ISPIM News: Issue 2009/2
Editorial
Dear Members,
With just over a week to go preparations for the 2009 Conference in Vienna are almost complete and the provisional programme is available at www.conference.ispim.org/index.php/home/programme. I can report that we received outlines from 470 people wanting to present this year. This is therefore the seventh year in a row that has seen an increase. The benefit of this is that the review process and rejection rate could be correspondingly more rigorous to increase the general standard of the sessions.
There will be 208 presentations in Vienna and the total number of ISPIM delegates about 340. At the Tours Conference last year, delegates asked for greater interactivity during sessions. We have therefore adopted a format of 4 x 15 minute presentations followed by 30 minutes of discussion in all regular sessions. We have also increased the number of luminary speakers and workshops on the Wednesday, which should appeal to a broad spectrum of delegates. We hope that with the careful selection of keynote speakers, the increased interactivity in the sessions and more stringent evaluation process the conference will continue to increase in quality.
Forty-four nationalities from six continents will be represented, with the majority being from Europe. Delegate organisations include well-known multinational organisations, SMEs, educational institutions, research centres, public agencies and consulting companies. The most numerous group is educational institutions.
As you may be aware, the R&D Management Conference 2009 will be held in parallel with ISPIM 2009 in Vienna and both sets of delegates are free to switch between sessions. The R&D Management Conference will have about 55 presentations and a similar number of delegates.
The social side of ISPIM Conferences is, as always, very important. Sunday features a town walking tour and welcome reception in the magnificent Vienna City Hall "Rathauskeller". The Conference Dinner on the Monday is at the famous Schönbrunn Palace Orangerie and on Tuesday the Heurigen Feuerwehr Wagner is the traditional setting in the hills above Vienna for the Traditional Viennese Evening. All cuisine, music, activities and venues reflect Viennese culture, gastronomy and history. More details are available from the conference programme.
Finally, I would like to draw your attention to the Conference Awards. The papers that have been short-listed by the Scientific Panel for The Knut Holt Best Paper Award and The Best Student Paper Award are indicated in the programme and will be presented during the Conference Dinner. However, this year we are also awarding delegates for outstanding contributions. Session facilitators will be nominating candidates for outstanding contributions such as questions posed, presentations given, discussion engendered and the like. These awards will be made during the Plenary Session on the Wednesday.
I look forward to seeing you in Vienna on the 21st June.
Dr Steffen Conn
Secretary General
conn@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.
Invited Speakers (more to follow):
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
James D. Thompson
Associate Director of Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs; Director of Societal Wealth Program
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Rita Gunther McGrath*
Associate Professor, Columbia Business School
Co-Author of The Entrepreneurial Mindset and MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth
* to be confirmed
Symposium 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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Important Deadlines:
- 13 September 2009: Outlines Only (All Academic and Practitioner Submissions)
- 27 September 2009: Acceptance Notification
- 8 November 2009: Final Submissions (including papers, slides, profiles & photos) together with registration and payment
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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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
From 21 June 2009, the conference website will be www.conference.ispim.org.
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Members News
ISPIM is a partner in the EU funded SM-BIO-POWER project. SM-BIO-POWER empowers SMEs in biomedical engineering to participate in EU research. An awareness workshop on
Innovation and EU Research will be held prior to the ISPIM conference in Vienna on Sunday 21 June 2009. Anyone interested in participating should contact
Iain Bitran at bitran@ispim.org.
SM-BIO-POWER empowers SMEs in biomedical engineering to participate in EU research. The consortium of ten partners helps SMEs to get their voice heard at the European Commission and gain international visibility for their company. SM-BIO-POWER also provides information on the latest trends in EU support for biomedical engineering research together with best practice examples from other SMEs in EU projects. An online helpdesk is available for registered users as is personal assistance in identifying funding opportunities and project partners. Personalised updates include selected information such as call alerts, partner searches and consortia and project opportunities. All SM-BIO-POWER services and information are offered for free. The project website can be found at www.smbiopower.eu.
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New Book by Keith Bevis: Sustainable Learning in the Workplace
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of Sustainable Learning in the Workplace. Skills are a major contribution to a company’s success. We all know that we need more,
better and newer skills in the workplace, but so much training, however well intended lacks any impact on the business. If the learning has not been sustained by being embedded
in the business, the investment in training can be wasted.
This book reviews training activity among manufacturers within the automotive supply chain, particularly from the perspective of the smaller companies and the trainees themselves. A model is developed that focuses attention on the value of the learning. Criteria are identified to support the model as a Framework for Sustainable Learning.
The companies most likely to meet these quantifiable criteria will be the competitive and innovative companies that operate as learning organisations. It is argued that training targeted on these companies will be cost effective to implement, provide measurable performance benefits and deliver sustainable learning.
This Framework should be especially useful to company managers or advisers in skills brokerage who are seeking to optimise the investment in skills development. This is an academic monograph based on my research.
