Fostering ICT Innovation: Encouraging Innovation through Domain and Technical Expert Interaction

Abstract

In spite of growing interest given to innovation at European Union (EU) level, inadequate modern pastime is mentioned as a key thing in the back of the EU`s underperformance in productiveness growth. Statistics monitor the want of concerted measures and new approaches. This dissertation addresses a number of the shortcomings in the Maltese size with the aid of using growing and checking out a bottom-up technique as a version to inspire innovation in data and communique technologies (ICT); bringing collectively academia (college students studying a diploma in Information Technology on the University of Malta) as technical specialists, and representatives from enterprise as professionals inside their area area. The theoretical improvement is supplied withinside the literature evaluation, in which the paper begins offevolved with a evaluation of the Lisbon Strategy because the essential impetus in the back of innovation in Europe. Then, the which means of innovation is analysed inside literature, coverage files and modern-day articles. Finally, the Maltese context is reviewed, eliciting the want for a brand new technique and offering the framework for interaction. The realistic take a look at follows (because of the literature) withinside the evaluation of case studies, following awesome procedures. The system and the know-how generated are as compared and contrasted, highlighting the capability cost and problems of such an interaction. The findings and implications offer a capability technique to foster innovation and instructions for destiny research.