ISPIM News: Issue 2010/2
Editorial
Dear Member,
It’s been over 3 weeks since the Bilbao conference which has given me some time to reflect on the event itself. The bar was set very high in Vienna in 2009 but I believe that we were able to maintain the high standards we set ourselves and also add some variety to the conference programme with the introduction of panel discussions and special interest groups. This year we again had some excellent keynote and luminary speakers. The overall quality of papers and presentations is improving year by year and our scientific panel deserves a great deal of credit for the amount of effort they put in.
Later in this newsletter Rob Dew has written his review of the Bilbao conference so all I would like to say in this editorial is a big thank you to everyone involved who helped raise the bar yet again. I would also like to congratulate the best paper winners, José Maria Barrutia & Carmen Echebarria for "Social capital-innovation relationship in the European regions" who won the Knut Holt Award for Best Conference Paper and Tor Helge Aas for "Implementing a Value Assessment Tool for Service Innovation Ideas" who won the Conference Best Student Paper Award.
So on to the future...the next event will be the 3rd ISPIM Innovation Symposium which will be held in Quebec City, Canada from 12-15 December 2010. Yes I know it will be -20 degrees outside but the Canadians can cope with snow and the venue, hotel and virtually all the social events are connected with underground passages. How they must laugh when they hear about traffic chaos in London caused by 1mm of snow! The title of the symposium is “Managing the Art of Innovation: Turning Concepts into Reality” and the event will be run in collaboration with INO, a leading non-profit R&D centre. The venue is the award winning Québec City Convention Centre which is located just by the walls of the old city. For social events, the gala dinner will take place in the magnificent Québec Parliament Building, home of the National Assembly of Québec and the Québec Evening at Le Cabaret du Capitole. I look forward to welcoming many of you to Quebec in December.
The next conference will take place in Hamburg, Germany from 12-15 June 2011. The title of the conference is “Sustainability in Innovation: Innovation Management Challenges” which was the topic of the final discussion panel that was led by John Bessant in Bilbao. The event will be hosted by The Technical University of Hamburg and programme highlights include the Gala Dinner at the 19th Century Börsenhalle (Hamburg Exchange), a Dinner Cruise on the River Elbe and a visit to Visit to Airbus Deutschland. The conference website is now online at http://conference.ispim.org.
I would like to end this editorial by saying it was a great pleasure to be able to honour two of ISPIM’s long-standing members. Professor Kazuyoshi Ishii and Professor Markku Tuominen were both given the ISPIM Fellowship Award at the Gala Dinner at the Guggenheim Bilbao and we look forward to them continuing to attend ISPIM events. For Professor Ishii it was his 25th year of attending ISPIM events (yes, I know we just had the 21st conference but they used to take place every 2 years...) and he was presented with a framed disc of his favourite karaoke song - "Love Me Tender" by Elvis!
For those of you in the northern hemisphere, have a great summer and for those of you in the southern hemisphere just remember your summers are generally better than ours!
Best regards,
Iain Bitran
Executive Director
bitran@ispim.org
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ISPIM Events
Call for Papers: The 3rd ISPIM Innovation Symposium, Quebec City, Canada (12-15 December 2010)
The 3rd ISPIM Innovation Symposium - Managing the Art of Innovation: Turning Concepts into Reality - will be held in Quebec City, Canada on 12-15 December 2010. Organised by ISPIM in collaboration with local partner INO, a leading non-profit R&D center in Optics/Photonics in Canada, 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 French Canadian culture.
Innovation is of all ages, industries and countries. By systematically analyzing innovation processes we have learned a lot about effective innovation strategies. Out of the box thinking, portfolio management, open innovation, team diversity and many other innovation concepts have emerged. Explaining each of these is easy, applying them is much harder.