The book “Sustainable Learning in the Workplace”, by Keith Bevis, ISBN number 978-3-639-14437-6, is published by VDM in Germany
Regards,
Keith
Eur Ing Dr Keith I Bevis
School of Aerospace Automotive and Design Engineering
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane Campus
Hatfield AL10 9AB
United Kingdom
k.bevis@herts.ac.uk
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Member Offers
Call for Papers: Euroscience Mediterranean Event 2009
It is our great pleasure to inform you about the Euroscience Mediterranean Event 2009 which
will be held in Athens, Greece, from October 15 to October 19 2009. This event is hosted by the Euroscience Greek Regional Section and is under the auspices of Euroscience.
Dedicated to scientific research and innovation, ESME 2009 provides a platform for dialogue on science and technology, society and policy, while focusing on the specific characteristics and needs of the Mediterranean region.
You are invited to submit your abstract for your participation in the scientific programme with an oral or poster presentation.
Abstracts should be included in the following thematic streams:
- Climate Change
- Science for security and stability
- Facing natural disasters
- Nutrition and health
- Science and innovation policy
- Towards Web3
- Science Communication
- Designing the modern city
- Building a smart home
- Fighting for resources
- The new viruses
- Manufacturing Confusion
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 10th, 2009
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ECEI 2009: 4th European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The University of Antwerp is very pleased to get the opportunity to host the 4th European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation from 10-11 September 2009. In the light
of the European Lisbon goals, the importance of the conference topics cannot be underestimated. Entrepreneurship and innovation should be the driving force in the transition of
the Western economies towards knowledge-intensive economies – a necessity to maintain our current living standards. Knowledge creation and dissemination to society are
indispensable to advance into the next era.
Themes include:
- Entrepreneurial finance
- Economics of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Entrepreneurship and innovation for educators
- Entrepreneurship and innovation in business
- The front end of innovation and integrated product development
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Modelling very early stage valorisation projects
- Innovation in emerging market economies
Special offer for ISPIM Members: Use discount code MKTP20 for a 20% discount off the registration fee
Read more about the conference from academic-conferences.org/ecei/ecei2009/ecei09-home.htm.
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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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Call for Papers: Symposium on Support for Open Innovation Processes
Open Innovation is a recent paradigm whose goal is to include external and internal ideas and paths to market for innovation. In Open Innovation, networks of innovators which consist of organizations, freelancers, customers etc. collaborate in different phases of the innovation process such as idea generation, evaluation and/or development. The induced new collaboration possibilities allow for considering a larger amount of users, projects and more general aspects of innovation. For this reason, the innovation process becomes broader and more complex. Effectively supporting this process (e.g. via IT) is therefore very important in order to foster or even make collaboration possible in innovator networks. The support of an Open Innovation network or community can include support for the process itself, the awareness or the search for desired content, contributions or new innovation partners, trends in personal qualification and skill management, awareness of people's contributions and team recommendations. The symposium goal is to illustrate and discuss the phenomenon of Open Innovation itself and possible theoretical or practical approaches for the support of its requirements as well as socio-psychological implications, influence factors and future development paths of Open Innovation.
Context of the symposium: KoPIWA (www.kopiwa.de) is a project on the support of network based Open Innovation processes and development of competencies in the digital economy sector by knowledge modeling and analysis. Goals of the KoPIWA project are investigating concepts for trendspotting, awareness and network analysis as well as supporting the development of competencies in the Open Innovation context. Collaborations between organizations, freelancers and customers of the digital economical sector are supported. KoPIWA is a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with funds from the European Social Fund (ESF,50%) (project number 01FM07067-72).
Important Dates
- August, 31st 2009: Submission deadline
- October, 16th 2009: Notification of acceptance
- December, 7th 2009: Symposium
Paper Submission: Book Project
As a result of this symposium, the publication of a book on Open Innovation is intended. The publication will be guided and supported by the KoPIWA project team. Accepted contributions for the symposium are abstracts for a chapter in this book. These contributions are going to be extended, broadened and written out in full by their respective authors and are going to be published together in this book. Thus, the scientific community is invited to submit an abstract for a book chapter due to August, 31st 2009. The book chapter abstract (minimum length 2 pages, maximum length 4 pages) is to be submitted in the ACM Sig proceedings format (www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).
Registration and Submission
Registration for the symposium and submission of contributions via email to brocco@in.tum.de.
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JDCTA: Call for Papers and Special Issues
International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications
www.aicit.org/jdcta
Call for Editors: We courteously invite you as an editor of JDCTA. We will continue to strengthen JDCTA as a helpful research source for scholars, researchers and students. Submit your short bio, photo, background, and some information to the web site. We look forward to your constant support and initiative in improving the quality of JDCTA. Keep your eyes to JDCTA, and we hope that JDCTA will grow into a world-best international journal. www.aicit.org/jdcta/call_for_editors.html
Call for Papers: JDCTA is a refereed, multidisciplinary journal for bridging the latest advances in the digital content technologies and its applications. It provides an international forum for presenting authoritative references, academically rigorous research, and case studies. The journal publishes well-written and academically validated manuscripts in both theoretical development and application research.
