• LOCAL CHAIR & COORDINATION
• STEERING COMMITTEE
• TUTORS
• THE CONCEPT
• THE FORMAT
• THE PROGRAM
• APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
• PRACTICALITIES

TAUNO KEKALE, University of Vaasa

PETRA DE WEERD-NEDERHOF, University of Twente

Koenraed  DEBACKERE
Olaf  FISSCHER
Petra DE WEERD-NEDERHOF
Holger ERNST
Tauno KEKALE
Jeff BUTLER (RADMA)

Steven EPPINGER, MIT SLOAN School of Management
Oliver GASSMANN, University of St. Gallen
Maximillian VON ZEDTWITZ, Tsinghua University, China
Svetlana CICMIL, Bristol Business School, U.K.
Koenraad DEBACKERE, KU Leuven, Belgium

The Summer School is a valuable experience for anyone involved in doctoral work in the area of technology and innovation management. It provides a unique opportunity for doctoral students in technology management to learn from presentations of leading academics in the field and to meet colleagues with similar research interests. During the intensive one-week course, the participating students have the opportunity to discuss their research programs with senior professors and with other PhD students in interactive workshops, and to meet the editors of the journals R&D Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, Journal of Workplace Learning and Zeitschrift fuer Betriebswirtschaft. A company visit is also scheduled to a firm leading in the area of technology and product innovation.
The European Doctoral Summer School was first organised by Professor Klaus Brockhoff at the University of Kiel in 1991. Since then the School has been held in different locations: Manchester Business School in the UK; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, University of Twente, the Netherlands; Politecnico di Milano, Italy; WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate school of Management, Vallendar, Germany. Since 2000, the European Doctoral Summer School in Technology Management has been organised jointly with EIASM (see www.eiasm.be). The number of alumni from the Summer School now exceeds 300. A considerable number of Summer School alumni and tutors are still in touch with each other and play active roles in the field of Technology Management.

After a first Kick Off  day with ample attention for PhD thesis development and publication issues, and a joint company visit highlighting technology and innovation management issues in practice to create a shared frame of reference, the Summer School starts with two lecturers and the hosts addressing ‘Capita Selecta’ in Organisation Theory as applied to Innovation in the first half of the week. These more general topical sessions are in the second half of the week complemented by tutors focusing on their own specific research topics to illustrate a research agenda in innovation management. Each tutor will chair and give extensive feedback to 4-to-5 60 minute student presentations. Topics for this include Open innovation/Global R&D, Entrepreneurship and University-Industry Relations and Intellectual Property Management and Firm Performance. During the SummerSchool, student presentations and discussions will be organised around clusters of topics based on students' own research areas

Thursday 10 August

Arrivals, individual activities
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Friday 11 August

12.00-12.30               Welcome
12.30-14.00               Organisation Theory as applied to Innovation – Introduction to the theme 
                                      Prof. Tauno Kekäle, Prof. Petra de Weerd-Nederhof
14.30-16.00                "Judgment day: what is required in a PhD Thesis evaluation ?"
                                      Prof. Tauno Kekale, Prof. Petri Helo
16.30-19.00                Company visit

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Saturday 12 August

9.00-11.30                 Organisation Theory as applied to Innovation - part I.
                                     Prof. Steven Eppinger
12.30-18.00               Tutor continues/student presentations
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Sunday 13 August

Excursion (Boat trip to outer archipelago, dinner at Kalle's Inn)
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Monday 14 August

9.00-11.30                 Organisation Theory as applied to Innovation - part II: OT of Large Technology Projects
                                     Dr. Svetlana Cicmil
12.30-18.00               Dr.  Cicmil continues/student presentations
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Tuesday 15 August

9.00-11.30                  S&T and R&D in developing economies: Towards a new understanding of sources of innovation
                                      Prof. Maximillian von Zedtwitz
12.30-18.00                Prof. Von Zedtwitz continues/student presentations
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Wednesday 16 August

9.00-11.30                 Open Innovation/Global R&D
                                     Prof. Oliver Gassmann
12.30-18.00               Prof. Gassmann continues/student presentations
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Thursday 17 August

9.00-11.30                 Entrepreneurship and University-Industry Relations
                                     Prof. Koenraad Debackere
11.30-12.30               Lunch
12.30-18.00               Tutor continues/student presentations
Farewell Dinner
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Friday 18 August
RADMA workshop on Creative Workspaces in cooperation with MUOVA http://www.muova.fi/

Students will be selected according to the novelty and the quality of their research interests and by an indication that they will be able to benefit and learn effectively from their participation. Students should at least have finished their first PhD year in order to be eligible. They must show that they will be able to contribute to the event. Students will have their own one-hour session presenting their research to one of the tutors and the other participants (including discussion & feedback). For this, they are required to submit a short paper (about 5-10 pages, in English) describing their research topic, also addressing methodological issues and choices made. This paper will be circulated among all participants and read and commented on during the Summer School by one of the tutors and by other students. The number of participants will be limited to 30 to create a stimulating environment. Interested doctoral students should register on-line via www.eiasm.be no later than June 1st, 2006. Notifications of acceptance will be made before June 30th, 2006. Please note that the deadline for submitting the paper is also June 1st.  Presentations can include further material based on the progress made between handing in the paper and the Summer School, but should be sent electronically via e-mail (tke@uwasa.fi) no later than August 5th, 2006.

For further information on the program content and registration please contact Prof. Dr. Tauno Kekale (tke@uwasa.fi). First year PhD Students interested in the Summer School of 2007 (University of twente, the Netherlands) or 2008 (KULeuven, Belgium) can contact Dr. Petra de Weerd-Nederhof (p.c.deweerd@utwente.nl) for further information.

TIME AND LOCATION
The seminar will be held at the University of VAASA., Vaasa, Finland
The programme will start on August 11, 2006 and is scheduled to end August 17, 2006

REGISTRATION FEES AND ACCOMMODATION EXPENSES
Participating students will be required to pay a fee of 900 €. This fee includes participation to the seminar, the documents, lodging including breakfast, lunches and a number of dinners.
Doctoral students will be assigned rooms for two. Should you wish a single room, an extra fee of 13 EUR will be charged to you.
Cancellation made before 27 July 2006 will be reimbursed with 10% deduction of the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after that date.

SCHOLARSHIPS
A number of (full) scholarships covering the fee are available from RADMA (see www.RADMA.org) as well as from the University of Vaasa and from the journal Creativity & Innovation Management. Applications from Eastern Europe or LDC's are especially welcomed. Applicants who would like to be considered for one of these scholarships should contact the local organisers separately (tke@uwasa.fi) at the same time as registering via EIASM.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Interested doctoral students should register online and upload the required documents no later than June 1, 2006.

To apply online, please click here.

For more information, please contact the organisers through
Prof. TAUNO KEKALE
UNIVERSITY OF VAASA - PO BOX 700 - 65101 VAASA - FINLAND
Tel: +358 6 3248446 Fax: +358 6 3248467
E-mail: tke@uwasa.fi

Or

Dr. PETRA DE WEERD-NEDERHOF
UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE – PO BOX 217-7500 AE ENSCHEDE - THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31 53 4893499 Fax: +31 53 4892159
E-mail: p.c.deweerd@utwente.nl 

Contact person at EIASM:
Ms. Nina Payen
EDEN Manager, EIASM - PLACE DE BROUCKÈRE-PLEIN - 31 - 1000 BRUSSELS - BELGIUM
Tel: 32 2 2266661 - Fax: 32 2 5121929
Email: nina@eiasm.be