ISPIM News: Issue 2009/3
Editorial
Dear Members and Friends,
Welcome back! Amazingly it has been two months since the XX ISPIM Conference in Vienna.
I must start, however, on a sad note. It is with great regret that I have to inform you of the sudden passing of Guido Reger at the end of July. Guido was a great supporter of ISPIM and had attended a number of ISPIM events. Those of you who knew him will know what a great guy he was and particularly how much enthusiasm he had. At the time of this death we were planning with him to bring the ISPIM conference to Potsdam. I would like, on behalf of ISPIM, to send our deepest sympathies to his family, friends and colleagues. I know he will be greatly missed.
The Vienna Conference was the largest event in ISPIM’s history and continued the growth we have observed over the past six years. Combined with delegates from the R&D Management Conference there were 410 delegates in total and 208 presentations in the ISPIM conference alone! I would personally like to thank both Bruno Woeran and Michael Dell for their efforts in making this event a great success together with our host, the Austria Chamber of Commerce and everyone who participated.
Whilst the conference definitely enabled more people to attend, present and network, we feel that we have reached the limit in terms of the numbers of delegates we can accommodate at the ISPIM conference as we still want to maintain the levels of intimacy that we know many of you value. Consequently, the numbers at the Bilbao conference in 2010 will be limited to 400, which coincidentally is the total number of people that the Guggenheim can accommodate for dinner. By the way, we have the entire building to ourselves so that will be a very special evening!
On the quality side, our efforts in building an active scientific panel to evaluate submissions are paying dividends. The panel rejected 37% of all submissions for the Vienna conference and consequently the standard of papers and presentations continues to increase year on year. This can also be said of the invited speakers and I would particularly like to thank both Frank Piller and Tim Jones for their excellent keynote addresses.
We have also put a great deal of effort into building relationships with scientific journals. The International Journal of Innovation Management (IJIM) is the official journal of ISPIM and is committed to publishing 2 special issues per year, one for the conference and one for the innovation symposium. In addition, Technovation, The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM) and Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice (IMPP) have agreed to run special issues based on specific themes covering papers from both the conference and the symposium. Furthermore, ISPIM will continue relationships with a number of other journals and recommend suitable papers for publication on an add-hoc basis. ISPIM currently has seven Special Issues in progress for publication by the end of 2010. This work, we believe, will help our members and delegates get their work published.
So on to New York, the venue of the 2nd ISPIM Innovation Symposium. After a slow start, submissions picked up and at the deadline of the call for papers on 13 September we had received 182 submissions, which is slightly more than for the Singapore symposium last year. The theme of the symposium this year is Stimulating Recovery - The Role of Innovation Management and the dates for the event are 6-9 December 2009. I do hope many of you will be able to come to New York. Not only will we have an excellent event there, including a dinner cruise around lower Manhattan and an Empire State Building experience, you will also be able to do some Christmas shopping which, for those of us in Europe, will be cheap again this year given the weak Dollar.
See you in New York!
Iain Bitran
Executive Director
bitran@ispim.org
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ISPIM Events
The 2nd ISPIM Innovation Symposium, New York City, USA
The 2nd ISPIM Innovation Symposium - Stimulating Recovery - The Role of Innovation Management - will be held in New York City, USA on 6-9 December 2009. Organised by ISPIM and hosted by The Fashion Institute of Technology this symposium will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The symposium format will include facilitated themed sessions for academic and practitioner presentations together with interactive workshops and discussion panels. Additionally, the symposium will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local New York culture.
Economies around the world are displaying similar symptoms in a global downturn: profits and investment is disappearing, companies are failing and unemployment is rising. These chaotic and uncertain economic circumstances have required companies and governments to define and implement innovative actions to ensure survival and stimulate recovery.
High uncertainty calls for creative and innovative management. Consumers and businesses still have needs, but what are the best ways to address them? How do we develop such creative strategies? What innovative solutions deal with today's problems and still strengthen business and economic innovation in the long run? How should we manage innovation in the current climate? Those companies and governments that can answer these questions will not only survive the economic crisis, but will emerge in a strengthened strategic position as recovery takes root.
