Location of MNC innovation in emerging markets and developing countries: Can innovation be unbundled from production and sales functions?

The academic workshop will debate corporate competitiveness in relation to innovation based on empirical evidence about Danish and other OECD firms involved in global sourcing of innovation activities.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 09:00 to 17:15

Academic Workshop, December 11, 2013

Location of MNC innovation in emerging markets and developing countries: Can innovation be unbundled from production and sales functions?

Following a wave of off-shoring of manufacturing activities from the OECD countries to developing countries since the 1970s and then of business services, companies in the global North are now considering or implementing the decomposition and relocation of innovation activities to newly industrializing countries or emerging markets, not least in Asia. As innovation is taken to be an increasingly important determinant of corporate competitiveness the academic workshop will address, first, which, how and where innovation activities are off-shored (or not) from OECD countries to developing countries and especially the BRIC countries of Asia. Second, why or under which conditions are these innovation activities off-shored and are this off-shoring especially determined by their linkages to production and/or marketing/sales activities. Third, what are the corporate implications of the off-shoring of innovation activities in terms of organization, management and competitiveness? And finally, what are the innovation-related implications of technology transfer to the Global South? These issues will be debated based on empirical evidence about Danish and other OECD firms involved in global sourcing of innovation activities.
 
The workshop also aims for developing a special issue of an international journal on its theme and therefore also calls for Abstracts that might be presented and discussed at the workshop or considered for the special issue. Deadline: December 1, 2013, to Peter Wad or Michael W. Hansen. Response regarding Abstract presentation: December 5.
 

The key note speakers of the workshop are the following:

John Cantwell, distinguished professor of International Business at the Department of Management and Global Business, Rutgers University, USA. He has been researching and publishing on corporate innovation in many years and is Editor in Chief of Journal of International Business Studies.

Stine Haakonsson, associate professor, Department of Business and Politics, CBS. Her research has focused on global innovation networks and she has been publishing among other things on the global pharmaceutical and wind turbine industry.

Rasmus Lema, assistant professor, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University. He is member of ‘Globelics’ secretariat and his research has explored organizational decomposition and globalization of innovation activities within industries like ICT software, wind turbine manufacturing etc. and the emergence of innovation systems in e.g. China and India.

Torben Pedersen, professor, Department of Management and Technology, Bocconi University, Italy. He has researched and published extensively on international business, offshoring and outsourcing and recently focused on internationalization of innovation.

Poul Houman Andersen, professor, Department of Business and Management, AAU. His research has addressed issues of international business in regard to interfaces of innovation, production and distribution, marketing, sales, and he has published in many international journals on these issues.

 

Program

09.00-09.15
Introduction/practicalities (Michael W. Hansen & Peter Wad, CBS)
09.15-10.45
09.15-10.00
10.00-10.45
Globalizing  innovation for corporate competitiveness? chaired by Michael W. Hansen
  • Key note by John Cantwell, Rutgers University
  • Plenum discussion
10.45-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.15
11.15-11.45
11.45-12.15
Drivers of bundling/unbundling of innovation activities, chaired by Peter Ørberg Jensen
  • Key note by Stine Haakonsson, CBS & Rasmus Lema, AAU Cph
  • Plenum discussion
12.15-13.15
Lunch
13.15-14.15
13.15-14.00
14.00-14.15
Internationalization of innovation by Danish MNCs, chaired by Marcus Larsen
  • Key note by Torben Pedersen, CBS
  • Plenum discussion
14.15-15.15
14.15-15.00
15.00-15.15
Innovating through technology transfer, chaired by Sudhansu Rai
  • Key note by Poul Houman Andersen, AAU
  • Plenum discussion
15.15-15.45
Coffee break
15.45-17.00
15.45-16.00
16.00-17.00
Special session on abstract presentation, chaired by Bengt-Åke Lundvall et al.
  • Abstract presentation and discussion - Introduction by Michael W. Hansen & Peter Wad
  • Presentation of abstracts
17.00-17.15
Winding-up the workshop (Michael W. Hansen & Peter Wad)
18.30-21.00
Dinner

 

Information

Date: Wednesday December 11 2013

Time: 09:00-17:15

Place: Auditorium Ks54 (TrygVestas) in Kilen, Kilevej 14, DK-2000 Frederiksberg

Please sign up no later than December 9, 2013 at noon

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