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The University of Warwick offers the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:

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

Graduate Degrees/Programs

PhD in Business and Management (Research area: Innovation, Knowledge and Organisational Networks) ²⁾

Seminars

IKON Seminars (Feb 2005 – Jun 2006: EBK ⁴⁾ and IKON Seminar Series)
- TBA 2013: Reflexive versus Intuitive Collaboration: Exploring Communicative Strategies in Virtual Knowledge Sharing
- Nov 2013: How can you get a leopard to change its spots? Institutional logics and physician role identity
- May 2013: Mundane Governance: How Ordinary Objects Come to Matter
- Apr 2013: Expanding Innovation: Designing for Participation in an Open World
- Apr 2012: Anthropotechnics – Practising the improbable
- Dec 2011: Using ‘Evidence’ in Commissioning Decisions: Insights from a large qualitative study in the English NHS
- Nov 2011: Scripts, Stages ans Interactions: The Situated Performances of Governance in the Public Sphere
- Jun 2011: Infrastructure for Innovation in Software and Science; Development of TMS in Globally Distributed Teams and Organizations
- Mar 2011: Glocalization, Hybridization & Organizational Innovations: Zero Inventory as Permanance and Process
- Feb 2011: How Philosophy Matters to Management Studies
- Dec 2010: The Impact of Time Zone Differences in the Global IT Industry
- Nov 2010: When present meets past: Onshore immigrants managing offshored software development and engineering projects
- Mar 2010: Follow-the-practice: An analysis of the dimensions of admission practices on a neonatal intensive care unit
- Oct 2009: Discourse activism? Redesigning and coproducing organisational meanings and feelings
- Sep 2009: Social learning theory and the future of learning
- Jan 2009: Interdisciplinary Innovation and Virtual Worlds
- Jun 2008: Knowledge structures of prospectors, analyzers and defenders: content, structure, stability and performance
- Mar 2008: Emergence and dynamics of innovation networks
- Jan 2008: Network diversity and discontinuous innovation in motorsport
- Dec 2007: Integrating Healthcare Through Information and Communications Technology: Policies, Practices and Pitfalls
- Nov 2007: Up-or-out promotion tournaments in elite law firms: A study of institutional continuity and change
- Jul 2007: Innovation beyond firm boundaries
- Jun 2007: Exploring cognition in practice: norms, rules, and routines in an engineering team
- May 2007: A quality assurance approach to evaluating work place learning in health care; Beyond the lamp-post: Search strategies for discontinuous innovation
- 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
- Mar 2006: Search strategies for discontinuous innovation
- 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
- Feb 2005: The social and political implications of new genetic technologies
- Nov 2004: TBA
- Oct 2004: Knowledge Creation: a critique of Nonaka’s theory; Knowledge Managers
- Jun 2004: The Fright of Real Organising (or why process research isn’t as easy as it seems); Corporate Power and the Management of Perceptions
- May 2004: The Myth of the Biotech Revolution
- 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
- Oct 2003: Reorganising Practice
- Jun 2003: TBA
- May 2003: Workers’ Playtime? Boundaries, Cultures of Fun and Cynicism
- Mar 2003: The Business School as Knowledge Space
- Feb 2003: The Embeddedness of Management Consulting – Structural, Political and Cognitive; Governance and the Growth of Knowledge
- 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
- May 2002: TBA 1, TBA 2
- Apr 2002: TBA
- TBA: Merging cages: management control, social identity, and identification in a knowledge-intensive firm
- Feb 2002: TBA
- Jan 2002: Organizational culture: New perspectives
- May 2000: TBA
- Feb 2000: Innovation Networks: a View from the Inside; Managerial Meditations in the Strategy Process: An Electricity Company, the Sector and Zones of Manouvre
- Jan 2000: Organizations in Actions
EBK Seminars ⁴⁾
- Oct 2005: Consultants as both Insiders and Outsiders?
- 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
- Jun 2017: Advanced Workshop on Practice-based Studies: Moving practice forward: Drawing connections, exploring possibilities
- 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
- Jun 2008: The Mirror Game: changing practice through reflection
- Jun 2004: International Workshop on Rethinking Construction? Managing Projects as Complex Social Settings
- 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
- Nov 2006: From Innovation to Mainstream Healthcare Services
- Sep 2006: Workshop on Academic-Business Networks: linking research, knowledge sharing and practice
- Jul 2006: Workshop on Competitiveness of Small Firms in the North West
- 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
- Dec 2005: Workshop on Historical Counterfactuals in Organisations
- Nov 2005: Researching Business Knowledge – methodological challenges
- Oct 2005: Corporate Social Responsibility Workshop
- Sep 2005: Masterclass in Social Network Analysis
  (in cooperation with the Knowledge and Innovation Network)
- Jun 2005: Workshop on Selling Science:International Experience in Commercialising Innovation
- 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

Communities

KIN – The Innovation Network (until 2018: Knowledge and Innovation Network (KIN)) – practitioner community
Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Community (OLKC community)
Evolution of Business Knowledge (EBK) programme ⁴⁾

Conferences

International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC)* ⁵⁾
European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities (OKLC)** ^{5) 6)}

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Notes:

1) Established in 1997, the Innovation, Knowledge and Organizational Networks (IKON) Research Unit includes also members from other institutions like the University of Leicester Management Centre, and the Royal Holloway College, University of London.
2) Was PhD in Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour
3) Seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council; ikon is one of the collaborating organisations
4) The Evolution of Business Knowledge (EBK) programme consists of fourteen projects: The Evolution of Biomedical Knowledge: Interactive Innovation in the UK and US; The Dynamics of Networked Innovation: Barriers to Knowledge Transfer; Managers' Roles in the Evolution of Business Knowledge; Knowledge integration, project-practice and new organisational forms; The Evolution of Business Knowledge in SMEs; Shaping Knowledge through Dialogue: Analysing Corporate Social Responsibility; Knowledge Evolution in Action: Consultancy-Client Relationships; Corporate History, Narrative, and Business Knowledge; Managing Knowledge Representation in Design; The Dynamics of Knowledge Production in the Business School: A Comparative Study; Organisational Learning and Dynamic Capabilities; Facilitating Innovation through the Measurement and Management of Intangibles; The role of ICT based applications in business knowledge processes; The Measurement and Valuation of Intangible Assets in the Service Sector. Participating institutions are:...
5) In 2006 the International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) was established through a merger of the International Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge (OLK), organized by Lancaster University Management School (since 1996), and the European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities (OKLC), organized by the Warwick Business School (since 2000).
6) Was the Conference on 'Knowledge Management: Concepts and Controversies' (2000) and the OLKC 2: International Conference on 'Managing Knowledge: Conversations and Critiques' (2001)