Confirmed Speakers
Keynotes:
Debra M Amidon
Founder and CEO, ENTOVATION International Ltd
Author of The Innovation SuperHighway and Knowledge Economics: Emerging Principles, Practices and Policies
Dr Alan G Robinson
Professor, Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts
Author of Ideas Are Free and Corporate Creativity: How Innovation & Improvement Actually Happen
Dr Rita Gunther McGrath
Associate Professor, Columbia Business School
Author of Discovery Driven Growth
Discussion Panel Leaders:
James D Thompson
Associate Director of Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs; Director of Societal Wealth Program
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Jeff Hovis & Joanne Hyland
Hovis: Managing Principal, Product Genesis
Hyland: President, Radical Innovation Group
Luminary Speakers:
Dr Howard R Moskowitz & Dr Alexander Gofman
Moskowitz: CEO, i-Novation Inc & President, Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.
Gofman: Vice President, Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.
PLUS Innovation Insights Sessions:
EITHER a visit to Google’s New York Headquarters for a tour and speaker on
Google’s innovative
products/services management (limited to 60 people on a first come first served basis)
OR a visit by Apple to discuss "Innovation and its impact upon education from Apple's vantage point"
(limited to 50 people on a first come first served basis)
The symposium website is www.symposium.ispim.org
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The XXI ISPIM Conference, Bilbao, Spain
The 2010 ISPIM Conference - The Dynamics of Innovation - will be held in Bilbao, Spain on 6-9 June 2010. Organised by ISPIM and hosted by Innobasque, the Basque Innovation Agency, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The conference format will include facilitated themed sessions for academic and practitioner presentations together with interactive workshops and discussion panels. Additionally, the conference will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local Basque culture.
Stimulating and managing innovation is a journey into the unknown that requires dynamic capabilities for a dynamic environment. Customers are unable to articulate their ever changing needs, new technologies are promising but not proven, production facilities are still untested and in development, and organisations have to be made ready for change when no destination but only a direction is known. Innovation is a continuous process to meet vague, ambiguous and contradicting requirements, where budgets and time schedules are always strict. The dynamics of this process call for leadership, well-trained and motivated participants, evolving business models, the right partnerships and the use of new virtual tools. Innovation management may look like managing the unmanageable, but it is a real world challenge to ensure future competitive strength of companies, governments and regions.
Conference Sub-themes:
Submissions from academics, consultants and managers on innovation-related topics are strongly encouraged and should focus on the following:
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PLUS submissions from EU or other funded projects |
Important Deadlines:
- 31 December 2009: Outlines Only (Either Academic Papers or Practitioner Presentations)
- 31 January 2010: Acceptance Notification
- 23 April 2010: Final Submissions (including full papers, slides, profiles & photos) together with registration and payment
The conference website is www.conference.ispim.org.
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Members News
Review of The XX ISPIM Conference, Vienna
by Rob Dew, Queensland University of Technology & Member, ISPIM Advisory Board
The XX ISPIM Conference was held earlier this year in beautiful Vienna. The conference exemplified the stimulating diversity that is characterised by ISPIM events: this year 371 delegates from 55 countries attended. Vienna was the largest ISPIM event to date in the organization's 26-year history and is the 6th year in a row that it has grown in size. It allowed practitioners, academics and policy makers with an interest in innovation management to share experiences, insights and challenges. The overall mood of ISPIM this year seemed in stark contrast to the backdrop of the global economic downturn. Whilst the financial world was looking back at poor business performance, ISPIM delegates were looking to the future...
This year 208 presentations were presented from the 470 applications initially received. This ensured a high quality conference around the theme of ‘the future of innovation’. The conference tracks covered an extensive range of topics including: new product, service and business model development; innovation networks; policy; open innovation and stakeholder collaboration; commericalisation; entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; creativity and idea generation; innovation factors; innovation culture and innovation theory. It seems that the future of innovation is interdisciplinary with remarkable work presented that combines fields as disparate as game theory, engineering, psychology and sociology into cogent and coherent insights.
