Dear Colleagues from all over the world,
If you are attending this year's Academy of Management conference and have an interest in Open Innovation, join us at our PDW on Researching Open Innovation.
Whether you are deeply involved in Open Innovation research or just beginning to explore the topic in your research, this PDW is a great opportunity to connect with a strong OI community and engage in insightful discussions with scholars from diverse research communities and at different career stages.
No prior experience with Open Innovation is needed, just an open mind and a strong willingness to share!
When: Friday, July 25, 2025, from 8.30 AM- 12.30PM CEST
Where: Bella Center in Auditorium 11
The workshop is open to all but to help us plan and match you with a roundtable aligned with your interests, we encourage you to register by June 25, 2025 here: https://tinyurl.com/ybfk2dbt.
If you also want to participate to the feedback session on extended abstracts, please, register by June 15, 2025.
We're looking forward to seeing many of you in in the wonderful Copenhagen!
Best Regards,
Agnieszka, Marcel, Justyna, Ginevra, Veronika, Cristina, Gianlorenzo, Mehdi
PDW Organizers
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Researching Open Innovation: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Settings for Future Research (10045)
This PDW is sponsored by TIM division
Organizers:
Agnieszka Radziwon - U. of California, Berkeley & SDU., Marcel Bogers - Eindhoven U. of Technology, Justyna Dabrowska - School of Management, RMIT U., Ginevra Assia Antonelli - Luiss U., Veronika Kentošová - Aarhus U., Cristina Marullo - Politecnico di Torino, Gianlorenzo Meggio - Aarhus U. & U. of California, Berkeley, Mehdi Montakhabi - Vrije U. Brussel
Facilitators:
Allan N Afuah - U. of Michigan, Ekaterina Albats - LUT U., Esteve Almirall - ESADE Business School, Mehdi Bagherzadeh - NEOMA Business School, Kirsimarja Blomqvist - LUT Business School, Muthu De Silva - Birkbeck, U. of London , Alberto Di Minin - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Lars Frederiksen - MGMT, BSS, Aarhus U., Annabelle Gawer - U. of Surrey, Marcus Holgersson - Chalmers U. of Technology, Keld Laursen - Copenhagen Business School (Department of Strategy and Innovation), M. Isabella Leone - Luiss U., Qinli Lu - INSEAD, Arjan Markus - Eindhoven U. of Technology, Kathrin Moeslein - Friedrich-Alexander U. of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lukas Moschko - Robert Bosch GmbH / RWTH Aachen University, Susanne Ollila - Chalmers U. of Technology, Marion Kristin Poetz - Copenhagen Business School, Krithika Randhawa - U. Of Sydney, Deborah Roberts - U. of York, Henry Sauermann - ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Ioana Stefan - Mälardalen U.., Anne L.J. Ter Wal - Imperial College Business School, Wim Vanhaverbeke - U. of Antwerp, Sunny Mosangzi Xu - Copenhagen Business School, Ann-Kristin Zobel - University of St.Gallen
Schedule:
1) Introduction to the PDW
2) Keynote by Prof. Keld Laursen
3) Roundtable discussions
4) Extended abstracts feedback session ("by acceptance" only)
5) Informal post-PDW gathering
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Open innovation (OI) is a management concept that describes the purposive management of knowledge flows across organizational boundaries. It has attracted significant attention from management researchers and has been studied using a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. At the same time, researchers in a growing number of disciplines and divisions are attracted to this domain. And while our understanding of OI is generally increasing, many challenges in researching OI remain and new ones emerge.
As we approached the third decade of Open Innovation, this year's PDW at the Academy of Management marks its eleventh edition. As this PDW continues to be a cornerstone for fostering knowledge exchange, and bridging theoretical insights with practical applications, this year, we will "delve deeper into the realm of OI," with a focus on four key domains: theory development in OI, novel methodologies for researching OI, OI phenomena, and OI practice. As always, this PDW gathers many very experienced and active scholars conducting research related to OI. These scholars will share and build on their experiences in researching OI to identify some key challenges and associated opportunities to help advance research in this domain. The facilitators will first discuss these challenges, which cover a broad range of levels of analysis, various theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches. They will then moderate roundtable discussions with interested participants and offer dedicated feedback to previously submitted extended abstracts, in the spirit of open and collaborative approach the OI scholarly domain.
The first version of this PDW was organized in 2014, and the earlier PDWs have resulted in a publication (with twenty-three involved authors) in Industry & Innovation https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068.
If you want to learn more about Open Innovation, make sure to check out the latest Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation = https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/56000 !
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Orlando Vazquez Villegas
Doctoral Researcher
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven
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