13th Young Academics Workshop 

11 September 2022, 13:30-17:00, Pisa, Italy 

Lego? Are you serious?!? Workshop designs for innovative scholar-practitioner collaboration

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About CIYA

The young academics workshop is organized by CIYA (Continuous Innovation Young Academics) and is conceived as a way to support the career development of young scholars in the field of continuous innovation by teaching and sharing with them major skills needed in an academic career. 

Target audience

The 2022 CINet Young Academics (CIYA) workshop is targeted at young academics such as assistant professors, post-doc researchers and PhD students in the last year of their studies, interested in strengthening their skills to design, program and manage a research program with high impact on multiple dimensions and maximizing the likelihood of being funded by public or private institutions, or companies. 

The challenges

In the first years of their academic life, scholars are often called to change the way their research life is planned and conducted. During their PhD studies, young scholars acquire skills to design and conduct rigorous and relevant research projects. However, when the stage of their post-doctoral research career life begins, new challenges arise related to:

• Identifying and seizing funding opportunities for supporting their research at local, national, and international level.
• Designing research programs that are rigorous and relevant and that can be funded by public or private institutions, or companies, and at the same time produce a stream of scientific publications in top scientific journals.
• Gaining visibility in the community of business leaders through the outcomes of their research.
• Transferring the outcomes of their research in teaching activities, in all the segments of university education, from bachelor programs to executive education, in a way that is engaging and pragmatic, and produces actionable knowledge for managers and policy makers. 

The workshop 

The theme and program of the 2022 workshop is “Lego? Are you serious?!? Workshop designs for innovative scholar-practitioner collaboration.” The workshop will be hosted and conducted by Sophie Petzolt and Melanie Wiener, who conducted scholar-practitioner collaboration to gather data for their PhDs. They will share their experience – pitfalls, fostering factors, and further insights– with us and present ways how one can benefit the corporate partners but also own research. The setting is interactive, and you will get the possibility to learn and try out tools suitable for innovative scholar-practitioner collaboration. In addition, Prof. Katharina Hölze, former editor in chief and senior advisor of Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, will provide us insights on how to get scholar-practitioner collaboration research published.

The faculty