How to invent breakthrough products? How to determine the potential of a new technology for which no market yet exists? How to collaborate with other organisations without losing your own unique strengths? How to ensure that necessary, multiple perspectives are considered when creating new market offerings? The reality is that innovation is partly an art, but it is an art that organisations need to manage, and by doing so they turn innovation concepts into reality.
Submissions from academic, research, industry, intermediary and policy organisations are strongly encouraged and should focus on the following:
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Important Submission Deadlines:
- 12 September 2010: Outlines Only (All Submissions)
- 26 September 2010: Acceptance Notification
- 7 November 2010: Final Submissions (including papers, profiles & photos) together with registration and payment
- 7 December 2010: Presentation/slides
The symposium website is www.symposium.ispim.org.
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ISPIM Updates
XXI ISPIM Conference, Bilbao, Spain - 6 to 9 June 2010
Review by Rob Dew, Queensland University of Technology, Australia & Member of the ISPIM Advisory Board
ISPIM XXI: The Dynamics of Innovation was held in Bilbao, Spain and was an amazing event. Like other ISPIM annual conferences the event was attended by corporate innovation managers, innovation consultants and academics. This year there were in excess of 360 delegates from 51 countries. The standard of presentations was excellent, both because of the high quality of luminary speakers and the fact that only half of the papers submitted to the conference were accepted and then presented. Keynote speakers Joe Tidd [Professor, Technology & Innovation Management Science & Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex] and Matt Kingdon [Chairman, Co-Founder & Chief Enthusiast ?What If! The Innovation Company] provided startlingly compatible messages about innovation despite their very different innovation backgrounds. As an innovation journal editor Joe presented a summary of the research in the innovation field to date. He asserted that an innovation process focus is far more important than R&D for product development. Only 1 in 8 firms have an innovation process but these firms create twice the value of the other firms. Importantly 85% of the Western world economy is NOT high tech and 70% of it is service-based. He went on to say that R&D is also not appropriate for the Public Sector. Instead the alternative is small but scalable trial and error. His examples included the so-called Gazelle firms (the 4% of firms that grow amazingly fast and consistently) typically don’t do R&D. These firms typically are service sector firms practicing a systematic trial and error process.
Matt Kingdon shared his organisation’s formula for innovation: Identify x Insight x Ideas x Implement = Innovation. Key for Matt in this formula was that if any of the elements are zero, the output is zero. He went on to present some very interesting case studies in innovation that really seemed to be about a clever trial and error process. He finished with some assumptions about innovation worth challenging:
- That innovation is risky
- That there is a choice about whether or not to innovate
- That innovation automatically has benefits that always outweigh the costs
- That innovation must be hard to implement
These two opening presentations set the theme for the rest of the conference around innovation dynamics and unpacking the state of the art in terms of practice. There was a prevalence of papers this year that related to the importance of people inside the organisation that were trying to manage innovation. Interesting discoveries were shared about the environments that such people needed to operate in and the kind of people likely to be involved. Measurement, performance, collaboration (inside and outside the firm) were also important themes. By day, delegates were immersed in a wide range of interesting research findings and by night the informal parts of the ISPIM conference came to life.
Tours of the wonderful city of Bilbao ensured that finding great Pinchos in the old town was a snap. The Gala Dinner in the Guggenheim museum was astounding not only for the incredible exhibits by Anish Kapoor and Henri Rousseau, but also because of the wonderful architecture of the museum itself. Included in the evenings feast were a memorable dish prepared with black squid ink and the wonderful Cava produced in the Barcelona region. However, the pick of the wine was the Rioja. This was much enjoyed during the ‘Basque Evening’ at the Azurmendi Restaurant & Txakoli Wine Cellar. The evening continued late into the night with the enjoyable live music provided by the same Portuguese band that has played for conference delegates since Porto, Portugal in 2005. With just about everyone enjoying the dancing, the restaurant staff had to gently insist on the evening coming to an end eventually.
