Call for Papers

Please note the new deadline for submitting abstracts: February 25, 2005!!

• About CINet

The Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) is a global network set up to bring together researchers and industrialists working in the field of Continuous Innovation. CINet is a continuation of the European Continuous Improvement Network, which was established in 1994.

The mission of CINet is to develop into a school of thought on continuous innovation.

The network pursues this mission by, first of all, studying continuous innovation as the ongoing process of initiating, developing, operating and improving new and existing configurations of products, market approaches, processes, technologies and competencies, organisation and management systems. As organisations strive to achieve a synergistic balance between short-term oriented, operationally-effective exploitation strategies and longer-term, innovation-oriented exploration strategies, the rapid growth of the global knowledge economy has placed learning at the centre of this critical balance.

Consistent with its mission, CINet organises an annual conference. This call for papers concerns the 5 th CINet conference. Furthermore, CINet promotes a PhD Network to foster research collaboration among PhD students and their institutions on topics of interest to CINet. As part of that initiative, an annual Doctoral Seminar on Research in Continuous Innovation is organised. The next seminar will take place in May 2006.

• The 6th CINet Conference

Continuous innovation is the ongoing process of initiating, developing, operating and improving new and existing configurations of products, market approaches, processes, technologies and competencies, organisation and management systems. As organisations strive to achieve a synergistic balance between short-term oriented, operationally-effective exploitation strategies and longer-term, flexibility-oriented exploration strategies, the rapid growth of the global knowledge economy has placed learning at the centre of this critical balance.

• Theme and Tracks

The theme of the 6th CINet conference is " Continuous Innovation - (Ways of) Making Things Happen ".
Papers addressing the following tracks are invited:

Ways of enabling effective innovation.
Managing discontinuous innovation.
Inter-organisational innovation.
Complex systems innovation.
Lessons from the world of practice (practitioners stream).
Future challenges for innovation management.
Innovation and sustainability.
Developing national, regional and local innovation systems.
Continuous improvement and learning.
Organising for continuous innovation - new directions.

• Key note speakers

One of the key note speaker at the conference will be Yves Doz. Yves Doz is a professor of Business Strategy and the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD. He has served as Dean of Executive Education (1999-2002) and Associate Dean for Research and Development (1990-1995), at which time he led the Management of Technology and Innovation programme at INSEAD, a multi-disciplinary effort involving some 20 faculty members and researchers which ran from 1987 to 1994.

Besides Yves Doz delegates will hear from business leader, Emily Aiken, who has been instrumental in the development and growth of new media in Brighton and the South-East and until recently headed Wired Sussex, the business development agency for the sector.

Venture capitalist Gerry Lemberg, who has successfully supported innovative companies in the digital media sector, will outline how combining innovation and entrepreneurship is central in securing funding for good ideas.

• PhD Workshop

The CINet PhD workshop offers the PhD students a unique possibility to present and discuss their research in an inspiring academic community of fellow PhD students and experienced researchers as part of the CINet community. The PhD workshop will provide an opportunity to receive feedback from and exchange comments and views with regard to their research.
The PhD workshop will start an Saturday 3 September 2005 and end the afternoon at the last conference day with meetings during the conference.

For more information on the PhD Workshop please check the PhD Workshop page.

• Who should attend?

Practitioners, academics and consultants involved in managing or studying innovation and change are invited to submit papers relevant to the conference theme and the various tracks listed above, or simply register for conference attendance to gain access to leading research outcomes in this key area.

• Submissions

1.	Abstracts of up to 800 words should be sent electronically to the conference secretariat (j.m.visser-groeneveld@utwente.nl) before February 25, 2005. The abstract should address theoretical and empirical background, research objective, problem and questions, methodology and results in terms of contribution to theory and managerial practice. Please also note the following:
	•	The name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax and e-mail of the author(s) as well as an indication of the corresponding author, should be placed on a separate page, along with the title of the abstract.
	•	Please also include three keywords, and
	•	the conference track in which the paper should fit best.
	Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent by March 31, 2005.
2.	Full papers of not more than 12 pages are due at the conference secretariat (j.m.visser-groeneveld@utwente.nl) not later than June 15, 2005. Please ensure you follow the paper guidelines. A paper template following this format is also available for download.

