InterTradeIreland Innovation Conference 2011

Building Capability for Innovation

The 2011 All-Island Innovation Conference, entitled Building Capability for Innovation, is taking place at Queen’s University Belfast on Tuesday 4 October and Wednesday 5 October. The conference will explore how innovation can stimulate economic recovery, and what the best methods are for implementing such changes.

Professor Rosabeth M Kanter, of Harvard Business School, will give a keynote address each day: Innovation: Classic Traps and the Enduring Success Factors Creating a Supportive Environment for Innovation to Flourish

There is no charge to attend this conference.

In the packed two-day programme, a number of business leaders, from both sides of the border, will explore how innovation can be developed within any business and outline the benefits it has brought to their own businesses. Delegates will also hear the results of cutting-edge research into innovation that is taking place in our universities.
The conference will be of interest to business owners and senior managers in all industry sectors and business sizes, senior managers in the public and Third sector and anyone with a responsibility for the strategic development of a business or organisation.

The second day of the conference will be of specific interest to academic researchers with an interest in innovation and management.

Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. The former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter has been repeatedly named on lists of the “50 most powerful women in the world” (Times of London), and the “50 most influential business thinkers in the world” (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research). She is the author or co-author of 18 books. Her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, a manifesto for leadership of sustainable enterprises, was named one of the ten best business books of 2009 by Amazon.com. She has received 23 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards and prizes for her books and articles; for example, her book The Change Masters was named one of the most influential business books of the 20th century (Financial Times).

The InterTradeIreland All-Island Innovation Programme aims to promote and encourage innovation across the island of Ireland. It brings international expertise in innovation to Queen’s University Belfast, NUI Galway and University College Dublin. Best international practice is shared with business leaders, students, academics, knowledge transfer professionals and policy makers in each region via innovation lectures, seminars and master classes. This Programme is organised by InterTradeIreland, Queen’s University Belfast, NovaUCD and the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change at NUI Galway.

For further information, please contact:

Paul Cochrane
Business & Innovation
Queen’s University Belfast
Room 02 054, 2nd Floor Lanyon South
University Road
Belfast BT7 1NN
028 9097 5323
p.cochrane@qub.ac.uk
http://go.qub.ac.uk/ InnovationConference2011
www.innovationireland.org

All Welcome – Registration Required

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