The R&D Management Conference 2009

 

'The reality of R&D and its impact on innovation'

Vienna, 21-24 June 2009

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Invitation to participate - abstracts and presentation outlines to be submitted by 31 January

The R&D Management Conference 2009 will be held in collaboration with the ISPIM Conference in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Vienna. There will be separate selection processes, programmes and proceedings for each conference. The registration fee will allow participation in both conferences.

The theme can be interpreted in three ways. Papers and presentations are invited on any of the following: the reality of R&D; the impact of R&D on innovation; how the reality of R&D is impacting innovation.

You can submit proposals for: research papers; academic perspectives; industry perspectives; discussion / workshop topics. Proposals should be submitted before 31 January. Full papers for selected abstracts are required by 30 April. Industry and academic perspectives can be based on presentation files with optional full papers (to be included in the proceedings these should also be uploaded before 30 April.)

More background on the theme is provided in the pdf file. 'Invitation to participate'

Please submit (and review) the status of your proposals via www.conferencesubmissions.com.

Please email theorganisers@TheRnDManagementConference.org if you have any questions about the conference.


Advanced Workshops in R&D Management

Advanced workshops are being organised to advance the state of the art and to strategically develop publications in the R&D Management journal.

A workshop on knowledge integration was recently organised in Linkoping, Sweden and will lead to the development of revised and new papers for a Special Issue.

Workshop, Madrid, February 2009:

International R&D cooperation with Latin America

A Workshop is being organised in Madrid in February 2009 to develop R&D management research networks with Latin America. As well as papers about international co-operations with Latin America the outcomes will include the planning of a second workshop to be held in Latin America in June 2009, and a future conference on R&D management. Interested participants should contact Antonio Hidalgo (RnDManagement_LA@etsii.upm.es).

Future workshops

Events are being planned on 'R&D and innovation in medical technologies' (Italy, early Summer 2009) and 'the fusion of art, science and technology' (Germany, November 2009).

If you are interested to participate in these topic areas or would like to discuss topics for future workshops, please contact Jeff Butler, editor of R&D Management journal (RnDManagement@mbs.ac.uk) or email workshops@TheRnDManagemntConference.org.

 

The R&D Management journal

Two Special Issues of the journal are in progress on 'outsourcing R&D' (editors Juliana Hsuan and Volke Mahnke) and 'open R&D and innovation' (editors Henry Chesbrough, Ellen Enkel and Oliver Gassmann).