For academic research to be truly innovative, it means not just coming up with that one new idea but coming up with effective ways of continually improving your ideas and communicating them to greater numbers of potential beneficiaries, Calhoun said in his 11 Feb 09 lecture for the USC Annenberg School for Communication, part of a series the school is running on sustainable innovation.
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Craig Calhoun has been president of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) since 1999. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and founding director of its Institute for Public Knowledge. Read more about Craig.
“Interdisciplinarity, Innovation and Informing the Public” lecture for USC Annenberg on 11 Feb 09.
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