Big is back: 2nd Boston Corporate Innovation Forum
Big is back: 2nd Boston Corporate Innovation Forum
What are the new approaches to Innovation in the areas of Design, Material Technologies, and Disruptive Technologies? What is the best way to make your corporate environment innovation-friendly? What can you learn from a start up innovation model?
To prosper under the difficult and always more competitive economic climate, big corporations need to consider the above questions.
The 2nd Boston Corporate Innovation Forum organized by swissnex Boston along with the Swedish and the Swiss American Chambers of Commerce on April 14 aimed to highlight the most recent trends in Innovation both from an Academic and Industrial perspective. The one-day seminar designed for professionals responsible for innovation within big companies gathered professors, managers, consultants and designers around four different topics:
Industrial Design driving Innovation:
Sebastian Fixson, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management, Babson College.See his presentation
Harry West, CEO, Continuum.See his presentation
Organizing for Innovation (Teams, Culture and Process):
Jay Rao, Professor of Technology and Innovation, Babson College.See his presentation
Dan Keldsen, Principal, InformationArchitected.See his presentation
Materials Technologies Enabling Innovations:
Francesco Stellaci, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT.See his presentation
Per Baverstam, President, Baverstam Associates.See his presentation
Disruptive Technologies Driving Innovations:
Howard Anderson, William Porter Distinguished Lecturer, Behavioral Policy Science, MIT Sloan School of Management.See his presentation
Robyn Bolton, Manager, Innosight.See her presentation
For the second part of the seminar, the participants split in three groups and explored more in depth specific methods about how to bring innovation from the idea to its implementation within a big corporate environment.
The three topics of the workshops were:
1) Learning from the small and fast ones. How can large companies adopt startup product development cycles?
Serge Roux, Principal Industrial Designer, Cambridge Consultant Inc.
2) Connecting Invention to Innovation. How to distinguish Technology development from a pure research development or product development approach.
Gerhard Pawelka, CEO/Harald Quintus-Bosz, VP of Engineering/Kim Blair, VP of Business Development, Cooper Perkins, Inc.
Caitlin Toombs, Program Development Associate/Craig McCarthy, Principal, Continumm.
Watch the video of the moderators summarizing the outcomes of their workshop.
