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Organisations, Innovation and Complexity: New Perspectives on the Knowledge Economy

9^th-10^th September 2004
University of Manchester, Manchester,
England, UK.

Conference Programme

Thursday 9^th September 2004
12.00 - 14.00	Welcome by Professor Jeremy Howells, Executive Director, CRIC Conference Registration/Lunch
14.00 - 14.45	Plenary A* Professor Peter Allen, Cranfield University, U.K. ‘Evolutionary Drive – the basis of innovation in natural and human systems’
14.45 - 15.30	Plenary B Professor John Foster, University of Queensland, Australia ‘Why is Economics not a Complex Systems Science?’
15.30 - 16.00	Tea/Coffee
16.00 - 16.30	Room 10.04
	Michael Lyons ‘Models and Evolution of Strategy’
	Room 10.2
	Sudhir Varadarajan A Fundamental Principle to Rescue Innovation
16.30 - 17.00	Room 10.04
	E. Mitleton-Kelly ‘Co-Evolutionary Integration: The Co-creation of a New Organisational Form Following a Merger or Acquisition’
	Room 10.2
	Saurabh Arora ‘The Growth of Knowledge and Complexity in an Evolving Network Model of Technological Innovation’
17.00 - 17.30	Room 10.04
	Nadia Jacoby ‘How Does The Firm Manage Internal Diversity? The Role of Internal Selection’
	Room 10.2
	Timothy J Foxon ‘Innovation Systems as the Setting for the Co-evolution of Technologies and Institutions’
17.30 - 18.15	Plenary C Bridget Rosewell, Consultant Chief Economist, GLA and Chairman Volterra Consulting, UK ‘Informing policy with new modelling strategies - examples from London’
19.15 - 22.15	Conference Lunch

Friday 10 ^th September 2004
09.00 - 09.45	Plenary D Prof. Dr. Kurt Dopfer, Universität St.Gallen, Switzerland ‘Meso Economics: A Unified Concept for the Analysis of Complexity and Evolution’
09.45 - 10.30	Plenary E Dr Jason Potts, University of Queensland, Australia ‘The Allocation of Complexity’
10.30 - 11.00	Tea/Coffee
11.00 - 11.30	Room 10.04
	Judy Matthews ‘Applications of Complexity Theory to Firm Level Studies of Innovation: Preliminary Analysis'
	Room 10.2
	Petra Wagner, Barbara Heller-Schuh, Karl-Heinz Leitner ‘Applying Complexity Principles to Innovation Processes in Firms: A Complex Innovation Systems Approach’
	Room 9.19
	Masaaki Hirooka ‘Complexity in Discrete Innovation Systems’
11.30 - 12.00	Room 10.04
	Barbara Becker ‘Leveraging internal knowledge through formal interaction in knowledge markets’
	Room 10.2
	Catherine Truss, Jas Gill ‘Human Resource Management: A Complexity Perspective’
	Room 9.19
	A Hiley, H.J. Kahn, D.J. Petty, W.S. Truscott, J. Wilson ‘Innovation in Systems through the Creation of Emergent Properties’
12.00 - 12.30	Room 10.04
	Liz Varga ‘A case study of the 3 largest aerospace manufacturing organisations: an exploration of organisational strategy, innovation and evolution’
	Room 10.2
	Mei-ya Wang, Se-Hwa Wu ‘How did the Phalaenopsis Industry Form and Develop in Taiwan? Innovation, Diffusion and Complexity Science Perspective’
	Room 9.19
	Walter Van Dyck ‘Predictive Performance of Front-Loaded Experimentation Strategies in Pharmaceutical Discovery’
12.30 – 13.00	Room 10.2
	J.S.Baldwin, P.M. Allen, B. Winder, Ridgway, K. ‘Diversity in Management Decision Making and Manufacturing Evolution’
	Room 9.19
	Michael Gell ‘Phase Transitions in Digital Enterprises’
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.30	Room 10.04
	Mirva Peltoniemi ‘Cluster, Value Network and Business Ecosystem: Knowledge and Innovation Approaches’
	Room 10.2
	Christian Rose-Andersen, P.M. Allen ‘Complex Activity Networks: A dialogue between a Complex System Mathematical Model and a Cultural –Historical Activity Theoretical Approach- Practical Applications for Innovative Practice’
	Room 9.19
	Cristiano Antonelli ‘Collective Knowledge: Knowledge, Complexity and Cumulative Evolution’
14.30 - 15.00	Room 10.04
	Elizabeth Garnsey, Paul Heffernan, Simon Ford ‘Complex Dynamic Processes in the Evolution of Early Information and Communication Technologies’
	Room 10.2
	Fransceso Crespi, Natalia Zinovyeva ‘Mergers, Innovation and Market Structure, Insights from Evolutionary Economics’
	Room 9.19
	James McGlade ‘Knowledge economies and episodic transitions: a view from the long-term’
15.00 - 15.30	Room 10.04
	Jane McCarthy, Richard Smith, Michelle Petrusevich ‘Impact of a New Innovation – the New Media Cluster in Vancouver’
	Room 9.19
	A. Mina et al ‘Problems Sequences and Innovation Systems: The emergence of coronary angioplasty’
15.30 - 16.00	Tea/Coffee
16.00 - 16.45	Plenary F Paul Omerod, Director, Volterra Consulting, UK
16.45 - 17.00	Professor Stan Metcalfe, ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition Closing Comments

*ALL PLENARY SESSIONS IN RM 10.04

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