Call for Papers
The Tilburg Conference on Innovation:
Recombining Innovation Research
June 15-17, 2012
Center for Innovation Research (CIR)
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Innovation is a highly complex process in which managers juggle technical, organizational,
economic, social, and psychological aspects, each having distinct effects on innovation
inputs, processes, and outcomes. All these aspects are contingent on time and space and
affect the innovation process and outcomes at multiple levels. Due to this diversity of factors
and contingencies the field of innovation research is populated by scholars from many
disciplines studying a wide range of questions. While this richness is an asset, it can also
result in fragmentation and losing "the big picture" about how innovation unfolds in and
around organizations. Together, we will aim to build bridges between the various subfields,
topics and disciplines, with quality of research being the predominant goal.
Following the highly successful conference held in 2010, the second international conference
of the Center for Innovation Research at Tilburg University will bring together exemplary
scholars who study how innovation relates with the strategy, organization, learning and
performance of corporate and other entities. We are open to a variety of theoretical
perspectives and welcome papers that incorporate various levels that can affect innovation
– e.g. nations, sectors, networks, clusters, single organizations, business units, teams or
individuals – as long as the papers recognize and contribute to the understanding of
innovation as an organizational phenomenon. We are looking mainly for empirical papers,
but strong, forward-looking theoretical contributions are also welcome. Please join us for
two days of intensive discussion and dialogue in the lush atmosphere of "De Rosep" resort.
The conference will take place at the Rosep Resort that also offers ample possibility for
accommodation. We encourage all conference participants to stay at the conference venue
due to co-location benefits and scarcity of alternative hotels nearby. An added attraction of
the conference is the opportunity to visit the southern Netherlands in spring and sample the
best local beers Belgium and the Netherlands have to offer. For all conference information,
see the conference website:
www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/cir/conferences/june2012
Confirmed speakers/special guests include:
Dan Levinthal, Will Mitchell, Andrew van de Ven, Joe Lampel,
Hayagreeva Rao, Claudia Bird Schoonhoven
Submission process:
Please submit a full paper to cir@uvt.nl by February 15, 2012.
The authors of selected papers will be notified by March 30, 2012.