PROFESSIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
Guest Editors: Daniel Muzio (University of Leeds), David Brock (Ben-Gurion University) and Roy Suddaby (University of Alberta)
There is a growing awareness of the critical role that professions play in advanced economies. Professionals and professional service firms are key advisors, analysts, defenders and developers of the major institutions that underpin capitalist economies.

For further information please check the attached flyer.

‘Best Practice in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design' is a yearly series of discussions aimed at entrepreneurs who are experienced in taking a company through its early start-up years, and are preparing for the next phase of growth. Other practitioners, researchers or policy makers interested in this phase of development, or innovation practice in general, are also invited to join. The sessions can be attended separately as stand-alone discussions or as a wide-ranging series.

Each event will present insights from the diverse viewpoints of our academic and practitioner panellists, while inviting audience members to contribute their own experience and views to the discussion. Please join us, we look forward to your participation!

Click here to register for these events.

TUM-Research Excellence Award in Innovation & Leadership 2010

The Annual TUM-Research Excellence Award of the Peter Pribilla Foundation honours significant scholarly contributions that advance our knowledge and understanding in the field of "Innovation & Leadership".
Significant scholarly contributions may take the form of conceptual, theoretical, methodological or empirical developments. Emerging scholars on the level of postdoctoral researchers as well as early career academics and professors are eligible for the award.

Candidates are strongly encouraged to submit their application via Email to: award@pribilla-stiftung.de

SERVICE MODULARITY
First International Service Modularity Seminar, January 21-22, 2010, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
The emerging research field of service modularity is growing and senior researchers as well as doctoral students are engaging in the topic from various disciplines. However, research initiatives are rather dispersed and interested researchers seem to be largely unknown to each other. We therefore aim to establish a research community and discussion forum for researchers and PhD students to further develop the field of service modularity.
For further information please see the event flyer.

Nottingham University Business School is delighted to announce the 4th Seminar in the ESRC Seminar Series ‘Successful Radical Innovation: From Ideas to Market’. 

The Centre for Construction Innovation (CCI) at The University of Salford are hosting the event which will take place on Friday 5th March 2010.Please find attached the invitation with further details of the event.

The event is free to attend, to register please contact Emma Looskin at CCI at emma.looskin@ccinw.com or telephone 0161 295 5076.

Technology and innovation management
16 March - 18 March 2010, Jesus College, Cambridge

• develop the capability to exploit technological opportunities

• identify key business and technology issues that lead to new revenue streams

• work with the latest tools and techniques for technology and innovation management

This intensive three-day course will help managers to understand and to use the key tools and techniques needed to fully exploit technological investments and opportunities.

For further information please visit the IfM Website

CHINA TOMORROW – BUILDING INNOVATION LINKS BETWEEN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND & CHINA
THURSDAY, 18TH MARCH 2010 TIME: 09:00-16:30
 
Innovation is a key driver of future prosperity and is at the heart of future economic development. In difficult economic times, it will be those countries that invest in and successfully exploit new and innovative ideas that will come out on top.

For further information please check the event flyer.

Early career academics - Professional Development Conference
08 April 2010 - 09 April 2010
The conference will include a mix of formal presentations by academic leaders, practical workshops and informal presentation sessions, as well as plenty of time for socialising and networking. You will have a chance to explore and reflect on issues which are not always easy to discuss at your own workplace.  This is to support reseachers in their personal development within the context of today's higher education workplace, where pressures of insecure employment and limited induction should be balanced with the excitement of pursuing a research career and achieving high quality publications.
For further information and to book a place please visit the BAM Website.

2010 Frontiers in Service Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS June 10 — 13, 2010, Karlstad, Sweden

Considered to be the world's leading annual conference on service research and drawing attendees from 38 countries, Frontiers 2010 will be hosted by CTF - Service Research Center, Karlstad University, in Karlstad, Sweden. Concurrent and plenary sessions will be held all day Friday and Saturday, concluding Sunday morning with plenary sessions. The conference will open with a reception Thursday evening and will feature the awards dinner and a special networking event on Friday and Saturday nights.  
For up-to-date conference information, go to the conference’s official Web site at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ces/frontiersconference.aspx

2nd PARIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
Paris (France), Hotel Concorde La Fayette, 21-24 July 2010
This Conference will be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers and industry representatives interested in Education. All areas of Education are invited, as are economic, political, cultural and social themes relating to Education. The languages of the conference are English and French. The Conference will be held at the Hotel Concorde La Fayette, in central Paris. For further information and registration, please visit the conference website.
Contact: Paris-Conference@analytrics.org

A week of events bringing together leading academics, industrialists, policy makers to address the evolving challenges facing service education, research, practice and policy.
21 - 26 September 2010

The service sector now accounts for 75 percent of the labour force in the US and the UK and more than 50 percent in Brazil, Russia, Japan and Germany. The dramatic growth of the service sector is changing the nature of organisations. However, it is becoming apparent that there is a lack of research and knowledge in the area of service to help address the challenges these changes are bringing about.
For further information please visit IfM Website here.

Forum on Markets and Marketing: Extending Service-Dominant Logic, September 2010
AIM Services Lead Fellow Professor Irene Ng will be co-chairing the Forum on Markets and Marketing: Extending Service-Dominant Logic (FMM 2010) with Professor Robert Lusch and Professor Steve Vargo which will be held between 23 and 26 September 2010 at the University of Cambridge.

Attached you may find a final call for proposals/papers for the Forum. Please be also advised that there will be three scholarships available for doctoral students that will pay for their registration fee and lodging.
See flyer for further information.

'IT and Project Management taking place at the 44th HICSS  Conference
Part of the Organizational Systems and Technology Track. The conference is on  4th-7th January 2011 in Kauai, Hawaii.  Deadline for paper submissions is June 15th 2010.

Details of the minitrack are attached. HICSS - 44 conference website is http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/apahome44.html. Please feel free to circulate and to contact us in advance with an abstract if you are unsure as to whether your paper topic would be suitable for our minitrack.