Call for Special Issues: Guest Editors are cordially invited to submit proposal for special issues to the Editor-in-Chief Dr. Franz. I. S. Ko: franzjdcta@aicit.org. We invite guest editors to submit a proposal of 1-2 pages, Free Format, A4, MS-WORD. Supply complete address, fax/phone number and e-mail address of the guest editor.
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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.
David Wilemon
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
USA
dlwtexas@aol.com
Professor Wilemon teaches marketing, innovation management, and entrepreneurship at all levels. He also teaches three courses in the iMBA program including Entrepreneurship & Corporate Venturing, High Performing Project Teams, and Managing Product Development. Wilemon is considered one of the most active researchers in the field of innovation and technology management, in studies published by R&D Management and The Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Wilemon’s research interests include the central issues involved in managing teams and organizations which find their core strength in marketing, technology, and innovation. Currently, he is involved in research on new product development teams, R&D management, managing new product development complexity, corporate venturing, and on how technology-based enterprises develop and use knowledge for competitive advantage.
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Tatjana Samsonowa
SAP Research, SAP AG
Germany
tatjana.samsonowa@sap.com
Tatjana Samsonowa was born in 1977 in Kazakhstan and has lived in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Germany. She completed a "Specialist in Taxation & Auditing" degree while working at TH Treuhandgesellschaft mbH in Heidelberg, Germany.
Tatjana received a graduate degree in European Business Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Worms, where she received the "Best Student of the Year" award in 2005/2006 from the European Business Management and Commerce Management faculty. She studied International Business Administration for a year abroad at the University Iberoamericana in Mexico in 2004. During her studies, Tatjana also held a scholarship from the ,,Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes", given to the most talented students in Germany.
In May 2006, she joined the SAP Research PhD Program and has been since working in the Research Portfolio Office in conjunction with the Technical University of Darmstadt. The preliminary title of her PhD thesis is "Measuring Research Objectives by adequate Key Performance Indicators".
Her research interests include innovation management and performance measurement of industrial research organizations.
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Margot Wood
Curtin University of Technology
Australia
margot.wood@gsb.curtin.edu.au
Margot has over 20 years experience in working with organisations. In terms of her work, Margot's broader vision is to facilitate opportunities to enhance decision quality, especially with regard to senior management teams. This underpins Margot's role as co-Principal of the Centre for Innovation in Decision Quality (CIDQ). The CIDQ's focus (reflected in the CIDQ framework) is on enhancing Decision Quality with respect to creativity and innovation in organisations; application of decision theory; strategy development and resource allocation; high performance cultures and inspiring leaders to think differently.
The CIDQ is a Curtin Business School (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) initiative combining research and practice in the area of Innovation in Decision Quality. CIDQ draws on complexity science for Sensemaking, crucial aspects of Team Capital and the critical importance of Architecture (systems and processes) to co-create unique solutions.
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Yoichi Kodama
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
kodama.y.ab@m.titech.ac.jp
Yoichi Kodama was a collaborative researcher of Institute for Molecular Science, National Institute of Nature Sciences before gaining my M.Sc. from University of Tsukuba in 1999. I am a senior researcher of Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., a Japanese chemical manufacturer and an inventor or co-inventor in many patents about the polyimide as a high performance material. 10-year-work in Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. made me have interests on management of technologies and I have been a doctoral student in Graduate School of Innovation Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2008. My current research field is adhesives in IT applications and management of technologies in chemical manufacturers.
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Innovation Events Calendar
2009
June
21 June 2009
Innovation and EU Research Workshop
Location: Vienna, Austria
Click here to register
21-24 June 2009
The XX ISPIM Conference
The Future of Innovation
Location: Vienna, Austria
www.conference.ispim.org
21-24 June 2009
The R&D Management Conference 2009
The reality of R&D and its impact on innovation
Location: Vienna, Austria
www.rndmanagement.info
Note: This event is being held in collaboration with The XX ISPIM Conference and delegates will be able to attend both events at no additional charge.
August
2-6 August 2009
PICMET '09 Conference
Technology Management in the Age of Fundamental Change
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
www.picmet.org/new/Conferences/2009
11-12 August 2009
The First International Conference on Service Science and Innovation (ICSSI 2009)
Competing through Service in Global Market
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
www.icssi-09.org
September
4-8 September 2009
10th International CINet Conference
Enhancing the Innovation Environment
Location: Brisbane, Australia
www.continuous-innovation.net/Events/CINet2009.html
10-11 September 2009
ECEI 2009: 4th European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
academic-conferences.org/ecei/ecei2009/ecei09-home.htm
23-25 September 2009
IASP Latin American Conference 2009
Location: Monterrey, Mexico
www.iasp.ws/publico/index.jsp?enl=5
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
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
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The next edition of ISPIM News will be published in September 2009. Please send all contributions to newsletter@ispim.org by 1st September 2009.
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