ISPIM Conference on "Innovation for Growth: The Challenges for East & West"

Organised by The International Society for Professional Innovation Management and supported by Technology Partners Foundation, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management.

The conference will include dedicated academic and practitioner tracks as well as short paper presentations and workshops.

Conference Sub-themes:

- Culture and cultural differences/experiences and social behaviour
- Competitiveness
- Education and training in innovation
- Environment and sustainable development
- Learning and knowledge management
- Open innovation, organisations and virtuality
- Service innovations
- Technology, entrepreneurship and creativity

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Dan Kirsch
Chief Operating Officer & Board Member, KMPro, USA
How knowledge management, organizational strategy and performance metrics are used to foster and drive the right kind of innovation necessary to ensure organizational advancement/survival

Mike Southon
Best selling author of The Beermat Entrepreneur, the UK's best-selling business title. Owner of Beermat.biz an online resource for entrepreneurs and business people
Innovation on a Beermat: How to apply the "Beermat" methodology to your environment

Prof. Dr. Wim Vanhaverbeke
Professor of Strategy at Hasselt University, Belgium, Research Fellow at the Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies, The Netherlands and Director/Founder of OpenInnovation.eu
Open Innovation in European firms

Local speakers to be announced.

Important Deadlines:

- 31 December 2006: Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) or practitioner outlines
- 28 February 2007: Acceptance notification
- 30 April 2007: Final submissions & registrations

To book online visit http://www.ispim.org/conference(opens in new window)

To contact the conference secretariat, please email conference@ispim.org.