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Vol. 9, No.13

1. Vol. 9, No.13

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Posted 05-11-2012 02:08

TIM Division List Serve

Vol. 9, No. 13 (May 11, 2012)

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· Announcements

o TIM Doctoral Consortium – Call for applications (Due May 13, 2012)

· Call for Papers

o None

· Call for Participants

o 22ND EUROPEAN DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT August 26-31, 2012

o The Entrepreneurship Division will sponsor its annual consortium for doctoral students during the 2012 annual meetings of the Academy of Management in Boston, Massachusetts

o Behavioral Strategy 3.0 Firms, Cooperation, Networks, Learning, Simulation, Big Data August 4, 12:15-4:00

o Strategic Foresight in Engineering - PhD Course 17 - 21 September 2012 at the Technical University of Denmark

· Job Positions

o None

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Announcements

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TIM Doctoral Consortium – Call for applications (Due May 13, 2012)

The Technology and Innovation Management Division is now accepting applications from Ph.D. students for its 2012 doctoral consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in Boston (MA), August 3-7. The consortium will be held on Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4.

The TIM doctoral consortium is most valuable to Ph.D. candidates interested in conducting leading-edge research and teaching in technology and innovation management, strategy and organization.

The consortium will be led by a panel of faculty members with proven research and teaching records who will address key issues in academic life such as publishing in top journals, managing your time for research, meeting teaching and institutional demands, managing research collaborations, and funding your research.

The coordinators of the 2011 consortium are Marco Giarratana (Bocconi) and Sanjay Jain (Santa Clara). Confirmed faculty facilitators include: Andrea Fosfuri (University Carlos III Madrid), Rahul Kapoor (Wharton), Tobias Kretschmer (Munich School of Management), Siobhan O'Mahony (Boston), Timothy Simcoe (Boston) and Mary Tripsas (Harvard).

The application deadline is Sunday, May 13, 2012. Only electronic applications will be considered. To apply, please send to the following email timphdconsortium@gmail.com:

a) An updated CV
b) A one-page statement containing the following information: (1) Your full contact information, (2) your stage in the doctoral program, (3) the name of your thesis advisor and one additional reference, and, (4) A 100-word abstract or summary proposal of your dissertation.

Preference will be given to doctoral candidates at later stages of their career – those at or near the thesis proposal stage. For any questions please contact Marco Giarratana or Sanjay

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Call For Papers

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Call For Participants

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22ND EUROPEAN DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

August 26-31, 2012

Organized by: EIASM, Hoted by: University of Twente, Netherlands

The Summer School is a valuable experience for anyone involved in doctoral work in the area of technology and innovation management. It provides a unique opportunity for doctoral students in technology management to learn from presentations of leading academics in the field and to meet colleagues with similar researchinterests. During the intensive one-week course, the participating studentshave the opportunity to discuss their research programs with senior professors and with other PhD students in interactive workshops, and to meet the editors of the journals R&D Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, Technovation and Zeitschrift fuer Betriebswirtschaft.

A company visit is also scheduled to a firm leading in the area of technology and product innovation. The last day of the SummerSchool will be focused on Green Innovation, in collaboration with EITIMDoc.

The European Doctoral Summer School was first organised by Professor Klaus Brockhoff at the University of Kiel in 1991. Since then the School has been held in different locations: Manchester Business School in the UK; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, University of Twente, the Netherlands; Politecnico di Milano, Italy; WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate school of Management, Vallendar, Germany, ScuolaSuperiore di Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, University of Vaasa, Finland, and Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. Since 2000, the European Doctoral Summer School in Technology Management has been organized under the auspices of EIASM (see www.eiasm.be). The number of alumni from the Summer School now exceeds 400. A considerable number of Summer School alumni and tutors are still in touch with each other and play active roles in the field of Technology Management.

More information can be found on the SummerSchool website.

Thanks!

Jeannette Visser-Groeneveld

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE.

50 YEARS OF HIGH TECH, HUMAN TOUCH

School of Management and Governance

PO Box 217 • 7500 AE Enschede • The Netherlands

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(APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS)

We invite applications for the 2012 Entrepreneurship Doctoral Consortium!

The Entrepreneurship Division will sponsor its annual consortium for doctoral students during the 2012 annual meetings of the Academy of Management in Boston, Massachusetts. The Consortium brings together doctoral students and experienced faculty to discuss opportunities and challenges as scholars in the field. This year, the program will include panels and discussions on dissertation strategies, first job and career path considerations, the publication process, and a host of other topics. Students will also receive detailed and constructive feedback on their work from an accomplished scholar in the field. The Consortium will begin at 9 am on Friday, August 3, continue until 3 pm on Saturday, August 4, and include a dinner Friday evening.

