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	Lecture	Methodological focus	Theme and topics
Monday 20 April 2009	Harry Boer	Research design	Continuous innovation - challenges and dualities Designing continuous innovation research
Afternoon	Harry Boer		Student presentations and assignment
Tuesday 21 April 2009	Bjørge Laugen	Surveys Case studies	Survey-based continuous innovation theory development Techniques and approaches for generating survey instruments. Surveys: what, when, how? Combining survey research and case studies – closing the research cycle. Building and extending innovation theory from survey data
Afternoon	Bjørge Laugen Carmen Kobe		Student presentations and assignment
Wednesday 22 April 2009	Carmen Kobe	Case studies Action research	Implementing innovative capability Implementing innovation and creativity Transfer of research results Synergies and differences between research and consulting
Afternoon	Carmen Kobe Mariano Corso		Student presentations and assignment
Thursday 23 April 2009	Mariano Corso	Case studies Action research	Knowledge management 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 and assignment
Friday 24 April 2009	Mats Magnusson	Case studies Action research	Collaborative innovation research
Noon	Closure