Innovation 3.0: Challenges, Needs and Skills of the New Innovation Era - TII 2010 Annual Conference - Technology Innovtion International

Topics: • Open innovation and new business models • Management of open technology, product and service innovation • Knowledge management strategies in closed and open innovation • Balancing IP security and open innovation in B2B / B2C collaboration • Innovation leadership and creative employee behavior • Balancing NIH: not invented here and PFE: proudly found elsewhere • Collaborative knowledge generation and knowledge sharing • Open innovation strategies and models from universities and research centres • Open entrepreneurship (collaborative innovation of start-ups) • Design as a driver of user-focused innovation • Concurrent engineering • Role of intermediaries in open Innovation • Role of technology transfer in user led innovation • New applications of creativity for new product development • Connected innovation (value network perspectives) • Role of technology transfer in the analogous and in the digital economy • Knowledge and knowing communities • Knowledge mobility in (transnational) value networks • Financial schemes for converting valuable ideas and skills into company shares • Innovative guarantee/subsidy/tax reduction schemes supporting investments in new ventures • Governance models to facilitate open innovation • Policy frameworks for disruptive and systemic innovation • Cluster strategies to lever SME collaboration in open innovation • Innovation, education and training • Global open innovation processes