The 3rd ISPIM Innovation Symposium - Managing the Art of Innovation: Turning Concepts into Reality - will be held in Quebec City, Canada on 12-15 December 2010. Organised by ISPIM and hosted by INO, a leading non-profit R&D center in Optics/Photonics in Canada, this symposium will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The symposium format will include facilitated themed sessions for academic and practitioner presentations together with interactive workshops and discussion panels. Additionally, the symposium will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local French Canadian culture.

Innovation is of all ages, industries and countries. By systematically analyzing innovation processes we have learned a lot about effective innovation strategies. Out of the box thinking, portfolio management, open innovation, team diversity and many other innovation concepts have emerged. Explaining each of these is easy, applying them is much harder.

How to invent breakthrough products? How to determine the potential of a new technology for which no market yet exists? How to collaborate with other organisations without losing your own unique strengths? How to ensure that necessary, multiple perspectives are considered when creating new market offerings? The reality is that innovation is partly an art, but it is an art that organisations need to manage, and by doing so they turn innovation concepts into reality.

Submissions from academic, research, industry, intermediary and policy organisations are strongly encouraged and should focus on the following:

Collaboration for innovation
Culture and team management in innovation
Entrepreneurship and venturing
Innovation in SMEs
Innovation training & education
Methods and tools for innovation
Networks and clusters of innovation
Organisational creativity & idea generation
Public sector innovation and policy
Venture capital & financing innovation

Important Submission Deadlines:
12 September 2010: Outlines Only (All Submissions)
26 September 2010: Acceptance Notification
7 November 2010: Final Submissions (including papers, slides, profiles & photos) together with registration and payment
 

Symposium Publications:
All accepted submissions will be published in the Symposium Proceedings with an ISBN number. All outlines will appear in the Book of Abstracts with a separate ISBN number. All outlines are double-blind evaluated.

A Special Issue containing selected papers from this symposium will be published in ISPIM's official journal, The International Journal of Innovation Management, published by World Scientific and Imperial College Press.

The 3rd ISPIM Innovation Sympsoium website is: www.symposium.ispim.org

The Call for Papers can be downloaded from: www.symposium.ispim.org/files/ISPIM_Quebec_Call_for_papers.pdf

The Guidelines for Authors can be downloaded from: www.symposium.ispim.org/files/ISPIM_Guidelines_for_Authors_Conference.pdf

The Symposium Secretariat can be contacted at symposium@ispim.org

We look forward to welcoming you to Quebec City in December!

Best regards,

Iain

Iain Bitran
Executive Director

The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM)
PO Box 18, Worsley, Manchester M28 1XP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44-161-703-9411
Fax: +44-161-703-9412
Mobile: +44-771-326-1006
Email: bitran@ispim.org
Skype: ibitran
www.ispim.org

Impacts of Foresight

Special issue call for papers from Foresight

Guest Editors

Much has already been written on foresight methods and techniques. However, relatively little is known about the diverse types of impacts foresight project, process and knowledge creation and deployment results have had on:

• The attitudes, preparedness and knowledge base of policy makers; 
•  The content, reach and scope of policy outcomes; and,
• The policy development process generally in terms of how the application of foresight tools, techniques and longer term perspectives have been able to inform, change and add resilience or robustness to policy;

We are seeking case stories and analytical articles about how to improve the effectiveness of foresight as an input, shaper and contributor to the public discourse and media, and policy arena. These case studies can be either in specific domains such as innovation policy priorities, national energy choices, future trade opportunities, or as a precursor- provocateur to the policy research agendas of institutions and government organizations that are shaping the knowledge and factor frameworks that set the stage for senior policy makers. Further even the issue of what is defined as foresight success is not well understood.  The 2008 Seville FTA had a track on Foresight Impact but more is needed to understand this area. 

The purpose of this special edition will be to collect a series of cases, research studies and theory papers with thorough analyses that will allow us to better discuss the impacts of foresight and how to measure them. More specifically, papers are sought that look at how foresight studies have impacted public perceptions and government programs and policies, and why the impacts occurred. As well, papers on foresight failures, where the results did not impact public perception and government policy, are welcome but only if they point out the reasons for the failure. 

Subject Coverage

• Foresight success and failure case studies
• Assessments of how foresight tools have impacted policy development processed
• How foresight perspectives and time frames have altered or extended policy time parameters
• Methods to evaluate foresight effectiveness
• Theory on the impact of foresight
• Impact of foresight related communications on public attitudes and perceptions
• Critical success factors in foresight projects 

Notes for Prospective Authors

1. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
2. All papers will be refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Important Dates

Deadline for Abstracts: 1 November, 2010
Abstracts Accepted: 15 December, 2010
Papers Submitted: 1 April, 2011
Expected Publication Date: September-December, 2011

Editors and Notes

Prospective authors will be asked to submit an abstract. These should be no more than1000 words in length and should include the following:

• A description of the study (case, theory or research)
• Brief description of Foresight exercise and policy context being covered
• Main arguments used in the paper
• Summary of main conclusions

