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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (PDMA)
Call for 2012 Dissertation Proposal Competition
in New Product Development and Innovation Management
** Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012**
The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) announces the call
for its 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition. The aim of the
competition is to foster academic research on innovation and new product
development and encourage close ties between the academic and corporate
worlds. Applicants may propose research on any aspect of the development,
commercialization, or management of new products/services or innovation.
Dissertation proposals that cross functional lines, involve multiple
research disciplines, or make substantial advancement to our knowledge in
the field are particularly encouraged.
Benefits to Winner
Winners of the competition will receive the following benefits:
A cash award of $2,500.
Access to the PDMA membership mailing list to collect data for research,
if needed.
Exposure to the academic community, when the winner makes a presentation
of his or her results at the Academic Research Forum of the PDMA
International Conference - a condition of winning the competition (an
additional $1,000 towards travel costs to attend the PDMA conference is
provided). The conference provides an excellent networking opportunity with
both academics and practitioners. For information on the conference, please
visit:
www.pdma.org
A one-year membership to the PDMA, which includes subscriptions to the
Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM) and Visions magazine, PDMAs
practitioner publication.
Evaluation Process
Proposals will be evaluated in a double-blind review process by experts in
product development and innovation. Reviewers will judge the proposals
against traditional academic standards and the feasibility of completion in
a timely manner.
Conditions for Submission
1. Applicants must be Ph.D. candidates in any field related to new
product/service development or innovation management.
2. Proposals must have already been approved by the students committee. The
applicant must append a letter from his/her committee chair or department
head confirming acceptance of the proposal.
3. The grant from the competition is intended to support the recipients
dissertation research. Thus, only those dissertations that will not be
completed prior to October 31, 2012 should be submitted to the competition.
4. The proposal should be submitted electronically as a Word or PDF file. It
should be formatted double spaced, in 12 point font or larger, with at least
a 1 margins on all sides. The proposal must not exceed 20 pages in length,
including abstract, text, references, figures, and tables. References,
figures, and tables should follow the guidelines for authors of Journal of
Product Innovation Management.
Deadline
The proposal with the letter from the committee chair must be received no
later than June 1, 2012.
Address
Please send your proposal to Professor Charles Noble, PDMA Vice President of
Academic Affairs (
cnoble@utk.edu).
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