Creating & Capturing Value through R&D Management and Innovation
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The aim of The R&D Management Conference 2012 is to comprehensively explore how 21st century organizations will create, capture and deliver value. To achieve this objective, we welcome papers from a broad range of scientific communities and industrial sectors. Papers should illuminate the implications and opportunities for R&D management and innovation and any requirements to advance either theory or practice.
- Submission of abstracts deadline: January 29, 2012
- Submission of full papers deadline : April 15, 2012
Papers will be evaluated for publication in Special Issues of the following journals, subject to the usual referee processes of each journal:
- R&D Management
- Technovation
- Prometheus Critical studies in innovation
- International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
- International Journal of Technology Management
Theme Background
Value creation and competitive advantage are primary objectives for many organizations. Achieving sufficient return on research, development and innovation investments has always been a difficult management challenge. New ways of justifying investments are emerging and industries and science organizations must adjust accordingly. During the 21st century the scientific, technological and business methods to predict and ensure value creation will become increasingly complex and sophisticated. On one side, NEST – New and Emerging Science and Technology – holds the promise of transformative innovation on which new industries can be based. On the other side, market and stakeholder expectations continue to expand. New business models and indeed new industry structures are emerging whilst old structures start to crumble. Environmental issues, sustainability, ethics, corporate social responsibility, new patterns of international competition, new kinds of social and financial institutions and governance, technological maturity, industry decline and disruptive innovation, all introduce constraints and opportunities for new approaches. Meanwhile, continuing with existing methods in existing industries presents a necessary and valuable responsibility.
Presentation Topics
TOPICS |
EXAMPLES |
Organizing exploration activities |
Advanced R&D, Experimentation, Exploratory innovation, Scenario methods |
Unlocking perspectives for value creation |
Non-for-profit initiatives, Base Of the Pyramid, New routes to create value, New dimensions of value (meaning, symbolic…) |
Creating technological values and appropriating returns |
Patents, Patent pooling, Licensing & Royalties, Complementary technologies, Alliances, Business models, Open innovation… |
Technological entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship |
Exploiting R&D, Corporate venturing, Principal investigator, Academic entrepreneur … |
New logics in the Health industry |
Entry of new actors, Changing business model, Building on new paradigms… |
R&D management in the Energy sector |
New ways to produce, Product, Process and Service Innovation to better manage energy… |
Managing innovation in Nanotechnology |
Expectations, New challenges, , Hybridization of technologies, Skills, Risk management … |
Innovation networks and communities |
Innovators networks, User-driven innovation communities, Knowledge clusters… |
Financing R&D and innovation today & tomorrow |
venture capital, microcredit, hedge funds business angels, R&D grants, public policies, international comparisons, |
Value interactions between Marketing and R&D |
Design methods, New dimensions of market-orientation, Early marketing… |
Governance structures & social innovation |
Managing relationships with stakeholders, Organizing CSR & ethics… |
Innovation & Integration in value & supply chains |
Interfacing manufacturing and R&D, cost innovation, process innovation, information systems… |
Topics not included elsewhere |
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Doctoral Researchers Workshop
PhD and DBA students are welcome to submit research papers that fit the conference topics.
Or they can participate in the doctoral workshop to be organized during the conference.
The Workshop will provide a special opportunity for PhD and DBA students to introduce their research ideas and obtain constructive feedback from leading researchers and research fellows.
The workshop topic should also comply with the main theme of the conference; two types of contributions will be possible:
- A poster presentation with text and graphics about your current research area
- A paper (15- 20 pages) referring to one of the above topics. Papers submitted to the workshop can explore original ideas, or be based on literature review; it is not compulsory that they refer to completed empirical work.
Please indicate clearly on your abstract if your paper should be considered for a conference session or the doctoral workshop.