Center for Innovation Research

Program overview

The 2nd Tilburg Conference on Innovation will bring together the various aspects of and perspectives on innovation that takes place in and around organizations. The aim of the conference is to capture the richness inherent in that diversityof aspects and approaches, while avoiding the fragmentation that it may lead to.

Besides many exciting paper presentations (see below for detailed program), the two highlights of the conference will be keynote speeches to be delivered by Huggy Rao (Stanford University) under the title "Plug Power: Activism and the Spread of Electric Vehicle Battery Charging Stations in the United States, 1995-2011" and by Daniel Levinthal (Wharton) under the title "Organizations as Evolutionary Systems".

Besides the keynote speakers, many distinguished scholars will participate in the conference. These include: Will Mitchell, Andrew van de Ven, Joe Lampel, Kaye Schoonhoven, Terry Amburgey, Gino Cattani and many others.

DETAILED PROGRAM availble here.

Friday June 15, 2012
16:00	Conference registration opens (check in possible from 14:00)
18:30 - 20:30	Welcome dinner
20:00 - 20:30	Opening and welcome
20:30 - ...	Beer tasting
Saturday June 16, 2012
7:00 - 9:00	Breakfast buffet
9:00 - 9:30	Official opening
9:30 - 10:30	Keynote speech I
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Parallel paper sessions
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30	Parallel paper sessions
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30	Parallel paper sessions
17:30 - 18:30	Break
18:30 - 20:30	Official banquet
20:30 - -	Evening entertainment
Sunday June 17, 2012
7:00 - 8:30	Breakfast buffet
8:30 - 10:00	Parallel sessions
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30	Parallel sessions
11:30 - 12:30	Keynote speech II
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - ....	Departure (check out is at 11:00, the hotel provides a storage space for the luggage)