CMA Centre Innovation Conferences

Innovation Conference - March 11, 2011

The following papers were presented:
1) "Organizational tracks: Examining the role of momentum" - Ian McCarthy
2) "Internal human capital, strategic alliances, and the innovation performance of biotech firms" - Pek Soh
3) "Predicting value creation through the business models of nanomaterials ventures" - Elicia Maine
4) "Emerging-market multinational enterprises in developed markets: Exploring reverse spillovers effect on the parent firms" - Victor Chen
5) "Publishing in innovation journals" - Jeremy Hall
6) "Business applications of tablets: The iPad in content and context" - Leyland Pitt
7) "Managing inconsistencies in stakeholder interests along innovative sustainable value chains: The case of the Brazilian energy sector" - Bruno Silvestre

Followed by participation at five roundtables:

1) Table 1: Pooria Assadi – “Theoretical reflections on the density dependence of radical and incremental innovations in organizations”

2) Table 2: Stephanie Bertels, Olga Volkoff, Daniel Papania – “The role of MIS systems in supporting and constraining innovations towards sustainability”

3) Table 3: Charles King – “Financial innovation, mortgage market development and home ownership as an investment decision within a Canadian setting”

4) Table 4: Tom Lawrence – “Prototyping in social innovation processes”

5) Table 5: Nilesh Saraf – “Understanding interdependencies between IT and business innovations in workplaces: An experiential learning perspective”

Innovation Conference - January 15, 2010

The following papers were presented:

1) "iApps in u-space: Innovations for sustainability" - Leyland Pitt and Michael Parent
2) ""Actualizing" and IT innovation: The case of an Electronic Health Record implementation" - Olga Volkoff
3) "FDI knowledge spillovers and product innovations of Chinese firms" - Danny Shapiro and Jing Li
4) "Towards a typology of user-led innovation" - Jan Kietzmann, Ian McCarthy, Leyland Pitt and Bruno Silvestre
5) "Value creation by advanced materials ventures" - Elicia Maine
6) "Positivity and generativity in planned transformational change" - Gervase Bushe

Followed by participation at four roundtables discussing these papers:

1) "Open source software development and the private-collective innovation model" - Nilesh Saraf
"Consumer generated advertising - Colin Campbell

2) "Technology licensing: Exploring the relationship between speed and experience" - Ian McCarthy and Karen Ruckman
"Organizational learning and innovation adoption" - Pooria Assadi

3) "Benefits of being marginal" - Stacey Fitzsimmons
"How firms transform outside language into innovations" - Lisa Papania and Stephanie Bertels

4) "Managing the paradox of trustworthiness: Is experience working together the solution for knowledge recipients" - Rekha Krishnan
"TBA" - Pek Soh.