IRNOP ⅧPROJECT RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Projects in Innovation,Innovation in Projects
September 19-21,2007
Brighton,UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for abstracts(1500-2000words)-15 December,2006
Leading businesses around the world increasingly use projects to drive strategy and innovation. A recent cross-sectoral survey of 200 firms from thirty countries by consultants PWC examined how companies were using projects in their business. These 200 companies were running a total of 10,640 projects a year worth in excess of US$4.5 billion. Over a quarter of this sample were running more than 100 projects each year. Moreover, the survey revealed great diversity in the usage of projects as an organizational form，both in revenue-earning work and in organizational change. 73% of the firms had projects to implement IT change initiatives; 57% of firms had performance improvement projects;49% were conducting software development projects;45% had projects for new product development;43% for strategy deployment;31% for construction(31%) and 15% for research.
Each of these types of projects could be said to relate to innovation in some way – either technological, business or organizational innovation. The central theme of IRNOP Ⅷ is the link between projects and innovation.
We welcome submission of research papers within this general theme of innovation, both in relation to the role of projects in innovation (taken broadly to include not simply technological innovation, but organizational innovation and other forms of innovation) and the role of innovation and innovative approaches within projects, The following is not an exhaustive list but might be considered illustrative of the range of topics we are interested in:
Developing project capabilities – how do firms develop and change their project capabilities and competencies to enable them to be innovative? How can firms learn from previous projects to improve future project performance?
Organising and managing projects in an era of ‘open’ innovation - innovation projects may require novel and evolving relationships with a large number of external actors whose ideas may be bought, licensed, or else are freely revealed. How are contractual and relational issues dealt with in such inter-organisational collaborations?
Innovation in project management: what new approaches have been developed towards the management of projects beyond a tools and techniques view of project management? How do these approaches vary for different types of projects?
Outlaw innovation – Innovation often requires rules to be broken. Informal/unofficial approaches to innovation such as skunkworks and bootleg innovation have been seen in the past but firms are now seeking to exploit the innovations that emerge from the often illegal activities of a particular form of user – the hacker (in the original usage of the term to refer to individuals who modify computer hardware and software). What evidence of such outlaw innovation is emerging in the 21st century?
Paper submission and review process
We invite submissions of abstracts(1500-2000 words) by December 15,2006. Abstracts will be blind reviewed by two members of the review team. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper based on the reviewers’ comments. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper is expected to register for and attend the conference.
Abstracts and papers should be submitted in MS Word format with a cover page showing the title of the paper, affiliation, and contact details( full address and e-mail) of the corresponding author. No author information should be included on the following pages of the abstract or paper.
Abstracts should be sent by email to: t.m.brady@bton.ac.uk
Important deadlines:
Abstracts by December 15,2006
Post review responses sent back to authors by February 15,2007
Full papers by April 15,2007
Results from review of full papers: June 15, 2007
Final version of revised papers: July 31, 2007
Organising Committee
Dr Tim Brady, CENTRIM University of Brighton
Prof. Mike Hobday, SPRU, University of Sussex
Steve Flowers, CENTRIM University of Brighton
Dr Andrew Davies, Innovation Studies Centre, Imperial College, London
Dr Jonas Soderlund, University of Linkoping, Sweden
Location of the conference
The conference will be located in the Freeman Centre on the University of Sussex Campus outside Brighton, in the South of England. The Freeman Centre is home to two leading UK Research Institutes in the field of Innovation – SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) and CENTRIM (Centre for Research on Innovation Management). Built with Government funding, the Freeman Centre was specifically designed to provide a stimulating environment for academic research in the 21st century.
Information on the conference will be posted on http://www.irnop.org
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