Entrepreneurship, innovation and innovation policy

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Programme
Abstract submission guidelines
Paper format and submission guidelines

Organizers

Organizing consortium:
NIFU STEP, Oslo
University of Oslo, Centre for Entrepreneurship, Oslo
BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo
University of Oslo, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), Oslo

Organizer on location:
BI Norwegian School of Management -

Programme
 

The Oslo Research Workshop 2006 on
Entrepreneurship, innovation and innovation policy - a look at SMEs

Programme

Moderator’s guidelines
Regular length papers will have about 23 minutes for presentations, short papers about 13 minutes. 5 minutes will be reserved for questions from the audience. 1-2 minutes for the Chairman to introduce the speaker and the paper.
The keynotes will get 45 minutes, including 5-7 minutes for questions.


Day 1: November 9, 2006 - SME entrepreneurship and innovation

12.00 - 12.10:
Welcome and opening remarks by professor Per I. Olsen, Director of Research, BI Norwegian School of Management

12.10 – 12.15:
Practical information by the Chairman and moderator, Dr.techn. Magne Fjeld, NTVA-Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences

12.15 - 13.00:
Keynote presentation on SME entrepreneurship and innovation:
Professor Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand, Halmstad University: "Technology-based entrepreneurship: Linking ideas and people"

13:00 - 13.30:
Helge Godø and Tor Borgar Hansen, NIFU STEP – Studies in Innovation, Research and Education: ““PinkFish”:  Technological Regimes in m-Commerce – Convergence as a Barrier to Innovations and Entrepreneurship in the Dotcom Period

13.30 - 13.50:
Lars Monrad-Krohn1, Bjørn Lillekjendlie1 and Christoffer Hernes2
; 1Oslo Innovation Centre (Forskningsparken AS), 2University of Oslo, Centre for Entrepreneurship: Researching the factors governing the profitability of high tech startups”

13.50
- 14.20:
Jesper Lindgaard Christensen, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, IKE and DRUID : “The Role of IPR in the Venture Capital Process and the Role of Venture Capital in the IPR Process”

14.20
- 14.50:
Pontus Braunerhjelm1 and Roger Svensson2; 1Leif Lundblad’s Chair in International Business and Entrepreneurship, The Royal School of Technology, Department of Transport and Economics, Stockholm; 2Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm: “The Inventor’s Role: Was Schumpeter Right?”

14.50
- 15.20: Intermission; (Coffee, tea, mineral water, etc)

15.20
- 15.40:
G. A. Alsos1, O. J. Borch1,2, B. Brastad1, E. Ljunggren1 and E. L. Madsen1,2; 1Nordland Research Institute, 2Bodø Graduate School of Business: “Knowledge-based Innovation within SMEs – a Dynamic Capabilities Perspective”


Innovation Policy


15.50 - 16.20:

Invited Paper: Professor Tomas Hellström, Head of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Oslo:
"The Varieties of University Entrepreneurialism: Swedish University Strategies   and Role of SMEs"

16.20 - 16.50:
Taran Thune,
Work Research Institute, Oslo: “University-industry collaboration: Preconditions, incentives and implications for SMEs”

16.50 - 17.20:

Antonia Madrid-Guijarro1, Howard Van Auken2 and Domingo Garcia Perez de Lema1; 1University of Cartagena, Facultad de Ciencias de la Empresa, 2Iowa State University: “Barriers to Innovation among Spanish Manufacturing SMEs”

17.
20 - 17.40:
Yvonne Ryan, Bernadette O’ Regan and Richard Moles, Centre for Environmental Research, University of Limerick : “Industrial Ecology – an Innovation Opportunity for SMEs in the Mid-West Region of Ireland”


17.40 - 18.10:
Adelheid Holl1 and Ruth Rama2
; 1FEDEA (Foundation for Applied Economics Studies), 2Institute of Economics and Geography, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Madrid: Networking,  R&D and innovativeness in the Spanish Electronics Sector”

19.30 - :
Dinner.
Best paper award ceremony within "Entrepreneurship and Innovation".
(Kokkamok Restaurant)



Day 2: November 10, 2006 - Innovation Policy (cont.’)

08.30 - 09.15:
Keynote presentation on innovation policy:
Professor Bjørn T. Asheim, Lund University: “Constructing Regional Advantage: A new innovation policy for regional development”

09.15 -
09.45:
Staffan Gullander, University of Stockholm, School of Business: “Networking between Physical and Virtual Incubators”

09.45
- 10.15:
Dagmara Stoerring and Jesper Lindgaard Christensen,
Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies, IKE and DRUID, Denmark; Stoerring also European Parliament:
“Clusterpreneurs – the Role of Promotion of High-Tech Clusters in Low-Tech Regions“

10.15 -10.35: Intermission (coffee,tea, mineral water, etc)


10.35
- 11.05:
Staffan Gullander, University of Stockholm, School of Business and Tanel Tuulse, Mercur Consulting, Stockholm: Training of incubator managers - experiences

11.05
- 11.35:
Arild Hervik and Lasse Bræin , Møre Research Molde: “Additionality and long term economic impacts”

11.35
- 12.05:
Raf Sluismans, Friso den Hertog and Paul Kunst, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht: “Strategies for large-scale organizational change”

12.
15: Workshop session closed
 
12.45: Lunch & best paper award ceremony within "Innovation Policy" (Kokkamok Restaurant)

 

Committee

National Organizing Committee:

Dr. Magne Fjeld, The Norwegian Academy of the Technical Sciences (Chairman)

Dr. Tor Borgar Hansen, NIFU STEP

Professor Tomas Hellström, Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Oslo

Professor Tor Hernes, BI Norwegian School of Management

Professor Govindan Parayil, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK) at the University of Oslo
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The workshop site is published by NIFU STEP Studies in Innovation, Research and Education.