Welcome to Innovative Processes and their Staging
Description:
While innovation is increasingly depending on the incorporation of knowledge from a diversity of sources, questions are raised as to what kinds of sources, and how they are incorporated in processes of innovation. As innovative challenges and conditions are changing with increasing pace these questions cannot just be solved through a singular choice of organisation or established guidelines for selecting innovative ideas. Issues of how to stage the scene and circumstances and how to facilitate processes and the involvement of diverse actors in innovation have increasingly come into focus. Successful innovation is seen as the outcome of interactions within a broader network spanning across diverse organisational and societal boundaries and institutions. There is a need to address the creation and navigation of new fora and spaces for development where existing frames of understandings may be challenged and new patterns for interactions emerge.
The course takes its departure in the well-described dilemmas between incremental but often path dependent innovative processes within established networks and the quest for the development of new innovative, disruptive or breakthrough ideas, product and services facilitated through new networked relations. A range of theories, cases and approaches concerned with the framing, organising and staging of innovative processes, from linear sequential models to complex, dynamic networks of innovation are treated and related to the current work of the participants.
During the course, a dialogue is created between the participants’ projects and a diversity of understandings of the management and staging of innovation from organisation, institutional theory and sociology of innovation. The idea is to direct inquiry and to stimulate theoretical insights and empirical approaches in the field of innovation. The course introduces concepts, which help render relevant phenomena and issues (relationships, dynamics, consequences) in the participants’ projects visible and open to investigation and analysis. This would, in turn, also help in delineating hypotheses of relevance to the investigation of innovative processes and their staging, and in proposing new directions for research in the field.
The programme will cover the following themes:
- Challenges in innovation management and the staging of innovative processes
- Innovation as heterogeneous processes of interaction involving actors, artefacts and knowledge
- Innovation as a journey characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity
- Innovation between rational analytical and interpretive processes, exploitation and exploration
- Innovation as networking, brokering and collaboration in and between organizations
- From planning and calculation to social learning and translation of interests
- ‘Co-creation’ and ‘path creation’ as heterogeneous network building,
- Staging and navigation of temporary spaces for innovation across knowledge boundaries
Form
The students should be familiar with basic understandings of innovative processes from innovation process theory and/or science and technology studies (the STS field) on an academic master level.
The programme includes teacher presentations, student presentations, company talks and dialogue sessions where students will receive feedback on their presentations and projects from fellow students as well as teachers.
As a preparation for the first assembly, participants should prepare a presentation of a problem/solution from their research, which they want to analyse from an innovation process perspective. The presentation can focus on a case and/or a challenging perspective (oral supported with ppt) within the theme of the course.[1]
Between the first and second assembly participants write a 5-10 pages analysis bringing theory to bear on selected case material of their own choice. These assignments are basis for evaluation and approval of participation. In addition participants will be asked to fill in a formal evaluation scheme.
[1] It is important to describe how innovation processes could be a relevant perspective for your activities in order to provide a professional and empirical background for your own reflexive learning.
Programme for 30-31 May 2016
Monday 30 May, 9.00-19.00
09.00 Registration, Coffee
09.30 Welcome and introduction to the course
Perspectives on innovation processes and their staging, Christian Clausen
Introduction to participants, teachers and program
10.15 Presentation of course idea and theme:
Innovation a process perspective: What characterizes processes and how are processes understood and used in innovation? Christian Clausen & Søren Kerndrup
11.00 Innovation methodology and tools from an intra-firm perspective. Innovative practices in companies. Ole Tangsgaard, Condair A/S.
Dialogue and discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Current challenges in innovation management. Experiences from companies, Ole Tangsgaard, Condair A/S.
Dialogue and discussion
14.30 Towards open innovation: supplier and user oriented innovations, Astrid Heidemann Lassen.
Coffee break
Dialogue and discussion
16.30 Summing Up: What are the key lessons seen from a process perspective: How are processes conceptualised and used? Christian Clausen & Søren Kerndrup.
17.30 Participant presentation of their PhD or other projects and prepared assignment (approx. 10 min presentation + 10 min. discussion).
Including sandwiches.
19.00 Going out together?
Tuesday 31 May, 9.00-16.00
09.00 Innovation, small worlds and brokering in and between companies, Søren Kerndrup.
Dialogue and discussion
Coffee break
11.30 Participant presentation of PhD or other project and prepared assignment (approx. 10 min presentation + 10 min. discussion).
12.15 Lunch
13.00 Participant presentation of PhD or other project and prepared assignment (approx. 10 min presentation + 10 min. discussion).
14.00 Innovation, users and interactive spaces, Christian Clausen.
Coffee break
15.00 Summing Up: What are the key lessons seen from a process perspective: How is the processes conceptualised and used? Christian Clausen & Søren Kerndrup.
Dialogue and discussion
16.30 Assignments to be prepared for next assembly
16.30 Closing and networking
Preliminary programme for 26-28 September
Location: Aalborg University Copenhagen, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen SV, meeting room ACM15 2.1021
Monday 26 September, 9.00-17.00
09.30 Welcome to the second assembly at AAU CPH, coffee
Introduction to teachers and program
10.30 Political and learning perspectives on innovation processes, Christian Clausen
Dialogue and discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Presentation of assignments
Comments from participants and teachers
14.00 Practice perspectives on innovative processes, Søren Kerndrup
Dialogue and discussion
15.30 Presentation of assignments
Comments from participants and teachers
17.00 End of day programme
Tuesday 27 September, 9.00-17.00
9.00 Actor Network Perspectives on innovation: Path dependencies and path creation,
Peter Karnøe
Dialogue and discussion
10.30 Presentation of assignments
Comments from participants and teachers
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Creation of meaning in innovation processes a design perspective, Hanne Lindegaard.
Dialogue and discussion
15.00 Presentation of assignments
Comments from participants and teachers
17.00 End of day program
19.00 Going out to eat together?
Wednesday 28 September, 9.00-15.00
9.00Staging innovative processes: Arenas, spaces and artefacts. Christian Clausen
Dialogue and discussion.
10.30 Presentation of assignments.
Comments from participants and teachers
12.00 Lunch
13.00 What are the key lessons seen from a process perspective: How are processes conceptualised and used?
14.00 Wrapping up.
15.00 End of course.
Organizers: Associate Professor Søren Kerndrup, e-mail: soeren@plan.aau.dk and Professor Christian Clausen, e-mail: chcl@plan.aau.dk
Lecturers: 30-31 May 2016: Associate professor Astrid Heidemann Lassen, AAU, CIP Business & Management; Business Development Manager Ole Tangsgaard, Condair A/S; associate professor Søren Kerndrup, AAU, SIP; professor Christian Clausen, AAU, DIST.
26-28 September 2016: Professor Peter Karnøe, AAU, DIST; associate professor Søren Kerndrup, AAU, DIST; associate professor Hanne Lindegaard and professor Christian Clausen, AAU, DIST.
ECTS: 5.0
Time: 30-31 May 2016 in Aalborg and 26-28 September 2016 in Copenhagen
Place:
30-31 May 2016:
Aalborg University, Skibbrogade 5, 9000 Aalborg, room Skb5 C1/12
26-28 September 2016: Aalborg University Copenhagen, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen SV
Number of seats: 20
Deadline: 9 May 2016
Important information concerning PhD courses:
We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 5,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately three months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations
- Teacher: Christian Clausen
- Teacher: Peter Karnøe
- Teacher: Søren Kerndrup