How to succeed in global, sustainable innovation: academic and practitioner perspectives
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Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
Innovation has become increasingly a global phenomenon. This is mainly because of the persistence of opportunities and challenges, the addressing of which requires global collaboration. Such collaborations enable partners to simultaneously generate multiple types of value ranging from business value to social value. Such global interactions are especially required to achieve sustainable development goals, interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". This workshop - jointly organised by Birkbeck, University of London, American University, University of Vaasa and Henley Business School - thus aims to engage in a conversation on how to succeed in global, sustainable innovation.
In two panel sessions, we will discuss among other topics:
- How to form global innovation ecosystems
- How to productively generate sustainable innovation
- Specific drivers for emerging markets to engage in global, sustainable innovation
- Policy support for global, sustainable innovation
- How to finance global, sustainable innovation
ITINERARY
Welcome: Professor Helen Lawton Smith, Director, CIMR
Panel 1- How to succeed in Global, Sustainable Innovation: Academic Perspective
Chair: Prof Martin Meyer, University of Vaasa
Speakers:
- Prof Tomasz Mrockowski, American University - Innovation ecosystems: global or local?
- Dr Helka-Maria Kalliomäki, University of Vaasa - Productive interactions for sustainable innovation
- Dr Brett Gilbert, American University - Innovation in Emerging Markets
- Dr Emma Chen/ Dr Anna Fung, American University – Differing perspectives on what drives China’s innovation
Panel 2 - How to succeed in Global, Sustainable Innovation: Practitioner Perspective
Chair: Dr Muthu De Silva, Birkbeck, University of London
Speakers:
- Rita Trehan, Henley Business School
- David Golding, Head of Global Innovation Partnerships, Innovate UK
- Huw Watkins, Head of Asia Policy, Intellectual Property Office, UK
- Rajashree Padmanabhi, Analyst Climate Policy Initiative
Hybrid Event
There is an option to attend this event either in person at Birkbeck Campus or to join online. If you select online, you may receive a barcode for in-person attendance, but we have noted your preference and full online joining instructions will be sent to you by email prior to the event.
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Speaker Bios
Professor Helen Lawton Smith, Birkbeck, University of London
Helen Lawton Smith is Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. She is the Director of the Centre for Innovation Management Research (bbk.ac.uk/cimr). She is the Founder and Research Director of the Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University (http://oeo.geog.ox.ac.uk).
Her research focuses on geographies of innovation. She is the author of 2 monographs and editor of 11 books, some 85 journal articles and 45 book chapters. She was the principal investigator of the Birkbeck component of the European Union project Transforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research (TRIGGER) (2013-2017). Her current research on ‘Addressing regional inequalities in innovation opportunities for BAME and disabled groups’ is funded by the Regional Studies Association and the School of Business Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck.
Prof Martin Meyer, University of Vaasa
Martin Meyer is vice-rector for international affairs at the University of Vaasa in Finland and also the director of InnoLab, one of the University’s three research platforms, which is dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation research. Martin is known for his work on science, technology and innovation as well as the Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. Martin's most recent work focuses on innovation intermediaries, interdisciplinary research and research performance as well as innovation opportunity spaces. He is also interested in the bibliometric analysis of science and technology and their interrelationships.
He joined the University of Vaasa from the UK where he was Dean of the University of Aberdeen Business School as well as Professor of Business and Innovation. Martin retains a link to Aberdeen as a visiting professor and holds also visiting appointments at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and the Centre for Innovation Management Research at Birkbeck, University of London. Prior roles include leadership and research appointments at Kent, Sussex, Leuven, Aalto (then Helsinki University of Technology) and Linköping universities. Martin serves on the advisory boards of international business schools, has acted as a volunteer and mentor for accreditation agencies, such as the AACSB, and was the vice chair of the Research Steering Group of the Chartered Association of Business Schools.
Prof Tomasz Mrockowski, American University
Tomasz Mroczkowski has studied and written about innovation, the management of change, and economic transition for most of his career. He is the author of over 100 works including articles in such journals as California Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and others. He combines interests in business history with a fascination about how to think strategically about the future.
Based at the Kogod School of Business, American University Washington DC, where he serves as Professor in the Management Department he has also lectured on at universities in France, Germany, Japan, India, and Poland. He has conducted executive development seminars for leading American and European companies and has served as advisor to central and local governments on economic development strategy and technology cluster formation. He is a recipient of a number of grants from private and public foundations.