In addition to the 52 paper sessions and 4 workshops, conference delegates benefited from the insights of a range of luminary speakers, keynote presenters and workshop facilitators. An important theme here was that business to consumer innovation seemed to be much more prevalent than business to business innovation. Interesting cases included Phillips’ approach to disruptive innovation and how Fujitsu is reinventing itself from a photographic film company into a cosmetics company by reframing the application of its core competencies in thin film chemistry. Perhaps most inspiring was the innovative approach to the provision of micro finance in Kenya to help small entrepreneurs develop businesses and sustainable reduce poverty. Complementing the high level of discourse during the conference session were the strong networking social functions.
ISPIM conferences are so successful in part because each year the organisers take advantage of the local attractions and culture in the host city. There is a strong emphasis on both the quality of the daytime sessions and the quality of the evening events. The gala welcome reception on the first night was held at the Vienna Rathaus. On the second evening delegates were hosted at the Schönbrunn Palace Orangerie with a gourmet dinner and live band, where the only distraction was the prizes awarded for the best conference papers. There was dancing and singing quite late into the evening that left everyone in good cheer. My personal highlight was a visit to a local Heurigen on the third night. Originally the plan was to have dinner outside in the vineyard, but inclement weather meant indoors was the order of the day. After eating fabulous traditional food, many delegates had the chance to enjoy a master wine maker’s cellar until the early hours.
ISPIM is now arguably the largest scientific conference focussed on innovation management in Europe and possibly beyond. Accordingly the challenge to be accepted as a presenter at an annual ISPIM conference is now on par with other premiere conferences. At least four journal Special Issues will be published containing papers from the event. This can only result in increasing contributions to our knowledge and practice of innovation management. No doubt that the next conference in Bilbao (June 6-9 2010) will be an equally exciting and stimulating event.
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ISPIM Journal Publications Update
by Eelko Huizingh (Director of Scientific Affairs) & Steffen Conn (Secretary General)
We recognise that it is increasingly important to our academic members that their conference and symposium papers are considered for journal publication. ISPIM has therefore significantly increased the scientific journal publications emanating from each ISPIM event.
In 2008 WorldScientific and ISPIM agreed that The International Journal of Innovation Management (IJIM) is the official journal of ISPIM and that the best papers from each Conference and Symposium are to be published in an IJIM Special Issue. The issue from Singapore in December has already been published and the Vienna issue is due out shortly.
To complement this publishing activity, ISPIM has confirmed relationships with the following journals to take selected papers presented at ISPIM events or to host theme-based Special Issues with a guest Editor drawn from the ISPIM Membership: Technovation, The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM), Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice (IMPP), R&D Management and European Journal of Innovation Management (EJIM).
The relevant editor will automatically consider the best papers from relevant ISPIM events and contact the authors directly. As such, authors need not contact ISPIM to put themselves forward as they are automatically considered.
These journal special issues are currently in progress or have been published in 2009.
| Title | Journal Citation/date | Editors |
| Social media and communities in innovation | IJEIM 2010 |
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| ISPIM Special Issue on "Gaining from Interorganizational Innovation" | IJEIM 2010 |
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| Stimulating Recovery - The Role of Innovation Management | IJIM June 2010 |
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| The Future of Innovation | IJIM December 2009 |
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| ISPIM Special Issue on Open Innovation | Technovation 2009/2010 |
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| Managing Innovation in a Connected World | IJIM 2009 Volume 13 Issue 2 |
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| Open Innovation: Creating Products and Services Through Collaboration | IJEIM 2009/2010 |
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| Innovation for Growth: The Challenges for East & West | IJEIM 2009 Volume 10 Number 2 |
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| Networks for Innovation | IJEIM 2009 Volume 10 Number 3/4 |
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Call for Members to join the ISPIM Scientific Panel
The number of outlines being submitted to ISPIM for events (470 for Vienna) has grown markedly over the last few years. At the same time, the evaluation process for the outlines has become increasingly rigorous with higher rejection rates (37% for Vienna) and greater feedback given. These two factors have combined to make the work for the scientific evaluation panel both longer and harder.
