Programme
The seminar features a combination of faculty teaching and student presentations, plenary sessions, and small-group work. The program is highly interactive and includes ample opportunity for exploring emerging themes in continuous innovation, related theory and methodology, background and seminal contributions.
Each morning a specific topic, a related challenge and relevant methodological issues will be addressed based on the lecturer's own research. During the afternoon, the students will discuss their own and others’ work in view of the topics addressed in the morning.
The provisional program is structured as follows:
| Date |
Lecturer |
Theme and topics |
Monday
31 March 2008 |
Harry Boer |
Continuous innovation – challenges and dualities |
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- Designing continuous innovation research
|
Afternoon |
Harry Boer
Paul Hyland |
Student presentations |
Tuesday
1 April 2008 |
Paul Hyland |
Emerging themes in continuous innovation |
| |
|
- Techniques and approaches for generating survey instruments. How do we know what we don't know?
- Surveys: what, when, how?
- Questionnaire design: Surveys are not questionnaires …
- Building and extending innovation theory from survey data
|
Afternoon |
Paul Hyland
Mariano Corso |
Student presentations |
Wednesday
2 April 2008 |
Mariano Corso |
Knowledge management |
|
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- New challenges: Community management – The TIM case
- Knowledge management theory development through case studies and action research
- Buckmann Laboratories
|
Afternoon |
Mariano Corso
Mats Magnusson |
Student presentations |
Thursday
3 April 2008 |
Mats Magnusson |
Collaborative innovation research |
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- Designing collaborative research projects and programs
- Knowledge creation in collaborative research
- Generating useful and usable theory
|
Afternoon |
Mats Magnusson
Carmen Kobe |
Student presentations |
Friday
4 April 2008 |
Carmen Kobe |
Implementing innovation processes |
| |
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- Implementing innovation and creativity
- Transfer of research results
- Synergies and differences between research and consulting
|
|
Harry Boer
Carmen Kobe |
Closure |
Preparation
A full list of mostly compulsory and some elective preparatory reading in the area of continuous innovation will be sent to the participants in due time before the seminar.
