The CKIR conference of August 25th-27th 2010 brings thoughtful practitioners and leadings scholars into a discussion on the  Entrepreneurial Action in the  innovation networks, companies, public sector, public-private partnerships and academia. The conference provides an opportunity to elaborate the benefits of open, demand and user-driven innovation paradigm for the value creation in the arenas and forums of human life.

The conference extends the traditional concept of entrepreneurship to the wider context of networks, organizations, institutions, and societies. Collective entrepreneurial action is discussed as the relational and structural dynamism of creative innovation networks. The novelty is an outcome of transformative interaction of people, firms and institutions. The relational and contextual nature of innovative entrepreneurship requires new dynamic structures, distributed and embedded leadership and network governance for innovation and renewal.

Keynote speakers of the conference include

• Professor Robert Burgelman, Stanford University,
• Professor Ikujiro Nonaka, Hitotsubashi and Aalto University,
• President Mikko Kosonen, Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra), 
• Professor Yves Doz, INSEAD and Aalto University,
• Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia,
• Professor Ralf Stacey, University of Hertfordshire and
• Professor Liisa Välikangas, Aalto University.

For more information see CKIR Workshop 2010 Agenda. Please note that the program is subject to changes.