Events

 Breakthrough Innovation 2010 - March 17 & 18, Barcelona
Breakthrough Innovation 2010 is the 2nd annual cross-industry event, organized by Connecting Group, which offers you the opportunity to absorb the secrets to success from experienced innovators from the most well-known and innovative companies, on the most up-to-date topics in the form of social networking activities, brainstorming sessions, talking circles, keynote case studies and insightful presentations.
 
On top of this exciting 2 day event, you will also be able to dine and relax deep in the heart of the stunning city of Barcelona. You will have a chance to unwind, discuss the topics from the day and make and enhance business connections in an informal setting.
 
Open Innovation Members benefit from a 10% discount on registration fees for BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION 2010! Please check out the Breakthrough Innovation website for further information.

October 2009

Strategic Symposium 2009 ‘Open Innovation – Let The World Enlighten You’ – October 22nd 2009, Tilburg, The Netherlands 

Every year study association Asset | TOP-DOWN organises the Strategic Symposium. The Strategic Symposium 2009 will take place on Thursday, October 22nd 2009 in the auditorium of Tilburg University. This year’s topic will be: ‘Open Innovation’.

For this day we are inviting students, company visitors and scientists alike. The day will consist of five lectures and an optional workshop for company visitors. The keynote speakers are Robert Kirschbaum (Vice President Innovation at DSM), Cees Admiraal (Director Acquisitions at High Tech Campus Eindhoven), Wouter van Schelt (Senior Consultant Innovation at Rijkswaterstaat), Dirk Kronemeijer (Vice President Innovation at KLM/Air France), and Andrew Gaule (CEO of H-I Network).

These keynote speakers will enlighten the visitors with their knowledge and experience with Open Innovation. Want to learn more? Click here to register today for the Strategic Symposium 2009!

Optimizing Innovation 2009 - October 21 & 22, New York

Immerse yourself in a world of innovation, learn from leading experts and put yourself on the road to maximizing your innovation processes, embedding innovation culture across all divisions to positively impact your bottom line and increase customer loyalty.
Optimizing Innovation 2009 will give you the opportunity to hear ideas and experiences from top speakers from the most innovative companies, on the most current and exciting topics in the form of social networking activities, brainstorming sessions, talking circles, keynote case studies and insightful presentations.
In addition to our thrilling 2 day event, you will also be able to enjoy a dinner and drinks away from the hotel in the centre of New York. You will have a chance to relax, unwind, discuss the topics from the day and make and enhance business connections in an informal setting.

June 2009

The 2009 ISPIM Conference - The Future of Innovation - will be held in Vienna, Austria on 21-24 June 2009. Organised by ISPIM, hosted by The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, and supported by DANUBE - European Programmes for Training, Research and Technology and Ratio Strategy & Innovation Consulting, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The conference format will include facilitated themed sessions for academic and practitioner presentations together with interactive workshops and discussion panels. Additionally, the conference will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local Viennese culture. More info: http://www.ispim.org/conference/index.html

BMGI - Chief Innovation Officer

BMGI's Chief Innovation Officer(CIO)is a one-day executive seminar taking place in London on 29 June for leaders tasked with driving innovation. This interactive workshop will provide a practical framework and structured approach for implementing sustainable innovation programmes that deliver breakthrough results.

More information: http://www.bmgi.eu/OA/Innovation/011n

May 2009

RSM – Erasmus University Open Innovation

Innovation no longer comes from within a company but through collaborative ‘open’ efforts and partnership. This three day course will give you the understanding, knowledge, and practical sills for applying open innovation in your organisation. You will get chance to explore how to work more effectively with suppliers and customers to speed up the innovation process and make it more reliable, more effective and less costly.
 
Who should attend:
-          Managers and specialists involved in innovation projects
-          Those who leads strategic innovation in organisations
-          Professionals involved in building relationships with suppliers
-          Managers in marketing communication
 
Date: 28 – 30 May, 2009
 
More information: http://www.rsm.nl/home/execed/open_enrolment_programmes/open_innovation
 

November 2008

Seminar Open Innovation and Creativity in Management and Governance

On Friday 21 November 2008, University of Twente will organize a semi-academic symposium 'Open Innovation and Creativity in Management and Governance' with Prof. Henry Chesbrough and Mr. Charles Landry. It will take place in the Grolsch Veste.

Henry Chesbrough is a professor at the University of Berkeley's Haas Business School (USA). He coined the term 'Open Innovation' and is seen as a leading authority in the field. Chesbrough has abandoned the traditional idea of innovation taking place entirely within the walls of a given organization. Innovation, he contends, can begin anywhere and is not restricted in its outreach.

