Open Innovation Workshop 19 and 20 March, 2020
Event details
The digital age has enabled new ways to generate, share, store, and retrieve information and knowledge, that fundamentally impacts how firms manage their innovation process. A growing number of organizations, in various industries, are experimenting with new forms of open and user innovation; a model that transcends organizational boundaries, and relies upon users (customers and consumers), and communities to solve technical and organizational problems.
Many managers are letting go of the traditional logic of managing knowledge for innovation that may reside inside or outside the organization. Instead, they are finding new ways of managing the entire ecosystem, where partners are co-creating solutions that could not be established alone. This presents a number of opportunities and challenges, of which the practical, theoretical and policy implications are still being explored.
Currently, the academic and practitioner understanding of open innovation is unevenly spread. An opportunity exists to develop a community of interest based at the University of York that will benefit all partners. We started to explore this opportunity with guests from the USA, Europe and UK in June 2019, and would now like to invite you to a second workshop on the 19th and 20th March 2020, for two half days of talks, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities to explore the concept of Open and Usier Innovation and develop an interdisciplinary research agenda.
Topics and speakers
Professor Deborah Roberts and Dr Beatrice D’Ippolito
An introduction to OI agenda as part of the Risk, Innovation and the Economy research theme at York Management School.
Professor Kenneth Kahn
Open innovation and internal collaboration
Professor Kathleen Diener
Innovation collaboration: managing different dimensions of social capital
Professor John Bessant
Crisis driven Innovation
Professor Marina Candi
Something old, something new, something virtual and something I drew
Professor Frank Piller
Open Innovation and Artificial Intelligence
Justin Moss, Siemens
Industry Speaker: Digital transformation in Siemens
Professor Jelena Spanjol
Responsibility in focus: Responsibilization, co-production and responsible co-development
As Editor of the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM), Professor Jelena Spanjol will also be running an interactive session, Honing a Paper's Contribution: A JPIM Perspective. You will have the opportunity to discuss potential papers and how to make a contribution when writing for JPIM. We encourage you to bring drafts of papers that you may want to submit to JPIM and be prepared to discuss.
About the organisers
Deborah Roberts is Professor of Innovation/Marketing at the York Management School. She is a member of the of the OUI community, the Product Development Management Association and the Technology, Innovation and Management Division of the Academy of Management. Deborah also sits on the Editorial review board of the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Her research interests sit at the nexus of marketing and innovation. They include open and user innovation, value co-creation of products and services, and value capture, social media marketing and how this is changing marketing theory and practice. Her work has been published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, British Journal of Management, and the European Journal of Marketing.
Deborah has over 15 years’ experience in marketing and product development with the FMCG and retail sectors.
Beatrice D’Ippolito is Senior Lecturer of Strategic Management and Innovation at the York Management School. She is a member of the Technology, Innovation and Management Division of the Academy of Management.
Beatrice’s research specialises in design-based innovation and how this cuts across firms’ and industries’ evolution. She has also developed an interest in collaborative research with individuals (applied to the case of neutron scientists) and firms (applied to the case of renewable energies), which provides an interesting perspective onto existing OI debates.
More recently, her work has looked at how the advent of digital technologies is transforming firms' organisation and innovation strategy.
About the speakers
Jelena Spanjol is head of the Institute for Innovation Management (IIM) at the Munich School of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Prior to joining LMU, she held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Texas A&M University.
Her research examines innovation dynamics across micro-, meso- and macro-levels. In her current work, she explores how innovation is motivated by and addresses societal challenges. Her research has been published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Marketing Letters, Journal of Business Ethics, Health Psychology, and in various book chapters.
She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief (with Charles Noble) of the Journal of Product Innovation Management and on the Editorial Review Board of Creativity and Innovation Management.
Originally a chemical engineer, John Bessant is currently Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter with visiting appointments at the universities of
Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany and Stavanger, Norway. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and in 2016 a Fellow of the International Society For Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM).
