged by innovative sources of news on the
Internet, such as blogospheres, or citizen journalism. Traditional journalism
struggles when covering innovation as a topic. While innovation pivots
society it is not a key news word. Traditional news beats – such as
technology, business or politics – chop up innovation processes to fit their
news slots, missing the bigger picture. How can journalism report on innovation, following the cross-boundary
interactions driving today’s society? Who can do it? This DVD presents a
roundtable discussion about the future of journalism with the “father of the
Internet” Vint Cerf (Google /ICANN), Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems), Amy
Bernstein (Business 2.0), Lee Bruno (Red Herring), Dan Gillmor (Bayosphere),
Anders Lotsson (Computer Sweden), Frances Mann-Craik (Tornado Insider,
Addison Marketing), Harry McCracken (PC World), Tony Perkins (AlwayOn
Network), Jan Sandred (Biotech Sweden), Richard Allan Horning (Tomlinson
Zisko LLP), Charles Wessner (National Academies) and Stig Hagström (Stanford
Center for Innovations in Learning). Producer and moderator: David Nordfors
(Stanford / VINNOVA) See a sample from the DVD
(click here for Quicktime movie) The DVD can be ordered from Amazon.com or VINNOVA
(UPC 837101387) |
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News Flash FINLAND LAUNCHES
NATIONAL INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM |
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News Flash THE FIRST
HANDBOOK ON INNOVATION COMMUNICATION The first innovation communication handbook
"Neue Ideen erfolgreich durchsetzen. Das
Handbuch der Innovationskommunikation" was recently released by the
publishing house of |
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News Flash FINLAND LAUNCHES
WORLD'S FIRST COURSE IN INNOVATION JOURNALISM FOR STUDENTS On September 9 the journalism group at the
department of communication at the |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.11, PAYING
ATTENTION TO WEAK SIGNALS – THE KEY CONCEPT FOR INNOVATION JOURNALISM
By
Turo Uskali. Business journalism often
misses to predict major happenings and frequently plays a part in inflating
economic bubbles. Journalism seems to lack good methods for handling “weak
signals”, the first written signs or hints of a coming change - a key concept
for future-oriented journalism. The author has shown in previous work on
business news that weak signals are mainly detected at the end of the news
stories and from reporters´ personal comments. Business news often allows no
more than one scenario of the future per story, which is not sufficient for
discussing weak signals. This tends to promote mainstreaming which can
inflate bubbles. Innovation journalism is future-oriented and needs to
discuss weak signals. The paper proposes some guidelines for innovation
journalists on how to cover weak signals without repeating the mistakes of
business journalism. Traditionally, scholars have looked for weak signals in
news headlines. But news headlines mostly focus on strong signals. The paper
proposes some future directions for weak signal research. |
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News Flash INNOVATION
JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS: SWEDISH CALL FOR APPLICANTS VINNOVA, the Swedish Government Agency for Innovation
Systems, is issuing a call for applicants for their third round of Swedish
sponsored Innovation Journalism Fellowships. The fellowship program is run
together with the |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.10, THE ROLE OF INNOVATION JOURNALISM IN SCIENCE NEWS MEDIA
By
Marie Granmar. During the past decade
there has been an important worldwide trend in which more research is
conducted in private companies or research departments with high ambitions of
spin-offs. The science journalism tradition of mainly giving perspectives on
recently published peer reviewed articles is no longer sufficient. Innovation
journalism increases the possibilities of covering key factors driving
scientific development. This paper describes how a few different science
media have chosen to approach the challenge of integrating innovation
journalism. It discusses the challenges for the modern science journalists,
their work environments and editorial organizations. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.9, HOW TO DO ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION JOURNALISM
By
Birgitta Forsberg. The purpose of this paper is to give other journalists
ideas of how to do environmental innovation journalism and to define the
field of environmental innovation journalism. The paper gives some examples
and partly describes what is happening with companies’ environmental work. It
is the hope of the author that readers will find interesting threads that
will become embryos of new stories. As this paper is aimed at journalists,
the reader is expected to have journalistic skills and to know how to do
research, how to be critical, balanced and accurate and how to handle ethical
dilemmas. Basic journalism is beyond the scope of this
paper. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.8, INNOVATION READINESS - A FRAMEWORK FOR ENHANCING CORPORATIONS AND
REGIONS BY INNOVATION COMMUNICATION
By
Ansgar Zerfass. The industrial reality does no longer match
the traditional understanding of innovation based on the assertiveness of
creative scientists and entrepreneurs. Nowadays, an integrative approach is
necessary. The concept of “Innovation Readiness” takes into account the
relevance of internal as well as external stakeholders within the innovation
process (stakeholder orientation) and considers the relevance of regional and
branch-specific innovation systems (cluster development). It also highlights
the importance of communication for the implementation of new ideas,
products, and services. Following this line of argumentation, the article
explains the strategies and measures of Innovation Communication. Several
case studies illustrate how communication may foster the ability to innovate
and thus strengthen competitiveness in a fundamental way. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.7, INNOVATION COMMUNICATION - OUTLINE OF THE CONCEPT AND EMPIRICAL
FINDINGS FROM GERMANY
By Claudia Mast, Simone Huck and Ansgar
Zerfass. Innovation Communication poses particular challenges for communicators
and requires special routines. INNOVATE 2004 is the first nation-wide study
