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23th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) University of Strathclyde, June 12-14 2016

The 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) will be held from Sunday, June 12th to Tuesday, 14th June 2016 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in the UK. Strathclyde is the ‘place of useful learning’ and is acknowledged as a leading international technological university, committed to creating and applying the highest-quality research in order to drive innovation for the benefit of society and economy. Te University is explicitly differentiated by the highly-successful strategic leadership role we play in building dynamic and growing innovation ecosystems and in actively pursuing new opportunities and investments in partnership with the private and public sectors. The main conference will take place in the recently-opened Technology Innovation Centre and the associated doctoral workshop takes place from Saturday, June 11th to Sunday 12th June 2016 at Strathclyde Business School. .

The special theme for our conference will be “Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Changing Role of Innovation/Entrepreneurship” to reflect the current age of economic turbulence and dynamic, disruptive technological and social change. The nature of competition has been changed in a world of recession following the global financial crisis in 2007. Innovative and entrepreneurial activities are considered to be ‘key’ for a business sector which may risk becoming ‘trivial’ and, vice versa, ‘unknown’ innovations/entrepreneurs frequently emerge, shifting competition from closed to open and networked innovation systems spanning a variety of technologies, civic societies, markets and geographies. Innovation and entrepreneurship clearly constitutes one of the most central issues for management, as they directly speak to the competitive strength, sustainability and relevance of organisations and networks. Therefore, the crucial purpose of emerging, developing and developed economies is to promote entrepreneurship and innovation in order to enhance economic and social development.

• Submission of extended abstract (500 words) to the conference: November 2, 2015
• Accepted notification: January 16, 2016
• Accepted authors will then be asked to send their full paper: April 4, 2016

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