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Dear colleagues,
we want to raise your attention to the following (also to be found in the
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Call for Papers: 4th Global Conference On Economic Geography (GCEG),
Oxford, 19-22 August 2015
SIEM special session
Rolf D. Schlunze (Ritsumeikan University,Kyoto, Japan)
Andrew Jones (City University, London, UK)
Lech Suwala (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
‘Spaces of Innovation Management’
under the overarching topic Innovation Economies at the Fourth Global
Conference on Economic Geography
Mapping Economies in Transformation URL
http://www.gceg2015.org/
University of Oxford, 19-22 August 2015
Economic growth, knowledge creation, novel technologies, and life-long
learning have ever since been fundamental harbingers of change within
societal systems leading to different types of innovation (e.g. product,
process, organization). Furthermore, various generation models with regard
to the innovation process (linear, chain, open) (Schumpeter 1934, Kline &
Rosenberg 1986, Chesbrough 2003) have been developed. Those circumstances
have been recognized and deeply investigated by economic geographers by
means of multi-scalar territorial innovation systems (LIS, RIS, NIS etc.)
or spatially dependent models without a specified scale (e.g. innovative
milieus, localized production systems, clusters of innovation, new
industrial spaces, technology parks) where the types and processes were
integrated (Moulaert and Sekia 2003). These investigations resulted in
stylized facts about the geography of innovation, namely: (1) innovation
is spatially concentrated, (2) innovation profits from local buzz and
global pipelines or (3) innovation evolves from ‘localities of learning’
or localized ‘ecosystems’ (triple helices) consisting of HEI and research
think-tanks, for-profit businesses, and political institutions (Feldman
and Kogler 2010). All approaches dealt with a spatially dependent
generation of innovation.
But, who or what is really generating innovations? Is it a spatially
mediated phenomenon? Are those nations, regions, or locales? Certain
businesses and institutions? Or rather agents or groups of agents? And who
or what is maintaining, diffusing or exploiting innovations? Against this
background, we would like to shed some light upon the nexus between ‘the
management’ / the respective agents ‘the managers’ of innovation and
space. Although, fairly established in management sciences and adjacent
disciplines, the character of the manager remains insufficiently examined
in economic geography in general, and with regard to innovation in
particular. The principal objective of this SIEM session is to highlight
how innovation is managed by individuals, in teams, communities, networks,
clusters within or across institutions, firms, and markets. Our
understanding of innovation encompasses creativity, invention, and
entrepreneurship. We prefer, but are not limited to, an actor-based
perspective within the realm of ‘Management Geography’ (Schlunze et. al.
2011, Yeung 2011, Oinas and Suwala 2012) based on ‘practices’ of managers
(Wenger 2002, Jones and Murphy 2011, Jones 2014) or on insights from
economic and urban geography, management science, sociology and
psychology.
This session invites conceptual, empirical and methodological papers
addressing entrepreneurs, executives, business leaders, and boundary
spanners or teams of these stakeholders and their role in managing
innovation in or across spaces. Papers might address, but are not limited
to:
- Innovation management and individuals, COPs, networks, clusters, and
markets
- Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and managerial networks - The
creation of novelty (by knowledge, learning) in and across umbrella
organizations
- Change, evolution, path-dependence, or lock-ins within innovation
management
- Globalized and localized innovation – myths of territorial innovation
cultures
If you are interested to contribute to our special session do not hesitate
to contact Profs. Dr. Rolf D. Schlunze, Dr. Andrew Jones and/or Dr. Lech
Suwala until January 30, 2015. Mail your name, presentation title and a
short abstract (about 200 words) to
info@siemrg.org . The most promising
papers will be invited to publish in the SIEM on-line journal, to be
launched in 2016. Please feel free to distribute the CFP by advertising
the following link URL
http://www.siemrg.org/siemat-4gceg2015.html
Background on SIEM:
SIEM is sponsored in part by the Japanese government and focuses on an
actor-based analysis around the nexus of managers and space. The research
group is expanding and opens towards new collaborators who wish to spur
theoretical, methodological and/or empirical studies on Spaces of
International Economy and Management. Currently, we are conducting an
investigation on Japan-based international managers’ preferences and
networking which functions as pilot project to lunch larger investigation
on. Check also for our further research objectives at
http://www.siemrg.org/objectives.html
Useful References
Yeung, H. (2011): Challenges for Management Geography: transnational
Management and global production networks. In: Schlunze, R. D., N. O.
Agola & W. Baber (Eds.) (2011), Spaces of International Economy and
Management.Palgrave Macmillan. pp.vii-xix.
Jones, A. and Murphy, J.T. (2011). Theorizing practice in economic
geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities. Progress in Human
Geography, 35(3), 366-392.
Jones, A. (2014): Geographies of production I: Relationality revisited and
the ‘practice shift’ in economic geography. Progress in Human Geography
August 2014 38: 605-615
Oinas, P. and Suwala, L. (2012): On Management Geography. Presentation
given at the IGU conference in Cologne Aug 2012,
www.siemrg.org/images/PDF/4-Oinas-Suwala.pdf
Schlunze, R.D., Plattner, M., Baber, W.W. & Agola, N.O. (2011). Spaces of
International Economy and Management : Launching New Perspectives on
Management and Geography. In:Schlunze, R. D., N. O. Agola & W. Baber
(Eds.) (2011), Spaces of International Economy and Management.Palgrave
Macmillan.pp.3-23.
Wenger, E., R. McDermott and W. Snyder (2002). Cultivating communities of
practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Boston: Harvard Business School
Press
Season's Greetings,
Rolf Schlunze, Andrew Jones and Lech Suwala
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Dr. Lech Suwala
Dipl.-Vw. Dipl.-Geogr.
Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6, 10099
Tel: (030) 2093-6861
Fax: (030) 2093-6853
Sitz: Rudower Chaussee 16
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lech.suwala@geo.hu-berlin.de
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