Call for Papers
The Tilburg Conference on Innovation:
Innovation at the Intersection of Strategy, Organization and Learning
JUNE 10-12, 2010
Center for Innovation Research (CIR)
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Successful innovation is fundamentally about the discovery, use and
commercialization of new products, processes and services. Organizations
engage in innovation in order to enhance their performance; those that fail
to innovate run the risk of losing out to those that do. But innovation as
such does not guarantee competitive success, as the degree to which firms
are able to benefit from their innovative efforts varies widely. This
conference aims to explore the drivers and consequences of this
heterogeneity.
Innovation strategy involves a number of decisions regarding the nature and
type of innovations to engage in, as well as the speed, openness, and
flexibility with which the organizations respond to challenges.
Additionally, organizations experience a tension between routine and
innovation, which implies that they need to balance the resources dedicated
to explorative and to exploitative projects. In many respects, issues
related to innovation strategy are inseparable from those related to the
organization of innovation activities.
To begin with, organizations face issues regarding the governance of
innovation activities: whether to develop know-how in-house, in
collaboration with other organizations, or to outsource it. Additionally,
how organizations manage their portfolio of innovation activities and
organize the innovation process is critical for success. The timeliness and
successful commercialization of innovations are especially important. In
this sense, insight into organizational learning processes in innovative
projects and organizations is also crucial to understanding their innovative
performance.
Hence, the central theme of this conference will deal with innovation at the
intersection of strategy, organization and learning. The Tilburg Conference
on Innovation, hosted by the Center for Innovation Research at Tilburg
University, is a forum in which scholars from intersecting research streams
will come together to debate current research and gain insights into future
trends. This will be a small conference with a maximum of 45 papers so that
participants have the opportunity to receive quality feedback. Our aim is to
include participants from all over the world and to give equal opportunity
to younger as well as established scholars, with quality of research being
the predominant goal.
We invite both theoretical and empirical papers that predominantly, though
not exclusively, reflect some of the following issues:
* What organizational capabilities are needed to deploy and govern
innovative activities effectively, especially in fast-changing environments
and across great distances?
* How does organizational structure affect the learning inputs and
outcomes involved in innovation?
* In what ways do networks of organizations contribute to the
development of innovations?
* How do institutional forces affect the innovative performance of
organizations?
Any other contributions pertaining to innovation strategy, organization of
innovation and organizational learning for innovation are also welcome.
There is no registration fee, and presenting authors will have their
accommodation covered during their stay. An added attraction of the
conference is the opportunity to visit the southern Netherlands in spring
and sample the best local beers Belgium and the Netherlands have to offer.
Confirmed speakers/special guests include:
Bart Nooteboom Will Mitchell Andrew van de Ven
Deborah Dougherty Terry Amburgey Joe Lampel
Gino Cattani Arjen van Witteloostuijn
Submission process: Please submit a full paper to
cir@uvt.nl by February 15,
2010. The authors of selected papers will be notified by March 15, 2010.
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Dr.Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan
Center for Innovation Research
Operations Manager
Tilburg University
Warandelaan 2
P.O.Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
e-mail:
cir@uvt.nl
phone: +31 13 466 3057
www.tilburguniversity.nl/cir/people/
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