The ISPIM Board with the 2 new ISPIM Fellows, Professors Ishii & Tuominen
Congratulations to the ISPIM Board and organising team for delivering such a great event once again. Having been to ISPIM every year since Warsaw, Poland in 2006 I can say with authority that the ISPIM ‘formula’ works: diverse international delegates from industry, consulting and academia, high quality papers, interesting cities, seamless organisation and great celebrations after hours. I can’t wait for Hamburg in 2011, so I just might be at the Symposium in Quebec later this year…
Cheers,
Rob Dew
rad1@ecn.net.au
ISPIM Innovation Management Dissertation Award
Preamble:
Our community relies on the current crop of PhD researchers to develop the insights, theories and tools to shape the future of innovation management thinking and action. The ISPIM Innovation Management Dissertation Award will reward this endeavour. Authors of the best three dissertations, as selected by the ISPIM Scientific Panel, will be able to present their findings in a prestigious session at the forthcoming ISPIM Conference.
Eligibility:
The Conference, which is held in June each year, will accept entries from students who have completed their PhD or equivalent doctoral degree during the preceding calendar year. By way of example, the June 2011 conference will accept entries from students who completed their studies during 2010. The dissertation does not need to have been previously published. Your nationality and location of the degree granting institution have no influence on eligibility.
Selection Process:
The selection panel is chaired by the Head of the Scientific Panel who will appoint additional members as required. Applications that are incomplete will be dismissed. Applications with dissertations that are substantively inappropriate or clearly of insufficient quality will not be retained. A shortlist of best dissertations will be retained, from which the best three, including the winner, will be chosen. Comments and feedback will not be given to authors.
Selection Criteria:
Impact |
Will the results impact a significant area of future innovation practice? |
Innovation |
How innovative is the choice and framing of the dissertation focus? |
Scientific Rigour |
Is the focus of the dissertation rigorous? |
Communication |
How well are the results communicated to both business and academia? |
Award:
All finalists will receive a certificate and will be expected to present their research at the ISPIM Conference. The winner will receive a stipend that covers the conference admission fee and the second and third place authors will each receive a EUR 500 stipend against the conference fee. The cost of travel and accommodation will not be covered.
Entry:
To enter, you must submit:
- An electronic version of your dissertation
- A 1500 word extended outline of your dissertation
- Your CV
- A letter of recommendation and good standing from your professor or institution
All materials are to be submitted in English to http://www.conferencesubmissions.com/ispimaward2010/ by January 31st. No late submissions will be accepted. Receipt of submissions will not be acknowledged. All submitting authors will be notified of the outcome by March 31st.
Contact:
If you have questions about your entry, please contact conference@ispim.org. Finalists will be notified by April 30th.
The ISPIM LinkedIn Group has grown dramatically in numbers over the past 6 months and as of the begining of July the group had 957 members. Popular recent discussions have included:
- ISPIM Bilbao or 6 things that made it a valuable conference
- What would you like to see included in an innovation conference?
- If you equip 100 employees with an idea management system for 1 year - how many ideas would you expect in return?
- What are your key challenges in developing ideas into new products/services?
- Innovation policies in the world
In addition to the main group, 3 new subgroups have been added:
- ISPIM Service Innovation Special Interest Group
- ISPIM Sustainability in Innovation Special Interest Group
- ISPIM EU & International Funding Special Interest Group
If you would like to join the ISPIM group on LinkedIn, click here.
Photos from Bilbao plus all ISPIM events since 2002 have now been uploaded to Picasa. If you have some photos and would like to have them included in this site (note, they will be vetted...) please send an email to Iain Bitran at bitran@ispim.org.
To view photos from past ISPIM events, click here.
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News
Call for Papers: Special Issue on: "Commercialisation Processes and Open Innovation"
Call for Papers for the International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (IJIRD). Guest Editors: Dr. Jarkko Pellikka, Honeywell Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Finland & Tapani Väänänen, Technology Manager, Kuopio Innovation Ltd, Finland.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together papers which contribute to the understanding of the specific features of commercialization processes and open innovation models in high technology fields. Manuscripts are invited from both practitioners and management researchers and they may be purely theoretical or based on empirical research.