ISPIM is therefore inviting applicants to join the Scientific Panel on a permanent basis to help share the load. Panel members evaluate 30-35 outlines in September and again in early January. This takes 2 - 3 hours on each occasion. Although most members do both, it is not necessary to do both every year. However, we do insist that all members contribute regularly and meet the deadlines they sign up for. We don't have honorary positions!
Naturally, we rely largely on the goodwill of the members, as the positions are unpaid. The benefits to members, however, are some small prestige in being listed as a member, the chance to develop the scientific content of ISPIM and contribute to scholarship and knowledge in your domain of expertise.
Applicants must hold a PhD level qualification or have more than 10 years senior experience in industry and have acted in a similar capacity before for a scientific body.
If you are interested in applying, please email Steffen Conn at conn@ispim.org and include a brief CV or statement of suitability.
Steffen Conn
Secretry General, ISPIM
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Delegate participation sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service
The program is offered by the DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service: www.daad.de). Up to January 2009 this program used to be organized by DFG (German Science Foundation). It supports academics in participating at conferences, or giving guest lectures abroad. The program is called ''Kongress- und Vortragsreisen ins Ausland''. The webpage referring to this program, www.daad.de/ausland/foerderungsmoeglichkeiten/ausschreibungen/09328.de.html, is presented in German only, as it addresses people working in Germany travelling abroad.
The sponsorship addresses academics with a proven track record. The application for the program has to be submitted four months before the conference starts. Besides the organizational matters, you have to submit your abstract/paper, an invitation respectively the acceptance of your abstract/paper, your CV and your academic track record. Furthermore a motivational letter has to be provided. Based on these criteria they take a decision whether to support the journey, or not. The notification of acceptance is the only item that can be submitted with less than four months. This support is a personal scholarship, so that theoretically all members of one team may apply. The maximum support is one conference participation per year.
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Member Offers
Developing The International Institute for Innovation and Progress Development
The institute will be dedicated to research, practical developments and promotion of innovation, especially concerning innovation management, to be applied to industry, individual and organisation activities, especially to strategic vision and planning of politics of public and private organisations, with the goal of becoming a referent/guide to optimise its progress and the progress for our society.
Five lines of activity: research, development, training/learning, consultancy/advice, and international cooperation with institutions related to innovation.
Tips of key issues: collective intelligence, sustainable progress, strategic vision and innovation, foresight, politics referent, etc.
The institute requires support to start activities: financial and expertise, with the objective of financial stability based among others in its services/activities. Seeking for people, partners or organisations sharing interest in this initiative to the needed support or cooperation for the building of the institute.
Partners profile: Funding Partners will contribute to, and drive, the building and development of the institute taking part of the board committee. Expertise on innovation management, on international business/sales management, financial sources building and management, or within some of the lines of activity/key issues depicted above, is required along with contribution to the fund of the institute.
All support will be compensated according to financial evolution; aligned with this, partners shall receive salary + benefits, depending on their contribution value.
Background: Public and private organisation politics (corporations, governments etc) appear very often oriented just to the benefit (economical, political, etc) in the short to medium term, which may mean the lack of long term profitability for the own company/organisation and for our society (E.g. current global crisis). The Institute aims to become independent guide of strategic vision and innovation for organisation politics, to optimise its progress and the progress for our society. Special mention to politics creating attitudes and criteria, as the educative one.
Contact José R. Ruiz
Board Member, Innova-Pulse
jruiz@innovapulse.com
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IASP 2010 Daedok - Call for Papers
IASP 2010 Daedeok (XXVII IASP World Conference) brings
together experts from government, STPs (Science and
Technology Parks) academia and business to discuss and
debate the true significance of the globally emerging
developmental model “Green Growth” for STPs. This conference will feature presentations and
discussions about global STP strategy in a series of in-depth discussions of the future direction of
science and technology and the implications of “green growth.”