Charles Landry is the founder and director of Comedia, a renowned British consultancy which advises cities throughout the world on culture and creativity as the catalysts for urban development. Landry is credited with coining the term 'the Creative City'.

Between the two keynote presentations there will be two series of six parallel sessions, during which we shall highlight the faculty's research as it relates to the symposium's topic. These sessions will be moderated by senior faculty staff, assisted by noted alumni of the Faculty of Management and Governance who will describe the practical relevance of our research output.

Attendance at the symposium will cost €50, including a dinner buffet. The latest information about the programme, together with a registration form, can be found at: http://www.mb.utwente.nl/lustrum/

Chief Innovation Officer Seminar

From 19-20 November 2008, the Chief Innovation Officer Seminar organized by BMGI wil take place in Munich, Germany. During this two day seminar David Silverstein (BMGI Founder & CEO and author of ‘Insourcing Innovation') and Dr. Phil Samuel (BMGI VP/CIO and innovation thought leader) will share proven tools and metrics to systemise innovation and make it a structured, scalable process that delivers measurable results.

For more information:

BMGI_CIO_Munich_top_logo.pdf

The Fifth Masterclass Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation
From  November  24-28, 2008, the fifth European course on Corporate Entrepeneurship and Open Innovation will take place at Conference Hotel Willibrordhaeghe in Deurne in the Netherlands. This  course is organized by Ronald Wolf (Philips) and Wim Vanhaverbeke (Hasselt University). Keynote speakers are Henry Chesbrough (UC Berkeley) and Kenneth Morse (MIT).

Additional information can be found on the Corporate Entrepreneurship website at:
http://www.hitech-projects.com/masterclass/fall2008/

June 2008

Open Innovation: Creating Products and Services through Collaboration 

The 2008 ISPIM Conference - Open Innovation: Creating Products and Services through Collaboration - will be held in Tours (Loire Valley), France on 15-18 June 2008. Organised by ISPIM and supported by ESCEM School of Business and Management, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The conference format includes plenary and parallel sessions with both academic and practitioner presentations and workshops. Additionally, the conference will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local culture. 

May 2008

Executive MBA program in Innovation & Business 

In May 2008 a new program in the TUM Business School will start. The Executive Program in Innovation & Business Creation offers innovation managers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to join project teams and to work on the development of their new business. At the same time, participants will earn an Executive MBA degree: a sound theoretical foundation in how to innovate and build real businesses. This unique combination of entrepreneurial practice and excellent academic education is guaranteed by the joined forces of the three program partners: the TUM Business School, the HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and UnternehmerTUM, the centre for entrepreneurship at the Technische Universität München.

For more info visit http://www.innovationprogram.com/

April 2008

"Open Innovation : Foundations and Best Practices" (with Prof. Dr. Wim Vanhaverbeke)

 
Objectives
to rise awareness within a professional or academic public on open innovation and its main challenges to show the evolution of innovation models (closed to open innovation) to give an overview of innovation models' implementation in the companies to present best practices

Points dealt with
evolution of innovation models
presentation of practical cases of innovation models' implementation in different contexts presentation of benefits linked to the roll-out of these models proposal of good practices in as regards innovation

Practical details
Language : English
Duration : 1 day
Date  :  8th April 2008 from 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Place : at CRP Henri Tudor | 29, avenue John F Kennedy | L-1855 Luxembourg-Kirchberg
Price : 460 euros  VAT excl.

For more information:

http://www.sitec.lu/cms/sitec/content.nsf/idgen/GBEA-77GFZH?opendocument&language=fr

The Fourth Masterclass Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation

From April 17-23, 2008, the fourth European course on Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation will take place at Conference Hotel Willibrordhaeghe in Deurne in the Netherlands.

Led by two internationally leading management experts, Henry Chesbrough from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Kenneth Morse from the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, this Corporate entrepreneurship course teaches the fundamentals of Open Innovation as applied to develop new venturing options for global corporations. The participants will be given the opportunity to develop and refine their own business case, which will be evaluated during the last day of the course by an objective and demanding team of experts.

The course provides insights into the key aspects of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and corporate venturing:

• How to organize and leverage the corporate setting to start and grow new, significant, globally competitive businesses
• How to generate successful (corporate) start-ups in an Open Innovation setting
  • Searching for complementarity: the role of partners
  • The role of incubators, spin-ins, spin-outs, and corporate venture capital
• How to use new business development and venturing as a tool in strategy making processes and corporate transformations

For more information on this event and how to register, please follow this link.

November 2007

Course Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation

From November 8-14, 2007, the third European course on Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation will take place at Conference Hotel Willibrordhaeghe in Deurne in the Netherlands.