For full details on how to contribute, please visit: www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1340.
Submitted by Tapani Väänänen, Technology Manager, Kuopio Innovation Ltd, Finland
TII Innovation Tour to Quebec: 27 September - 1 October 2010
We would like to announce that we have re-scheduled our Innovation Tour to Quebec to the last week of September and are pleased to renew our invitation to participate. The Innovation Tour format offers you a privileged introduction to leading universities, research centres and knowledge generators in the Quebec province of Canada, which can open up opportunities for long-term R&D and business collaborations.
Did you know, for example, that
- Canada offers one of the most favourable tax treatments for R&D among the G7, by providing a system of tax credits and accelerated tax deductions for a wide variety of R&D expenditures.
- Regulations pertaining to the creation of new businesses are significantly more flexible in Canada than those in the rest of the G7. Canada ranks first among the G7 and OECD countries for the lowest number of procedures required to establish a new business.
- Canada has the highest percentage of individuals achieving at least college or university education among OECD member countries.
In addition to visiting the commercialisation units of Montreal’s three prestigious universities – University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), McGill University and the University of Montreal - a number of leading research centres and the Canadian Space Agency, we will receive an introduction to one of the largest biotech clusters in North America at the Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole, which is also the first science park in North America devoted to the agri-food, veterinary and agroenvironmental biotechnology sectors.
We hope that you will be interested in joining the Tour to extend your own network of international partnerships. In order to secure a minimum number of 10 participants for the visit, we invite you to register your interest by 15 July at the latest – either by notifying the TII secretariat or by registering via the following link: www.tii.org/index2.php?sm=tii_en-8-upcoming_events&cat=6&idnews=201004280001
You will also find additional information about the Tour and a preliminary programme at the same web address.
Submitted by Christine Robinson, TII, Luxembourg
Interested in novel tools and services for innovation support? Join TAKE IT UP and its Testing Community !
TAKE IT UP is the promotion pillar of Europe INNOVA, the European initiative for the development, testing and promotion of new tools and services in support of innovation, which can be used by innovation intermediaries (ISPs) to help their client SMEs innovate faster and better.
TAKE IT UP engages ISPs and potential users to participate in the development and testing of tools/services and will showcase the top performing ones to wide audiences through the TAKE IT UP WAREHOUSE, database of tools and services accessible online scouted across the whole innovation support domains (human capital; innovation financing; access to knowledge, technology and know-how; international markets; strategic capital; business partnerships and networks; infrastructures and facilities) with focus on the thematic areas of Eco-innovation, Knowledge Intensive Services (KIS) and Clusters.
The TAKE IT UP testing community is the group of innovation intermediaries who have expressed their availability to act as test-bed for the innovative tools and services proposed, in order to give improvement feedback for better effectiveness and usability.
By entering the community, you will have the opportunity to be a first mover in the EU innovation support market, benefiting from the most advanced instruments and knowledge developed in Europe. You will be informed on testing opportunities with freedom to select the service tools you deem relevant for testing (you are free to express interest in what you like and give your availability for the specific testing). If you want to join, send an email providing your name, company and contacts to takeitup@meta-group.com.
TAKE IT UP is powered by an experienced consortium of private companies and networks of innovation stakeholders in the field of research results exploitation, design and delivery of innovation services for SMEs and management of electronic libraries: META Group, TII, EURADA and Solgenia. For further information about TAKE IT UP, please visit www.europe-innova.eu (novel tools & services) and TAKE IT UP group on LinkedIn.
