Exploring the theme of ‘transforming industries through technology’, the 2024 R&D Management Conference will take place on 17-19 June 2024 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Digitalization, automatization, electrification, and the quest for sustainability are trends that challenge contemporary industrial structures and will have profound impact on society.
The R&D Management Conference 2024 will revolve around the management challenges of contemporary industries and explore relevant research frontiers to conceptualize, and find answers to, how some of these challenges should be handled.
The list of tracks are below and more detailed descriptions can be found here.
Impact of AI
A semiotic perspective of AI in R&D Management
Creativity and its Management driven by Generative Artificial Intelligence
Unveiling the Future of Creativity and Innovation Management in the era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Digital transformation of organizations and industries
Cybersecurity in the tourism and hospitality industry Critical issues and possible scenarios
Digital Innovation in Disruptive Times: Exploring Strategies across Teams, Technology, Firms, and Industry levels
Digitalization, innovation and sustainability: the triple helix of the Industrial Revolution (IR)
Exploring the Intersection of Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation: Insights and Opportunities
Holistic Digital Transformation
SkillsXInnovation: The Evolution of Skill in the Era of the Digital Transformation
The limits of digital transformation
Innovation for sustainability
A Capability-based Approach for Circular Business Model Innovation
Digital Innovation and Environmental Sustainability: the intersection between Emerging Technologies and Open Innovation
Enabling innovation in the agri-food sector
Impact of Environmental Targets on Corporate Innovation
Innovation under resource constraints
Inter-organisational collaborations for a better and “circular” future
Open Innovation and Sustainability: Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Age
Challenge-driven and responsible innovation
Advanced Technologies: Transforming Businesses and Society for Diverse Goals
Fostering Collaboration between Academia and Industry for Challenge-Driven Innovation
Purpose-driven innovation: New Technologies, Strategies, and Processes to Create Impact
Sustainability transitions
Delving into the nexus of digitalisation and circular economy in businesses: overlapping and implications
Digital and sustainable transition in R&D processes: Bridging technologies and practices
Organizing for Sustainability: a multilevel challenge
Technology and innovation policy
A new management of Big Science: Science and Technology, Sustainable Development Goals and the Leave No One Behind principle
Governance of user-inspired basic research through collaborative PhD projects in engineering
Sociocultural factors in Smart city development: Prospects and Retrospect
Steering the Green Transition: STI Policy for Sustainable Innovation
Technology, R&D and innovation strategies
Enhance Imagination in R&D, Innovation and Strategy
Fail it till you make it: learning by failure and innovative activities
Outside the Box: Exploring Unconventional Paradigms in Innovation
Technology-based entrepreneurship
Corporate-startup collaborations: Motivations, challenges, and success factors
Science-based University Spin-off Ventures: People, Processes, Policy
The role of accelerators on startup innovation and success
Understanding Entrepreneurial Experimentation in Context: Contingencies, Processes, and Outcomes
Organizing R&D
Fostering Strategic Innovation Management in an ever-changing world
New forms of organizing for innovation in uncertain times
Systems approach to innovation management
The Technology Dimension of R&D Management
University-industry engagement: Impact and the rise of competency transfer partnerships
Intellectual property management
Innovation and Intellectual Property Management Strategies for Digital Futures
Intellectual Property (IP) Management: How the management of IP is influencing the transformation of industries through technology
Ecosystems alliances and collaborations
Complex Firm Partnerships -not just Ecosystems
Coopetition, Ecosystems, Networks and Alliances (CENA)
Digital technologies, ecosystem and industry transformation
Innovation Dilemmas for SMEs and Family Businesses: Navigating the New Platform Economy
Orchestration of ecosystems to address grand challenges
Panarchic pulse: tuning into digital platforms’ resilient rhythms
Unveiling ecosystem dynamics: bridging gaps between Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems
Open innovation and crowd sourcing
Beyond the hype: shedding light on Open Innovation
Harnessing The Power of Crowds in the Era of Technological Transformations and Digitalisation
Reviving the relevance of Open Innovation in an era of platforms, ecosystems and digitalization
Technological change and business model innovation
Exploring The Metaverse: Barriers, Enablers and Expected Outcomes
Technologies And Business Model Innovations: Emergence, Evolution, Exaptation And Entanglement
Transformation in Business Model Ecosystems to Achieve Climate-Neutral Electrification with Smart Technologies
Innovation theory and practice
The use of theory in technological innovation management practice
Design for change and transition
Elevating Sustainable Development: The Role of Systemic Design in Policy Innovation
Role of Design in addressing the major shifts of the transition towards sustainability
Workspace, Affect, and Creativity
Digital transformation of organizations and industries
Do opposites attract? When centralized systems meet decentralized digital technologies
Challenge-driven and responsible innovation
Renewable energy tech transformation and business modelling for socially just and equitable transitions
Ecosystems alliances and collaborations
Managing and mitigating uncertainty and risk in ecosystem design enabling data-driven innovation
Managing innovation eco-systems as complex adaptive systems: challenges, advantages and limits for research and practice
Conference Chairs
Mats Engwall, PhD,
Professor of Industrial Management, KTH
Mats Magnusson, PhD,
Professor of Product Innovation Engineering, KTH