• INTRODUCING EDEN
• EDEN IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
• OBJECTIVES OF THE SEMINAR
• CCORDINATORS & FACULTY MEMBERS
• FACULTY MEMBERS
• PROGRAMME
• ADDRESS(ES)
• PRACTICALITIES

EDEN calls to everyone’s mind the garden of earthly delights to which the Book of Genesis refers. It evokes the attractive and creative environment that EIASM offers to young promising scholars who undertake the exciting doctoral adventure.
Through the creation of EDEN, EIASM will contribute to the most critical phases in a scholar’s life cycle : i.e. his/her introduction to and early growth on the academic market. Thanks to its unique image and its organizational competitive advantages (core of associations, autonomy and flexibility), EIASM can indeed be very efficient at :

• inserting young doctoral fellows into a highly stimulating system where European researchers can interact (within and across associations), sharing common objectives and concerns ;
• helping them in the positioning of their own work in relation to European research generally : expose them to various research traditions and orientations, open their minds to the international/global perspectives to be adopted when looking at the Management environment, make them aware of the challenges Management is facing in Europe (globalization, new technologies, etc.) ;
• creating a network of European educators active at the doctoral level in Management.

The programme in Organizational Behavior / Strategic Management will include seminars on the following topics :

• Strategic Design of Organization and Innovation
• International Management
• Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
• Entrepreneurship Research
• Organizational Design
• Economics of Information
• Strategic Management
• Competitive Strategy

Innovation has become a top priority for companies at the CEO level. Connecting the innovation process with company strategy is crucial as the sustainability of the firm’s competitive advantage increasingly depend on its innovation capabilities.
As a consequence, many scholars in economics and management, and even more many PhD students, are focusing their investigation on the issues that innovation poses to researchers, from the understanding of the impact of innovation on competition and competitive advantage, to the investigation of practices to manage innovation. This requires linking economics of innovation and innovation management. These fields, once developed rather independently, are now converging by focusing on similar problems, sharing models, perspectives and methods.

Hence, this course proposes to help doctoral students make the connection between the two fields. More specifically, it aims at providing to PhD students (at first or second year) an overview of the issues, approaches and methods currently practiced by scholars in the field of economics and management of innovation.

The course consists of 10 half-day modules. Each module, provided by a professor, consists of:
- a lecture focusing on a specific topic and provides: the issue, the existing theories, the empirical methodologies used to investigate the phenomenon;
- a discussion, teamwork or individual work, where students are asked to design a research project or to simulate the review of an article in the field.

Prof. Bruno Cassiman, IESE Business School
Prof. Massimo G. Colombo, Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Alan MacCormack, Harvard Business School
Prof. Roberto Verganti, Politecnico di Milano

Prof. Mario Calderini, Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Dirk Czarnitzky, University of Leuven
Prof. Erik Jan Hultink, Delft University of Technology
Prof. Christopher Lettl, Aarhus School of Business
Prof. Franco Malerba, Bocconi University
Prof. Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School

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TIME AND LOCATION
The seminar will be held at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
The programme will start on March 10, 2008 and is scheduled to end March 14, 2008

PARTICIPATION FEE
The participation fee is 1500 €. This fee includes participation to the seminar, the documents, lodging and full board.
Doctoral students will be assigned rooms for two. Should you wish a single room, an extra fee of 50 € per night will be charged to you.
Cancellations made before February 19, 2008 will be reimbursed with 10% deduction of the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after this date.

EIASM SCHOLARSHIPS
The Institute offers a limited number of scholarships of 700 € each. Scholarships are strictly limited to students coming from an EIASM Institutional Member (the Academic Council). Allocation of the scholarships is entirely at the discretion of the European Institute.

APPLICATIONS
The submission deadline is over. Besides doctoral students, other researchers may participate. The number of participants will be limited to create a stimulating environment. The selection among the applicants will be conducted by the Institute’s Faculty. They will review the following documents which should necessarily complement each application form:

• the applicant’s curriculum vitae demonstrating his/her capabilities of doing research ;
• a letter of recommendation of his/her local faculty supporting the application ;
• a two-page description of his/her doctoral research, indicating the general objectives.