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Join us for the PDW: ³Exploring Openness of Innovation: A Methodological Discourse², Saturday, Aug 8 2009, 2:50 PM - 4:20PM, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Addams

  • 1.  Join us for the PDW: ³Exploring Openness of Innovation: A Methodological Discourse², Saturday, Aug 8 2009, 2:50 PM - 4:20PM, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Addams

    Posted 07-10-2009 04:02
    Join us for the PDW: "Exploring Openness of Innovation: A Methodological Discourse" at this year's Academy of Management Meeting
    Saturday, Aug 8 2009, 2:50PM - 4:20PM,  Hyatt Regency Chicago, Addams
    sponsored by TIM & BPS Division

    While in recent years innovation worldwide has became one of the most popular buzzwords among academics, business people, consultants and politicians alike, the current financial and economic crisis might help us to find our way back to the roots and to the essence of innovation. Therefore, we call for a deeper exploration of what 'openness of innovation' means in times characterized by managing the unexpected. This proposal for a TIM Professional Development Workshop emphasizes the challenges of researching openness of innovation. We intend to start a methodological discourse among scholars who have a different focus of researching openness, who are trained in different disciplines, and who are at different stages of their academic career. We believe that such a heterogeneous setting of scholars will allow for deep insights into the field. In particular, it is the aim of the proposed workshop to be provocative and to go beyond the well-known textbook knowledge of what it means to explore openness of innovation. To do so, we will ask the participants to share with the audience their knowledge and very personal experience and insights from a methodological perspective, which they have gained while researching openness of innovation This PDW will be developmental for its participants as we hope that the workshop experience and discussion will highlight the importance of exploring openness of innovation, and illustrate the possibilities for methodological approaches towards this fascinating phenomenon. The more specific takeaways of the workshops are: Exploring openness of innovation and gaining methodological insights how this phenomenon can be studied from different, nevertheless still integrative, perspectives.
     
    Excited? Pre-registration is encouraged, but you are also kindly invited to contact Anne-Katrin Neyer (anne-katrin.neyer@wiso.uni-erlangen.de  if you are interested in participating.

    Best regards and apologies for any cross-postings,
    Anne-Katrin Neyer, Kathrin Möslein & Frank Piller


    Dr. Anne-Katrin Neyer
    Information Systems I - Innovation & Value Creation
    Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
    Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany

    Tel.: +49 (0)911 5302 264
    Fax:  +49 (0)911 5302 155
    anne-katrin.neyer@wiso.uni-erlangen.de
    www.wi1.uni-erlangen.de