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4th International Future Center Summit

4 April 2011 Events, Future Centers

The 4th international Future Center Summit was held in Tokyo from November 24th to 26th 2010. It was organized by KDI - the Knowledge Dynamics Initiative of Fuji- Xerox - in collaboration with the Future Center Alliance (FCA).

More than 70 people from 10 different countries attended the event.

The Japan Summit brought a broad cross-section of practitioners together to explore mutually interesting concepts and create a basis for learning and collaboration in the future. There were ample opportunities to work with people who are actively putting Future Center concepts into practice, as well as with people who are in the process of creating new concept and methodologies for Future Centers, innovation workspaces and labs for organizational and societal innovation.

The program included plenary and interactive small-group activities to explore a number of themes, with a special focus on:

· What Japanese concepts such as “ba” can mean for future-directed dialogue, solving cross-organizational problems and creating effective spaces for organizational and societal innovation.

· How to improve and upgrade present centers to address the challenges of the future.

· Visits to Japanese Future Centers and culturally important locations in the Tokyo area, as well as discussions revealing innovation and future-oriented practice at leading Japanese companies.

· Intercultural similarities and differences in working with innovation, future centers, and collaborative work processes.

There is a growing Future Center community in Japan, engaged in translating future center concepts into a new generation of centers that are both unique to Japan and relevant to today’s international world. People from this community worked closely with KDI to prepare and facilitate different activities during the Summit, offering exploiting their expertise and resources to offer memorable and engaging experiences.

Filed under: Events, Future Centers

ACSI - Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation

4 April 2011 Events, Innovation, [General]

ACSI – the Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation – is a new generation innovation initiative of Finland’s Aalto University and The New Club of Paris. ACSI integrates academic and societal expertise with hands-on innovation practice in the creation of real-life systemic change.

ACSI is a dedicated process of research, learning and rapid implementation, based on a set of core principles, processes and methods for creating societal impact, now and in the future. It provides a continuing process for furthering social and societal change. The process integrates virtual and physical work on real-life issues, the search for effective ways to think about and reframe complex problems, and research on emerging insights on how societal innovation actually works. It connects networks of researchers, user communities and international societal innovators in a community geared to create solutions meeting the real needs of business, citizens and society. In this way it leverages local knowledge and cutting-edge expertise from all over to world to further systemic change.

The 8-day camp in Finland is central to the working process. The first ACSI camp was prototyped in the summer of 2010.

ACSI 2011 will be held in Finland August 24th to 31st.Virtual work with cases starts in April 2011 and continues after the camp.

http://acsi.aalto.fi/acsi+homepage/

Filed under: Events, Innovation, [General]

European Conference on Intellectual Capital

5 April 2009 Events, Intellectual Capital, Knowledge innovation

European Conference on Intellectual Capital
INHolland University of Applied Sciences, Haarlem, The Netherlands
28-29 April 2009

From the conference website:

Today, almost 80% of economic value creation is based on intellectual resources. However, most organisations still do not know how to reveal the value of these resources and how to give direction to future value creation. The concept of intellectual capital gives intangibles ‘a body’ and therefore makes it possible to measure, communicate and interpret them.

This conference combines theory and practice and gives a state-of-the-art overview of intellectual capital measurement and management. The European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC) has invited researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress, case studies and conceptual advances in the field of intellectual capital (IC) measurement and management.

The aim of this conference is to contribute to the further advancement of IC theory and practice. We hope this meeting will be as successful as the first Intellectual Capital Congress in Helsinki, Finland (2004) and the second, which was also held in Haarlem, The Netherlands (2007). In 2007 we welcomed more than 150 participants from 26 countries from all over the world.

Conference Chair is Daan Andriessen, Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital, INHolland University, The Netherlands.

For more information and a look at the preliminary programme, you can visit the conference website:
http://academic-conferences.org/ecic/ecic2009/ecic09-home.htm

The European Conference on Intellectual Capital will be hosted by the Centre for Research in Intellectual Capital (CRIC) of INHolland University of Applied Sciences. Although formally founded in 2003, the CRIC also has its roots in the 1999 OECD conference. Today the centre has a solid reputation in the international IC community. It is involved in many IC reporting and management projects and IC curriculum development projects all over the world.
http://www.inholland.nl/INHOLLANDCOM/Research/Intellectual+Capital.htm

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