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June 2010 edition of the IFIP News

The June 2010 edition of the IFIP News has been posted on the IFIP website: http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/Newsletter/2009to2010/new...

The innovation capability of SMEs…

How can people, IT tools, structure, culture, and power be connected in order to leverage collective abilities for applying available knowledge to solve problems and search for opportunities (organizational intelligence), accommodating new experience (organizational learning), and producing new ideas and things (organizational creativity) so that the group of organizational members can effectively contribute to the organizational well-being? You could answer some questions like these visiting the KMOWL web site. (http://www.kmowl.org/recent)

Extended Early Bird Registration & Call forParticipation, IFIP 8.2+8.6 Perth 2010

Dear all,

The conference organisers have extended early bird registration for the IFIP 8.2+8.6 Working Conference in Perth Western Australia until 31 January.

Further information is available on the conference website at http://ifip8286perth.cbs.curtin.edu.au.

Also, please consider passing this on to your PhD students, as we are offering very good rates for students.

Best regards,
John Venable, Program and Local Arrangements Co-Chair
IFIP 8.2+8.6 Perth 2010

CREATIVE SME 2009 - Entrepreneurship in high tech startups

In a very dinamyc presentation Prof. Michael Dowling from University of Regensburg -DE told us about his research about entrepreneurship in high tech startups.
He told that the intensity of international competition in new technologies has increased dramatically in the last few years and a key success factor has become the ability of entrepreneurs to manage both new technologies and business opportunities. He presented some USA and Germany research projects, some real cases of entrepreneurs and success cases.

CREATIVE SME 2009 -Crowdsourcing Strategy to extend the innovation capabilitie of SMEs

21-jun-2009
Panel: It was a very dynamic panel and finished after the planned time.
Prof. Carl Adams (University of Portsmouth-UK) and Isabel Ramos (University of Minho - PT) presented the first panel.
At first Carl Adams began making a joke showing us two boxes and asking to guess how many sweets in each box and to write the answer on a paper. Each guess tried to answer how many sweets are there in each box.
After this exercise he asked guess what was and is crowdsourcing?

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