'Sustainability' is a major and growing driver of business change and the implications for innovation management are manifold. In a world of 7, 8 or 9 billion people with rising expectations, providing energy, food and resource security, dealing with climate change, tackling pollution and a host of other issues will require massive change in products, services, and processes as well as the underlying business models and value chains.

What does this mean for how we organise and manage innovation? Are our current models for handling the process sufficient, or will the nature and pace of change require radically new approaches? What kinds of innovation ecosystem might emerge and how will current players position themselves within it? What opportunities exist for entrepreneurs and how can they best frame their activities to ride the waves of change? What new skills will we need for innovation within – and between – our organisations? What tools, techniques and approaches will help equip established players and aspiring new entrants to innovate effectively in future wasteless value chains?

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• Martin Curley - Director, Intel Labs Europe, Intel Corporation
• Heinrich Arnold - Head of Innovation Management, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
• Magnus Karlsson - Director, New Business Development & Innovation, Ericsson
• David Probert - Head of the Centre for Technology Management, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge

Submissions:

Submissions from academic, research, consulting, industry, intermediary and policy organisations are strongly encouraged and should focus on the following general themes or Conference Focus Theme:

• Collaboration for innovation (incl. Open Innovation)
• Culture and team management in innovation
• Entrepreneurship, venturing, business models & financing innovation
• Innovation training & education
• Methods and tools for innovation
• Networks and clusters of innovation
• Organisational creativity & idea generation
• Sustainability in Innovation (Conference Focus Theme)

The Conference Focus Theme includes topics such as: sustainable public sector innovation; regional and EU-level innovation policy and initiatives; sustainable value chains; innovation in regulatory frameworks; social entrepreneurship for sustainability; learning from and with 'bottom of pyramid' markets; business models to exploit sustainable innovation opportunities; skills, partnerships, technology and incentive systems for sustainability in innovation management.

Important Submission Deadlines:

* 31 December 2010: Outlines Only (All Submissions)
* 31 January 2011: Acceptance Notification
* 29 April 2011: Final Submissions (including abstracts, papers, slides, profiles & photos) registration and payment

Conference Publications:

All accepted submissions will be published in the Conference Proceedings with an ISBN number. All outlines will appear in the Book of Abstracts with a separate ISBN number. All outlines are double-blind evaluated.

A Special Issue containing selected papers from this conference will be published in ISPIM's official journal, The International Journal of Innovation Management, published by World Scientific and Imperial College Press.

The XXII ISPIM Conference website: www.conference.ispim.org

The Call for Papers can be downloaded from: www.conference.ispim.org/files/XXII_ISPIM_Call_for_Papers.pdf

The Guidelines for Authors can be downloaded from: www.conference.ispim.org/files/XXII_ISPIM_Guidelines_for_Authors_Conference.pdf

The Conference Secretariat can be contacted at conference@ispim.org

Source: mail by Iain Bitran, Executive Director