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Innovative Processes and their StagingAalborg UniversityDescription: 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 for a 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 program will cover the following themes:
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 program 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 (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.) 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.
Programme for 7-8 june, 2018 Location: Aalborg University, Rensburggade 6, 9000 Aalborg - room Rdb 6/171 Programme for 7-8 June, 2018 Location: Aalborg University, Rensburggade 14, 9000 Aalborg - Teachers: Associate professor Søren Kerndrup, AAU, SIP; professor Christian Clausen, AAU, DIST. Associate professor Astrid Heidemann Lassen, CIP, AAU.
June 7, 9.00-18.00 09.00: Registration, Coffee and rolls. 09.30: Welcome and introduction Christian Clausen Introduction to participants, teachers and program 10.00: Innovation a process perspective: What characterizes processes and how are processes understood and used in innovation? Søren Kerndrup Dialogue and discussions 11.00: Innovation methodology and tools from an intra firm perspective. Ole tangsgaard , r Innovation. Dialogue and discussion 12.15: Lunch 13.00: Current challenges in innovations management. Experiences from companies. Ole Tangs- gaard, rInnovation. Dialogue and discussion 14.00-14.30 Coffee break 14.30: Workshop on the important challenges in innovation theory and practice:
16.00: Participant presentation of their PhD or other projects and prepared assignments (approx. 10 min presentation + 10 min. discussion). 17.00: Summing Up: What are the key lessons seen from a process perspective: How are processes conceptualised and used? Christian Clausen & Søren Kerndrup. 18.00 Closing the session 19.00: Going out together?
June 8, 9.00-16.00 09.00: Innovation, users and interactive spaces across boundaries in and between projects, organizations and communities,Christian Clausen Dialogue and discussion 10.30-10.45 Coffee break 10.45: Innovation across boundaries in and between projects, organizations and communities and creation of spaces. Søren Kerndrup Dialogue and discussion 12.15 Lunch 12.45: Participant presentation of PhD or other project and prepared assignments (approx. 10 min presentation + 10 min. discussion). 13.45 Workshop on how to innovate in and between boundaries
Dialogue and discussion 15.00: Discussions of themes based on the participants’ choices. Coffee 16.00: Summing Up: What are the key lessons seen from a process perspective: How is the processes conceptualized and used? Søren Kerndrup Dialogue and discussion 16.30: Closing and networking
september 26, 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
september 27, 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?
september 28, 9.00-15.00 9.00: Staging 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. |
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