Call for Papers: Symposium on Support for Open Innovation Processes

Open Innovation is a recent paradigm whose goal is to include external and internal ideas and paths to market for innovation. In Open Innovation, networks of innovators which consist of organizations, freelancers, customers etc. collaborate in different phases of the innovation process such as idea generation, evaluation and/or development. The induced new collaboration possibilities allow for considering a larger amount of users, projects and more general aspects of innovation. For this reason, the innovation process becomes broader and more complex. Effectively supporting this process (e.g. via IT) is therefore very important in order to foster or even make collaboration possible in innovator networks. The support of an Open Innovation network or community can include support for the process itself, the awareness or the search for desired content, contributions or new innovation partners, trends in personal qualification and skill management, awareness of people's contributions and team recommendations. The symposium goal is to illustrate and discuss the phenomenon of Open Innovation itself and possible theoretical or practical approaches for the support of its requirements as well as socio-psychological implications, influence factors and future development paths of Open Innovation.

Context of the symposium: KoPIWA is a project on the support of network based Open Innovation processes and development of competencies in the digital economy sector by knowledge modeling and analysis. Goals of the KoPIWA project are investigating concepts for trendspotting, awareness and network analysis as well as supporting the development of competencies in the Open Innovation context. Collaborations between organizations, freelancers and customers of the digital economical sector are supported. KoPIWA is a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with funds from the European Social Fund (ESF,50%) (project number 01FM07067-72).

Important Dates

• August, 31st 2009: Submission deadline
• Extended deadline: September, 30th 2009: Submission deadline
  
• October, 30th 2009: Notification of acceptance (postponed one week from original date) 
• December, 7th 2009: Symposium

Symposium Venue

The symposium will be held at the Center for Innovation and Technology NRW in the area Ruhr, European Capital of Culture 2010, Germany

Paper Submission: Book Project

As a result of this symposium, the publication of a book on Open Innovation is intended. The publication will be guided and supported by the KoPIWA project team. Accepted contributions for the symposium are abstracts for a chapter in this book. These contributions are going to be extended, broadened and written out in full by their respective authors and are going to be published together in this book.

Thus, the scientific community is invited to submit an abstract for a book chapter due to August, 31st 2009. The  book chapter abstract (minimum length 2 pages, maximum length 4 pages)  is to be submitted in the ACM Sig proceedings format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

Registration and Submission

Registration for the symposium and submission of contributions via email to the following address:

brocco@in.tum.de

Topics

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• (Mobile) Social Networks in OI-Communities
• Team Recommendation in OI-Communities
• Awareness Systems for Innovation Platforms
• Dynamics of IT-Trends and implications for competence management
• Analytic methods for OI-Communities: Social Network Analysis and Data Mining
• Semi-automatic ontology evolution in rapidly changing communities

 Conference Chairs

• Prof. Johann Schlichter, TUM, Faculty of Informatics
• Prof. Ulrich Hoppe, UDE, Faculty of Engineering
• Dr. Joachim Hafkesbrink, Innowise
• Dr. Ulrich Mill, UDE, The Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ)

Organization Committee

• Michele Brocco, MSc, TUM, Faculty of Informatics
• Dr. Georg Groh, TUM, Faculty of Informatics
• Dipl. Inform. Nils Malzahn,  UDE, Faculty of Engineering
• Dipl. Soz. Sam Zeini,  UDE, Faculty of Engineering
• Dipl. Inform. Sabrina Ziebarth,  UDE, Faculty of Engineering

KoPIWA is funded by: