Project Number: 562459-EPP-1-2015-1-UK-EPPKA2-KA

Project Duration: January 2016 - December 2018

TACITProjectinanutshell

ProjectOverviewTitle TeachingandCoachingInnovation&EntrepreneurshipInnovaTively

(TACIT)Academicpartners UniversityofExeter,UK

UniversityofSouthernDenmark,DenmarkHHLGraduateSchoolofManagement,Leipzig,GermanyRWTHInternationalAcademy,Aachen,Germany

Industrialpartners BMW,Lego,Lufthansa,NokiaNetworks,AachenMunchener,HorizonInstituteofTorbay&SouthDevonNHSFoundationTrust

Otherpartners InternationalSocietyforProfessionalInnovationManagement(ISPIM),AccreditationAgencyASIIN,Germany

Budget 999561EURFunding Erasmus+ProgrammeoftheEuropeanUnion

TeachingandCoachingInnovation–ininnovativefashion!

Innovationmatters–ofcourse!Fewpeoplewouldarguewiththeneedtoensurethatourorganizationschangetheirofferings(products/services)andthewayswecreateanddeliverthem (processes) in order to keep pace with a rapidly changing world. If we don’t themessagefromhistoryisclear–wewon'tsurviveorgrow!Thisthemeisasrelevanttopublicsectororsocialinnovatorsasitistothecommercialworld–it’saninnovationimperative.The challenge comes not in recognizing the need for change but working out how torespond. Anyonemightgetluckyoncebutifwewanttokeepasteadyflowof innovationhappeningthenweneedtothinkaboutorganizingandmanagingtheprocess.Innovationisall about creating value from ideas – but it won’t just happen, it needs some supportingstructuresandmethods.Weneedtolearntomanageinnovation.The good news is that we’ve got plenty to draw upon. In different ways practisingmanagers,academicresearchersandconsultantshaveallbeentryingtounderstandhowtomake innovation happen and we can use that knowledge base to help build innovationmanagement capability. Butwe need to adapt and configure those general principles towork inparticularsettings. Andweneedtorecognize thatwhilst lecturesandclassroomshave their place, there is still plenty to do in terms of getting themessage across to thepeoplewhowillmakeinnovationhappen.Inotherwordsweneedsomeinnovationinthewayswethinkaboutteachingandcoachinginnovation.

Project Number: 562459-EPP-1-2015-1-UK-EPPKA2-KA

Project Duration: January 2016 - December 2018

That’sthecorechallengeattheheartofTACIT,a3-yearEUKnowledgeAlliance(2016-2018)project under the Erasmus+ programme.1 Working together academics and practitionerorganizationswill explore, prototype and roll out a suite of different and complementaryapproaches to the challenge and make this experience (and the emerging tools andmethods) available to a wider audience. The work centres on eight core approaches:storytelling, peripatetic learning, future-based learning, entrepreneurship laboratory,innovationtheatre,innovationgames,designmaking,andprojectbasedlearning.StorytellingAll innovation projects,whether new concepts at the start-up stage of a newbusiness ordevelopmentprojectswithinestablishedorganizations,require‘pitching’theideatootherstosecureresources,commitmentandsupport.Thisplacesemphasisontheneedtodevelopacompellingnarrativewhichcanunfoldastheinnovationdevelops;recentyearshaveseenanupsurgeofinterestinthisapproachandinthetoolsandtechniqueswhichcansupportit.Howcouldweusetheskillsofstorytellingtoimproveaspectsof innovationmanagement?Making more persuasive pitches? Developing a storyboard for entrepreneurial ideas?Carrying forward useful innovationmanagement lessons from past experiencewithin theorganization?Walkingthetalk–peripateticlearningThe great Greek philosopher Socrates had the idea which neuroscientists are nowsupporting–wearereceptivetoideaswhenwearemoving.Couplethatwithatruism,thatchanging our context makes us see things differently – and there is the basis for a newapproachtolearningaboutmanaginginnovation.Thecoreapproachhereistouseguidedwalksthroughlandscapeswhicharefullofexamplesofinnovation–andexplorethemwhilstintheopenair,walkinganddiscussingthemawayfromtheclassroomcontext.Future-basedlearningInnovation is about creating alternative futures and a powerful set of tools exist aroundscenariosandotherprojectivetechniques;someofthesehavebeenembeddedinpowerfulmethodologiessuchasShell’sGamechangerprogrammeortheFutureAgendaconsortium.Thisstrandofworkwillsetupan‘IF-Lab’(ImaginingtheFuture-Laboratory)–aplacewhereparticipants imagine alternative futures and explore within them opportunities andchallengeswhichcanformthebasisofnovelproductorserviceconcepts.Fromtheserichpicturestoolsfor‘back-casting’androad-mappingcanbeusedtodevelopclearpathwaystotakeinnovationopportunitiesforward.