The Consortium is open to doctoral students who have completed approximately two to three years of their Ph.D. program. The ideal candidate will have finished coursework and be engaged in preparing a dissertation proposal.

To apply, please follow the two steps below.

1) Submit the following:

A short (one page or less) biographical sketch for distribution to all participants.

A brief statement (one page or less) of your research and teaching interests.

A current CV

2) Please submit a working paper. This paper must be on an entrepreneurship topic and is best a paper that you are moving towards publication or a detailed overview of your intended dissertation research. IMPORTANT NOTE: The paper must NOT (a) exceed 35 pages (all inclusive), or (b) be an accepted-for-publication/published manuscript. The working paper is a key requirement for admission.

Please submit this information through email to both Joe Coombs (jecoombs2@vcu.edu) and to Keith Hmieleski (k.hmieleski@tcu.edu). Please do so by *June 1*. Please place "2012 ENT Doctoral Consortium" in the subject line.

The consortium will be limited in size; positions will be allocated based on application materials. Questions should be sent to the Consortium Co-chairs, Joe Coombs (jecoombs2@vcu.edu) and to Keith Hmieleski (k.hmieleski@tcu.edu). .

Please note: Acceptance into the consortium is via application only.

Thanks for your interest! We look forward to meeting you!

Joe Coombs

Keith Hmieleski

ENT Division Doctoral Consortium Chairs

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Behavioral Strategy 3.0

Firms, Cooperation, Networks, Learning, Simulation, Big Data

August 4, 12:15-4:00

see details at http://j.mp/BeStrat

Wayne Baker, U. of Michigan

Philip Bromiley, U. of California, Irvine

Richard Burton, Duke U.

Emilio J. Castilla, MIT

Jerker C. Denrell, U. Of Oxford

Teppo Felin, Brigham Young U.

David Lazer, Political Sci. & Computer Sci., Northeastern & Harvard U.

Hod Lipson, Creative Machines Lab, Cornell U.

Martin Nowak, Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard U.

Shayne Gary, Australian School of Business

Gerard P. Hodgkinson, U. of Leeds

Theresa K. Lant, Pace U.

Michael Lenox, U. of Virginia

Sheen S. Levine, Columbia U.

Joseph Porac, New York U.

Hart E. Posen, U. Of Michigan

Michael J. Prietula, Emory U.

Ray Reagans, MIT

Rhonda K. Reger, U. of Maryland

Violina Rindova, U. of Texas at Austin

Zur Shapira, New York U.

Edward J. Zajac, Northwestern U.

Researchers of strategy often think about organizations and markets, not individuals. Scholars who study individuals infrequently consider their behavior in aggregation. Yet the two are intertwined: If we understand individual behavior, we can develop realistic theories of organizations and markets. And by observing behavior in organizations and markets, we can understand individual behavior better.

Returning for the third year, Behavioral Strategy is a meeting place for an interdisciplinary group. Some of us study individuals, others research organizations, markets, and cultures. This year, we will engage and be engaged by three scientists who made discoveries and developed methods related to our interests: David Lazer, expert on computational social science (Science 2006; PNAS 2007; Science 2009); Hod Lipson, co-inventor of the robotic scientist (Nature 2005; Science 2009; PNAS 2010); and Martin Nowak, a mathematician and biologist whose discoveries unravel the evolution of human cooperation and language.

Advance Your Own Work: Submit an Abstract! The panelists can advise you on theory, method, and framing. If you wish, submit a 1,000-word summary by July 15. In it, identify how the research is related to behavioral strategy. One submission may win the Behavioral Strategy Prize.

Interested? Please register now. Seating is limited! Regrettably, we cannot allow walk-ins.

http://program.aomonline.org/2012/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=11247

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Strategic Foresight in Engineering - PhD Course

17 - 21 September 2012 at the Technical University of Denmark

Introduction

Foresight has been a well-established field of practice for several decades. Foresight is rooted partly in American experiences on technological forecasting tradition in defence and aerospace from the 1940s and 1950s and partly in European experiences from dealing with grand societal challenges from the 1960s and 1970s. Increased globalization and the increased importance of science and technology for both firms and national economies during 1980's sat, among many other issues, the stage for increased interest in priority setting in science and technology and for preparing organisations for different futures. Today, foresight is widely used internationally in science, technology and innovation policy making all over the world. Foresight is also used in firms and industrial sectors in relation to strategic planning, innovation management, early warning, etc. In addition foresight is used in international organisations such as the European Union, the International Energy Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Consequently, foresight and similar prospective approaches to technology analysis and strategic intelligence are increasingly relevant in areas of technology and engineering such as: Science, technology and innovation policy; Strategic planning of science and technology; Design engineering; Product development; R&D Management; Urban and municipal planning; New and future energy technologies; Environmental and climate challenges; etc.