Dr Helka-Maria Kalliomäki, University of Vaasa
Dr. Helka Kalliomäki is currently visiting George Washington University from January 2022 until June 2023 at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at Elliot School of International Affairs. At the University of Vaasa in Finland, she works as an Associate Professor (tenure track) in innovation policy at the School of Management/regional studies and at the research platform on innovation and entrepreneurship Innolab.
She received her PhD degree in human geography in 2012 from the University of Turku. Her research expertise is especially related to strategic urban development, innovation policy and innovation environments, and the societal impact of research. Her ongoing projects include ELVIS – Evolving innovation space, RDI policies and impact evaluation (Business Finland, 2020-2022), and FAIR – Finding innovations to Accelerate Implementation of electric Regional aviation (ERDF/Interreg Botnia-Atlantica, 2020-2022).
Brett Anitra Gilbert, Ph.D.
Dr Gilbert is the inaugural Kogod Regional Innovation Chair and associate professor (with tenure). Her research spans economic geography, internationalization and performance streams of literature. Current projects are focused on examining emerging technology communities in six countries, and understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies, and the factors that allow these technologies to enter the market. She is an associate editor for the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and on the editorial review board for four leading entrepreneurship and general management journals.
Dr Emma Chen, American University
Zhuo (Emma) Chen is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Kogod School of Business in American University. She received her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Rice University. Emma’s research focuses on corporate strategy and entrepreneurship, with particular interests in the role that mergers and acquisitions, corporate venture capital and strategic alliances play in external knowledge sourcing and corporate renewal. Emma is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. Her research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal and has been presented at numerous academic conferences, including the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference and Strategic Management Society Special Conference. One of her papers was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the Strategic Management Society Special Conference at Oslo.
Dr Anna Fung, American University
Anna Fung is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Kogod School of Business in American University. Her research lies at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and international business, with an emphasis on computational linguistics using topic modeling. More recently, her research has focused on how firms and individuals choose to create and adopt innovation. Her research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, the Psychological Bulletin, the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, and the Journal of Business Ethics. She has taught classes in Strategy, Entrepreneurial Strategy, and International Strategy across undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr Muthu De Silva, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Muthu De Silva is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Assistant Dean (Research) at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her research advances our understanding on co-creation. In particular, she has contributed to our knowledge on how actors in an ecosystem engaged in co-creation, and associated good practices, capabilities, intellectual property and impacts. She has published in world-leading journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, British Journal of Management, International Small Business Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, R&D Management, Technovation, International Business Review and Studies in Higher Education. She has secured major grants from Innovate UK, Intellectual Property Office, EU and British Academy/Leverhulme, OECD, and British Academy of Management. She is a fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. She is in the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Management.
David Golding, Interim Deputy Director - Global, Innovate UK – part of UK Research and Innovation
David’s role involves leading Innovate UK’s global activities working with international partners and networks to build collaborations and delivering programmes in support of innovative high growth UK businesses seeking global innovation and R&D opportunities. Innovate UK, as UK’s national innovation agency, provides support for businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas and to grow and scale globally.
David has been with Innovate UK since it was established 2007 and has been involved in developing many of the ways it supports business. He is currently also the Chair of Taftie, the Network of European Innovation Agencies. Prior to joining Innovate UK, David worked for the UK Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) covering a range of areas including innovation policy as well as working directly for Government ministers.
Huw Watkins, Head of Asia Policy, Intellectual Property Office, UK
Huw Watkins is the Head of Asia Policy at the IPO’s International Policy Directorate. Covering most of Asia, the team has IP attaché staff in Singapore, Delhi and Riyadh. His work includes supporting UK businesses secure and protect their IP rights overseas. The work also includes supporting UK trade ambitions by assisting trade negotiations and engagement with overseas governments.
Huw previously worked in the IPO’s Enforcement team as Head of Intelligence. This followed his career in law enforcement in the UK where he specialised in serious and organised crime and public protection. He has been a member of management committees for international projects, and is a member of the Global Initiative on Transnational Organised Crime as a subject matter expert on IP Crime.
Huw is the father of five grown up children and grandfather of 7. He also serves as a Trustee for a Women’s Aid organisation in South Wales.
Twitter handle:@HuwwatkinsIPO
LinkedIn handle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/huw-watkins-610a09114
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