The 1st Interdisciplinary Innovation conference organized by i3 has been held on 2 December 2013 in Paris. The theme of the conference iwas \u201cCooperating for innovation: devices for collective exploration\u201d. The conference aimed to bring together scholars from different disciplines (economics, management and organization studies, sociology) in order to investigate the practices and devices that are put forward and tried out to equip collective exploration activities. Of particular interest were issues relating to property rights, design activities, atypical organizational forms and new business models, valuation tools.<\/p>\n
Conference theme<\/strong><\/p>\n Innovation activities face a threefold challenge today: they build on the advancement of science and include an increasingly strong technological component; they involve a growing number of actors, among whom large corporations, high-technology start-ups, public research organizations, and user association; they are to take into account various stakeholders\u2019 concerns which extend beyond a mere economic or financial logic. In other words, innovation becomes \u2013 or at least attempts to become – increasingly disruptive, open, and responsible. The uncertainty inherent to innovation hence bears not only on the odds of success, but also on the nature of scientific knowledge to build and leverage, on the identity of partners to enroll, and on the evaluation criteria to rely on. Marked by this threefold uncertainty, innovation regimes pertain to the\u00a0exploration<\/em>\u00a0of new possibilities, rather than theexploitation<\/em>\u00a0of things already known, as James March famously put it.<\/p>\n The conference investigated new forms of organizing collective action given the uncertainty inherent in exploratory innovation. This issue was addressed through the analysis of\u00a0practices and devices\u00a0<\/strong>that are put forward and tried out\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0equip collective exploration activities<\/strong>, such as:<\/p>\n Program (PDF version)<\/a><\/p>\n Charles Baden-Fuller (Cass Business School), “Business models: A challenging agenda”<\/a><\/p>\n Bill Gaver (Goldsmiths, University of London),\u00a0\u201cPolyphony in design\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Lecomte, Blanco, Trompette & Cholez, \u201cTowards a better frugal design using persona – issues and insights from an ethnography on prosthetics in Vietnam\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Royer, \u201cMedical Design: How health-care users can contribute to understand new medical practices\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Sanchez-Criado, \u201cInfrastructuring a user-led care economy? Figuring collaborative economic agencies through design practices\u201d<\/p>\n Meyer & Ermoshina, \u201cBricolage as collaborative exploration: transforming matter, citizens and politics\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n KokKokshagina, Gillier, Cocez, Guemy & Barthelemy, “Towards a new form of ideas contests in high-tech environment: Design community building in double unknown”<\/a><\/p>\n Musiani, \u201cA decentralized Domain Name System? User-controlled infrastructure as alternative Internet governance\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Aggeri, Chanal, Charue-Duboc & Garel, \u201cManaging exploratory innovation: Towards an analytical framework\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Imbert & Chauvet, \u201cThe role of KIBS in the clients\u2019 knowledge absorption process in the case of exploration innovation\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Karstens, Duijn, Altamirano, Nijburg & Oldenkamp, \u201cAccelerating innovation: Empiric lessons from the Dutch water and construction sector\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Gillier, Hooge & Piat, \u201cCollaborative design of value in creative projects: An expansive value management model\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Mallard, Reverdy & Vigilante \u201cExploring value and steering innovation. The case of telecommunication services for professionals.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Le Gall, \u201cVisualizations of Advanced innovation projects: Examining the practices of project managers\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Pohjola, Koivisto & Pitkanen, \u201cEnhancing the co-creation of service innovations by a web-based development environment\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Bessy, \u201cTechnological cooperation, intellectual property and standards\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Baron, M\u00e9ni\u00e8re & Pohlmann, \u201cInnovation in standards\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Krychowski, \u201cTechnology licensing decisions: A real options perspective\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Michelino, Cammarano, Lamberti & Caputo, \u201cOpen innovation models: Collaboration, market or both?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Chen, \u201cThe design and characteristics of low cost products\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Baker, D\u00e9tienne & Burkhardt, \u201cQuality of collaboration in design: Articulating multiple dimensions and viewpoints\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Freitas-Salgueiredo, \u201cModeling biological inspiration for innovative design\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Jutant, \u201cA communicational framework for studying atypical organizations: the case of the \u201cresidence\u201d Design & Sciences in Grenoble (ENSCI \u2013 Les Ateliers and CEA)<\/a><\/p>\n Meyer, Schubert & Windeler, \u201cOrganizing uncertainty. Technological innovation in the semiconductor industry\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Ferdinand, \u201cThe sensitivity of innovation communities: Desktop 3D printing between Open Source and market exploitation\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Programme<\/h2>\n
Plenary sessions<\/h2>\n
Thematic parallel sessions<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a>Session 1: Users and design<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Session 2:\u00a0Alternative forms of collective exploration<\/h3>\n
Session 3: Managing exploration<\/h3>\n
Session 4: Collective exploration practices<\/h3>\n
Session 5: Framing collective exploration<\/h3>\n
Session 6: Design: Sharing concepts<\/h3>\n
Session 7: Organizing for collective exploration<\/h3>\n