More recently foresight is about to emerge as an academic field with traditional academic attributes such as dedicated international journals and conferences, higher education, university chairs in the area, etc. During the recent decades there is published a wealth of academic foresight literature that are mostly reflecting the practice of foresight as it is descriptive or normative. But also more conceptual and theoretical contributions to this literature have been published. This course departs from this rich literature and thrives to present to the participants a selection of both conceptual and practice oriented texts.

General course objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the foundation and methods of strategic foresight. The course is targeting doctoral students within engineering and design who intent to apply elements of strategic foresight or prospective analyses in their research.

The focus is set on strategic foresight within specific domains of science and technology as well as firms and industrial sectors. Regional foresight and wider national foresight exercises are not dealt with specifically.

The course is assessed to 2.5 ECTS points and a course certificate will be issued by the Technical University of Denmark to each participant after completion of the course.

Learning objectives

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

· Identify and describe quantitative and qualitative methods of strategic foresight and their foundation.

· Understand the societal context in which strategic foresight is practised.

· Understand foresight's role in public science, technology and innovation policy.

· Understand foresight's role in corporate strategy and innovation management.

· Interpret and analyse the relation between context, conditions and outcomes of foresight.

· Compare, select and apply concepts or methods of foresight, e.g. megatrend analyses, simple scenario processes, and simple Delphi surveys.

· Assess and discuss the implementation of strategic foresight in engineering.

Content

The course contains partly discussion of literature and of theoretical perspectives and partly practical and instrumental introduction to strategic foresight methods. The course comprices five days of lectures combined with plenum and group discussions. More specifically the course will cover the following themes:

· Introduction to foresight and foresight methods.

· Long waves in technology & the economy, expectations & visions, trends & megatrends.

· Foresight in practice – reflections on two cases.

· Foresight in science, technology and innovation policy.

· Foresight in firms.

· Design of foresight exercises.

· Facilitating experts and trans-disciplinarity in foresight exercises.

· System definition, mapping and scanning.

· Delphi, scenarios and strategic roadmapping.

For each theme the lecturers will give a short introduction, mostly based on the lecturers' own research and consulting activities in the area. Based on the introduction the students will guided through a critical discussion of the theme and its relevance to their own research.

Organiser and lecturers

The lecturers draw on both academic and practise oriented experiences in foresight. The lecturers have been involved in foresight in areas such as: sensor technology, nano technology, robotics, agriculture, food, wind power, hydrogen energy, fuel cells, and energy technologies in general. Furthermore, the lecturers have experience from foresight with firms and organisations such as Deutsche Telekom AG, Nordic Innovation Centre, and the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.

The course is organised by Per Dannemand Andersen, Professor in technology foresight and innovation, in cooperation with Senior researcher Birgitte Rasmussen, Senior researcher Kristian Borch and PostDoc Allan Dahl Andersen all from Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering, and Associate professor René Rohrbeck from Aarhus University, Department for Business Administration.

Application and deadline:

Applications should be emailed to the course's secretary Jette Gents (jege@dtu.dk). Please write: 'Application PhD Course in Strategic Foresight' in the email's subject field.

The application (max 1 page) shall include:

• Name and contact information

• Institutional affiliation

• Brief description of the PhD project. The project description must include project title and description of the project's subject including theoretical-analytical approach, empirical focus and who foresight elements are considered included in the project.

Deadline for applications is September 1^st 2012. The applicants will be given notice shortly after their application.

The PhD students are expected to spend approximately one week of getting acquainted with the course's literature before the course. Literature lists and other material will be sent to the students in due time before the summer school through the course's intranet.

Course fee:

The lectures are free of charge, but we charge a small fee of DKK 2000 (approximately EUR 270) covering direct costs such as all meals and a dinner the first evening.

Accommodation must be arranged by the participants individually and is not included in the course fee.

Venue

Technical University of Denmark, Building 101, Meeting room 5, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Additional information

For additional information please contact Per Dannemand Andersen, (+45) 4525 4535, pean@dtu.dk, or Jette Gents (+45) 4525 4427, jege@dtu.dk).

Karen Murdock

Assistant Professor-Entrepreneurship

Innovation Systems and Foresight

DTU Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark

Department of Management Engineering

Produktionstorvet, Building 426

2800 Kgs. Lyngby