Submission of extended abstract (500 words): November 4, 2012
Submissions will be considered for presentation at concurrent sessions by the Scientific and Organizing Committee, and a response will be given by: December 20, 2012


Accepted authors will then be asked to send their full paper by: April 12, 2013
Conditionally accepted papers must be received by: March 19, 2013

Registration for authors(condition for insertion into the book of abstracts, USB key & programme): April 12, 2013

THEMES AND AREAS
A. Organizing Product/Service Development 
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Team work 
- Managing cross-functional interfaces 
- Project management and multi-project strategies 
- Human resources capacities - Flexible and iterative development processes - Risk management in PD integrating research and development - Product-life cycle analysis and management - Concurrent engineering, QFD,DFM

B. Managing Knowledge in Product Development 
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Knowledge development 
- Learning and continuous improvement in PD 
- Advanced design technologies and groupware 
- Experimentation and prototyping - Technology selection and integration - Idea handling and concept generation –

C. Innovation Strategies -
Virtual PD management - Innovation in a Global Context - Integrating localization and standardization - Linking product development to business strategies -Technology strategies and policies - Product line planning and product strategy - Business models and PD - Sustainable product development and environmentally-driven design - Performance measurement of PD

D. Leadership and Creativity in Product Development 
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Leadership styles and impact on PD 
- Creative and innovative climate 
- Understanding the role of managers in PD 
- Managing creative talents, specialists and professionals 
- Innovation culture in PD - Human factors in NPD - Cross-cultural PD

E. Innovation by Design -
Creativity and design management 
- Design-driven strategies for PD 
- The interaction between design and PD 
- Applied ethnography, empathy and design scenarios 
- Emotional and experience design 
- Strategic design 
- creative technologies and technological creativity

F. Networks, Platforms and Alliances in Product Development 
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Alliances, joint ventures and forms of collaboration 
- Role of suppliers and customers in PD 
- PD and the supply-chain 
- Outsourcing of PD 
- Networks of innovators and virtual organizations 
- Industry-university collaboration – Platforms –

G. Managing Software and IT Innovation - Service blueprint and interaction design 
- Integration of ICT in traditional products 
- Software development 
- Development of web-based services - Internet support and IT resources in product development

H. Radical Innovation 
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Developing new products in highly uncertain contexts 
- Understanding pre-emerging markets 
- Developing disruptive technologies 
- Setting product standards 
- Patenting

I. Marketing, Users and Open Innovation 
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Marketing and PD 
- Brand management and PD 
- Analysis of user needs & socio-cultural trends 
- The role of lead users - Product/service development in communities and in cooperation with communities – Managing openness – Boundaries of the firm in NPD

J. Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Product Development 
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Product development in new ventures 
- Product innovation and academic spin-offs 
- Financing product development 
 - Managing innovation and PD in small firms

K. Teaching Innovation Management -
Surveys on how innovation is taught 
• Measuring the effectiveness of innovation teaching 
• Approaches for teaching engineering, design or business school students 
• Different approaches for teaching undergraduates, masters-level students, and executives 
• Executive education on innovation management 
• Teaching innovation in service industries


L. Management Innovation
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The aim of this new track is to shed light on innovation in management methods, managerial practices, or the design and implementation of management tools. This track might provide new data, frameworks, or research methodologies on innovative management.

M. Innovation Management: yesterday – today – tomorrow.
The aim of this new track is to strengthen the historical background on innovation management. Topics of interest should include historical cases, long term cases, historical comparisons, etc. The historical perspective might provide new data, frameworks and references to analyse the unique features of contemporary innovation, and a long-term perspective that is so important to resist to “fashion” effects.


As is the tradition of the Conference, priority will be given to research that has an empirical basis.

The conference will start on June 23 (at around 6pm) with registration and welcome drink.
It will be over on Tuesday, June 25 around 5pm.

For participants affiliated with an institution that is member or associate member of the EIASM's
Academic Council 410 €
For participants coming from another academic institution 530 €

The main conference will take place at Dauphine University, which is close to the Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysées, with easy connections, through a very efficient public transportation network, to the airports as well as all relevant places in the city.


Stand: 30.01.2013