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Programme

InterTradeIreland All-Island
Innovation Conference 2011

Building Capability for Innovation
4 and 5 October, the Whitla Hall, Queen's University Belfast

Download a PDF copy of the Programme here. The PDF of the full Brochure is available here.

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 (PDF available here)
2:20 - 2:40 pm Presentation by Ivan Coulter CEO Sigmoid (PDF available here)
14.40 - 15.00 Presentation by Rose Mary Stalker, Operations Director at McMullen Architectural Systems (PDF available here)
15.00 - 15.20 Presentation by Sean McNulty, MD of Innovator (PDF available here)
15.20 - 15.45 Coffee / networking opportunity
15.45 - 16.45 Roundtable discussion with the four business speakers chaired by Terence Brannigan, Connected Health Limited
16.45 Networking Reception


Day 2

5 October 2011

Morning Session

08.30 - 09.00 Registration
09.00 - 09.05 Welcome on behalf of Queen's University
09.05 - 09.15 Welcoming Address from InterTradeIreland
09.15 - 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 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 (PDF available here)
Queen's University Belfast

11.45 - 12.15

Dynamic Capabilities - the building blocks of innovation.

Presented by R. Hilliard & D. Goldstein (PDF available here)
NUI Galway

12.15 - 12.45

Organising for Radical Innovation: Team Leadership Really Matters.

Presented by P. Robbins & C. O'Gorman (PDF available here)
NUI Maynooth

12.45 - 13.45 Lunch


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 (PDF available here)
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 (PDF available here)
University College Dublin

14.45 - 15.00 Tea & Coffee break
15.00 - 15.30

Help or Hindrance? Causal Ambiguity and Supplier Involvement in New Product Development Teams

Presented by A Potter, Queen's University Belfast & B Lawson, University of Cambridge (PDF available here)

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 (PDF available here)
NUI Galway

16.00 Conference End