University of Warwick

Warwick Business School (WBS) > Innovation, Knowledge & Organizational Networks (IKON) Research Centre/Unit ¹⁾

Communities

• KIN – The Innovation Network* (2001-2020; Until 2018: Knowledge and Innovation Network (KIN)) – practitioner community
• Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Community (OLKC community)
• Evolution of Business Knowledge (EBK) programme ²⁾

Graduate Degrees/Programs

• MPhil/DBA/PhD in Business and Management (Research area: Innovation, Knowledge and Organisational Networks) ³⁾

Conferences

• International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC)* ⁴⁾
• European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities (OKLC)** ^{4) 5)}

Seminars

• IKON Seminars (Feb 2005 – Jun 2006: EBK ⁶⁾ and IKON Seminar Series)
  TBA2013: Reflexive versus Intuitive Collaboration: Exploring Communicative Strategies in Virtual Knowledge Sharing

  Sep 2009: Social learning theory and the future of learning

  Jun 2008: Knowledge structures of prospectors, analyzers and defenders: content, structure, stability and performance
  Mar 2008: Emergence and dynamics of innovation networks

  Jun 2007: Exploring cognition in practice: norms, rules, and routines in an engineering team

  Jun 2006: Changing Medical Practices – A Study of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, Learning and Innovation in a Norwegian University Hospital
  May 2006: Creating cafés – not libraries. Knowledge sharing in a hospital; Actor-network Theory and the Sociology of Translation. A Tale of Different Twins

  Dec 2005: The Incommensurability of Knowledge Regimes

  Nov 2005: Creativity Management in Industrial R&D Organizations: A Crea-Political Process Model and Empirical Evidence at Corus RD&T
  Jun 2005: Knowledge and boundaries: What I have learned from worrying about both
  May 2005: Studying Organisation Knowledge
  Apr 2005: The Accumulation of Knowledge in Project Environments
  Mar 2005: Community of Practice: The Life of a Concept

  Oct 2004: Knowledge Creation: a critique of Nonaka’s theory; Knowledge Managers
  Apr 2004: Utilization of Knowledge in Building Design – Organising, Reproducing and Developing practices

  Dec 2003: Knowing as desiring. Mythic knowledge and the knowledge journey in communities of practitioners; The new world of knowledge within organisations and beyond: a multi-disciplinary perspective on knowledge management
  Mar 2003: The Business School as Knowledge Space
  Jan 2003: Hegemonic Knowledge and the Organisational Imagination

  Dec 2002: Mapping the critical dimensions of project-based learning: illustrations from the field
  Nov 2002: A network perspective on Operations Management: Lessons to be learned from research on intra- and inter-organisational networks; Work in the New Economy: Towards a Theory of Organizational Knowledge Supply

  TBA 2002: Merging cages: management control, social identity, and identification in a knowledge-intensive firm

  Feb 2000: Innovation Networks: a View from the Inside

• EBK Seminars ⁴⁾
  Sep 2004: Management Knowledge & Skills in the UK
• ESRC Seminar Series on “Innovation and Networking” ³⁾
  Jun 2000: Systemic Innovations
  Feb 2000: User Networks in the Design of Smart Products

  Sep 1999: Networks and the Management of Process Innovation
  Jun 1999: Researching Innovation Networks
  Apr 1999: Interfirm Networks and the Innovation Process
  Feb 1998: Conceptualising Innovation and Networking

Workshops

• IKON Workshops
  Dec 2016: Connections in Action: Keeping Track of Large Social Phenomena using Relational and ‘Micro-sociological’ approaches

  May 2009: Surfacing the Invisible in Studies of Knowledge, Innovation and Organizational Networks

  May 2003: Current Approaches to Innovation and Knowledge Work

• Evolution of Business Knowledge (EKB) Workshops ⁴⁾
  Oct 2006: EBK Programme Final Conference, 17. October 2006, London
  Sep 2006: Workshop on Academic-Business Networks: linking research, knowledge sharing and practice
  Jun 2006: Management Knowledge in Action Workshop
  May 2006: Workshop on Exploring Innovation Processes in Healthcare: The Challenges of Collaboration and Governance
  Mar 2006: Workshop on Managing through projects in knowledge-based environments: strategy and practice

  Nov 2005: Researching Business Knowledge – methodological challenges
  Sep 2005: Masterclass in Social Network Analysis (in cooperation with the Knowledge and Innovation Network)
  May 2005: Knowledge: Beyond Business Transformation Workshop
  Apr 2005: Scientific and Managerial Knowledge Workshop

  Nov 2004: Workshop on the Evolution of Business Knowledge in SMEs
  Sep 2004: Management Knowledge & Skills in the UK: Linking Research & Policy (jointly organized with the Skills, Knowledge and Organizational Performance (SKOPE) Research Centre)
  Jun 2004: Knowledge Sharing Across Boundaries Workshop (in cooperation with the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) research programme; in conjunction with the ESRC Social Science Week)
  Nov 2003: EBK Programme Launch Conference, 19. November 2003, London