on Innovation Communication, based on answers from German journalists and
communication experts from companies, agencies, research institutions,
universities, politics, and administration. The survey’s results provide
first indicators for the field of Innovation Communication in |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.5, INTRODUCING AN INNOVATION JOURNALISM INDEX - BENCHMARKING THE SWEDISH
MARKET
By David Nordfors, Daniel R. Kreiss and Jan
Sandred. Although Innovation Journalism is not a common label of a beat or of
a type of publication, it is possible to benchmark the media landscape, using
an innovation journalism index based on the results from a simple
questionnaire, which measures the integration of technology and business
reporting. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.4, THE SECOND
CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM: PAPERS
The conference papers from The Second
Conference on Innovation Journalism, held at |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.3, THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM: PROGRAM
The final conference program from The Second
Conference on Innovation Journalism, which was held at |
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News Flash INNOVATION
JOURNALISM INITIATIVE TO CONTINUE FOR THIRD YEAR Following the success of the
first two programs, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) and
Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), are pleased to announce
that the initiative to grow a community of “innovation journalists” – media
professionals who cover the technical, business, legal, political and social
aspects of innovation – will be funded for a third year by VINNOVA. |
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News Flash THE SECOND
CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM – UPDATE: REGISTRATION AND PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM Updated information about The
Second Conference on Innovation Journalism. Preliminary conference program
with times, topics and speakers/panellists. Link to conference registration
on the Internet. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.2, THE RISE OF ANALYSTS AS SOURCES IN INNOVATION JOURNALISMBy Niclas Lilja. Reporters increasingly use
analysts as sources in innovation journalism. By using analysts, the
reporters get access to knowledge, resources, insight and industry access.
The reporters stay neutral on the surface of the article by quoting analysts
instead of expressing personal beliefs. The potential confusion happens if
readers and or journalists believe analysts to be neutral experts when they
could be pursuing their own agenda. |
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News Flash THE SECOND INNOVATION JOURNALISM CONFERENCE
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Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.1, A BUSINESS MODEL FOR INNOVATION JOURNALISM: BIOTECH SWEDENBy Jan Sandred. Innovation systems offer
readerships and commercial markets for innovation journalism. Editor Jan
Sandred identified in 2001 a business opportunity for a magazine covering the
Swedish biotechnology innovation system. The Swedish business-to-business
magazine Biotech |
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News Flash FINLAND LAUNCHES INNOVATION JOURNALISM PROGRAMME- joins the Second Innovation Journalism Conference at Stanford April
4-6 The |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.1 No.7, THE ROLE OF JOURNALISM IN INNOVATION SYSTEMSBy David Nordfors. Innovation Journalism can
strengthen the competitiveness of
innovative clusters and national innovation economies. Innovation
systems can offer readerships and commercial markets for innovation journalism.
Journalism is an actor in innovation systems and it’s role needs to be
investigated. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.1 No.6, WHEN TECH MEETS BUSINESS IN JOURNALISMBy Adam Edström. A suggestion for how to mix
business and technology journalism in a publication aiming at entrepreneurs
and startups that insults neither the engineers nor the economists, based on
a comparison between personal experiences from Fortune Magazine and the
Swedish electronics magazine Elektroniktidningen. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.1 No.5, COMPONENTS OF INNOVATION JOURNALISMBy Magnus Höij. In order for text to be “innovation
journalism”, it has to cover both the invention and the market. While these
two elements are sufficient and necessary for calling it innovation
journalism, other elements can be added to make the text even more useful or
enjoyable for the readership. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.1 No.4, Investigating the Performance of Research Companies - A Reporting Example on DeCODE Genetics By Marcus Lillkvist. The sparse journalistic
coverage of innovation-based startup companies could be explained by a lack
of methods and tools for journalists striving to cover these companies. This
paper describes new journalistic methods for covering startups. |
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Newsflash, APPLICATIONS: INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 2004
About the 2004 Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program and how to apply for it. In Swedish only. External link to VINNOVA’s website. |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.1 No.3, THE FIRST CONFERENCE
ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM – CONFERENCE PAPERS
Papers presented at the First Conference on
Innovation Journalism, held at Wallenberg Hall, |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.1 No.2, THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM
Program for the First Conference on
Innovation Journalism, held at Wallenberg Hall, |
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Innovation Journalism Vol.1 No.1, THE CONCEPT OF INNOVATION JOURNALISM AND A PROGRAMME FOR DEVELOPING IT
By David Nordfors Reprint of VINNOVA Information VI 2003:5 ISSN
1650-3120, October 2003 “Innovation Journalism” is the intuitive name
for journalism covering innovation. It is valid as a concept, but there is no
such journalistic discipline or community today. Therefore, a programme has
been designed to develop the concept and test the possibilities for
Innovation Journalism as a journalistic discipline, a new reporting “beat”. |
