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Call for Proposals
Poster session and oral presentations

"Beyond the Dawn of Innovation" () brings together future-minded practitioners and academics. This BDI Conference contains competitive paper presentations, inspiring keynote sessions together with luncheon speeches, interactive panel discussion, and conference tutorial. Furthermore, special session proposals are welcomed. BDI2009 brings together the great minds of academics, business leaders, and other professionals from both private and public sectors to share and co-create knowledge on innovation-related topics.

Please submit your abstract of 500 – 1500 characters at your earliest convenience before 10 April 2009 to bdi.papers@laurea.fi

Don’t forget to indicate whether your submission is to be presented in a poster format or as an oral presentation at the Conference.

The submissions should apply a novel approach of some sort in relation to the subject in hand and present fresh ideas and/or innovative research results.

The submission for poster session and other oral presentations (besides competitive paper manuscripts) are not subject to refereed, double-blind peer review.

The submissions may include but are not be limited to the following sub-themes:

• New Innovative Education Opportunities
• Entrepreneurship as an Innovation Process
• Innovation as Competitive Advantage
• Scalability of an Invention
• Innovation Efficiency as Firm Behaviour
• Innovative Revenue Sharing and Business Models
• Innovation Networks and Alliances
• Developing Societies as Innovators
• Best Practises in Innovation Processes
• Innovation Management Policy and Practise
• Innovative Service Concepts (including Public Sector)
• Seamless R&D in Innovation Process
• Incremental and Radial Innovation Strategies
• Building Innovation Corporations
• The Many Faces of Innovation: Knowledge-based, ICT-enabled Strategic, Open, New Product, Sustainable, Social
• Innovation as a State of Mind
• Innovative Leadership and Creative Employee Behaviour
• Innovative Organisational Culture
• Facilitating and Sustaining Innovation Environments
• Tools for Innovation
• Idea Management
• Commercialisation of Innovation
• Breaking the Innovator´s Block
• Creativity Busters and Boosters

Important Submission Deadlines

10.4.2009: Submission of the abstract
24.4.2009: Notification of the accepted posters and/or presentations upon the Committee evaluation
30.4.2009: Detailed parallel session programme to be released
13.5.2009 Registration and attendance fee
15.5.2009: Final submissions of camera-ready posters and/or presentations, if the author(s) expect to have their material published in the Conference Proceedings under section “Research Notes”

BDI2009 Programme Committee

Professor, Entrepreneur in residence Alan Barrell, University of Cambridge, University of
Xiamen, Keynote Speaker and Senior Advisor
Professor Dhrubes Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Keynote Speaker
Senator Pierre Laffitte, Fondation Sophia Antipolis, Industry Practise Track Chair
Professor David C. Mowery, University of California Berkeley, Technical Track Chair
Professor Ursula Huws, London Metropolitan University, Best Practises and Applications Track Chair
Professor Ainin Sulaiman, University of Malaya, Research Track Chair
Professor Patrick Wang, Northeastern University, Conference Tutorial Facilitator
Development Director Jukka Ahtikari, Logica, Luncheon Speaker and Industry Advisor
CEO Jan-Henrik Johansson, WikiVision, Panel Discussion Moderator

Submissions: Please submit your abstract to bdi.papers@laurea.fi

Contact Information: For further information, please contact the Conference Secretariat via e-mail bdi.info@laurea.fi

Organising Committee: For BDI2009 Organising Committee, please e-mail to bdi@laurea.fi

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