[Metalab] [CfP] Co-creation, Co-Innovation and Open Innovation, ICE 2008, Lisbon, Portugal 23-25 June 2008

[Karin Kosina]

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Call for Papers

ICE'2008: the 14th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising

Lisbon - Portugal

23-25 June 2008

 

http://www.ice-conference.org/

                   

Track: Co-creation, Co-Innovation and Open Innovation

 

The unprecedented pace of technological development that characterises the
21st century, coupled with the increased connectedness of individuals and
the democratisation of knowledge access and production tools have
transformed the ways we interact, work, innovate and produce. The emerging
Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social tagging and social
networking, are empowering consumers to make more informed decisions and to
demand more value from suppliers. While this highly dynamic environment
poses significant challenges to companies that strive to cope with the
connected, informed and demanding consumer, it also offers unique
opportunities to tap into the collective knowledge and wisdom of the
consumers' communities to drive the innovation and product development
process and to deliver products and services that satisfy the continuously
changing requirements of the market. The Concurrent Enterprise is emerging
as the new enterprise paradigm to capitalise on these opportunities and
build the responsive firm of the future.

 

Transforming traditional businesses into viable concurrent enterprises
became an essential ingredient for survival in the new marketplace. Over the
past few years, many companies have successfully adapted their internal
processes and business models to embrace the new enterprise paradigm and
have achieved remarkable success in establishing vibrant networks with
business partners, customers and suppliers in order to exploit the massive
amounts of creativity, knowledge and innovation created by these networks.
This transformation requires a radical shift from the traditional approaches
to business management and product research and development into more open,
participatory and virtual structures.

 

This track aims to explore the different issues and challenges that
organisations face in embracing the emerging practices of co-creation,
co-innovation and open innovation. The concurrent enterprise concept has
captured the attention of many researchers and practitioners. However, there
is still limited efforts invested into research that examines the dynamics
of co-creation, co-innovation and open innovation, how they affect
organisation structures, related management aspects,  competitive advantage,
business models and impact.

 

We invite high quality contributions that address the issues related to
co-creation, co-innovation and open innovation within the context of the
concurrent enterprise. We strongly encourage research incorporating creative
or new applications of theory, methodologies, and/or data sources. Suggested
topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

*	Governance, leadership, and management in open innovation
communities
*	Structures of co-creation, co-innovation and open innovation
communities
*	Competitive advantage of co-creation, co-innovation and open
innovation 
*	Innovation processes in co-creation, co-innovation and open
innovation communities
*	Limitations and disadvantages of co-creation, co-innovation and open
innovation
*	Knowledge management aspects
*	Sustainability of co-creation, co-innovation and open innovation
communities
*	Impact on management processes
*	Value sharing in concurrent enterprises
*	Metrics for measuring co-creation, co-innovation and open innovation
*	Collaboration mechanisms and platforms
*	Project management aspects
*	Innovation networks
*	Implications for corporate strategy
*	Business models
*	Legal issues
*	Adoption of co-creation, co-innovation and open innovation
*	Case studies of successful implementations of co-creation,
co-innovation and open innovation

 

Important Deadlines:

 

Paper submission:                     February 16, 2008

Notification of acceptance:        March 5, 2008

Final copies due:                       March 20, 2008

 

 

Guidelines for Submissions:

 

*	Submit papers via email to Anas Tawileh (m.a.tawileh at cs.cf.ac.uk) by
February 16, 2008.
*	Maximum printing length of all final papers is 8 pages, all
inclusive (no exceptions) and in the correct format. Depending on the use of
figures and bibliography this allows for 1800-2400 words. Describe clearly
the purpose and relevance of the paper, references to existing theories and
related works, research methods used and major results.
*	Accepted papers will be published in the scientific conference
proceedings, provided the final papers and registration of at least one
presenting author for the full conference are received before the
appropriate deadline and they conform to the layout guidelines, which will
be provided on www.ice-conference.org. The conference proceedings with ISBN
number will be distributed to the participants at registration.