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We would like to announce the R&D Management Conference which will take place from July 3rd to 6th hosted by Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. Leading representatives from industry and academia in the field of R&D Management from all over the world will meet at Cambridge, UK. The conference topic, that is "From Science to Society: Innovation and Value Creation", will take a broad perspective on technology and innovation management. You can find an overview of the conference tracks here:

23.9 2015 “The New York Times: Quirky, an ambitious crowdsourced invention start-up, which raised $185 million from investors that included General Electric and leading venture capital firms, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday. The failure of the company, based in New York, will surely raise questions about how far the crowd-based model of innovation and product development, made possible by the Internet, can go. Other companies are using crowdsourcing to make physical goods, from Threadless for T-shirt designs to Local Motors for automobiles. The aim of this session is to analyze success factors of Open Business Models.” This session calls for research that examines how Open Business Models work and which factors will lead to sustainable success. We would like to encourage researchers to address the following questions:

• Does the development of Open Business Models require new ways of collaboration and „firm openness“?
• What is about sharing patents, like Tesla did?
• Does the management of Open Business Models require new organization-level activities or capabilities?
• What is about a new „champion“ concept?
• Open Business Models often require new ways of value capture strategies. But which are successful?

For more information, please find attached a summary of the Developing sustainable open business models, but how? track at the R&D Management Conference 2016.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts is: February 1st, 2016.

We would be delighted to receive a submission of you and we would be grateful if you could forward the invitation to anybody who might be concerned.

Feel free to contact us if you require any further information!

Best regards,

Dirk Luettgens

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