07/05/2017
ICON 2017 cordially invited you to present your paper on a wide range of topics related to innovation. These include (but are not limited to):
• Innovation in the digital age
• Innovation across multiple levels of analysis.
• The boundary conditions, moderating effects or contingency factors for innovation.
• The costs, downsides, failures, and negative effects of innovation
• Pecuniary and non-pecuniary mechanisms for enabling innovation.
• Communities, networks, ecosystems, alliances, and other coupled forms of innovation.
• Crowdsourcing, intermediaries, and other ways to organize innovation.
• The role of individuals in the innovation process.
• The role of human resource management practices in innovation.
• The role of technologies in helping (or hindering) innovation processes.
• The relation between innovation, business models, and strategy.
• Open versus proprietary intellectual property (IP) models for innovation.
• The impact of innovation upon new service offerings.
• The effect of government policies in helping (or hindering) innovation.
• The use of innovation by government and other not-for-profit entities.
• The relation between innovation and entrepreneurship.
• How organizational design promotes or hampers innovation.
• Linking innovation to broader theories of management or economics.
• The relation of innovation (research) to other domains and disciplines, such as operations, finance, marketing, accounting, law, etc.
• The role of functional areas beyond R&D, such as manufacturing and marketing, in absorptive capacity and innovation.
• Developing metrics and new research designs for measuring the impact of innovation.
• The interplay between internal and external knowledge flows in innovation processes.
• How innovation relates to other types of innovation, such as religion, science and access.
• How innovation functions in different contexts, including SMEs, international business, and different industries (low-tech, creative industries, media, food, etc).
We are waiting for your response. Do come and join us now!!!