Networks A Key Focus for InterTrade

Building Collaborative Networks 4 Knowledge Economy  is Key Focus for InterTradeIreland  Conference

 

 

 

Leading business and industry leaders  will take part in the forthcoming InterTradeIreland 2010 Innovation Conference, entitled Building Collaborative Networks for Innovation, which will take place in University College Dublin on 28-29 June.

 

 

Networks are a very important  part of why our country is now  being  recognised as a global innovation hub.The conference objective  is to provide a view from leading stakeholders and academic experts on the benefits and successes of collaborative networks as drivers and facilitators of innovation.

 

 

The development and expansion of innovation networks has a major role to play in sustaining economic renewal on the island of Ireland.   This  conference will focus on  why networks  are key to developing Ireland's emergence as an ‘innovation island' .

 

 

Damini Kumar, an award winning designer, and the Director of Design and Creativity at NUI Maynooth will be a guest speaker on Day 1 of the conference, (June 28), which  will focus on the theme of Building Collaborative Networks for Innovation in a Knowledge Economy. It will blend contemporary thinking on collaborative networks with lessons learnt from key stakeholders.

 

 

Last year the European Commission appointed Kumar a European Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation to foster the principles and value of innovation and creativity at all levels of European society.

 

 

On day one an expert panel, chaired by , Clarigen CEO Bernie Cullinan will deliver presentations on this theme and will participate in a questions and answers session. Panel members  will include IDA Ireland CEO  Barry O'Leary  and Intel Labs Europe Director Martin Curley.

 

 

Other speakers on innovation  will  include Dublin Chamber of Commerce CEO Gina Quin, Crospon CEO John O'Dea, Bord na Móna Director of Innovation Hubert Henry and  Randox Laboratories founder and MD Peter FitzGerald.

 

 

Day 2 (June 29) will focus on Academic Reflections and Future Challenges and will bring together academic researchers from all around Ireland and internationally who will explore and examine current research on the topic of innovation networks including the role that multi-national companies have to play in the development of such networks.

 

 

 

Professor Woody Powell, Stanford University, California will be the keynote speaker at both days of the conference. His addresses will draw upon his research on the processes through which knowledge is transferred across organisations and the role that networks have in facilitating or hindering innovation.

 

 

It is envisaged that the findings of the conference will assist in strengthening innovation studies in Ireland and will contribute to relevant strategy and policy formation and innovation best practice.

 

 

The innovation conference is being organised by NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre and UCD's Innovation Research Unit.

 

 

The conference forms part of the InterTradeIreland All-island Innovation Programme which aims to promote and encourage innovation across the island of Ireland.

 

 

This Programme is organised by InterTradeIreland, Queen's University Belfast, NovaUCD and the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, NUI Galway.

 

Conference Details

 

Title: Building Collaborative Networks for Innovation

 

Dates: 28-29 June 2010

 

Location: UCD's William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.

 

Details and online registration: ucd.ie/nova/intertradeireland2010innovationconference

 

The conference is free to attend. All are welcome to attend on either or both days of the conference.

 

 

Pictured is Damini Kumar, Director of Design and Creativity, NUI Maynooth, European Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation

 

 

 

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