Submitted by Augusto Trenta, META Group, Italy
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Associated Organisations - Offers for ISPIM Members
TII Summer School: 6-10 September 2010, Vilnius, Lithuania
We are pleased to invite you to attend this year’s TII summer school, which will be held from 6 to 10 September in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, hosted by our long-standing member, Lithuanian Innovation Centre. As many of you already know, the summer school offers an excellent opportunity to acquire a number of the essential skills required by innovation support and technology transfer professionals in the course of their everyday work. It is unique because it offers training by practitioners for practitioners in a relaxed, multi-cultural learning environment. The subjects covered by this year’s course include:
- Negotiation skills and the art of reaching agreement
- Success factors in growing new technology-based firms
- Building success in international project management
- Making the business case for technology opportunities
- Coaching SMEs for collaborative business innovation projects
A full programme and application form are to be found by clicking on the link on the TII home page at www.tii.org.
The cost is EUR 990 for the full 5-day course (EUR 750 for members in CEEC and developing countries) and daily rates are available if you wish to register for a shorter period.
The TII Summer School is run in association with ISPIM.
Baltic Dynamics 2010: 16-17 September 2010, Riga, Latvia
The Baltic Dynamics conference is an initiative of the Baltic Association of Science/Technology Parks and Innovation Centres - BASTIC - and has been held annually since its inception in 1996. The conference venue is rotated between the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In 2010, it is Latvia's turn again and the conference will be held in the country's capital Riga, the largest city in the Baltic States.
In recent years it is not only the three Baltic States that have shown dynamic development in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship. "Innovation links" between the countries around the Baltic Sea have been established and successful economic initiatives developed.
The conference organisers invite all involved with the dynamic innovation and entrepreneurship development - leaders of innovative companies, managers of science/technology parks and business incubators, public authorities responsible for innovation in the region, venture capital organisations, etc. - to present and discuss initiatives to make innovation strategies and policies happen.
ISPIM will be managing a track on open innovation and is a marketing partner for this conference.
For more information on the conference visit www.balticdynamics.com.
ECIE 2010: 16-17 September 2010, Athens, Greece
5th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship takes place at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from 16-17 September 2010.
he National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has the pleasure to host the 5th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in September 2010. As innovative entrepreneurship is a fundamental parameter for economic development in a knowledge-based society, the conference provides international opportunity for scientific discussion and collaboration on relevant fertile areas associated to recent European polices and practices. The emerging international research achievements on innovation, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education propel science interdisciplinary towards contemporary social needs.
ISPIM is a marketing partner for this conference.
For more information on the conference visit academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2010/ecie10-home.htm.
World Congress Leadership Summit: 13-14 October 2010, Boston, USA
The World Congress Leadership Summit on Creating Global Disruptive Business Innovations in Health Care will focus on innovations that have begun to “disrupt” previously established business practices in the health care industry. These innovations are revolutionizing health care by increasing access, delivery and cutting costs. An entirely new population of consumers will gain access to services that they previously could not. Is your organization ready to implement these innovations to reach this new market?
ISPIM is a marketing partner for this conference. ISPIM members can save $200 with promo code JYF978, not applicable to government registration.
For more information on the conference visit www.worldcongress.com/events/HL10023/.
Optimizing Innovation 2010: 20-21 October 2010, New York City, USA
Spice up your strategies by continuing along the innovation highway and collecting inside information from the world’s innovation forerunners from the most competitive companies.
Optimizing Innovation 2010 is our 2nd annual cross-industry event in which we offer you the opportunity to uncover the secrets to success from the most experienced innovators in the world and learn how to put ideas into practice in the form of social networking activities, brainstorming sessions, talking circles, keynote case studies and insightful presentations.
ISPIM is a marketing partner for this conference.
For more information on the conference visit www.connecting-group.com/Web/EventOverview.aspx?Identificador=13.
Triple Helix VIII International Conference, 20-22 October 2010, Madrid, Spain
Triple Helix VIII International Conference on University, Industry and Government Linkages will be held on 20-22 October 2010 in Madrid, Spain.
