The Honors College & Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies
Cordially invites you to attend the following Seminar:

Discovering the triggers for successful innovation is important. One can argue that without innovation the modern economy stagnates and our world becomes a zero-sum game—with nations and firms competing for increasingly scarce resources. This is not a pleasant prospect. Only with innovation—the capability to create in an on-going fashion new or improved value—can the pie grow so more can benefit. This session will focus on the modern innovation-management connection. In fact, it will pose the question: is there any such link?

While we can assume that technological development is necessary for innovation. Is technology enough? Or is management somehow required? And if management is needed for sustainable innovation, what kind of management is required? We will examine these related issues. Furthermore, if management is required, does that help the US today? Does the US have the “best management” in the world? Or, is effective management for innovation—like technological development per se—increasingly distributed and now found elsewhere? We will end the session by centering on whether effective capabilities in management and innovation have migrated to other parts of the globe and on discerning the consequences of such trends.