He has consulted widely and is the author of 30 books and many articles on the topic.
Frank Piller, Professor of Management and Chair in Technology and Innovation Management, RWTH Aachen University, School of Business and Economics, was one of the founding professors working with Professor Erik von Hippel to form the first OUI consortium.
His current research focuses on the need of entrepreneurial ventures and established organizations to deal with the challenge of digital transformation and similar disruptive technological innovations. This includes a growing stream of research on digital business models and the systematic design of platform-based business ecosystems, and Leadership for Industry 4.0 and the establishment of organizational structures.
He is the Chairman of a cross-industry group hosted by VDI (Verein Deutsche Ingenieure) to develop standards in the field of platform-based digital business models ("Fachausschuss Geschäftsmodelle für Industry 4.0"). He has also been elected into the Advisory Council (“Forschungsbeirat”) of Germany’s National PlatformIndustrie 4.0, where he coordinates a work group on Platform Economics for Industrial Data Applications. A further stream of research is on innovation interfaces and includes topics like value co-creation with customers/users, responsible innovation by stakeholder involvement, strategies to increase the productivity of technical problem solving by tournament-based crowdsourcing. In addition, Frank has a long established research tradition in the field of mass customization and personalization, with a focus on investigating strategic capabilities and business model generation for mass customization start-ups.
Justin is Strategic Development Manager at Siemens and Co-Chair Northern Rail Industry Leaders. He has over 25 years’ experience, specialising in rail, electrification, mechanical and electrical projects, of which over 15 years has been within the rail industry.
He has worked closely with the government, clients, main contractors and subcontractors at a strategic level, maintaining excellent relationships throughout the industry providing growth for the business. Justin is a published author to industry magazines and is often seen speaking at industry events.
Marina Candi is a Professor at Reykjavik University’s Department of Business Administration and Director of the Reykjavik University Center for Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She received her PhD from Copenhagen Business School.
Her research interests include innovation management, design driven innovation, experience-based innovation, business model innovation, and interactive marketing. Her research has been published in academic journals including Research Policy, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the International Journal of Operations & Production Management and the British Journal of Management.
She has over 20 years of experience in the IT sector as a Software Engineer and Project Manager and, during the latter half of her industry career, held positions in executive-level management as well as sitting on the boards of directors of IT firms. She holds a fractional position as a Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Business School.
Kenneth B Kahn is a Professor of Marketing and Senior Associate Dean of the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University. Holding degrees in industrial engineering and marketing, his teaching and research interests address product innovation, product management, and demand forecasting of current and new products.
He has published fifty articles in such journals as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Business Forecasting, Business Horizons, R&D Management; authored the books Product Planning Essentials (Sage Publications, 2000; M.E. Sharpe, 2012) and New Product Forecasting: An Applied Approach (M.E. Sharpe, 2006); and served as editor of the PDMA Handbook on New Product Development, 2nd and 3rd editions (Wiley & Sons, 2004, 2013).
His industrial experience includes serving as an industrial engineer and project engineer for the Weyerhaeuser Company and a manufacturing engineer for Respironics, Inc. He has consulted and conducted training sessions with numerous companies, including recently Accenture, Blueprint Automation, Hankins & Anderson, HaviGlobal Solutions, and Virginia Lottery. Between 2009 and 2015, Professor Kahn served as Director of the VCU da Vinci Centre – a unique collegiate model advancing innovation and entrepreneurship through cross-disciplinary collaboration among VCU’s Schools of the Arts, Business, Engineering and College of Humanities and Sciences.
Kathleen Diener is an assistant professor at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management at the RWTH Aachen University. With a background in management and psychology, Kathleen’s research focus on interdisciplinary questions in open and business model innovation. She transfers psychological insights to the field of management.
Recently she published the third edition of the market report on open innovation intermediaries and is currently working on social capital building in ecosystems. Kathleen is involved in the delivery of Executive programs on open innovation management.