The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Communities

• Science and Technology Research in a Knowledge-based Economy (STRiKE) Network
  • Working Group 1 “Science, technology and knowledge creation”
• Expert Group “Knowledge for growth” (European Commission > Investing in European Research)

Conferences

• Conference on Knowledge in Organizations, May 30 – June 3, 2010, Monte Verità (near Ascona), Switzerland
  (Co-organizer: Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation, Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)

  The Conference on Knowledge in Organizations (or Knowledge in Organizations Conference) aims at strengthening the interdisciplinary dialogue between economists and management scholars on the overall topic of Knowledge in Organizations. Lectures and workshops organized will address various micro-foundations and -dimensions, and evidences on the creation, use and sharing of knowledge.
  Invited speakers will explore the theoretical and empirical questions of the subject matter in cross-disciplinary manner, enriching the discussions and delving into details more than in a typical classroom setting. For example, building a model for the collaborative production of knowledge, and elaborating theoretical framework to understand how knowledge may be created, applied, and shared efficiently require such interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration between economists and management scholars.
  Knowledge in Organizations is a high-profile forum targeting academics and scholars of two disciplines, Economics and Management, who are interested in the creation and sharing of knowledge within and between organizations.

  Note: The conference was annunced as “EKP 2010 – The Economics of Knowledge Policy”, probably as successor event of the “ETP 2007 – The Economics of Technology Policy” Conference at Monte Verità, June 17-22, 2007

  PANEL: The foundations of knowledge in organizations
  Firm Knowledge and Industry Knowledge in a Dynamic Context
  Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge
  Why Knowledge Travels — Or Not
  … n.a. (1)

  PANEL: Knowledge inside boundaries: Organizational Dynamics
  What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
  The Dynamics of Motivation. Transactional and Transformational Solutions of Social Dilemmas in Knowledge Production
  University-industry links: knowledge creation in hybrid organizational space
  Knowledge-creating company in a creative industry: the case of Ubisoft-Montreal

  PANEL: Knowledge outside Boundaries: Market dynamics
  Local Innovation Market Structure and Growth
  The use of IP and open innovation in structuring knowledge relationships between firms
  Governing Interorganizational Network Infrastructures
  Knowledge and catching up by developing countries in different sectoral systems

  Parallel Sessions:
  n.a.

  Topics:
  Economic models for collaborative production of knowledge;
  The analysis of detailed resource allocation processes in the area of knowledge creation;
  Process views on organizational knowledge;
  Rethinking organizational design for efficient knowledge production and use;
  Individual motivation to share and use knowledge;
  Spillover and protection of organizational knowledge;
  The dynamic link between organizational knowledge creation and innovation;
  The opportunities and limits of knowledge management systems

• ESSHRA International Conference 2007, 12-13 June 2007, Bern, Switzerland
  Conference Theme: Towards a Knowledge Society: Is Knowledge a public good? Dynamics of Knowledge Production and Distribution
  (Organizer: Euresearch; Swiss Academy for Social Sciences and the Humanities (ASSH); College of Management of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Workshops & Seminars

Science and Technology Research in a Knowledge-based Economy (STRiKE) Network meetings

• Apr 2008: Dialogs on Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Economists meet TT officers (Meeting/Workshop of Working Group 1 “Science, technology and knowledge creation”) @ Office of Technology Transfer, University of Geneva

Exploring Knowledge Transfer from EPFL (ExTra) Workshop

• 2nd ExTra workshop 2006, September 29-30, 2006, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  Workshop Theme: Technology transfer from universities: A critical appraisal of patents, spin-offs and human mobility
  Workshop program:…

• 1st ExTra Workshop 2005, September 29 – October 1, 2005, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  Workshop Theme: University-Industry Knowledge Transfer Instruments: Scientific Publications and Patents
  Workshop program:…

CEMI internal seminars

Dec 2007: Knowledge networks and field evolution of nanostructured solar cell technology

May 2006: Preserving the information commons for scientific research

Oct 2005: Knowledge Transfer
Jun 2005: Capturing Knowledge: The Location Decision of New PhDs Working in Industry

CDM seminars

Apr 2009: In The Know: Exploring the Effect of Geographical Proximity on Industry-University Collaboration in the UK
Mar 2009: Smash Hit: Some Reflections on Knowledge Creation in the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN; Leadership in organizational Knowledge Creation

Mar 2008: An Evolutionary Approach to Leveraging Knowledge into New Technology and Applications