The R&D Management Conference is an international event initiated in Manchester in 1980, which annually brings together academics and practitioners concerned with the study of R&D, technology management and innovation.

This Conference will explore how technology is disrupting and transforming established industries through innovation. We will examine the forces of digitalization, automation, electrification and sustainability that are driving changes across many sectors.

For more information https://rnd2024.org/

CALL FOR ABSTRACT

1 December–14 February you can submit an abstract.

General tracks

IMPACT of AI

P1. A semiotic perspective of AI in R&D Management
P2. Creativity and its Management driven by Generative Artificial Intelligence
P3. Unveiling the Future of Creativity and Innovation Management in the era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION of ORGANIZATIONS and INDUSTRIES

P4. Cybersecurity in the tourism and hospitality industry. Critical issues and possible scenarios
P5. Digital Innovation in Disruptive Times: Exploring Strategies across Teams, Technology, Firms, and Industry levels
P6. Digitalization, innovation and sustainability: the triple helix of the Industrial Revolution (IR4.0)
P7. Exploring the Intersection of Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation: Insights and Opportunities
P8. Holistic Digital Transformation
P9. SkillsXInnovation: The Evolution of Skill in the Era of the Digital Transformation
P10. The limits of digital transformation.

INNOVATION for SUSTAINABILITY

P11. A Capability-based Approach for Circular Business Model Innovation
P12. Digital Innovation and Environmental Sustainability: the intersection between Emerging Technologies and Open Innovation
P13. Enabling innovation in the agri-food sector
P14. Impact of Environmental Targets on Corporate Innovation
P15. Innovation under resource constraints
P16. Inter-organisational collaborations for a better and “circular” future
P17. Open Innovation and Sustainability: Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Age

CHALLENGE-DRIVEN AND RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION

P18. Advanced Technologies: Transforming Businesses and Society for Diverse Goals
P19. Purpose-driven innovation: New Technologies, Strategies, and Processes to Create Impact

SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS

P20. Delving into the nexus of digitalisation and circular economy in businesses: overlapping and implications
P21. Digital and sustainable transition in R&D processes: Bridging technologies and practices
P22. Organizing for Sustainability: a multilevel challenge

TECHNOLOGY and INNOVATION POLICY

P23. A new management of Big Science: Science and Technology, Sustainable Development Goals and the Leave No One Behind principle
P24. Governance of user-inspired basic research through collaborative PhD projects in engineering
P25. Sociocultural factors in Smart city development: Prospects and Retrospect
P26. Steering the Green Transition: STI Policy for Sustainable Innovation

TECHNOLOGY, R&D and INNOVATION STRATEGIES

P27. Enhance Imagination in R&D, Innovation and Strategy
P28. Fail it till you make it: learning by failure and innovative activities
P29. Outside the Box: Exploring Unconventional Paradigms in Innovation

TECHNOLOGY-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP

P30. Corporate-startup collaborations: Motivations, challenges, and success factors
P31. Science-based University Spin-off Ventures: People, Processes, Policy
P32. The role of accelerators on startup innovation and success
P33. Understanding Entrepreneurial Experimentation in Context: Contingencies, Processes, and Outcomes

ORGANIZING R&D

P34. Fostering Strategic Innovation Management in an ever-changing world
P35. New forms of organizing for innovation in uncertain times
P36. systems approach to innovation management
P37. The Technology Dimension of R&D Management
P38. University-industry engagement: Impact and the rise of competency transfer partnerships

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

P39. Innovation and Intellectual Property Management Strategies for Digital Futures
P40. Intellectual Property (IP) Management: How the management of IP is influencing the transformation of industries through technology

ECOSYSTEMS ALLIANCES AND COLLABORATIONS

P41. Complex Firm Partnerships -not just Ecosystems
P42. Coopetition, Ecosystems, Networks and Alliances (CENA)
P43. Digital technologies, ecosystem and industry transformation
P44. Innovation Dilemmas for SMEs and Family Businesses: Navigating the New Platform Economy
P45. Orchestration of ecosystems to address grand challenges
P46. Panarchic pulse: tuning into digital platforms’ resilient rhythms
P47. Unveiling ecosystem dynamics: bridging gaps between Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems

OPEN INNOVATION AND CROWD SOURCING

P48. Beyond the hype: shedding light on Open Innovation
P49. Harnessing The Power of Crowds in the Era of Technological Transformations and Digitalisation
P50. Reviving the relevance of Open Innovation in an era of platforms, ecosystems and digitalization

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE and BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION

P51. Exploring The Metaverse: Barriers, Enablers and Expected Outcomes
P52. TECHNOLOGIES AND BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATIONS: EMERGENCE, EVOLUTION, EXAPTATION AND ENTANGLEMENT
P53. Transformation in Business Model Ecosystems to Achieve Climate-Neutral Electrification with Smart Technologies

INNOVATION THEORY AND PRACTICE

P54. The use of theory in technological innovation mananagement practice

DESIGN FOR CHANGE AND TRANSITION

P55. Elevating Sustainable Development: The Role of Systemic Design in Policy Innovation
P56. Role of Design in addressing the major shifts of the transition towards sustainability
P57. Workspace, Affect, and Creativity

GENERAL SUBMISSION

General submission

TRACK – WORKSHOPS
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION of ORGANIZATIONS and INDUSTRIES