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                         Call for Papers

   The Tilburg Conference on Innovation:

        Recombining Innovation Research

 June 15-17, 2012

          Center for Innovation Research (CIR)

            Tilburg University

             The Netherlands

Innovation is a highly complex process in which managers juggle technical, organizational,

economic, social, and psychological aspects, each having distinct effects on innovation

inputs, processes, and outcomes. All these aspects are contingent on time and space and

affect the innovation process and outcomes at multiple levels. Due to this diversity of factors

and contingencies the field of innovation research is populated by scholars from many

disciplines studying a wide range of questions. While this richness is an asset, it can also

result in fragmentation and losing "the big picture" about how innovation unfolds in and

around organizations. Together, we will aim to build bridges between the various subfields,

topics and disciplines, with quality of research being the predominant goal.

Following the highly successful conference held in 2010, the second international conference

of the Center for Innovation Research at Tilburg University will bring together exemplary

scholars who study how innovation relates with the strategy, organization, learning and

performance of corporate and other entities. We are open to a variety of theoretical

perspectives and welcome papers that incorporate various levels that can affect innovation

– e.g. nations, sectors, networks, clusters, single organizations, business units, teams or

individuals – as long as the papers recognize and contribute to the understanding of

innovation as an organizational phenomenon. We are looking mainly for empirical papers,

but strong, forward-looking theoretical contributions are also welcome. Please join us for

two days of intensive discussion and dialogue in the lush atmosphere of "De Rosep" resort.

The conference will take place at the Rosep Resort that also offers ample possibility for

accommodation. We encourage all conference participants to stay at the conference venue

due to co-location benefits and scarcity of alternative hotels nearby. 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. For all conference information,

see the conference website:

www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/cir/conferences/june2012.

Confirmed speakers/special guests include:

Dan Levinthal,  Will Mitchell, Andrew van de Ven, Joe Lampel

Submission process:

Please submit a full paper to cir@uvt.nl by February 15, 2012.

The authors of selected papers will be notified by March 30, 2012.