innocomm Research Center, Mission Statement

"The innocomm Research Center investigates and develops solutions for internal and external communication both in research and innovation processes of companies and academic institutions. We focus on teh diffusion of research results in markets and society. The Research Center profits from an inter- and transdisciplinary think-tank in the form of a scientific Board of Trustees, consisting of nine academic institutions so far. Innocomm is constructed as a network and mainly virtual enterprise in the so-called third sector (besides the for-profit and the non-profit sectors)....Formats of knowledge production and transfer of knowledge are changing through new information and communication technologies. Communication between science, economics, politics and society is changing faster than ever. While the understanding of scientific topics has increased over the last few decades, it seems the social interest in science has deteriorated. In this context science communication has had to reinvent itself several times....[From the Research page:] Networking and communication within science are currently experiencing fundamental changes, especially through the advent of interactive media whose very developments are still at the beginning...."