The workshop will aim to enhance reporting from a systems perspective and improve skills and practices in cross-disciplinary work as it relates to innovation and competitiveness.

Innovation issues

Journalists will cover different issues relating to innovation, including science, law, finance, policy, and even social and ethical issues.

Presenters for the seminar are Carolyn Gale, visiting scholar at the Stanford University in California and former director of Stanford's research communications programme, and Jan Sandred, programme director of the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovations Systems, as well as reporter and editor.

The workshop is sponsored by Target Growth Competitiveness Committee/Private Sector Development Programme and Jamaica Trade and Invest, in collaboration with the Press Association of Jamaica and the Media Association of Jamaica,