3rd Advanced KITE Workshop on Knowledge Integration and Innovation
Linköping, Sweden – September 12th -13th 2012
Wednesday, September 12th
09.00 – 10.00
Registration & Coffee
10.00 – 10.15
Welcome
10.15 – 12.30
Session 1
Track 1: Individuals as knowledge integrators.
Blomkvist, Katarina; Kappen, Philip; Zander, Ivo: Superstar inventors –
Towards a people centric perspective on the geography of technological renewal
in the multinational corporation. Discussants: Cattani, Ferriani & Allison
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Laursen Keld:
The role of university scientists’ mobility for industrial innovation. Discussants:
Karabag & Berggren.
Hammarström, Maria; Engwall, Mats: Barriers of knowledge sharing in
engineering consulting firms. Discussant: Maaninen-Olsson
Track 2: Knowledge integration in collaborations (I)
Vie, Ola-Edvin; Stensli, Morten: Collaborating in research centres –Aiming at
knowledge integration in renewable energy innovation projects. Discussant:
Magnusson
Goduscheit, René C.; Knudsen, Mette P.; SME’s versus the knowledge
institutions? A triad perspective on perceived barriers to collaboration of
SME’s, RTOs and Universities. Discussants: Schmitt, Schulze & Brusoni
Eslami, Mohammad, H.; Lakemond, Nicolette: Integrating customer knowledge
in suppliers’ new product development – Taking a supplier perspective.
Discussants: Axelson & Richtnér
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Session 2
Track 1: Capabilities for knowledge integration and innovation
Kiamehr, Mehdi: Catching up in complex capital goods (CCGs): The evolution
of systems integration capability in case of Iranian electricity generation
systems. Discussants: Lopez-Vega, Jingshu & Vanhaverbeke
Aaltonen, Kirsi; Ruuska; Inkeri: Institutional capabilities in project-based firms.
Discussants: Hobday, Boddington & Grantham
Track 2: Knowledge integration in collaborations (II)
Rosell, David, T.; Melander, Lisa; Lakemond, Nicolette: Strategies for
integrating supplier knowledge in innovation – Internal knowledge absorption
and joint knowledge accumulation. Discussant: Bulathsinhala
Axelson, Mattias; Richtnér, Anders: Exploring integration mechanisms in
product development collaboration between companies. Discussants: Söderlund
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.00
Session 3
Track 1: Organizing across projects
Lindkvist, Lars; Bengtsson, Marie, Wahlstedt, Linnéa: Roadmapping for
«planned innovation». Discussant: Altonen & Ruuska
Schmitt, Philipp; Schulze, Anja; Brusoni, Stefano: Knowledge integration
across parallel projects: A case study of set based concurrent engineering.
Discussants: Schmidt & Furstenau
Track 2: Integrating the knowledge of others
Tell, Fredrik; Lopez-Vega, Henry; Vanhaverbeke, Wim: In search of
innovations. Knowledge tensions and learning practices in an intermediated
knowledge acquisition process. Discussants: Goduscheit & Knudsen
Bulathsinhala, Nandika: The impact of organizational knowledge integrators on
the innovative performance of R&D projects. Discussants: Jonas Rundquist
17.00- 19.00
Break
19.00 – 19.30
Mingle
19. 30
Dinner
Thursday, September 13th
08.00 – 09.30
Session 4
Track 1: The innovative firm (II)
Karabag, Solmaz, F.; Berggren, Christian: Firm innovativeness in emerging
economies – The case of fast moving innovators in the Turkish automotive and
white goods industries. Discussants: Blomkvist, Kappen & Zander
Lopez-Vega, Henry; Jingshu, Du; Vanhaverbeke, Wim: Innovation speed: Does
open innovation expedite corporate venturing? Discussant: Kiamehr
Track 2: Information systems adaptation – An issue of knowledge
integration
Schmidt, Thomas; Fürstenau, Daniel: Coping with path-dependence: Integration
not yet existing knowledge in higher education ERP systems. Discussants: Tell,
Lopez-Vega & Vanhaverbeke
Jin, Xiaowei; Kotlarsky, Julia: A conceptual framework of knowledge
integration in multisourcing arrangements. Discussant: Lakemond
Track 3: New perspectives on knowledge integration?
Cattani, Gino; Ferriani, Simone; Allison, Paul, D.: The social structure of
consecration in cultural fields. Discussants: Ejsing, Kaiser, Kongsted & Laursen
Taxén, Lars: Knowledge integration reconceptualized from an integrationist
perspective. Discussants: Åman & Andersson
09.30 – 10.00
Coffee Break
10.00 – 11.30
Session 5
Track 1: The innovative firm (II)
Freij, Åke; Sköld, Martin: What makes polar knowledge integration strategies
successful? Explaining similar architectural advantage from opposite product
architecture choices. Discussant: Yakob
Korhonen-Sande, Silja.: Understanding tactical-level integration in
ambidextrous industrial firms. Discussants: Taxén
Track 2: The role of design in innovation and knowledge integration
Hobday, Mike; Boddington, Anne; Grantham, Andrew: Innovation studies and
design: An elephant in the room. Discussants: Lindkvist, Bengtsson & Wahlstedt
Åman,Per; Andersson, Hans: Knowledge integration of and by industrial design.
Discussant: Vie & Stensli
11.30 – 12.30
Grant, Robert: Reflections on Nonaka's 1994 "Dynamic Theory of
Organizational Knowledge Creation”.
12.30– 13.30
Lunch