The imperative of the coming Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change requires quick and effective changes in technology and economic policy around the world, and the STP is in the best position to lead the implementation of reforms. The specific role to be played by the STP in the age of global green growth will be debated and opinions from around the world will be gathered together as a historic “Daedeok Green Initiative” to be announced at the closing of the conference.
STPs have the full range of technologies and systems necessary to create in miniature a paradigm nations, regions and the world of what a low-carbon, sustainable economy can be. We will consider best practices of outstanding innovation clusters, defining the STP as the leading player in the green revolution.
Moreover, although climate change and the energy crisis are problems that must be dealt with through coordination and consensus on a global level, the response must be local. The STP, a leading part of the local and regional economy, but part of a global network, is in an ideal position to play the central response to this challenge through global green growth. Innovation is the only response, but we need to speed up the implementation of reforms and the adoption of new technologies.
The conference organizers welcome proposals for papers to be presented at the sessions described below. Papers should showcase innovative approaches to “green growth” within the STP and explore creative new strategies for cooperation and implementation. Traditional papers on STP policy and technology policy not directly related to green growth are also welcome.
Submission Timeline
- Submission of Abstracts 23 October 2009
- Notification to Authors 23 November 2009
- Submission of Full Papers 23 February 2010
- Notification to Authors 26 March 2010
Read more about the conference from www.iasp2010ddi.com.
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Following the huge success of BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION 2009 which took place this March in Barcelona, Connecting Group are pleased to announce that they are taking their many
years of experience in organizing innovation events stateside!
OPTIMIZING INNOVATION 2009 will take place in New York October 21st & 22nd. This ground-breaking business platform will provide you with the opportunity to hear captivating presentations from leading experts in your field, many of them from Business Week’s Top 50 Innovative Companies, to connect with them through a variety of creative, informal, and fun social networking activities, as well as the chance to test and play with cutting edge new products from top innovators! Speakers confirmed so far include Microsoft, Pfizer, Xerox, Whirlpool and 3M.
The program is still in production but as ISPIM will be official media partners, Connecting Group want ISPIM members to be the first to know about this exciting event. Furthermore, corporate and university members will receive a massive 10% discount off the registration fee!
To register your interest in this event and be the first to receive the program, please send an email to Andrew Frost at af@connecting-group.com.
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IJIM: Special Issue on Open Innovation and the Integration of Suppliers
Submission closing date: November 1, 2009
Guest Editor
Dr. Alexander Brem (School of Business and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and VEND consulting GmbH, Nuremberg
brem@vend-consulting.de
Background
Open innovation describes an innovation paradigm shift from a closed to an open innovation model (Chesbrough, 2003). With this idea, the term open innovation became one of the most common used buzzwords of recent years, with a plethora of research. To date, many companies are already using these principles in practice as well, especially when it comes to the integration of customers. However, the concept has been criticized for being too prescriptive and for offering little new to innovation research or practice (Trott and Hartmann, 2009). For instance, the lead-user concept (von Hippel 1988, 2005) became one of the most important trends in innovation management in the last ten years, but is open innovation any more than the lead-user concept (see IJIM Special Issue on User Innovation, 2008, 12(3))?
Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers (Bessant, 2003; Petersen et al., 2003; von Hippel, 1995). Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries (Wingert, 1997). This is a result of the progressing reduction in the depth of value creation of manufacturers and the increasing transfer of know-how towards the suppliers. In multilevel business-to-business relationships, the suppliers often have the best or the only access and comprehensive knowledge about the end users (Groher, 2003). A practical example for supplier integration is the use of guest engineers (Maylor, 2001). Therefore, suppliers determine the scope of possible innovations, which most companies do not actively use yet. The main risk for suppliers is the danger of releasing or using confidential expertise gleaned from other sources. Reciprocal trust is critical for this to work (Groher, 2003). Instruments such as the continuous improvement model or collaborative engineering already involve the suppliers, but mostly on an operative level only. Hence, suppliers are an important source for open innovation.
