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Karl Donert, President EUROGEO, Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-‐earth.eu
Olomouc University, Czech Republic, November 10-‐‑12 2014
GeoCapacity Building -‐ what future for 'geospa9al
geoskills'?
EUROGEO • European Associa9on of Geographers • Legally based in Belgium • Interna9onal NGO – established 1979 by the European Commission to network geographers
• A professional associa9on for geographers, geo-‐ scienMsts and related areas
• Developed from the HERODOT (Bologna Process) Network for higher educaMon in Europe
Geo-‐Capacity Building • EUROGEO at the Council of Europe (since 1983) • Par9cipatory status • Culture, Educa9on, Environment, Economy groups
– Lobbying in the European Parliament – Respond to statements and policy proposals (Rio + 20) – AWendance at major meeMngs and events (WFD)
EUROGEO: geospa9al projects
• Networking: Digital-‐earth.eu • Tools: I-‐Use • Training: iGuess & iGuess2 • EducaMon: SpaMal CiMzenship • Careers: GeoSkills Plus
European Journal of Geography http://www.eurogeographyjournal.eu
“A fine journal with excellent and widely cited papers on European geography” The SCOPUS EvaluaMon Team (2014)
TranslaMng the vital work of geo-‐scienMsts into the policy arena
Capacity Building for the future
Varga, A., & Parag, A. (2009). Academic knowledge transfers and the structure of international research networks. University knowledge transfers and regional development: Geography, entrepreneurship and policy. Edward Elgar Publishers, 138-159.
“Our results indicate that the quality of international network connections matters for academic knowledge transfers. ….. not only is the distribution of public research expenditures across different research projects important but also the position from which researchers enter international networks and the level of knowledge accumulated in those networks.”
hOp://9nyurl.com/GWF-‐geocap2014
(BBC 2013)
The Next Revolu9on?
GakstaWer E. (2014), Will the Next Industrial RevoluMon Be Bigger than the First? Will GeospaMal Technology be Part of It?, GeospaMal SoluMons, hWp://Mnyurl.com/qxhohom
Waves of innovaMon, aeer KondraMev (1925)
GakstaWer E. (2014), Will the Next Industrial RevoluMon Be Bigger than the First? Will GeospaMal Technology be Part of It?, GeospaMal SoluMons, hWp://Mnyurl.com/qxhohom
Capacity Building – for what and for
whom?
ISDE Digital Earth 2020 Workshop, Beijing, March 18-‐20 2011, www.digitalearth-‐isde.org/ssw/147
Economic Value of Geospa9al Data (Arup Dasgupta, 2013)
Dusgupta A (2013), Economic Value of GeospaMal Data: The great enabler hWp://Mnyurl.com/nj9kj2
Benefits of the Geospa9al Industry
Entrepreneurship, Innova9on and Leadership in Educa9on
250,000 training courses
Concepts: social learning, geographic (geo-‐)media, spa9al ci9zenship
Gryl I, Jekel T and Donert K (2010), Spatial Citizenship, p2-‐‑12, In Jekel T, Donert K and Koller A (eds.) Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag
Sustainability of successful projects?
Capacity Building
• InnovaMon and change
• EvoluMon of relaMonships
• Gain influence • Make an impact • Affect policy
Etzkowitz, H. and Leydesdorff, L. (2000), The dynamics of innovaMon: from NaMonal Systems and “Mode 2” to a Triple Helix of university–industry–government relaMons Research Policy, 29(2): 109-‐123
Triple Helix Model
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2008 Demands Geo Labour Demand from private sector
Demand from research sector
Demand from public sector
VET
Ba EducaMon for GEO specialists
EducaMon with GEO components
VET
BSc, BA
MSc
PhD
80% 20%
Geo Employment Market FoundaMon
USA data: http://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s=geospatial
Skills Shortages: no defined geospa9al workforce
Chui J et al. (2011), Big data: The next fronMer for innovaMon, compeMMon and producMvity, McKinsey Global InsMtute
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hWp://eskillsassociaMon.eu/
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European needs
Leadership in Geo-
• data / analytics expertise
• building new businesses
• corporate conformists • maverick - culturally
very different
Data, Data, Data … everywhere
UNEP data Misguided’ naMons lock up valuable geospaMal data hWp://t.co/5hy5WE9RJ6
Global Network of Networks
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Cross-‐boundary posi9oning (Leydesdord, 2012)
Who / What fills this space?
Leydesdorff, L. (2012). The triple helix, quadruple helix,…, and an n-‐tuple of helices: explanatory models for analyzing the knowledge-‐based economy?. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 3(1), 25-‐35.
Cross boundary posi9oning (aeer Navarro et al. 2009)
Navarro, M., Gibaja, J. J., Bilbao-‐Osorio, B., and Aguado, R. (2009). PaWerns of innovaMon in EU-‐25 regions: a typology and policy recommendaMons. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27(5), 815-‐840.
need help with this
Breaking down iner9a
Capacity Building: Some Recommenda9ons
• Money ….. support from industry • Long-‐term commitment …… from stakeholders • Common public message – media – investment = valuaMon of the sector
• Research and informaMon gathering • Strong risk evaluaMon …. • “What happens if we don’t develop capacity?”
Survey of GeospaMal Capacity Builders, carried out in March-‐April 2014
What if?
http://tinyurl.com/GWF-geocap2014
What if?
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• networks of insMtuMons offer: – a source of innova9on
– their adop9on and – implementa9on
Dynamics of innova9on
Etzkowitz, H., Webster, A., Gebhardt, C. and Terra, B. R. C. (2000), The future of the university and the university of the future: evoluMon of ivory tower to entrepreneurial paradigm, Research Policy, 28(2): 313-‐330
four characterisMcs (Hausman and Goldring, 2001) • shared values among members, • a common set of events that promote face-‐to-‐face interacMon between parMcipants,
• collabora9on among stakeholders and • a commitment to the organisa9on and its decisions
Building Capacity: Networking
Hausman, C. S. and Goldring, E. B. (2001), Sustaining Teacher Commitment: The Role of Professional CommuniMes, Peabody Journal of EducaMon, 76(2): 30-‐51
What future for the geospa9al sector?
Need an organisa9on to network stakeholders and fill
the gap
Open Data: Big Data
Digital Earth
INSPIRE
Geospa9al sector
Web GIS
