Media Partners:

The Institute for International Research
IIR Conferences, Annual, Large Scale, and Guru Events feature the most sought-after experts in Customer Service, Finance & Investment, Health Care, Management, Manufacturing, Marketing & New Product Development, Pharmaceuticals, and Telecommunications.

The Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)
The Institute for Manufacturing brings together industrialists, policy makers, researchers and students to share, develop and deliver leading-edge education, research and services for local, national and international manufacturing industries.

The International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT)
The Association's aims are to: Encourage the practice of management of technology; Promote cooperation and exchange of information among those active in the field; Foster management of technology education; Support research and publication in management of technology.

The International Knowledge Management Institute (KM Institute)
The KM Institute is an educational institution and trade association that was formed in 2004 and incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA in 2005. The KM Institute provides KM Training and Solutions, staffed part-time or on a volunteer basis by a global network of over 30 KM professionals, trainers, and content providers - all respected experts in their fields.

Pure Insight
Pure Insight provides product innovation resources and information to global product development teams which enables them to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their performance, achieve corporate buy-in, and evolve to meet the challenges of competitive global markets.

RnDManagement.info
RnDManagement.info provides information about the R&D Management Journal and The R&D Management Conferences. It provides an opportunity to reflect on how the subject area is evolving and how knowledge and expertise can be applied.

Affiliates:

The European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI)
The EACI wants to contribute to a better understanding, practice and acceptance of creativity and innovation in Europe. The EACI wants to achieve this by organizing conferences; building a network of interested persons in the subjects of creativity and innovation; stimulating research and distributing research publications.

The European Association for the Transfer of Technologies, Innovation & Industrial Information (TII)
TII brings together innovation and technology consultants, technology brokers and intellectual asset advisors, university and research centre transfer offices, regional development agencies and chambers of commerce, science parks, innovation centres and incubators, contract research organizations and engineering consultants, government ministries and agencies and sectoral professional organizations.

The Innovation Leadership Forum
The ILF is an organisation dedicated to the creation, sharing and application of knowledge on innovation. It is focused primarily on large organisations.

The International Association of Science Parks (IASP)
The leading world-wide network of Science & Technology Parks, business incubation & innovation.

The International Network for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (INSME)
INSME is a non profit Association open to international membership promoted by the Italian Government within the OECD Bologna Process. Its mission is to stimulate transnational cooperation and public and private partnership in the field of innovation and technology transfer to SMEs.

The Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro)
KMPro™ is a non-profit organization that serves the professional needs of the international Knowledge Management (KM) community. We are member-centric, locally and globally, working together to invigorate the KM community by promoting KM awareness, support & development of KM best practices, and advancement of KM research and development.

The Product Development & Management Association (PDMA)
The PDMA is an association for New Product Development professionals, providing a unique forum for the exchange of global knowledge & experience and a platform through which to drive improvements in the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products.

ProTon Europe
ProTon Europe is the pan-European network of Knowledge Transfer Offices (KTOs) and companies affiliated to universities and other Public Research Organisations (PROs).

Networking Organisations & Online Communities:

CIWI - Creative Minds Worldwide
CIWI is the leading network for innovation professionals, entrepreneurs, creative minds, change & TRIZ experts, artists and those who would like to connect with others worldwide and who intend to distribute their ideas to a larger audience.

The Continuous Innovation Network (CINet)
CINet is a global network set up to bring together researchers and industrialists working in the field of Continuous Innovation. CINet is a continuation of the European Continuous Improvement Network, which started as a Eureka project (EU 1222) in 1994.

The Gurteen Knowledge Website
The Gurteen Knowledge Community is a global learning community of over 12,000 people in 138 countries across the world. The main themes of this site are knowledge management, learning, creativity, innovation and personal development.

IM-BOOT
IM-BOOT is a portal for creativity, innovation circle & innovation management.

The Italian Network for Innovation and Technology Transfer to SMEs (RIDITT)
RIDITT stems from the need to improve the competitiveness of SMEs by strengthening the supply of services for innovation and for the creation of new high-tech enterprises. The RIDITT Portal is the tool to activate partnerships between SMEs and Innovation centres. RIDITT is promoted by the Italian Ministry of Productive Activities and managed by the Italian Institute for Industrial Promotion (IPI).