Innovation is understood as a resultant of a complex and dynamic process related to interactions between in University, Industry and Government, in a spiral of endless transitions. The Triple Helix approach, developed by Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff, is based on the perspective of University as a leader of the relationship with Industry and Government, to generate new knowledge, innovation and economic development.
After Amsterdam, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Copenhagen/Lund, Turin, Singapore and Glasgow the Triple Helix movement arrives to its 8th global meeting in Madrid, Spain, in 2010. The Triple Helix VIII – International Conference on University, Industry and Government Linkages will be held on 20-22 October 2010. It will be organized by the International Institute of Triple Helix - IITH and hosted by La Salle Innovation Park of Services for People in the aim to connect academics, business leaders, government staff and other specialists involved in the different aspects of innovation management. The main theme of our conference is “Triple Helix in the Development of Cities of Knowledge, Expanding Communities and Connecting Regions”.
ISPIM will be managing a track on innovation and is a marketing partner for this conference.
More information at www.triplehelix8.org.
The 24h of Innovation Conference: 22-23 October 2010, Estia - Biarritz, France
You are a company, a university, an association, an inventor... You have an idea or a new concept of innovating product, a creative topic of R&D, a terms of reference, a need... You do not have time or available resource to work on this subject? You wish to challenge your teams, you want to "benchmark" the products of the competitors, your supplier?
Submit your proposal, it will be studied with discretion by the Organization Committee and will be proposed to one or more development teams made up of professionals (engineers, designers...), students and teachers from various schools and universities.
The results obtained by your teams will be presented to you and/or sent by email after 24h of development. In the resulting one from the 24h, a jury of expert in innovation will meet to give the awards for the best projects.
ISPIM is a marketing partner for this conference.
For more information on the conference visit www.24h.estia.fr/index.php?lang=en.
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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.
Tor Helge Aas
University of Agder
Norway
tor.h.aas@uia.no
Tor Helge Aas has a MSc degree in information management from University of Agder and is at present a PhD student in business administration at Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and a research fellow at University of Agder. Tor Helge Aas' research area is focused on service innovation management, and he is working on a PhD dissertation entitled "Towards a management control system for service innovation activities" where he discusses in what way service innovation activities may be managed and controlled. The dissertation will be a collection of six papers related to this topic, and the paper submitted to ISPIM's XXI Innovation Conference in Bilbao will be one paper in this collection.
José M Barrutia
University of the Basque Country
Spain
josemaria.barrutia@ehu.es
Holds a degree in economics and a PhD in Business Studies from the University of the Basque Country. Consultant Manager for Price Waterhouse over a five-year period, working for companies in the private and public sectors and Head of Marketing for a Bank over a nine-year period. His special research areas are the public sector and services marketing. He has published in some international journals, like Environment and Planning A, European Urban and Regional Studies, European Planning Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Geoforum, International Journal of Service Industry Management, International Journal of Market Research, The Service Industries Journal, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services e International Journal of Financial Services Management.
Rafael García Escarré
Orbita97 Innovation Company
Spain
rafaelgarcia@orbita97.com
Rafael García Escarré, is a Partner and CEO of Orbita97 Innovation Company. PhD Candidate, Business Engineering School La Salle, Ramon Llull University. Telecommunications Engineering Degree, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (BCN, Spain); Computer & Electronics Engineer, Ramon Llull University (BCN, Spain); Executive Education about Strategic Innovation, IMD Business School (Lausanne, Switzerland) and MIT Sloan Management (Boston, USA). He is member of several Firms' Board of Advisors and has more than 20 years leading and managing Innovation projects.
Katharina Hölzle
Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin)
Germany
katharina.hoelzle@tim.tu-berlin.de
Katharina Hölzle is an assistant professor for leadership and organization in innovation management at Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin). Her research focus is on organizational models for innovation management, open innovation, barriers of innovation, and project managers' career paths. She worked for several years in the semiconductor, consulting, and eBusiness industry before returning to university. She has published several articles in the field of relationship marketing, innovation and project management, published among more in Creativity and Innovation Management, R&D Management, and Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung.
