ANNOUNCE: CINet - PhD Seminar 2011

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

The CINet PhD Seminar on Researching Continuous Innovation 
Continuous innovation, the basis for sustainable success, requires companies to combine continuity and innovation in several different ways. World-class companies:
* Make the right strategic choices.
* Implement their strategies by continuously developing new products, markets, processes, forms of organization and management approaches. 
* Ensure continuity and improvement of their existing business. 

Thus, continuously innovative companies successfully combine strategic, innovation and operational excellence or, as James March would put it, exploration and exploitation.

The CINet seminar on Research in Continuous Innovation
The CINet seminar on Research Continuous Innovation provides a unique platform for doctoral students to present and discuss their research, and to get feedback from and exchange comments and views with fellow students and experienced researchers in the field. 

The seminar takes place on 4-8 April 2011 and will be hosted by Prof. Mariano Corso of Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy.

Participants
The seminar offers space to max. 20 doctoral students or other researchers developing a PhD thesis, who are researching continuous innovation or a related topic and are in a relatively early phase of their studies.

Work mode
The seminar features a combination of faculty teaching and student presentations, plenary sessions, and small-group work. The program is highly interactive and includes ample opportunity for exploring emerging themes in continuous innovation theory and methodology.

Credits
Upon successful completion of the seminar, the participants are given a certificate and granted 5 ECTS.

More info at http://www.continuous-innovation.net/Events/phd_seminar_2011.html