Experts have the following Schanck (1990) :• Highly developed capacity of observation• Capacity to simplify complicated problems• Creativity• Capacity to convey expert knowledge to others• Awareness of their capabilities• Up to date knowledge

Novices Need basic research skills• Enquiry• Writing• Referencing• Subject knowledge

These come in a number of ways

accident

design

interest

currency

delegation

uniqueness

innovation

Process by which an idea or invention is translated into a good or service for which people will pay. To be called an innovation, an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and must satisfy a specific need.

research

Systematic investigative process employed to increase or revise current knowledge by discovering new facts..

exploit 

The use or exploitation of something in order to gain a benefit.

profit

A measure of the success of an enterprise, it is the surplus remaining after total costs are deducted from total revenue

(www.businessdictionary .com)

Students ran a series of after school clubs under the Every Child Matters Policy – The first in the UK!

24 Schools

Over 200 children

40 teachers and support staff

5 main themes

Pupil/Student after school learning, teachers opinions and attitudes, current approaches to ECM, healthy eating, cultural awareness, IT and young children, parents attitudes, groupwork and learning, teaching methodologies, effectiveness of ECM, activity learning, attitudes to exercise, IT as a placement facilitator, new ECM approaches, etc. etc. etc.

And

We were asked to do a research project under ‘Being Healthy’

In particular how to get kids active

We wrote a commissioned paper for Liverpool Extended Schools Service

We thought we were experts by ‘Informing the Professions’

We should have got this published and peer We should have got this published and peer reviewedreviewed

20 schools

100’s children

Some teachers

What do you think they wanted?

More Research!More Research!

But it only worked 2 dance mats

And we had a problem!And we had a problem!

All the children wanted to be on a dancemat at once

More Research!More Research! We revisited the children in the schoolsWe revisited the children in the schools

They were impatientThey were impatient

Did an emoticon surveyDid an emoticon survey

Kicked the results aroundKicked the results around

Went back to the Local AuthorityWent back to the Local Authority

We had another idea!We had another idea!

We Envisaged a Fantastic We Envisaged a Fantastic Exercise SystemExercise System

HUB

We wanted to run clubs in South Liverpool to improve Health

throughout the community for;

Children

Young Adults

Mature Adults

People with Special Needs and Disabilities

But No Suitable Systems Were Available!But No Suitable Systems Were Available!

RationaleRationale

● AdaptableAdaptable

● Can build in multiple Can build in multiple aspects of healthy aspects of healthy activitiesactivities

- Dance- Dance

- Sports- Sports

- Games- Games

- Add on for individual and - Add on for individual and

Personal developmentPersonal development

- Programmable- Programmable

Concept – Multi MatConcept – Multi Mat

Our Digital Activity System

M.A.T.S.

If you’re not having a go try and get some ideas on a flipchart to answer the following question.

““Where do we go from Where do we go from here with the M.A.T.S.?’’ here with the M.A.T.S.?’’

✔ Mentoring✔ System

Development✔ Club Leaders✔ Health Awareness✔ Programming✔ Innovation

We Attracted interest from others

● Developers

● International

Researchers

●Commercial Prospects

● Big Companies

(Apple)

● International Links

Cardio respiratory adaptations eg. Cardio respiratory adaptations eg. respiratory rate band.respiratory rate band.

Individual recording of improvementsIndividual recording of improvements

Community wide health benefits (Clubs)Community wide health benefits (Clubs)

PhysiotherapyPhysiotherapy

Supports individual health plansSupports individual health plans

Provides on the ground research Provides on the ground research opportunitiesopportunities

Health Learning extensionsHealth Learning extensions

An Integrated solution!An Integrated solution!

Recent discoveries show you can treat angina (Heart artery blockages) with exercise. (Cohn 1999 )

We built the first on line Cardiology centre with NRAC

Significant health benefits for communities

Adaptable for individual needs

Research across communities (graduate -Phd level, Medical – Social Sciences)

Programmable

Can be developed from research

Adaptable

Links to LA Children and Young Peoples Plans 2006 -2009

Our entrepreneurial activities led us to develop a Dragons Den Programme with Liverpool Primary Schools.

Every Child Matters, (ECM) Economic well being, Enjoy and Achieve

More after school clubs

Start a business

Public Showcase – Liverpool City Hall

Judged by key business figures

Showing products

Being quizzed

Amanda and Javed

Uniqueness is the key

Look for the ‘new’ or unexplored

Be first! Be Certain

Don’t jump at the first opportunity

Develop your area fully

Search related avenues

Write it up

Publish!

Many Possibilities

Research to be more interdisciplinary (Burkhardt 2003)

Experts across a number of disciplines (Frazier 2008)

Arrival of ‘Research Entrepreneurs,’ not necessarily subject experts but value recognisers (Iles et al 2001)

New knowledge makes expert research easier

Web as an increasing source of information

Research to be exploited (LERA 2003) etc. etc.

Johnston, R., Matthews, M., Dodgson, M., 2000, Enabling the Virtuous Cycle: Identifying and Removing Barriers to Entrepreneurial Activity by Health and Medical Researchers in the Higher Education Sector Department of Education, Training, and Youth Affairs, Australian National University

(http://www.aciic.org.au/system/files//f4/f8/o39//wills.pdf. Accessed 10/4/09)

Howells, J., and McKinlay, C., 1999, Commercialisation of University Research in Europe, University of Manchester

Cohn, P. 1999, Emerging treatments for refractory angina, Elsevier Science

Gazdula, J. 2007, Future Schools, UK Future TV

( http://www.ukfuturetv.com/educationlearning/index.htm accessed 13/4/2009)

Burkhardt, H. 2003 Improving Educational Research:Toward a More Useful, More Influential, and Better-Funded Enterprise Educational Researcher, Vol. 32, No. 9, 3-1410.3102/013189X032009003

Frazier, R. 2008 Creative Problem solving Across Disciplines PittChronicle, University of Pittsberg Press (http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=1883 Accessed 12/4/2009)

2003 Research Intensive Universities as Engines for the ‘Europe of Knowledge’ League of European research Universities (LERA)

Schanck, R. C. (1990) What is AI anyway? The foundation of artificial intelligence, I. Partridge, D. and Wilks, Y. (Ed). Cambridge University Press, New York.

Iles, P., Yolles, M. & Altman, Y. (2001). HRM and Knowledge Management: Responding to the Challenge, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, 9(1), 3-33