In this context, theoretical and conceptual papers on supplier integration and challenges on the firm level are welcome. Empirical studies that feature examples and results of supplier integration are encouraged, as well as papers on success factors and risks. Comparative studies that examine similarities and differences between different sectors and countries are also welcome.
Subject coverage
Topics include but are not limited to:
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Theoretical aspects
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Firm-level challenges
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Notes for prospective authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers will be refereed through a doubleblind peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information is available at www.worldscinet.com/ijim
Important Dates
- 1-2 page abstract - 1st November 2009
- Submission of manuscripts - 1st February 2010
- Notification to authors - 15th March 2010
- Final drafts of papers - 1st June 2010
- Publication - Autumn 2010
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Conference Focus
To tackle the current global recession and economic crisis, both developed and developing countries are racing for innovations and development of new products that promise a high impact on improving their growth rates. The 2010 Conference will focus on the technology as a vehicle for economic recovery and growth. Issues related MOT in recession; stimulus and disruptive technologies, as well as lessons from the past will be debated and addressed.
The conference will address all issues related to MOT Education, R&D, technology transfer, and theory of technology.
Tracks
- Track 1. Economic and Social Impact of Technology Development
- Track 2: Social Impact of Technology Development
- Track 3. MOT Education and Research
- Track 4. Innovation, Technology Nurturing and Incubation
- Track 5. National and Regional Technology Policies and Infrastructure
- Track 6. Small and Medium Enterprises
- Track 7. Technology Transfer, Marketing and Commercialization
- Track 8. Technology Foresight and Forecasting
- Track 9. Information and Communication Technology Management
- Track 10. The Integration of Technology and Business Strategies
- Track 11. R&D Management
- Track 12. Project and Program Management
- Track 12. Industrial and Manufacturing System Technologies
- Track 14. Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Track 15. Management of Technology in Developing Countries
- Track 16. Theory of Technology
- Track 17. Emerging Technologies
- Track 18. Technology and Competitiveness
- Track 19: Transportation and its Management
- Track 20: Management of Green Technology
Deadlines
- Submission of Abstract (or before):
October 1st, 2009Extended to November 1st, 2009 - Notification of Acceptance (or before): December 1st, 2009
- Submission of Full Paper: January 1st, 2010
- Notification of Paper Acceptance/Revision: February 1st, 2010
- Final Version: February 15th, 2010
Abstracts will be submitted through the IAMOT web site www.iamot.org, or through the conference website www.iamot2010.org
For more Information: Contact IAMOT: iamot@miami.edu
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Innovation and entrepreneurship are tightly coupled concepts. Innovation involves designing new ways of conceptualising, developing and producing a range of goods and services which society requires. Although inventing new things may be seen as part of innovation, innovation does not exclusively rely on new discoveries. Rather it can stem from simply seeing new ways of satisfying demand. Thus innovation is not a synonym for invention and almost anyone can come up with new innovations.
Entrepreneurship adds a further dimension to how new ideas are converted into goods and services. Entrepreneurship is sometimes said to be a mindset required to convert innovation into a real business situation which will deliver benefits to the stakeholders. Entrepreneurship is always driven by an individual or a small group of individuals who are referred to as entrepreneurs and who are sometimes colloquially referred to as the ‘movers and shakers’ in our society. Thus the entrepreneur configures the various factors of products to that they become a viable proposition.
Both innovation and entrepreneurship are generally under-researched and the advisory group for the conference invites submissions of both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and a wide range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods.
Read more about the conference from academic-conferences.org/ecei/ecei2010/ecei10-call-papers.htm
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ECCI XI: 11th European Conference on Creativity & Innovation, 28-30 October 2009
ECCI XI focuses on 'implementation'. Most of the conferences on Creativity and innovation focus on diverging, exploring new methods and ways of working to be more creative, find ideas ... whereas we will take the challenge to reflect and debate the implementation part of the process. When we think about innovating innovation, we believe we can add value in the implementation phase. Work theme for the conference will be: "When imagination, knowledge and know-how have an effective meeting, we are ready for landing!".