1TeachingandCoachingInnovationInnovatively(TACIT).PartnersincludeAachen-Münchener,ASIIN,BMW,ISPIM,LEGO,Lufthansa,NokiaandNHSFoundationTrusttogetherwithUniversityofExeter(UK);SouthernDenmarkUniversity,LeipzigGraduateSchoolofManagementandRWTHInternationalAcademy,Aachen,(Germany).

Project Number: 562459-EPP-1-2015-1-UK-EPPKA2-KA

Project Duration: January 2016 - December 2018

EntrepreneurlaboratoryThere’s been an explosion of interest in start-ups and how to engage and enable newventures.Theyinvolvedevelopingnovelvaluepropositionsandexpandingthemintorobustbusinessmodelswhichcanrealizethepotentialvalueforendusers.Coupledwithpowerfulnew approaches around rapid prototyping of minimum viable products, getting earlyfeedback to refine ideas and pivoting towards a solution they provide a fast track todevelopingandimplementinginnovation.Butsuch'bootcamp'modelsaren't justrelevanttostart-upsandhightechenterprises.Theycanhelpexistingorganizationsrethinkhowtheycomeupwith and carry forwardbusiness cases. Buildingonexperience in companies likeBMW,NokiaandLegothis strandofworkwillexplore inapracticalwayhowtobring theentrepreneuriallabintothemainstream.Innovationtheatre‘Alltheworld’sastage’asShakespearepointedout–andonepartofthatstageiswherethedramaof innovation isbeingplayedout.So there isconsiderablescope forusingnotonlythe metaphor but also some of the tools and techniques from the world of theatre toexplore the characters, scripts and scenery of innovation in different contexts – and todevelopnewtoolsandapproachestoworkingwithinnovation.Inparticularwewilldrawonexperience at the University of Southern Denmark which has worked for years on usingtheatre-basedapproachestoimproveunderstandingandperformanceinrealorganizations.InnovationgamesPlay and playfulness are increasingly being recognised as powerful aids to creativity andinnovation. The concept of ‘serious play’ reflects this growing interest and this strand ofworkwill explore thedifferentways inwhichgamesand structuredplay canprovidenewlearningopportunitiestodevelopinnovationcapabilities.Thesemightrangefromsimpleliveexercisesthroughtomorestructuredinteractionsandevenonlineandvirtualworldgaming.Designmaking‘Design thinking’hasbecomeonof the ‘hot topics’ in the innovation field in recentyears,reflectingbothanapproachtosolvingproblemsandawide-rangingtoolkitwhichpeoplecanusetoembracedesignmethods.OrganizationslikeIDEOhavedemonstratedthepotentialof this model in a variety of public and private sector innovation contexts and it bringsimportant new perspectives especially around user understanding and prototyping. Thisstrandofworknotonlyseekstoexploretheways inwhichdesignthinkingcanbeused inlearninghowtomanageinnovationmoreeffectivelybutalsolooksat‘designmaking’–therangeofapproacheswhichenableuserengagement inprototypingandconcept testingofvariouskinds.

Project Number: 562459-EPP-1-2015-1-UK-EPPKA2-KA

Project Duration: January 2016 - December 2018

Project-basedlearningInnovation isn’t an academicor theoreticalmatter – it's thepracticeof turning ideas intovalue.Andmuchofwhatwe’velearnedhascomefromreflectingonprojects–successfulorotherwise–andpullingout relevant lessons. This strandofworkwill lookat theways inwhich structured reflection canbeused to capture learning from live innovationprojects,and also how we can design reflection projects to help assess and enhance innovationmanagementcapability.

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Formoredetailspleasecontactprojectcoordinator,AnnaTrifilovaata.trifilova@exeter.ac.ukAcknowledgementThisprojecthasbeenfundedwithsupportfromtheEuropeanCommission.Thispublicationreflectstheviewsonlyoftheauthor,andtheCommissioncannotbeheldresponsibleforanyusewhichmaybemadeoftheinformationcontainedtherein.ForotherofficialEUlanguageversions,referencemustbemadetothefollowingwebsite:http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/publ/graphics/beneficiaries_all.pdf