KnowledgeBoard
KnowledgeBoard is a self-moderating global community thinking and collaborating on subjects around (but not limited to) Knowledge Management and Innovation in the worlds of business and academia.

The Knowledge Management Cluster (KM Cluster^®)
The KM Cluster^® is a professional, academic and business community of practice focused on knowledge management and enterprise collaboration.

M1 Creativity
M1 Creativity has been helping people solve their business or personal challenges by unleashing their innate creativity and innovation through training, consultancy, facilitation and coaching since 1999.

OpenInnovation.eu
To meet the increasing need for information with respect to the importance and use of open innovation, we established this platform. The development of www.openinnovation.eu intends to contribute to the development and knowledge diffusion of the concept of open innovation in the European business community, through: functioning as an interface between academia and the needs of practitioners; developing management tools and in-company training; exploring new application fields for open innovation; contributing to the awareness with respect to open innovation in Europe; research and publication in the field of open innovation focusing on the best practices in Europe and around the world; stimulating the exchange of knowledge (e.g. best practices) between experienced practitioners; developing an on-line OI-scan for companies to test their OI-expertise vis-à-vis a benchmark of other companies.

SICU (Synergy Integrated - Connects the Unconnected)
SICU is a Multi-dimensional  Innovation, and a Multi-Functional  Project Management organisation and a Marketing Communication agency umbrella, operating both locally and globally through affiliated organisations and global partners, whose objectives are to offer innovative solutions and resources in order to solve problems of individual customers, and to create cost effectivity, added value and multiplicative effects for businesses, corporations, brands, industries, institutions, and ultimately consumers in diverse markets

The Smart Practices Innovation Network (RIN)
RIN pursues the activities of the Réseau québécois sur l’étude et la promotion des systèmes d’innovation (RQSI). The network gathers intelligence on the best innovative practices and economic development in OECD countries. Members also have access to an extensive database that repertories initiatives, practices, public policies, research programs and documents on innovation and regional economic development.

Associations, Research Institutes & Online Resources:

Academic Conferences International (ACI)
ACI facilitates academic conferences on a wide range of subjects. Held on an annual basis in various European countries, there are at present eight conferences in the series. Additionally ACI supplies doctoral education, conference proceedings and other textbooks.

The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
AUTM is a non-profit organization with an international membership of more than 3,000 technology managers and business executives. AUTM members - managers of intellectual property, one of the most active growth sectors of the global economy - represent more than 300 universities, research institutions, teaching hospitals as well as numerous businesses and government organizations.

The BTM Institute
BTM unifies decision-making by providing a structured approach that lets enterprise align, sychronize and even converge business and technology management.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
CFI is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. The CFI's mandate is to strengthen the capacity of Canadian universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions to carry out world-class research and technology development that benefits Canadians.

Centre for Innovation Research (STEP)
The mission of STEP is to be a national resource centre for studies of the relationships between development of knowledge, technological change, and economic growth and development. STEP’s core activities are research on and analysis of innovation activities and abilities in private and public sectors, both nationally and internationally.

The Centre for Innovation Studies (THECIS)
The Centre for Innovation Studies was incorporated as a not for profit company in late 2001. It was established to be a centre of excellence on  innovation in western Canada. It's Mission is to be a leader in creating and disseminating knowledge to improve innovation performance in business, government and society.

ConferenceSubmissions
ConferenceSubmissions allows you to manage your entire scientific conference submissions process from one central place. Entirely web-based, there is nothing to download, nothing to install and no need for programming skills. Furthermore, you can manage delegate registration and take accommodation bookings. It is the complete scientific conference management tool.

CORDIS Wire
The Innovation & Research Exchange on CORDIS (Community Research & Development Information Service).

Creativity Unleashed Limited
The source for business creativity information and training, free creativity software, plus popular science, business and science fiction books.

The DaVinci Institute
The DaVinci Institute is a community of revolutionary thinkers and innovators intent on unlocking your future, one idea, one invention, one business at a time. Membership in the Institute makes you part of this community, and gives you a voice in a world where so few dare to be different.

The European BIC Network (EBN)
EBN is the leading  European network gathering 160 Business and Innovation centres (B.I.C.s) and similar organisations such as incubators, innovation centres and entrepreneurship centres.

The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM)
The general mission of the Institute is to contribute to the development of management researchers and teachers in Europe. The Institute fosters a research approach that brings relevant theory and techniques from different disciplines to bear on practical management problems in European organizations and encourages a high degree of openness toward cross-cultural and international communication.

