Summary

Responsible innovation, entrepreneurial university, translation gap, valley of death, sustainability, risk, regulation and governance broadly encompass the oeuvre of innovation studies, and are becoming ubiquitous concepts in the debate on science, technology and innovation (STI). The 21st scientist has to manage two dominant strands of scholarship within innovation studies, one influenced by economic thinking and the other STS (science–technology–society studies) to make the above claim. Keeping this as the basis of argument, the note posits that this divergence is creating impediments in developing successful models for translation of S&T for socio-economic benefits.

Moderator

Norliza Mohd (abbreviated for Mohamed) Noor was a Professor in Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur Campus. She just retired in Dec 2021 and currently attached to Advanced Technology Solution (ATES) Sdn Bhd as one of the Director. She received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and Master (by research) and PhD both in Electrical Engineering from UTM. Her research areas are image processing and analysis, and machine and deep learning. She is a senior member of IEEE (since 2008) where she has been a member for more than 34 years starting as a student member while studying in the USA. From 1998-2001, she held several key positions in IEEE Malaysia Section. She was the founding chapter chair for the IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapter in 2002 and she is now one of the advisory committee. She was the IEEE Malaysia Section Chair for 2013-2014. She is one of the General Co-Chairs for ICIP 2023.

Panelists

• Namrata Vaswani, Iowa State University
• Jhony Giraldo, Telecom Paris
• Gloria Menegaz, Verone University