LIST OF TRACKS
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Theme 1. Creative Resilience: Designing and Reimagining Innovation for Turbulent Times
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1.2 Managing Generativity in Innovation: from Control to Emergence
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1.3 Creativity in Digital Innovation: Designing beyond the Code
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1.7 Mind the Gap: Human-centred Creativity and Resilience in Digital Transformation and AI
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1.8 Eco-design, Creativity, and Digital Innovation for Resilient and Sustainable Product Lifecycles
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1.9 Front End of Innovation: Creativity in Early-Stage Development
Theme 2. Business Model Innovation in a Disrupted World
Theme 3. Innovating Together: Communities, Crowds and Cross-Boundary Partnerships
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3.2 Fostering Creativity and Resilience through Corporate-startup Collaborations
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3.3 Orchestrating Collaboration: Platforms for Internal Knowledge Sharing and Innovation
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3.4 Community-led R&D and Innovation Processes for Addressing Grand Challenges
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3.5 R&D Infrastructure and University-industry Collaborations
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3.6 Purpose Implementation and Innovation Performance: Outside-In and Inside-Out ambivalent outcomes
Theme 4. Ecosystems as Engines of Transformation
4.1 AI-driven Innovation Ecosystems for SME Growth and Scale-up
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4.3 Coopertition, Ecosystems, Networks and Alliances (CENA)
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4.5 Ecosystems as Catalysts for Sustainable and Socially Oriented Technological Innovation
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4.6 Networks, Ecosystems and Platforms for Circular and Regenerative Innovation
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4.7 Managing Platform Transitions: Innovation Pathways for Incumbent Firms in the Digital Age
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4.8 Harnessing Human-AI Synergy: Building Academic Entrepreneurship Ecosystems for the Digital Age
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4.10 Sustainable and Circular Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Theme 5. Innovation in a Fractured World: Geopolitics, Resource Shocks, and Resilient R&D Strategies
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5.2 R&D Management under Geopolitical Constraints: Governance, Location, and Knowledge Protection
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5.3 Firms’ Innovation Responses to Critical Raw Material Dependence
Theme 6. Resilient Futures: Innovation Strategy, Management, and Policy Under Disruption
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6.2 Innovating for Climate Resilience
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6.3 From Adaptation to Transformation: Innovation as the Engine of Territorial Resilience
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6.4 Technology-Driven Circular Innovation: From Engineering Design to Digital and AI Systems
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6.6 Health Technologies and Disruptive Change in Medical Innovation
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6.7 Innovating with LLMs: the Roles of AI in Knowledge Extraction & Generation
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6.8 Knowledge Diffusion, Transmission Mechanisms and Productivity
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6.10 Governing Innovation in Turbulent Times: Leadership, Resilience and Responsive Adaptation
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6.11 Shaping Responsible Innovation through Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures
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6.12 NPD in an Uncertain World: Emerging Tools, Methods, and Approaches
Theme 7. Power and Protection: How IP Shapes Innovation
7.1 Intellectual Property Rights, Drug Regulation, and R&D investments in Pharmaceutical Innovation
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Theme 8. Open Innovation 2.0: People, Platforms, and AI
8.1 Open Innovation: People, Process, and Performance of R&D Management
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8.2 Advances in Artificial Intelligence to promote open innovation
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8.3 From Open Innovation to Intelligent Innovation
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8.4 Rethinking Openness: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Collaborative Innovation
Theme 9. R&D Up Close: AI, People, and the Hidden Work of Innovation
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9.2 The Technology Dimension of R&D Management
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9.3 AI in the Lab: Transformations in R&D and the Practice of Science
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9.7 Rediscovering the Importance of Company Case Studies in R&D Management
Theme 10. Innovation in Practice: Methods, Tools, and Real-World Learning
Theme 11. Open Track
11.1 Open track: submission to a specific track is preferable. However, if none of the tracks relate to your research, you can submit to the general track. Abstracts submitted to the general track will then be reassigned by the conference organizers to a specific track.