Join the PINC 2011 Conference where people from different disciplines and organisations meet. Dare to be challenged and help develop the field of participatory innovation.
The aim of this conference is to help identify ways for industry and the public sector to expand innovation through the participation of users, employees, suppliers, customers etc. - both on a strategic level, in concrete methods, and in the day-to-day interactions.
Industry and public agencies increasingly adopt user-driven and open innovation, as they realize that innovation cannot come solely from within an organization. Participatory Innovation gathers theories and methods across academic fields that describe how people outside an organization can contribute to innovation.
The conference presents an exciting five-track program:
I. Making Design and Analysing Interaction
Physical 'stuff' like generative toolkits, tinkering and provotypes has proven highly valuable in encouraging people with different backgrounds to collaborate. But why does it work? This track brings together 'makers' of design with interaction analysts, who can explain what actually happens.
II. Staging Design Anthropology
This track seeks participants in industrial, public sector or academic settings who wish to explore new activity formats that blur distinctions between user research and its application (or consumption).
III. Organising Participatory Innovation
How do you deal with the challenges of organizing participatory activities at management level - both on the strategic and practical level? In this track practitioners and researchers within innovation management and organisational development meet to develop a deeper understanding of 'organising'.
IV. Designing Innovative Business Models
Can users talk business? In this track, practitioners, designers and business experts come together to create new ways of innovating business models with user participation - by moving business model discussions beyond marketing into the realm of interaction design!
V. Public Procurement of Participatory Innovation
Using public spending to encourage innovation in companies has huge potential: The public agency gets a first rate product and industry improves competitiveness. But to make this viable there are challenges to overcome.
Each of the tracks supports a unique combination of disciplines and offers an engaging way to participate. Cases will be submitted by practitioners, which researchers can react on at the conference. Look through the track descriptions for details.
PINC 2011 is organised by the Danish strategic research centre SPIRE. The centre was established in 2008 to investigate how people innovate, and how organisations innovate with users. By we mean actual users of products and services, or customers, suppliers, business partners, employees etc. They all have potential contributions to make to innovation, if we can find ways in which they can participate.
We welcome you to Sønderborg to 3 days of mind-blowing participatory innovation - your contribution counts!
Jacob Buur
Research director, SPIRE
University of Southern Denmark
For further details please visit the PINC 2011 website