The Strategic Interest Group (SIG) Innovation at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) aims to:
- facilitate the continued evolution of an open, inclusive, international and cross-cultural EURAM community of engaged scholars,
- support scholars in designing, producing and disseminating higher quality and impactful research at each stage of their career,
- influence the development of management education,
- provide platforms and facilitate networks for the dialogue between scholars, reflective practitioners, and policy makers.
The Goal of SIG Innovation is to create an open “learning climate” for all members (juniors and seniors) to reach the goals of EURAM in the field of innovation.
SIG OFFICERS (2022-2023):
- David W. Versailles (Paris School of Business, France) – dwv@newpic.fr – SIG Chair and SIG Programme Chair
- Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel, Germany) – spieth@uni-kassel.de – SIG Programme Co-Chair
- Claudia Lehmann (HHL, Germany), claudia.lehmann@hhl.de – General Track Co-Chair and Programme Officer
- Marina Schmitz (IEDC Slovenia), Marina.Schmitz@iedc.si – General Track Co-Chair and Programme Officer
- Ana Beatriz Moraes (USP/All4Food Research Group), abgmmoraes@gmail.com, SIG Officer
- Christian Hossbach (University of Halle (Germany), christian.hossbach@wiwi.uni-halle.de – SIG Officer
GT06_00 Innovation General Track
Corresponding track chairs: Co-coresponding track chairs: Marina SCHMITZ, and Claudia LEHMANN
Support as co-proponent: David W VERSAILLES
Description:
The general track offers an umbrella for any innovation-related research that does not find a home in one of the tracks listed below.
In addition, the general track will offer specific sessions about Innovation in education for sustainable development, the management of service-related innovation and the specificities of innovation management in healthcare ecosystems.
Management education must deal of education for sustainability-centric innovation, ensuring that students acquire competencies to make management decisions enabling sustainable development, considering environmental issues and stakeholder demands. These sessions propose and analyse avenues for the integration of Education for Sustainability in education for innovation.
The management and creation of service innovation covers different research themes the role of the service (eco)systems; the alignment of resources and their integration/ coordination in service systems; the role of service innovation platforms; and the need for tools and methods to deal with the process-character of services.
The sessions about Innovation in healthcare investigate how new patterns of value creation emerge at the intersection between deeptech, med tech, and product-service systems and discuss the implications for our conception of human well-being and human-centricity.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
David W. Versailles , Paris School of Business, dwv@newpic.fr
INNOVATION SIG STANDING TRACKS
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)
(co-sponsored by Entrepreneurship SIG-03, Innovation SIG-06 and Strategic Management SIG-13)
he business model topic attracts continued interest in business research and practice (Massa et al., 2017; Foss & Saebi, 2017, Zott, Baden-Fuller and Mangematin; 2015: Spieth et al., 2014). However, despite ongoing research efforts to understand the business model and its role in firm performance, scholars face persistent questions about constituent components, sequences and contingencies for the process of business model innovation, impacting strategic intents of the firm to develop new value-creating and value-capturing activities.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Patrick Spieth , University of Kassel, spieth@uni-kassel.de
ST06_02 – Innovation in Education for Sustainable Development
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Marina Schmitz , IEDC-Bled School of Management, marina.schmitz@iedc.si
ST06_03 – Digital Innovation: Strategies, Competencies, Ecosystems, Theories, and Practice
New organizational challenges arise when accommodating digital innovation; it characterizes either with the use of digital technologies during the innovation process, or with the outcome of innovation. Digital innovation modifies the ways of working and how people use technology. It carries organizational challenges in relation with the firm’s capacity to coordinate knowledge and resources in ecosystems. It eventually leads to new ecosystems.
