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 (2025-2026):
- SIG Chair: Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel, Germany) – spieth@uni-kassel.de
- SIG Programme Chair: Kristel Miller (Ulster University, Northern Ireland) – k.miller@ulster.ac.uk
Paper Development Workshops (Academic Publications) Officers
- Francesco Schiavone (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy) – franz.schiavone@gmail.com
- Miia Martinsuo, (University of Turku, Finland) – miia.martinsuo@utu.fi
- David Sarpong (Aston University, England) – d.sarpong1@aston.ac.uk
- Krithika Randhawa (The University of Sydney) – krithika.randhawa@sydney.edu.au
Talent and Early Career Development Officers
- Quentin Plantec (Toulouse Business School, France) – q.plantec@tbs-education.fr
- Christian Hossbach (University of Halle, Germany) – christian.hossbach@wiwi.uni-halle.de
- Hannah Altenburg (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) – hannah.altenburg@fau.de
Dialogue with Practitioners Officers
- Marina Schmitz (IEDC, Slovenia) – marina.schmitz@iedc.si
- David W. Versailles (Paris School of Business, France) – dwv@newpic.fr
Marketing and Communications Officers
- Jeremy Orsat (University of Geneva, Switzerland) – jeremy.orsat@unige.ch
- Lauren Anne Mackintosh (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) – lauren.anne.mackintosh@fau.de
This and much more new updates are presented here: https://euram.academy/euram?service=info&d=show_sig&p=06
NB: The position of general track chair will be assigned after reception of the submissions to the annual conference.
INNOVATION SIG STANDING TRACKS
GT06_00 – Innovation General Track
Short description:
The general track offers an umbrella for any innovation-related research that does not find a home in one of the tracks of the SIG. The general track also offers an opportunity to host specific sessions on topics that do not meet EURAM’s minimal requirements for the programming of tracks. On the other hand, if authors cannot identify a home for their article in the SIG, they can send their article to the GT and the SIG officers willl assign a track relevant for the article.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action
For more information contact:
Patrick Spieth, University of Kassel – spieth@uni-kassel.de
ST03_01 / ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM SIGs)
Short description:
The business model topic attracts continued interest in business research and practice, spanning the fields of strategy (Leppänen et al., 2023; Casadesus-Masanell and Ricart, 2010), innovation (Spieth et al., 2023; Foss & Saebi, 2017) and entrepreneurship (Snihur and Zott, 2020). While business models are conceptualized as boundary-spanning activity systems encompassing value creation, value capture, and value delivery activities (Teece 2018; Snihur and Zott 2020), business model innovation describes “designed, novel, nontrivial changes to the key elements of a firm’s business model and/or the architecture linking these elements” (Foss and Saebi 2017).
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
For more information contact:
Sascha Klein, University of Vechta – sascha.klein@uni-vechta.de
ST06_03 – Digital Innovation: Strategies, Competencies, Theories, and Practice
Short description:
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: infmuence and impact of workplace and work practices; organizational structure; emergence of new roles in resources orchestration and knowledge articulation; critical competences to facilitate coordination and creativity; role of ecosystems; etc.
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
For more information contact:
David Versailles, Paris School of Business & Luxembourg School of Business – dwv@newpic.fr
ST06_05 – Innovation for Sustainability, Circularity and Green-tech
Short description:
Innovation researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in reframing ecological and societal challenges as opportunities for innovation. In this track we explore recent advances towards the broader field of sustainability-oriented innovation and its subthemes of circular and green-tech innovation. We are keen to understand these innovation directions on the levels of products, product-service systems, and business models and are particularly interested in a better understanding of the innovation processes, related ecosystems, and entrepreneurial activities underlying these innovation outcomes. Last but not least, we are interested in how organisational practices link into system-level sustainability transitions in the society.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; 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 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 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Erik G. Hansen, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) & Leuphana University Lüneburg – erik.hansen@jku.at
ST06_07 – Open Innovation Engaging Individuals, Communities and Networks
Short description:
The track aims at stimulating a discussion on the latest research insights on open innovation, with a special focus on the role of individuals, communities and networks, welcoming different perspectives and research methods applied to different contexts.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Liliana Mitkova, University Evry Paris Saclay – liliana.mitkova@univ-evry.fr
ST06_07 - Open Innovation Engaging Individuals, Communities and Networks
ST06_08 – Managing Creativity for Innovation
Short description:
Over the last decades, scholars accumulated a vast body of knowledge how we can best attract, select, and develop creative people, deliberately manage creative processes, and create organisational work environments that nurture creativity. Yet, most of the existing knowledge relating to these issues is fragmented across multiple disciplines and mainly evolved in traditional workplaces. Today, organisational creativity faces new challenges linked to new technologies, ways of working, and forms of organising that make it necessary to advance our understanding of creativity both conceptually and empirically.
