JPMorgan Chase Launches AdvancingCities, a $500 Million Initiative to Create Economic Opportunity in Cities

AdvancingCities, a first-of-its-kind corporate effort, will create a new investment fund to finance critical projects, help more people benefit from economic growth and leverage outside capital to invest a total of $1.5 billion in cities

The AdvancingCities Challenge will encourage the development of creative solutions to drive inclusive growth through collaboration between civic, business and community leaders

September 12, 2018 (New York, NY) – JPMorgan Chase today announced the creation of AdvancingCities, a new $500 million, five-year initiative to drive inclusive growth and create greater economic opportunity in cities across the world. AdvancingCities applies insights from JPMorgan Chase’s proven model for impact in Detroit, Chicago and Washington, D.C., and combines the firm’s lending capital, philanthropic capital and expertise to make investments in cities.

Based on the firm’s previous experience, JPMorgan Chase expects its AdvancingCities investment to attract an additional $1 billion in outside capital, resulting in a total of $1.5 billion directed to efforts that will increase inclusive growth in cities. The firm will invest in cities where conditions exist to help those who have not benefited from economic growth. This includes demonstrated, strong collaboration across the public and private sectors on solutions that create opportunity for people at risk of being left out of economic growth. Specifically, AdvancingCities will deploy investments and encourage creative, forward-looking solutions that create more widely shared prosperity in two ways:
AdvancingCities Challenge: JPMorgan Chase will launch a challenge to source and seed innovative solutions that help drive inclusive growth in up to 30 communities. The AdvancingCities Challenge will make investments in select cities to support collaborative and sustainable solutions that address cross-cutting challenges and help more people benefit from a growing economy. Successful proposals will support existing local coalitions of elected, business and nonprofit leaders working together to address major social and economic challenges such as employment barriers, financial insecurity, and neighborhood disinvestment. Proposals must incorporate at least two areas of focus within JPMorgan Chase’s Model for Impact. Cities interested in applying for the AdvancingCities Challenge should visit www.jpmorganchase.com/advancingcities. The RFP goes live today, September 12, and closes on November 30, 2018. Winners will be announced in the spring of 2019.
Targeted City Investments: In addition to the AdvancingCities Challenge, JPMorgan Chase intends to make large-scale investments in cities where the conditions are right for success and broader, deeper investments are needed to drive inclusive growth around the world. This fall, the firm will take this model for impact abroad and announce a new large-scale investment in a global city where the benefits of economic growth are not reaching everyone.

"Opportunity is not shared equally across neighborhoods," said Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase. "Businesses can and must step up to help change the status quo by creating a better future for all, no matter where they live. It is in our best interest and the right thing to do."

SASE NYC 2019 - Call for Mini-Conference Themes

SASE 2019 Mini-Conference Themes: Call for Proposals

Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagines

MINI-CONFERENCE THEME PROPOSAL DEADLINE:  1 OCTOBER 2018 

 

As they have in the past years, thematic mini-conferences will form a key element of next year's annual conference in New York City, hosted by The New School for Social Research from 27-29 June 2019. Proposals are now welcome for mini-conference themes. Mini-conference themes will be selected for inclusion in the Call for Papers by the program committee, which may also propose themes of its own.  Preference will be given to proposals linked to the overarching conference theme, "Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagined," but mini-conferences on other SASE-related themes will also be considered. 

Proposals for mini-conference themes must be submitted electronically to the SASE Executive Director by 1 October 2018. All mini-conference proposals should include the name(s) and email addresses of the organizer(s), together with a brief description. As in previous years, each mini-conference will consist of 3 to 6 panels, which will be featured as a separate stream in the program. Each panel will have a discussant, meaning that selected participants must submit a completed paper in advance, by 27 May 2019. If a paper proposal cannot be accommodated within a mini-conference, organizers will forward it to the most appropriate research network as a regular submission.

SASE is committed to diverse membership and lively intellectual debates, and encourages proposals that are offered by a diverse group of organizers and/or are likely to bring a diverse group of participants.

Proposals should be submitted to: Martha Zuber (saseexecutive@sase.org)

Deadline for proposals:

1 October 2018

For more information, consult the overall conference theme here

View Mini-Conference Themes accepted to the 2018 conference in Kyoto here

Call for Papers IAMOT 2019

The 28th International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) will take place from Apr 7th to Apr 11, 2019, in Mumbai, India. We highlight that the abstract submission deadline has been extended until September 15, 2018.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION EXTENDED
The deadline for the submission of your abstracts: until September 15, 2018.

The IAMOT 2019 will bring together leading experts, both industry, academics and policymakers from developed, emerging and developing economies. The conference will aim to address the following
- What is the potential of new technologies and innovations as engines of growth?
- Where will the technological change have the largest impact?
- How can policy best support the adoption and Diffusion of new technologies and innovations for the sustainable and inclusive growth?

The theme of the conference is: “Managing Technology for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth”. 

Papers that do not fit perfectly into one of these listed tracks but are related to the subject of Technology and Innovation Management may also be considered. For more information on the conference, please visit the website at www.nitie.edu/IAMOT2019/CallForPapers.html

XVI Triple Helix Conference - dia 2

Marcelo Amaral/UFF e Adriana Faria/UFV - resultados iniciais da parceria do THERG-Brazil/UFF com o NTP/UFV para estudar parques tecnológicos.





Alguns membros  do comitê executivo da Triple Helix Association no stand da associação

Fukuoka is positioning itself as the innovation capital of Japan and is the fastest growing city in Japan outside the capital region. The city's young Mayor, Soichiro Takashima, wants to transform the ancient harbour city into Japan’s answer to Seattle.

With this ambitious local backdrop, ISPIM Connects Fukuoka addresses three critical challenges that are also of global importance:

• How can we deal with ageing populations?
• How should we transition our production and use of energy?
• How do we build successful start-up ecosystems?

Crucially, ISPIM Connects Fukuoka will shed light on how these challenges can be tackled though innovation and present what the field of innovation management has to offer such challenges. 

Each of the three event challenges benefits from concerted and dedicate efforts to ensure progress. Which methods, incentives, models, skills, instruments and (digital) tools are effective? How can we develop new products, services, policies and organisations that enable us to benefit from the challenges? 

Submissions from academic, research, consulting, industry, intermediary and policy organisations are encouraged to focus on these main issues as well as:

• Achieving Blue Growth (managed by The Association of International Seafood Professionals - AISP)
• Collaboration, networks & open innovation
• Digital Disruption & innovation
• Managing, designing & measuring innovation
• Policies for innovation
• Social, sustainable & responsible innovation
• Strategy & business models for innovation
• Training, teaching & coaching innovation
• plus miscellaneous submissions on other relevant topics

More information at www.ispim.org

Triple Helix Association Meeting in Manchester

Reunião do Comitê Executivo da THA em Manchester. Acontecendo agora!!! 

Entre as diversas atividades um exercício de design thinking para pensar o futuro e estratégia da associação para os próximos 10 anos.

Várias novidades! O Triple Helix Journal vai migrar da Elgar para a Brill. A conferência de 2019 será na África do Sul.