• Proceedings and Publication

All the papers presented at the conference will appear in the proceedings, in the form of a CD-ROM and a book of abstracts, and distributed to the conference participants. Selected papers, based upon a peer-review, will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM). The publication of one other conference special is being considered.

Conference Organisation

• Organising Committee

Professor John Bessant
Cranfield University
Email: john.bessant@cranfield.ac.uk

Dr. David Francis
CENTRIM, University of Brighton
Email: d.l.francis@brighton.ac.uk

• Academic Advisory Board

Prof. Harry Boer	Aalborg University	Denmark
Prof. Ross Chapman	University of Western Sydney	Australia
Dr. Mariano Corso	Politecnico di Milano	Italy
Prof. Paul Hyland	Central Queensland University	Australia
Prof. Mats Magnusson	Chalmers University Luiss Guido Carli University Rome	Sweden Italy
Prof. Howard Rush	CENTRIM, Univesity of Brighton	United Kingdom

Key dates

Activity	Date
Conference
Abstract submission	February 25, 2005
Review decisions sent to contributors	March 31, 2005
Full paper submission	June 15, 2005
*PhD Workshop*
Application PhD Workshop	May 30, 2005
Notification of acceptance or rejection PhD Workshop	June 30, 2005
Submission short paper	August 5, 2005

Programme overview

A preliminary programme is available for download.

Registration & Fees

• Fee

CINet members	€ 450
Non CINet members (Includes CINet membership for one year)	€ 550
PhD Students	€ 450

The conference fee includes all the conference materials, including the proceedings. For PhD students taking part in the conference, participation in the PhD Workshop is free.

• Registration

To register please download the registration form and send it to Jeannette Visser by email or by fax. For contact information please see below.

Please note: If you do not receive a confirmation of your registration (whether you sent it by email or by fax) please send an email to jeannette.visser@gmail.com.

Practicalities

• Location

The conference will be hosted by CENTRIM. CENTRIM is a research-based school at the University of Brighton currently celebrating fifteen years of research in technology and innovation management. During this time CENTRIM has grown from a small unit located within a teaching faculty, to become an established centre within the University, with a staff of over twenty full- and part-time researchers and administrators, as well as a growing number of postgraduate students and KTP associates.

CENTRIM is situated in The Freeman Centre on the campus of the University of Sussex.

• Accommodation

The following three hotels are recommended:

Hotel	Price indication
The Old Ship Hotel	€ 100
Thistle Hotel Brighton	€ 180
IDS	€ 50

For bookings in "The Old Ship Hotel" please send an email to: oldshipreservations@paramount-hotels.co.uk instead of booking through their website (booking through their website is much more expensive).

Alternatively you could contact the local council's accommodation finding service (free of charge):

Conference Delegate Accommodation Bureau
Brighton and Hove Council,
Brighton Town Hall,
PO Box 2929,
Brighton,
BN1 1PS
Tel. +44 1273 292626
Fax: +44 1273 292617

Email: accom.bureau@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Please note that participants have to book the hotel themselves.

• Travelling information

Brighton is within easy reach from London Gatwick Airport, offering many direct European and international connections. Flying via London Heathrow Airport is also possible.

More information:

• Conference secretariat

Mrs. Jeannette Visser-Groeneveld
School of Business , Public Administration and Technology
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
THE NETHERLANDS
Phone: + 31 53 4894533
Fax: + 31 53 5362143
E-mail: j.m.visser@sms.utwente.nl

Please note: Currently we are having severe and long lasting email problems at our university, due to hackers. If your mail does not come through or if you did not receive a reply to your message, please use the following email address: jeannette.visser@gmail.com. !!!