INTERTRADEIRELAND ALL-ISLAND INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2011
Building Capability for Innovation
4 and 5 October, the Whitla Hall, Queen’s University Belfast
Day 1
4 October 2011
10.00 – 11.00
Registration, Tea & Coffee
11.00 – 11.10
Professor Tony Gallagher, Pro–Vice–Chancellor for Academic
Planning, Staffing and External Relations, Queen’s University Belfast
11.10 – 11.20
Opening Address Aidan Gough Director, Strategy & Policy,
InterTradeIreland
11.20 – 12.15
Keynote address, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, The Ernest L.
Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business
School
Innovation. Classic Traps and the Enduring Success Factors
12.15 – 12.45
Question and Answer session with Professor Moss Kanter
12.45 – 14.00
Networking opportunity and lunch
14.00 – 14.20
Presentation by Seamus Connolly MBE, CEO of Fast Engineering Ltd
14.20 – 14.40
Presentation by Ivan Coulter CEO Sigmoid
14.40 – 15.00
Presentation by Rose Mary Stalker, Operations Director at McMullen
Architectural Systems
15.00 – 15.20
Presentation by Sean McNulty, MD of Innovator
15.20 – 15.45
Coffee / networking opportunity
15.45 – 16.45
Roundtable discussion with the four business speakers chaired by
Terence Brannigan, Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
16.45
Networking Reception
INTERTRADEIRELAND ALL-ISLAND INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2011
Building Capability for Innovation
4 and 5 October, the Whitla Hall, Queen’s University Belfast
Day 2
5 October 2011
Morning Session
8.30 – 9.00
Registration
9.00 – 9.05
Welcome on behalf of Queen’s University
9.05 – 9.15
Welcoming Address from InterTradeIreland
9.15 – 10.10
Keynote address, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, The Ernest L.
Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business
School
Creating a Supportive Environment for Innovation to Flourish
10.10 – 10.40
Question and Answer session with Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
10.40 – 10.45
Presentation of the Marion McAneney Graduate Research Award
10.45 – 11.15
Tea & Coffee break
11.15 – 11.45
What drives innovation? Exploring the role of inherited knowledge,
knowledge investments and external knowledge sources.
Presented by S. Roper & N. Hewitt-Dundas
Queen’s University Belfast
11.45 – 12.15
Dynamic Capabilities – the building blocks of innovation.
Presented by R. Hilliard & D. Goldstein
NUI Galway
12.15 – 12.45
Organising for Radical Innovation. Team Leadership Really Matters.
Presented by P. Robbins & C. O’Gorman
NUI Maynooth
12.45 – 13.45
Lunch
INTERTRADEIRELAND ALL-ISLAND INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2011
Building Capability for Innovation
4 and 5 October, the Whitla Hall, Queen’s University Belfast
Day 2
5 October 2011
Afternoon Session
13.45 – 14.15
Collaborative Business Networks – an analysis of their role in building
innovation capability in Northern Ireland businesses.
Presented by L. Jamison & A. Dunn
Invest Northern Ireland
14.15 – 14.45
Using network analysis and agent–based simulation to track effects of
future EU level policy interventions on a large ICT research network.
Presented by Dr. Michel Schilperoord
University College Dublin
14.45 – 15.00
Tea & Coffee break
15.00 – 15.30
Innovation Capabilities and Technological entrepreneurship.
Evidence from a high–tech cluster in Ireland.
Presented by P. Ryan & M. Giblin
NUI Galway
15.30 – 16.00
Glorified administrators or eminent research leaders. The inhibiting
factors that publicly funded principal investigators experience in
leading collaborative research projects.
Presented by J. Cunningham, P. O’Reilly, C. O’Kane and V.
Mangematin
NUI Galway
16.00
Conference End