Piloting, evaluation and sustainability
of InnoSkills platform
InnoSkills – The Final Event
September 30, 2010
Treviso, Italy
Jiří Vacek, Dana Egerová, Milan Edl
University of West Bohemia
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Platform components
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Multimedia tutorial and self-evaluation tool facilitate the first
contact with the platform;
Innovation Guide, available online and enriched by multimedia
components, covers broad range of issues related to innovation
management; for off-line study the Guide is available in pdf;
Resource library – to be further developed, focus on specific
case studies;
Innovation rooms – useful tools supporting creativity,
knowledge sharing and collaboration;
The Informal and Cooperative Learning Guide – unique
component summarizing experience from piloting and providing
examples of practical use of provided tools.
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Project team tools
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Team Organizer – LinkMV; shared working space,
each work package having its directory.
Open source content management tool TYPO3
used for both back-end and front-end on-line
contents maintenance and presentation.
Project team members gained experience with
these kind of tools, can build on it in their future
work.
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Piloting of project deliverables
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UWB students and participating SMEs – evaluation
of the platform functionality, contents and format.
Provided feedback: very positive, unfortunately
much weaker response rate than expected.
Workshop on the use of one of the innovation
rooms tools – collaborative text processors.
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Collaborative text processors
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Business Innovation Center Plzeň (BIC) collaborates on
development of project proposals with the Technology Center
of the Czech Academy of Sciences (TC). They realized the
potential of collaborative tools presented in the corresponding
Innovation room.
UWB consultants prepared the brief training for BIC and TC
consisting of brief introduction to collaborative tools, their
possibilities, advantages and disadvantages.
The participants then created their accounts and practically
trained the use of Zoho Writer and Google Docs.
During preparation of the training, we learned about broad
class of collaborative tools, not limited to text processing
(spread sheets, presentations, and many more).
The participants were introduced to much discussed new
technologies of cloud computing.
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Feedback
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Very positive evaluation of the platform content,
structure, format. Especially positively valued
multimedia components and broad coverage of
innovation management issues.
The users would welcome further development of
the platform by case studies, units on project
management, business planning and knowledge
management.
The platform fills in the gap in practical approach to
innovation training, use of methods and tools.
Especially valuable are answers to open questions –
they can be used for further development of the
platform.
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Sustainability
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In the university courses on innovation
management (UWB and ERASMUS students);
Customized trainings for SMEs;
Results disseminated through Chambers of
Commerce, Czech Association of Innovative
Entrepreneurship, etc.
The UWB team members themselves acquired new
knowledge and skills they can use in their further
work and share the experience with their
colleagues.
The project created space for further cooperation
between project partners.
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Acknowledgements
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To European Commission and its Leonardo da
Vinci program.
To all partners for their collective efforts that
allowed to create very useful product, especially to
Treviso Tecnologia for project coordination and to
Link MV for providing the tools for platform
development.
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