ANNOUNCEMENT: 17th European Doctoral Summer School on Technology Management

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

17th European Doctoral Summer School on Technology Management
Deadline: 15 June 2007

THE CONCEPT
The Summer School is a valuable experience for anyone involved in
doctoral work in the area of technology and innovation management. It
provides a unique opportunity for doctoral students in technology
management to learn from presentations of leading academics in the field
and to meet colleagues with similar research interests. During the
intensive one-week course, the participating students have the
opportunity to discuss their research programs with senior professors
and with other PhD students in interactive workshops, and to meet the
editors of the journals R&D Management, Creativity and Innovation
Management, Journal of Workplace Learning and Zeitschrift fuer
Betriebswirtschaft. A company visit is also scheduled to a firm leading
in the area of technology and product innovation.

The European Doctoral Summer School was first organised by Professor
Klaus Brockhoff at the University of Kiel in 1991. Since then the School
has been held in different locations: Manchester Business School in the
UK; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, University of Twente, the
Netherlands; Politecnico di Milano, Italy; WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate
school of Management, Vallendar, Germany. Since 2000, the European
Doctoral Summer School in Technology Management has been organised
jointly with EIASM (see www.eiasm.be). The number of alumni from the
Summer School now exceeds 300. A considerable number of Summer School
alumni and tutors are still in touch with each other and play active
roles in the field of Technology Management.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Students will be selected according to the novelty and the quality of
their research interests and by an indication that they will be able to
benefit and learn effectively from their participation. Students should
at least have finished their first PhD year in order to be eligible.
They must show that they will be able to contribute to the event.
Students will have their own one-hour session presenting their research
to one of the tutors and the other participants (including discussion &
feedback). For this, they are required to submit a short paper (about
5-10 pages, in English) describing their research topic, also addressing
methodological issues and choices made. This paper will be circulated
among all participants and read and commented on during the Summer
School by one of the tutors and by other students. The number of
participants will be limited to 30 to create a stimulating environment.
Interested doctoral students should register on-line via www.eiasm.be no
later than June 15th, 2007. Notifications of acceptance will be made
before June 30th, 2007. Please note that the deadline for submitting the
paper is also June 15th, 2007. Presentations can include further
material based on the progress made between handing in the paper and the
Summer School, but should be sent electronically via e-mail
(p.c.deweerd at utwente.nl) no later than August 5th, 2007.

For further information on the program content and registration please
contact Dr. Petra de Weerd-Nederhof (p.c.deweerd at utwente.nl). First year
PhD Students interested 2008 (KULeuven, Belgium) can contact Dr. Petra
de Weerd-Nederhof (p.c.deweerd at utwente.nl). 

More info at
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=517