IFIP 8.6 Conference

General Information

Conference theme: Open IT-based Innovation, Moving Towards Cooperative IT Transfer and Knowledge Diffusion.

Venue: Telecommunications School of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (Spain).

Date: 22-24 October 2008

General Chair: Gonzalo León (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).

Program Co-Chairs: Karheinz Kautz (Copenhagen Business School) and Juan Mulet (Fundación COTEC).

Organizing Chair: José R. Casar (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).

Vision

Today, most innovative firms in the IT sector cannot possess all the knowledge and business assets they need to be competitive. They must frequently rely on formal and informal agreements with partners not only in order to cooperate in technology/product development or system integration, but also to complete their capabilities in the associated technology transfer or diffusion activities. As a consequence, technology based innovation processes are changing to adapt themselves to deep changes in organisational contexts, making obsolete conventional models, methods and tools used to support technology transfer and diffusion in the IT domain. On the other side, advanced IT tools offer a set of new possibilities to facilitate the use of open cooperative and decentralised models where different entities asynchronously cooperate by adapting transfer/diffusion processes and roles to specific cases, situations, countries and cultures. This conference focuses on the new open co-operative technology transfer and diffusion models needed to handle IT based innovation.

Topics of interest for regular sessions

The conference focus will be on new theories and tools and best practices in cooperative and network-based IT transfer and diffusion. Relevant topics include:

-Cooperative IT transfer and diffusion theory and practice.

-Public-private partnerships for IT transfer and diffusion.

-The role of national, regional and local authorities in cooperative diffusion theory.

-Public procurement of IT services and other demand-side policies as catalysers for open innovation.

-IT tools to support cooperative technology transfer and diffusion in the context of Web 2.0 and future 3.0.

-Case studies for specific technologies, geographical contexts, or organisations related to IT or IT-supported fields.

-Open innovation models for public and private organizations.

-IP rights management, IT standards.

-Open business models in non-IT sectors.

-Products, services and new ventures based on IT open innovation.

-Making innovation with customers.

Special sessions

Two panels with invited scholars and practitioners will be organized to promote an open debate on the following issues:

-Open Innovation in Mobile and Convergent Communications.

-Corporate Experiences in Open Technology Transfer.

Doctoral consortium:

Directions for Further Research

PhD students are encouraged to submit short summaries of their research work to be presented and discussed in a very special event, which will be held previously to the Conference. More information will be available in the Conference website at the end of January.

Regular papers submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit full original papers (5000-8000 words) and short practitioner experience briefs (1200-2400 words). Papers will be submitted electronically, formatted according to the conference guidelines (see conference website for details).

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. A selection of papers will be fast tracked for inclusion in a Special Issue of the Journal Information Technology & People(http://www.itandpeople.org).

Important dates

-Paper submission deadline: 1st March 2008.

-Acceptance notification: 1st May 2008.

-Final camera-ready copy due: 1st June 2008.

Contact information

E-mail: ifip8-6-2008@etsit.upm.es

Web site: http://ifip8-6.ceditec.etsit.upm.es