The European Networking Group (ENG)
ENG is dedicated to providing critical and timely business information to professionals across Europe. All of our business forums are convened with leading experts. We rely extensively on industry research to provide practical platforms where executives can learn, network and benchmark themselves against their peers.

European TrendChart on Innovation
The "European TrendChart on Innovation" is the benchmarking instrument of the European Commission in the area of innovation policy.

focus:innovation
focus:innovation aims to raise awareness, disseminate information and create a network of information and experience exchange on innovation among the stakeholders in Turkey.

i10
i10’s remit is to help businesses grow by providing access to the knowledge, research, facilities, academics and graduates available from the universities in the East of England.

ideas21 - The Heart of British Invention and Innovation
ideas21 is an innovation support organisation devoted to the successful exploitation of ideas and intellectual property via networking and education.

The Industrial Research Institute (IRI)
The IRI is the foremost business association of leaders in research and development (R&D) working together to enhance the effectiveness of technological innovation in industry. They also publish the journal Research•Technology Management which contains peer-reviewed articles covering the entire spectrum of industrial innovation, from research and development through product development to marketing.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is a think tank committed to articulating and advancing a pro-productivity, pro-innovation and pro-technology public policy agenda internationally, in Washington and the states.

InnovationTools
InnovationTools provides entrepreneurs and innovators with a focused, growing collection of the best resources on business innovation, creativity and brainstorming.

Innovations Report
The forum for science, industry and economy that promotes innovation dynamics, networking of innovation and performance potentials.

The Management of Innovation and New Technology (MINT) Research Centre
MINT's mission is to: achieve and maintain pre-eminence as the world's foremost think tank in the field of innovation research; establish an environment that will nurture a cadre of business leaders who can identify innovation-related issues and problem solve in an environment characterized by ongoing technological change; provide a full-service consulting practice and clearing house for organizations who are interested in improving (or maintaining) their innovativeness

The Network of Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE)
IRE is the joint platform for collaboration and exchange of experiences in the development of regional innovation policies and schemes. The network aims to enable regions to access new tools and schemes for innovation promotion and to create an inter-regional learning process. It also seeks to put innovation at the top of the regional policy agenda. It is open to all European regions that can demonstrate good practice in the promotion of innovation.

NORIBIC
NORIBIC is a Northern Ireland Business and Innovation Centre which provides support programmes for the development and growth of technology based businesses in Northern Ireland. NORIBIC was established in 1986 operating mainly from Derry. Within the last 20 years NORIBIC has contributed to the economic development throughout Northern Ireland by stimulating entrepreneurship and innovation of local entrepreneurial initiatives.

PRO INNO Europe
PRO INNO Europe is a new initiative of Directorate General Enterprise and Industry which aims to become the focal point for innovation policy analysis, learning and development in Europe, with the view to learning from the best and contributing to the development of new and better innovation policies in Europe.

The Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)
The SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) and STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) programs, two competitively awarded, three-phase Federal Government programs, are designed to stimulate technological innovation and provide opportunities for small business. These dynamic teamings of the private and public sectors include joint venture opportunities for small businesses and the nation's premier nonprofit research institutions.

The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL)
SoL is an intentional learning community composed of organizations, individuals, and local SoL communities around the world. We are a not-for-profit, member-governed corporation. The purpose of SoL is to discover, integrate and implement theories and practices for the interdependent development of people and their institutions.

Science Park and Innovation Center Experts (SPICE Group)
SPICE Group is a global network of individual experts The main fields of expertise are: business incubation; innovation centers; science and technology parks; regional economic development; technology transfer and entrepreneurship; policies related with these areas. Members of the SPICE Group come from various professional backgrounds. This network combines experience and skills from many different areas, such as economic development agencies, financial institutions, private enterprises, consulting and law firms and governmental organisations.

The Strategy Institute
A vital knowledge source for corporate North America, the Strategy Institute is an independent, research-based organization which monitors and communicates changes and trends in business and business strategy. The objective of the Institute is to provide decision-makers with strategic business information and executive education to enhance their business judgment.

WAINOVA - World Alliance for Innovation
WAINOVA's mission is to contribute to the world’s economic and social development by promoting innovation, technology transfer and the establishment of technology- and innovation-based companies.