Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Innovation and Innovation Management

This minitrack addresses issues at the crossroads of Technology, Markets and Firms.  We invite new models of both theory and practice in innovation and innovation management. We are particularly interested in studies and research that show how technology was a key enabler for the creation of market and business innovations. We are very interested in panels and tutorials that can present recent examples that highlight both theory and practice in Innovation and Innovation Management.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
Models of innovation for
* Technology innovation
* Market innovation
* Business innovation

Theory of innovation
* Analytical models
* Empirical models

Practices in Innovation
* Case studies in innovation
* Enterprise innovation
* Product innovation

Service Innovation
* Key Challenges in Service Innovation
* Taxonomies in Service Innovation
* Role of Intellectual Property in Service Innovation

Innovation management
* Management of emerging technologies
* Management of new business creation
* Management of innovation within enterprises
* Creating and maintaining an innovation culture
* Successful idea generation and management tools and techniques
* Innovation culture measurements and incentives

Innovation across national and organizational boundaries
* Across multiple companies within the same country
* Across multiple sites within the same company spread across multiple countries
* Across multiple sites within the same company spread across multiple countries
* Across multiple companies across national boundaries
* Creating an innovation ecosystem (partners, suppliers, influencers)
* Collaboration tools and techniques that enable innovation

Innovation Metrics
* Measuring innovation in products, processes, business models, culture, enterprises, ecosystems, society
* Measuring innovation ROI
* Innovation indexes

Innovation related education
* Service Sciences Management and Education
* Pedagogical models for imparting innovation training

Co-chairs:
Marko Torkkeli (Primary Contact)
Lappeenranta University of Technology
Kouvola Research Unit Prikaatintie 9, FI-45100 Kouvola, Finland
Fax: +358-5-3444009
Email: marko.torkkeli@lut.fi

Iain Bitran
The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM)
PO Box 18 , Worsley, Manchester M28 1XP , United Kingdom
Phone: +44-161-703-9411
Fax: +44-161-703-9412
Email: bitran@ispim.org
URL: www.ispim.org

Desai Narasimhalu
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
Singapore 259756
Phone: +65-6822-0914
Email:  desai@smu.edu.sg