Anja-Karina Pahl
The PRIZM Game Company Ltd
United Kingdom
anja@theprizmgame.co.uk
I’ve always believed in a fundamental unity of creation, which could make peace between the warring ideologies on ‘how things really are’. But few tools of western science and philosophy see the world as whole. Buddhist Technologies, on the other hand, assume everything fits and their logical, repeatable methods are designed to help people overcome conflicts and develop their highest potential – a natural state of creativity, compassion and joy. Naturally, any journey to make a practical, integrated model of the sciences and religion is eclectic: A BSc (Chemistry) and MSc (Structural Geology), as well degrees in Music and Journalism helped me find patterns. Ten years consulting and lecturing in Universities and multi-national corporations forced me to logical explanations. Finally, a 3-year project comparing Engineering (TRIZ principles) and Biological Design complemented my research on the mechanics of creation in 11 disciplines and led to a map of ‘how-all-things-create’. This project was voted ‘Nationally-leading and Internationally-competitive’ by referees from the UK government. The resulting ‘Innovation Map’ is at the core of what my company does. With 11 colleagues, I use it to spearhead and develop sustainable, bottom-up Innovation in corporations in US, Europe and Australia. Our public programme with NGO partners motivates young people to make a difference in the world. Nearly two thousand people have trained in the method and estimated billions of pounds worth of improvements have been made with our help. My book on ‘Innovation in the Mirror of the World’ will be finished in early 2010.
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Innovation Events Calendar
2010
July
18-22 July 2010
PICMET '10 Conference
Technology Management for Global Economic Growth
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
www.picmet.org
September
5-7 September 2010
11th International CINet Conference
Practicing innovation in times of discontinuity
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
www.continuous-innovation.net/Events/CINet2010/announcement.html
The conference is preceded by a PhD Workshop on 3 and 4 September
6-10 September 2010
TII Summer School
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
www.tii.org
15-17 September 2010
Baltic Dynamics 2010 - 15th Annual International Conference on Innovation
Knowledge Flow in Innovation System: from Idea to Action
Location: Riga, Latvia
www.balticdynamics.com
16-17 September 2010
ECIE 2010 - 5th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Location: Athens, Greece
academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2010/ecie10-home.htm
27 September - 1 October 2010
TII Innovation Tour to Quebec
Location: Quebec, Canada
www.tii.org/index2.php?sm=tii_en-8-upcoming_events&cat=6&idnews=201004280001
October
13-14 October 2010
World Congress Leadership Summit
Creating Global Disruptive Business Innovations
Location: Boston, MA, USA
www.worldcongress.com/innovation
Save $200 with promo code JYF978, not applicable to government registration
20-21 October 2010
Optimizing Innovation 2010
Location: New York City, USA
www.connecting-group.com/Web/EventOverview.aspx?Identificador=13
20-22 October 2010
The Triple Helix VIII Conference
Triple Helix in the Development of Cities of Knowledge, Expanding Communities and Connecting Regions
Location: Madrid, Spain
www.triplehelix8.org
22-23 October 2010
The 24h of Innovation
Location: Estia - Biarritz, France
www.24h.estia.fr/index.php?lang=en
December
12-15 December 2010
The 3rd ISPIM Innovation Symposium
Managing the Art of Innovation: Turning Concepts into Reality
Location: Quebec City, Canada
www.symposium.ispim.org
2011
June
12-15 June 2011
The XXII ISPIM Conference
Sustainability in Innovation: Innovation Management Challenges
Location: Hamburg, Germany
www.conference.ispim.org
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The next edition of ISPIM News will be published in September 2010. Please send all contributions to newsletter@ispim.org by 1st September 2010.
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