Led by two internationally leading management experts, Henry Chesbrough from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Kenneth Morse from the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, this Corporate entrepreneurship course

teaches the fundamentals of Open Innovation as applied to develop new venturing options for global corporations. The participants will be given the opportunity to develop and refine their own business case, which will

be evaluated during the last day of the course by an objective and demanding team of experts.

The course provides insights into the key aspects of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and corporate venturing:

• How to organize and leverage the corporate setting to start and grow new, significant, globally competitive businesses
• How to generate successful (corporate) start-ups in an Open Innovation setting
• Searching for complementarity: the role of partners
• The role of incubators, spin-ins, spin-outs, and corporate venture capital
• How to use new business development and venturing as a tool in strategy making processes and corporate transformations

For more information on this event and how to register, please follow this link.

March 2007

Cityzone @ Tanaka Business School: Open Innovation / Corporate Venturing.

28th March 2007, London

This Cityzone pilot event takes place at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London SW7 from 17.00-21.15.

Speakers: Procter & Gamble, Oracle, NESTA and Imperial College London.

Sponsors: NESTA, the Supper Club and Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London.

AGENDA / BOOKING: http://www.city-zone.com/modules/page/page.aspx?pid=716

Objectives:
~ involve companies, investors & advisors interested in business and technology innovation.
~ connect large & small companies that can help each other's businesses.
~ profile innovative SMEs (online Innovation Directory).

SPEAKERS
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~ Dr Tidu Maini, Pro Rector, Imperial College London

~ Dr. Mike Addison, Section Head, Corporate R&D, Procter & Gamble. "How a multinational can help you get to market"

~ Chris Eldridge-Hinmers, Business Development Director, Oracle "Corporate Partnering? Prey or predator? JGD Analysis and Oracle as a case study."

~ Dr. Roland Harwood, Project Leader NESTA Connect. "Connect and Collaborate – new experiments in Open Innovation across disciplines, organisations and places."
 

For more information, please visit http://www.city-zone.com/modules/page/page.aspx?pid=716

May 2007

Open Innovation track at the EURAM 2007 Conference

16-19 May, 2007, Paris (France)

The Open Innovation track aims to attract papers that stimulate the ongoing debate on open innovation and advance our understanding of open innovation as a field of research. Submissions are invited from both practitioners and management researchers and they may be purely theoretical or based on empirical research.

For more information, please see the track description below or visit the conference website at http://www.euram2007.org/. De deadline for the submission of full papers is January 2, 2007.

EURAM Track Open Innovation.pdf

March 2007

Course Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation

From March 29-30 and April 2-3-4, 2007, the second European course on Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation will take place at Conference Hotel Willibrordhaeghe in Deurne in the Netherlands.

Led by two internationally leading management experts, Henry Chesbrough from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Kenneth Morse from the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, this Corporate entrepreneurship course

teaches the fundamentals of Open Innovation as applied to develop new venturing options for global corporations. The participants will be given the opportunity to develop and refine their own business case, which will

be evaluated during the last day of the course by an objective and demanding team of experts.

The course provides insights into the key aspects of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and corporate venturing:

• How to organize and leverage the corporate setting to start and grow new, significant, globally competitive businesses
• How to generate successful (corporate) start-ups in an Open Innovation setting
• Searching for complementarity: the role of partners
• The role of incubators, spin-ins, spin-outs, and corporate venture capital
• How to use new business development and venturing as a tool in strategy making processes and corporate transformations

For more information on this event and how to register, please follow this link.

November 2006

The Creativity World Forum: creativity pays – get inspired

15-16 November, ICC Ghent (near Brussels)

For two days, the Creativity World Forum will be the world centre of entrepreneurial creativity. Get inspired through an exciting team of top speakers, meet anyone important for your own innovation process through aided networking and return home with ready-to-use handy checklists and tools.

Your sources of inspiration include: Dan Pink, former White House employee and bestselling author of ‘A whole new mind’ (Best Business Book 2005), Dr. Sophie Vandebroek, Global Chief Technology Officer Xerox – responsible for 50 new product introductions a year, Herman E. Nauwelaerts, Vice President EMEA 3M (Top 3, The World’s 25 Most Innovative Companies, Businessweek), Jan Callewaert, CEO Option & Belgian Manager of the Year, Charles Landry, advisor to i.e. Helsinki, London, Melbourne and the World Bank, author of ‘The Creative City’, and last but not least Prof. Henry Chesbrough, founder and author of ‘Open Innovation’.

Participants are in constant and direct contact with each other via special interactive handheld devices. Spot exciting people. Manage your contacts, send messages, arrange meetings, and take your report home. It is networking made faster, more effective, and easier. You can also meet service providers who can help you innovate at our special fair.

Handy tools: instead of presentation texts or slides, we give you the checklists, the step-by-step plan or the tool to get to work immediately.