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
For more information contact:
Christian Hoßbach, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg – christian.hossbach@wiwi.uni-halle.de
INNOVATION SIG TRACKS
T01_06 / T06_09 / T12_09 / T13_09 – Action Research in Innovation Management and Management Sciences: Conceptual and Empirical Research Studies (co-sponsored B4S / INNO / RM RP/ SM SIGs)
Action Research (AR) provides a collaborative, cyclic method for helping organizations steer through today’s “high waters ” of geopolitical shocks, digital upheaval, and regulatory turbulence. AR converts propositional theories into participatory, context-specific learning. We invite conceptual, methodological, and empirical studies that use robust AR protocols to address exigent challenges like supply chain fractures, sustainability paradoxes, and workforce disruption while building agility and resilience for navigating in an unpredictable world. Submissions must specify transparent cycles of diagnosis, action, and reflection; integrate qualitative and digital-trace evidence; and articulate multilevel impact, thereby extending AR quality criteria and equipping managers to act decisively amid continual disruption.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Sylwia Sysko-Romanczuk, sylwia.sysko.romanczuk@pw.edu.pl
T06_10 / T13_10 – Innovation ecosystems and platforms: Emergence, construction, and persistence
A growing consensus has emerged regarding the importance of innovation ecosystems for both theory and practice. Management research has highlighted the role of ecosystems in promoting disruptive innovation and supporting new dynamics of innovation at the territorial level and within the context of globalization. Innovation ecosystems play a key role in explaining firms’ innovation performance. However, several issues remain poorly understood: the emergence of new innovation ecosystems, the transformation of existing ones to adapt to new challenges, their modes of governance, and the key stakeholders who act as catalysts in ecosystem development.
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
Primary Contact:
Chloé Zanardi, c.zanardi@tbs-education.fr
T01_07 / T06_11 / T14_01 – Innovative Pedagogies for Disruptive Times: Rethinking Management Education for Impact and Radical Change
This track explores bold and future-oriented pedagogies that equip learners to lead in times of disruption—climate crisis, digital transformation, social inequality, and geopolitical uncertainty. We seek contributions that rethink management education through innovative, inclusive, and impactful approaches. Topics include, e.g., sustainability-focused curricula, creative (e.g. arts-based approaches) and critical viewpoints (e.g. decolonial perspectives), AI-enhanced learning, and collaboration with industry, which would all advance innovation in management education. The aim is to connect educators and innovation management professionals working to cultivate responsible, adaptive, and systems-thinking leaders for societal transformation.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Marina Schmitz, marina.schmitz@iedc.si
T06_12 – Navigating new product development
New product development (NPD) is the process of bringing a new product or service to market—from ideation to post-launch. Since the 1980s, when Cooper (1990) introduced the stage-gate model, the business landscape has undergone significant changes. Today, companies face an increasingly dynamic environment characterized by high uncertainty, geopolitical disruptions, and fast-paced technological change. Additionally, topics such as sustainability are forcing companies to adapt their NPD processes. This proposed track seeks to invite both relevant and interesting research aimed at advancing our understanding of the mechanisms that either hinder or facilitate NPD success, thereby helping companies to navigate these challenges.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education; 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 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Primary Contact:
Christian Baccarella, christian.baccarella@unibw.de
T06_13 – University–Industry Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer: Exploring Actors, Processes, and Outcomes
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 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 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Quentin Plantec, q.plantec@tbs-education.fr
T06_14 – Managing the unknown: new perspectives for innovation and management science
The concept of the unknown is gaining recognition as crucial in management science. Distinct from uncertainty, it encompasses both unpredictable surprises and proactive discoveries. Innovation management provides empirical contexts for exploring the unknown—ex: complex systems, user innovation, design projects… Conversely, innovation management can benefit from conceptual advances on the unknown. This call invites empirical and theoretical papers that explore how the unknown is managed, distinguished from uncertainty, and integrated into management practices. Topics include radical uncertainty, design approaches in the unknown, collective behavior in the unknown, creativity for the unknown and research methods for the unknown.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Maxime Thomas, maxime.thomas@minesparis.psl.eu
T06_15 – Innovation Management in Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Value Creation
Healthcare innovation traditionally follows a techno-push model guided by legal protocols and experimentation. With the rise of AI, big data, biotechs, and med techs, attention has shifted to user-centric innovation and individual creativity. Disruptive technologies—digital twins, generative and agentic AI, wearables, edge computing, blockchain, and extended reality—are transforming service design and patient care. This track welcomes papers on industry challenges, value-driven innovation management, and patient-centric business models. Special focus is on platform ecosystems, ethical-by-design AI, and cross-sector collaborations that promote inclusive, sustainable healthcare innovation based on individual patient needs and technological integration across diverse contexts.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Andrea Sestino, andrea.sestino@unicatt.it
T03_11 / T06_10 – Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems (ENT & INNO SIGs)
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