Read more about the conference from www.eccixi.eu
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New Member Profiles
The following people have recently joined ISPIM. To view the full list of ISPIM members please go to www.ispim.org and login using your login and password (please note that this facility is restricted to ISPIM members only). Please ensure that your own details are up to date by clicking on the "Modify your details" link.
Iyad Alzaharnah
KFUPM
Saudi Arabia
iyadtz@kfupm.edu.sa
Iyad Alzaharnah was born in Taif, Saudi Arabia in 24 September 1967. In 1991 and 1993, he completed respectively his Bachelor and Master degrees in sciences of mechanical engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM-Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and in 2002; he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Dublin City University (DCU-Dublin Ireland). Currently, he is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at KFUPM. Since 2004-2005, he has been a KFUPM team member assigned to establish Dhahran Techno-Valley (DTV). DTV is an initiative undertaken by KFUPM for assisting in establishing the knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia and is composed of 6 entities: a science park, an innovation center, an incubator program, a consulting services center, an industry liaison office and a science museum. In 2007-2008, he was assigned as the acting director of the innovation center. Since then, he has been in charge of establishing the innovation center and building the university innovation and technology developmental capacities. His annual academic, research and administrative performance at KFUPM was always distinguished and received the "College of Engineering Sciences Faculty Services Award" (2003-3004) and the "College of Engineering Sciences Faculty Best Researcher Award" (2004-2 005). The research profile of Iyad Alzaharnah shows that he has worked in 11 funded research projects and published more 22 journal and 7 conference research papers. His publications have been cited for more than 60 times.
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Sandra Schillo
Innovation Impact Inc.
Canada
schillo@innovation-impact.com
Ms. Schillo is an external doctoral candidate at the University of Kiel, Germany. She is also the Founder and President of Innovation-Impact Inc., a consulting company specializing in innovation and research management and policy, based in Ottawa, Canada.
Her research interests centre on mechanisms and impacts of innovation, particularly in the context of publicly funded research and small and medium enterprises. Ms. Schillo holds a Diplom in Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Through her consulting work and past employment, Ms. Schillo has contributed to the practice of technology transfer and policy development in Canada's federal innovation community. She also has worked extensively with stakeholders from the private sector, governments, academia, and non-government organizations.
Ms. Schillo's interest for future research involve the contributions of innovation to society, reaching beyond immediate economic impacts towards broader societal impacts. She welcomes discussions with conference participants in English, French, German or Italian.
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Joe Tidd
Science & Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
United Kingdom
j.tidd@sussex.ac.uk
Joe Tidd is a physicist with subsequent degrees in technology policy and business administration. He has worked as policy adviser to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry), responsible for industrial innovation and advanced technologies, and presented expert evidence to three Select Committee Enquiries held by the House of Commons and House of Lords. Dr Tidd was a researcher for the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which first identified lean production.
He has worked on research and consultancy projects on technology and innovation management for Arthur D. Little, CAP Gemini, McKinsey, American Express Technologies, Applied Materials, ASML, BOC Edwards, BT, GE, National Power, NKT, Nortel Networks and Petrobras. He is the winner of the Price Waterhouse Urwick Medal for contribution to management teaching and research, and the Epton Prize from the R&D Society.
He has written eight books and more than sixty papers on the management of technology and innovation, the most recent being the 4th edition of the best-selling Managing Innovation: Integrating technological, market and organizational change (with John Bessant, Wiley, 2009, www.managing-innovation.com). He is also founder and Managing Editor of the International Journal of Innovation Management, the official journal of ISPIM.