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Jonathan Calof
Telfer School of Management
University of Ottawa
55 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa ON  K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel: (613) 228-0509
Fax: (613) 562-5164
Email: calof@telfer.uottawa.ca;

and

Jack Smith
Telfer School of Management
University of Ottawa
55 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa ON  K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel: (613) 866-9768
Fax: (613) 562-5164
jesmith@telfer.uottawa.ca;

with a copy to:

Editor (Ozcan Saritas)
E-mail: OSaritas@emeraldinsight.com

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor

The Business of Design: Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Call for Chapters

Deadlines

Abstract submission: 1st June 2010
Draft chapter submission: 10th September 2010
Final chapter 31 January 2011

Introduction

This book is about creativity and entrepreneurialism in the context of design. It focuses on design businesses and the knowledge and understanding designers need in order to apply their ideas in business. The authors take an interdisciplinary approach, showing how design business innovation is based on strong competencies in creative design practice, combined with marketing and corporate strategy skills and an understanding of broader contexts such as culture, identity, sustainability and inclusivity.

Design matters because it has the potential to make a difference to how we live, what kind of society we live in and what kind of planet we inhabit. However, economic performance also matters and increasingly, wealth generation will depend on creativity, innovation and design. Creative design skills, a responsible and environmentally aware approach and a clear understanding of the market will be more significant than the recent model of low cost, volume production, long supply chains, unsustainable use of resources and exotic financial engineering. We need to think globally about markets and social, environmental and economic impact, while at the local level, design can help companies to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive global market.

Objectives of the Book

• To provide an essential textbook on business for design students, lecturers and practitioners, written from the perspective of designers.
• To challenge conventional views of design, using interdisciplinary approaches with a scope of subject matter which extends beyond traditional design specialisms and problems.
• To demonstrate the relationship between creativity, design, innovation and entrepreneurship via a broad range of case study examples.
• To show how successful design businesses combine creative, 'designerly' ways of thinking and working with analysis of strategic opportunities and market research, technical innovation and a reflective awareness of broader contexts.
• To enable designers to appreciate and use business strategy to become effective and responsible entrepreneurs or to move beyond a narrow design focus to play a more significant strategic role in their organisations.

Target Audience

Design students, teachers and practitioners interested in bridging the gap between design and business cultures. The book will also be highly relevant to students and practitioners in design management, design entrepreneurship and business management.

Recommended Topics

Chapters will address cross cutting themes and provide examples which illustrate these themes, via case studies. The Design Business in Action section chapter topics may be related to particular case studies or design areas. Examples of themes and case study topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Approaches to Design

•  Design thinking
•  Use of research in design process

Innovation, Management and Entrepreneurship

• Managing creativity: process, roles and models of working in design
•  Incubation and establishment of design businesses
•  Ownership, sharing and IP in differing business models
•  Microbusiness, remote collaboration and the global market

Design Business in Action

• The sustainable total product offering
• Innovating from waste: the supply chain and creative risk
• Fair trade production and creative partnerships
• Cultural identity and a sense of place in design brands
• Brand identity and authenticity
• Creating inclusive design: marketing strategy and consumer identity
• Targeting niche and subculture markets
• Participatory design and product development: empowerment in the design process
• Corporate strategies for customised design
• Gendered marketing
• Corporate competences in the creative industries
• Promoting the creative identity: craft marketing

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 2-3 page chapter proposal in Word. Authors will be notified by 25th June 2010 on the acceptance of their proposals. The final chapter will be c4-5,000 words long, supported by strong visual images and Harvard referencing.

Inquiries
Inquiries and submissions to:

Dr Emily Baines
Programme Leader: MA Design Innovation Faculty of Art & Design
Faculty of Art & Design De Montfort Universtiy
De Montfort University The Gateway
Leicester Leicester
LE1 9BH LE1 9BH
ebaines@dmu.ac.uk sbrown@dmu.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Brown
Director, Knowledge Media Design, De Montfort University
http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk <http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk/>
tel: 0116 257 7173
mob: 0787 246 3355
sbrown@dmu.ac.uk
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Distance Education, University of London
 

sLab and OCAD last year had a strong showing at BookCamp Toronto. Carlos Scolari presented great work alongside Steph Troeth of BookOven, Bob Logan and Peter Jones and I held a workshop, OCAD alum Ghazeleh Etezal presented... it was cool, and we all learned a lot about the future of reading, writing and publishing

Even cooler, the organizers are hosting it again on May 15, 2010
This year's theme: "After ebooks: We are going digital, now what?"
Location same as last year, U of Toronto's iSchool, north tower of Robarts Library (aka "Fort Book")

As you can see below, the OCAD Strategic Foresight and Innovation program are invited to pitch and have garnered the moniker, "esteemed group" (!)

In true camp fashion, all are welcome to propose into the wiki at http://bookcampto.pbworks.com/. However we might want to collect our thoughts and approach it as one or more cohorts, which is what we did last year. The site asks: "Do you want to lead a session at BookCampTO_2010? Add your name and session idea on the session page by April 7"

I plan to compare notes with Bob Logan regarding how we might want to discuss the "sBook" and welcome all interested parties who want to pitch or present collectively to connect with me and Bob.