RnD2018

Call for Papers

We invite papers for any of the R&D Management 2018 thematic conference tracks listed below (detailed description of the tracks can be found in the “Description of Tracks” section), as well as general submissions addressing other R&D and innovation management topics not covered in the thematic tracks.

1. General Submissions

2. Digital platforms and digital technologies: challenges and opportunities for innovation scholars and practitioners Proponents: Tommaso Buganza; Laurent Muzellec; Daniel Trabucchi; Andrea Urbinati 

3. Environmental sustainability, social impact and innovation Proponent: Marika Arena

4. Finance for innovation: new tools and approaches Proponents: Vincenzo Butticè; Giancarlo Giudici; Massimiliano Guerini

5. Implementing open innovation: from theory to practice Proponents: Henry Chesbrough; Chiara Eleonora De Marco; Alberto Di Minin; Valentina Lazzarotti; Raffaella Manzini; Luisa Pellegrini; Michele Grimaldi; Marian Garcia; Josè Antonio Alfaro Tanco

6. Innovation and R&D management in family firms Proponents: Jasper Brinkerink; Joshua J. Daspit; Alfredo De Massis; Alessandro Minichilli 

7. Innovation dynamics and organizational performance: novel strategies and approaches Proponents: Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli; Francesco Paolo Appio; Pierpaolo Andriani

8. Managing at the intersection between Innovation and supply chain management Proponents: Margherita Pero and Nizar Abdelkafi

9. R&D management and international business Proponents: Elia Stefano; Massini Silvia; Santangelo Grazia

10. Resilience & innovation Proponents: Petra C. de Weerd-Nederhof and Marjolein Caniels

11. Re-thinking design thinking: emerging challenges and future evolutions Proponents: Mattia Bianchi; Giulia Calabretta; Claudio Dell’Era; Maaike Kleinsmann; Stefano Magistretti; Roberto Verganti

12. Team, leadership & organization for creativity and innovation Proponents: Raffaella Cagliano; Filomena Canterino; Abraham Shani; Joseph Santora

13. Open innovation intermediaries: tools, platforms and communities Proponents: Nadine Roijakkers; Ward Ooms; Andy Zynga

14. Circular economy put into practice: opportunities and challenges for innovative industrial paradigms Proponents: Davide Chiaroni; Peter Hopkinson; David Peck

15. Digitally-enabled business model innovation Proponents: Antonio Ghezzi; Raffaello Balocco; Marcelo N. Cortimiglia; Alejandro G. Frank

16. Innovation in public utility services: opening the “black boxes” Proponents: Emanuele Lettieri; Cristina Masella; Fabio Pammolli; Tommaso Agasisti; Graeme Currie; Giovanni Radaelli; Andreas Hellstrom; Leid Zejnilovic; Giuseppe Turchetti; James Barlow 

17. Leveraging open innovation to improve society Proponents: Letizia Mortara, Nadine Roijakkers, Riccardo Fini, Joonmo Ahn