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Tania von der Heidt
Southern Cross University
Australia
tania.vonderheidt@scu.edu.au
Tania is a Lecturer in Marketing at the School of Commerce and Management, Southern Cross University, Australia. Tania's primary research area is cooperative innovation. For her PhD, she developed and tested a model of multi-stakeholder relationships for collaborative product innovation in Australian manufacturing. Tania is also currently working as a post doctoral fellow on a Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) research project investigating the environmental regulations and legislation pertaining to the Australian railway sector.
Prior to joining SCU, Tania worked for more than ten years with companies in Australia and Germany: As a Fund Manager with State Street Bank & Trust Company, as a Consultant in productivity improvements with Alexander Proudfoot Management Ltd., as a Marketing Controller with automobile manufacturer Audi AG and as an Export Consultant with natural pharmaceutical manufacturer, TP Health Limited.
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Innovation Events Calendar
2009
October
4-8 October 2009
MCPC2009: 5th World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization
Business, Innovation & Research Conference
Location: Helsinki & Espoo, Finland
www.mcpc2009.com
8-9 October 2009
IASP European Division Workshop, Magdeburg-Barleben 2009
Sustainability of Science and Technology Parks – what it is and how to achieve it!
Location: Barleben, Germany
www.iasp.ws/publico/index.jsp?enl=5
15-19 October 2009
ESME 2009 - Euroscience Mediterranean Event 2009
Present Challenges, Future Opportunities
Location: Athens, Greece
www.esme2009.org
21-22 October 2009
Optimizing Innovation 2009
Location: New York City, USA
www.connecting-group.com
ISPIM Members will receive a 10% discount off the registration fee!
21-23 October 2009
Association of University Research Parks 2009 Annual Conference
Advancing Global Research Park Networks
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
aurp.net
22-23 October 2009
IASP European Division Workshop, Linköping 2009
Science Parks as tools for inward investment and soft landing
Location: Linköping, Sweden
www.iasp.ws/publico/index.jsp?enl=5
26-28 October 2009
11th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation
Location: Brussels, Belgium
www.eccixi.eu
November
10-11 November 2009
FT Innovate 2009
Innovation Strategies for Success in Tough Times
Location: London, UK
www.ftinnovate.com
20% discount off the advertised delegate fee for ISPIM members
20 November 2009
ESSEC-ISIS International Forum
Strategic Marketing in Regulated Industries, Service and Innovation Policies
Location: Paris, France
www.essec-isis-internationalforum.com
23-24 November 2009
IASP European Division Workshop, Sophia Antipolis 2009
Science and Technology Parks – How to be the ideal location for attracting investment from companies and research centers”
Location: Sophia Antipolis, France
www.iasp.ws/publico/index.jsp?enl=5
25-27 November 2009
ASPA-IASP Joint Conference, IASP Asian Divisions Conference 2009
New Challenge, New World – How Science Parks Help in Times of Crisis
Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan
www.iasp.ws/publico/index.jsp?enl=5
December
6-9 December 2009
The 2nd ISPIM Innovation Symposium
Stimulating Recovery - The Role of Innovation Management
Location: New York City, USA
www.symposium.ispim.org
7 December 2009
Symposium on Support for Open Innovation Processes
Location: Mühlheim, Germany
www11.in.tum.de/OISymposium
2010
January
5-8 January 2010
HICSS-43: The 43rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
Location: Kauai, HI, USA
www.hicss.hawaii.edu
March
8-11 March 2010
IAMOT 2010: 19th International Conference on Management of Technology
Technology as the Foundation for Economic Growth
Location: Cairo, Egypt
www.iamot2010.org
April
29-30 April 2010
TII 2010 Annual Conference
Location: Dusseldorf, Germany
www.tii.org
May
23-26 May 2010
The 27th IASP World Conference on Science & Technology Parks 2010
Location: Daejeon, South Korea
www.iasp2010ddi.com
June
6-9 June 2010
The XXI ISPIM Conference
The Dynamics of Innovation
Location: Bilbao, Spain
www.conference.ispim.org
July
18-22 July 2010
PICMET '10 Conference
Technology Management for Global Economic Growth
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
www.picmet.org
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