We expect several types of contributions: workplace and work practices; organizational structure; emergence of new roles in resources orchestration and knowledge articulation; critical competences to facilitate coordination and creativity; the role of ecosystems; the elaboration of new business models.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Valerie Merindol , Paris School of Business, valerie@merindol.net
ST06_04 – Inter-organizational networks and innovation
The track aims to stimulate and update the debate on the relationship between inter-organizational networks and innovation. The social networks of cooperation with any kind of organizations where information and knowledge are shared, together with the assets and internal capacities of companies, have a decisive influence on the business results, such as innovation (including green innovation or eco-innovation), and the survival of companies, thus strengthening the resilience of the corresponding territories. Despite the great attention in past decades still many topics deserve a better investigation and attention, with possible important contribution to the general theoretical framework.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty, Goal 2: Zero hunger, Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 13: Climate action, Goal 14: Life below water, Goal 15: Life on land, Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Angeles Montoro-Sanchez , Complutense University of Madrid, mamontor@ucm.es
ST06_05 – Innovation for Sustainability, Circularity and Green-tech
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Erik G. Hansen , Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), erik.hansen@jku.at
ST06_06 – Managing Service Innovation
This track encourages discourse on the management and creation of service innovation in different settings (digital, industrial, traditional service innovation). It includes current themes in service innovation research such as _the role of the service (eco)systems which enable and guide service innovation activities; _the alignment of resources and the resource integration processes as well as their coordination in (offline/digital/industrial) service systems; _the role of service innovation platforms, peer to peer sharing platforms and ICTs to align multiple players for service innovation; _and the need for tools and methods to deal with the process-character of services.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Claudia Lehmann , HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, claudia.lehmann@hhl.de
ST06_07 – Open Innovation
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Liliana Mitkova , University Evry Paris Saclay, liliana.mitkova@univ-evry.fr
ST06_08 – Managing creativity for innovation: Design, collaborative spaces and people
(following the merge between the initial ST06-08 and T06-09)
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Christian Hoßbach, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, christian.hossbach@wiwi.uni-halle.de
INNOVATION SIG TRACKS
T06_09 – Collaborative spaces. Platforms of local and global collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship
This session aims to deepen in the understanding of the innovation and entrepreneurial dynamics that take place in collaborative spaces (such as coworking spaces, maker spaces, fab labs, hacker spaces, or living labs) and the relationship with their local and global environment.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Ignasi Capdevila, Paris School of Business – ignasi.capdevila@gmail.com
T03_11 / T06_10 – Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems (ENT & INNO SIGs)
Valerie MERINDOL – Co-corresponding track chair
Over the last decade, research on ecosystems has been increasingly stressing the importance of context to develop entrepreneurship and innovation. A growing consensus has emerged to identify the importance of entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems for theory and practice. However, there is still limited understanding on several issues, most notably: the dynamics and processes that nurture entrepreneurship and innovation at the dawn of complex spatial morphologies and specificities, the management of networks of stakeholders to foster the emergence of radical innovation and of sustainability-centric innovation, and the management of innovation intermediaires to support entrepreneurial ventures and new approaches for innovation.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Christina Theodoraki, Toulouse Business School – c.theodoraki@tbs-education.fr
T06_11 – From Science Management to Innovation Management: Science – Industry Relations and New Forms of Knowledge Transfer
To tackle Grand Challenges, the development and diffusion of new scientific knowledge to fuel NPD processes are critical. A better understanding of new ways of organizing such knowledge transfer is needed. At the individual level, academics and corporate scientists need to navigate novel tensions between engagement with industry, publish-or-perish paradigm and innovation. At the organizational level, universities and companies need to explore new ways to foster mission-oriented research and synergies between discoveries and inventions. Furthermore, new forms of research organizations are emerging and take part in transfer processes. This results in significant ecosystem shifts which call for further investigation.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 13: Climate action
Quentin Plantec, TBS Education – q.plantec@tbs-education.fr
T06_12 – Innovation in Emergent Economy Organizations
Emergent economies, as a center of innovation, have occupied a relevant place in the recent international research agenda on innovation strategies. Current examples from emerging markets show that innovative solutions appear first in these markets, in native companies or local foreign subsidiaries, to then be commercialized in other markets or in their own headquarters. In this track, we expect several types of contributions: open innovation and reverse innovation in emergent markets, strategic alliances, resources and knowledge orchestration, and any other contributions that expands the understanding of the innovative process within emergent economy organizations.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Ana Beatriz Moraes, USP/All4Food Research Group – abgmmoraes@gmail.com
T06_13 – Innovation in healthcare: towards new patterns for value creation and well-being
The Innovation in healthcare: towards new patterns for value creation and well-being track explores how the ongoing digital transformation changes the fabric of the healthcare system and services. It investigates how new patterns of value creation emerge as a result of comprehensive product-service systems and discusses the implications for our conception of human well-being and human-centricity.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Anna Zukowicka-Surma, Halmstad University – anna.zukowicka-surma@hh.se
T06_14 – Systemic Innovation and Design – towards new paradigms and practices for business and social transformation
Systemic innovation was initiated from the insight that innovation is seldom freestanding but increasingly interconnected in larger systemic constellations (Teece, 1986; Midgley & Lindhult, 2021). It raises the issue of managing innovation more systemically, co-creating and capturing value from innovation efforts in broader networks of agency. Systemic innovation originates from explorations of the “unknown” (Elmquist, Gawer, et Le Masson 2019) through innovation and design processes and reasonings that need scientific characterization. We call for contributions that provide better understanding of the contribution of systemic innovation to contemporary challenges and innovation and design theories, processes and tools needed for systemic innovations.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Erik Lindhult, Mälardalen University – Erik.lindhult@mdu.se
